Works

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Ryoko Aoki

Born in 1973, Hyogo, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan

1999 MFA, Kyoto University of Arts, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020: Workshop Free Molecules Metamorphoses, WATARI-UM, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (with Zon Ito)

2009: Camp, two person show with Zon Ito, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
Object Reading, FOIL Gallery, Tokyo

2005: Hammer Projects: Ryoko Aoki, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

2002: Criterium 51: Ryoko Aoki, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021: Some Where Between the Odd and Ordinary, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (with Zon Ito)
SOUTH SOUTH TOKYO, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2018: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: Clues for Art Appreciation, Toyohashi City Art Museum, Aichi; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka- 2019
Treasure Box of Contemporary Art: OPAM Toshioka Collection, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
Public Art Research Center 8 [PARC8], Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway (Chi-Ka-Ho), Japan (with Zon Ito)
helen at the mountain, Tetsuo’s Garage, Tochigi, Japan
181 pieces of Memories – Footsteps of the Takamatsu Art Museum’s Special Exhibition –, Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan
10th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2017: In Focus: Contemporary Japan, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
Post-Formalist Painting, Komagome Soko, Tokyo
Reborn-Art Festival in Tokyo, WATARI-UM, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (with Zon Ito)
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan (with Zon Ito)
Collection – Contemporary Landscapes, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Tsubaki-kai 2017 – Shoshin (beginner’s mind), Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

2016: Contemporary tales from the province IV -Susaki artist in residence-, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi, Japan
Location, Location, Location, Marc Foxx Galley, Los Angeles, California
Troedsson Villa Mountain School 2016, statements, Tokyo
Tsubaki-kai 2016 – Shoshin (beginner’s mind), Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, statements, Tokyo

2014: You Reach Out -Right Now- for Something: Questioning the Concept of Fashion, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa; Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito- 2014

2010: Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.01 – Another Carnival, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
The More I Draw – Drawing as a Concept for the World, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Garden of Painting – Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2009: Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2008: When Life Becomes Form, Collaboration with Zon Ito, São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo

2007: documenta 12, documenta halle, Kassel, Germany
The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan

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