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BIOGRAPHY
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1973
• Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
1999
• Kyoto University of Fine Art, MFA
• Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
• Ripples, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2005
• Hammer Project, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Super Flyer, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2004
• Sliding Circle, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
• gluesights, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• criterium 51, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2001
• Flowered House, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2000
• Patterns, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1999
• Aokigahara, Sea of Trees, Gallery Blue Nile, Osaka, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
• The More I Draw: Drawing as a Concept for the World, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
• Takamatsu contemporary art annual vol.1, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
• Wildflower's seeds, On Sundays, Watari-um Museum, The Watari Museum Of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
• Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2009
• Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
• Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008
• Surreal Naivete, M.Y. Art Prospects, New York, NY
2007
• Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
• The Door Into Summer: The Age of Micropop, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, Curated by Midori Matsui
2006
• Children of Veins, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia (collaboration with Zon Ito)
2005
• ignore your perspective, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• *AniMate, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
(collaboration with Zon Ito)
• PAPER, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2004
• Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
• FUSION: Architecture + Design in Japan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (collaboration with Zon Ito)
• WHY NOT LIVE FOR ART?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• A Fripon Fripon et Demi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France (collaboration with Zon Ito)
• Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Collaboration with Zon Ito), Japan
• On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003
• Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Slow Painting, Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japan
• Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• girls don’t cry, PAROCO Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002
• Art in Transit, The Palace Side Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
• Sogashu, Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2001
• Kyoto x Amsterdam: New Directions, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
• International Triennial of Contemporary Art Yokohama 2001, Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Yokohama, Japan (Collaboration with Zon Ito)
• Art—Crossing—in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
2000
• The J Way, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden
• Twilight Sleep, Instituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy
• Screening Japan, Hallo! Copenhagen, (Room 46, Aarhus), Denmark
• Musicvideo Festival 2000 "The Video-Bar", The Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland
• Made in Kyoto, Voice Gallery, Kyoto
1998
• Donaiyanen! / Contemporary Japanese Art—So What?- The National Fine Arts School of Paris
1996
• Tabula Rasa, Kyoto Municipal Shijo Gallery
PUBLIC COLLECTION
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
• Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture; 10 Curators, 100 Artists, 10 Source Artists, London: Phaidon
• Matsui, Midori, The Age of Micropop: The New Generation of Japanese Artists, Tokyo: Parco Publishing and Art Tower Mito
2005
• Vergne, Phillipe, “First Take: Zon Ito and Ryoko Aoki,” Artforum, January
• Pedrosa, Adriano, “Ryoko Aoki,” In: Vitamin D: New Perspectives In Drawing, London: Phaidon
• Matsui, Midori, “Ryoko Aoki,” Exhibition Brochure Text, Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Vartanian, Ivan, Drop Dead Cute: The New Generation of Women Artists in Japan, Chronicle Books
2004
• Hertz, Betty-Sue, “Ryoko Aoki,” Catalog text, Past in Reverse, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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“Ryoko Aoki,” FoIL Magazine No. 5
2003
• Matsui, Midori, “Ryoko Aoki at Kodama Gallery,” Flash Art, March
2002
• Kubota, Kenji, “Half a Paradise,” Exhibition Brochure Text, Criterium 51, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
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