Exhibition
Susumu Shingu: Elated!
20 Jun 2025 – 10 Aug 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 333 East 47th St
- New York
New York - 10017
- United States
Travel Information
- M15 to 47th Street, M101 or M102 north on Third Avenue to 47th Street, or crosstown M50 (on weekdays) or M42
- 4,5,6,7 and S at Grand Central Station; 6 at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue; and the E, M at Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street. Public parking available nearby.
Japan Society Gallery relaunches its summer exhibition season with Susumu Shingu: Elated!
About
The artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City, Susumu Shingu: Elated!, presents the dynamic sculptures of acclaimed artist Susumu Shingu. The joyful exhibition features mesmerizing sculptures that make visible the invisible forces of wind, heat, and gravity, while encouraging a heightened awareness of the natural environment. Shingu’s application of biomimicry—drawing inspiration from natural elements and processes—appears in both the forms and the dynamic movement of his sculptures, evoking insects, birds, sea creatures, flowers, plants, clouds, stars, and moons.
Since the 1960s, Susumu Shingu (b. 1937) has designed and engineered kinetic artworks that enliven parks, plazas, and public spaces around the globe. His traveling outdoor exhibition Windcircus completed a U.S. tour in 1988, visiting sites in New York; Fall River, Massachusetts; Chicago; Boston; and Los Angeles. Since 1989, his collaborations with Italian architect Renzo Piano (b. 1937), including Boundless Sky (1994) suspended in Kansai International Airport terminal building, have become world renowned. Shingu has also created several site-specific, monumental sculptures permanently installed in New York City: Dialog with the Sun (1995), Distant Sky (2012), and Rainbow Leaves (2021).
Celebrating Shingu’s long and impactful career, this exhibition encourages us to contemplate our changing climate while appreciating summer breezes, inside and beyond the gallery walls.
