AIDA Makoto
1965

Born in Niigata, Japan

Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Education:
1989

Tokyo National University of the Arts, BFA in Oil painting

1991

Tokyo National University of the Arts, MFA in Oil Painting (Technique and Material Studio)

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:2024“The Road to ‘Picture of Mixed Bathing’”, Gallery & Restaurant Butaiura, Tokyo, Japan
2022
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－－－・・ 〜Memoriesof the Invasion”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2021“I can’t stop the patriotism”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018“MAM Collection 008: Crows – Aida Makoto + Chim↑Pom”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan“GROUND NO PLAN”, Aoyama Crystal Building, Tokyo, Japan
2016“Yasuki Ooe and Makoto Aida – Before and After: The Dropping of the A-Bomb”, Garter, Tokyo,
Japan“Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”, Mizuma Art
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015“So, this is what they call ‘Still Alive’”, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
2014“Sophie Calle / Makoto Aida”, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong
“The Road to World Heritage!! – Meet the real AMK48 years old”, Kirishima Open-Air Museum,Kagoshima, Japan“Le Non-penseur (The Non-Thinker)”, Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France“AIDA Makoto: Mini-mini Exhibition”, Ryutopia Gallery, Niigata, Japan“Don’t expect anything from me any more.”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2012“MONUMENT FOR NOTHING”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2011“Diena ir naktis (Day & Night)”, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010“E-BAKA”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2009“I’m working on huge paintings in Beijing.”, Mizuma and One Gallery, Beijing, China“Photo Works by AIDA Makoto”, A・Zone, Okayama, Japan2008“I'm IWAKI of Mizuma Art Gallery!!”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007“Art de Saurõ: Aida Makoto and Yamaguchi Akira”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan“DOUBLE FANTASY”, lammfromm The Concept Store, Tokyo, Japan
2006“Picture of Mountain Stream and Others”, Andrew Roth, New York, U.S.A.
2005“Pre-Climacteric Love”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Drink SAKE Alone”, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
“Donki-Hôte”, Man in the Holocene at IBID Projects, London, U.K.
2004
“Aida's Work”, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan2003“My KENTEN”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2002“Makoto Aida”, Chukyo University Art Gallery C-square, Aichi, Japan“Makoto Aida & Koki Tanaka”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001“Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan”, Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany“Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan”, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan1999“It's a man's alcoholic drink – Millennium”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Makoto Aida - Hlynur Hallsson”, Akureyri Municipal Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland“DOUTEI”, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
1998

“Paris, Tsudanuma”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997“BIJIN-GA: Makoto Aida vs Hiroyuki Matsukage”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996“NO FUTURE”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“War Picture Returns”, Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan
1994“SARIN”, Nasubi Gallery, Chiba, Japan“Poster”, Dowa Kasai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992“Pictures don't need to be not square”, Yanaka Furufuru, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions:2024“Legacy 3.11 the power of art and creativity in 3.11: Japan past, present and future”, Ex Cisterne、Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy“ZIPANGU: Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era”, Saga Prefectural Art
Museum, Japan“A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”, Museum ofContemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan“Beauties, Ghosts and Samurai”, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Collection Exhibition 2024-I “Highlights + Relations”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary
Art, Japan“Fellow Travelers of the Canvas: A Perspective on Contemporary Art of Japan from the Takahashi
Ryutaro Collection”, Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan
2023“Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival vol.3”, Semba Excel Building, Osaka, JapanAWT FOCUS 2023 “Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present”, Okura
Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan“Working People: What is Working? Humanism in Japanese Postwar and Contemporary Art”, Kobe
City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan“SUMMER FESTIVAL from Taguchi Art Collection”, Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima,Japan
Celebrating the Museum’s First Anniversary “Art in Love with Design ♡ Design Envious of Art”,

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan“TAGUKORE: Dunno A Thing About Art (But I Like It)”, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama,
Japan
2022
“JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE: Resistance and Resilience in Japanese Contemporary Art”,
PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
60th Anniversary “Shutoko (Metropolitan Expressway) Exhibition”, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Joint Project of the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum and Hiroshima City Museum ofContemporary Art “Exhibit Featuring Pieces from HPAM and HMOCA That Will (Maybe) Answer
Your Art Questions”, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Japan“Blue Period Exhibition: Art is a gift?”, Warehouse TERRADA G1 Building, Tokyo, Japan“Art and Peace: Let us begin again from Zero o’clock”, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
Collection Exhibition “MOMAT Collection”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan“Covid-19 Crisis & Amabie: Six Artists Reflect on the ‘Now’”, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama,
Japan
2021
“Collaborative Exhibition: Kawabata Ryushi + Takahashi Ryutaro Collection – Aida Makoto,
Konoike Tomoko, Tenmyouya Hisashi, and Yamaguchi Akira”, Ryushi Memorial Museum, Tokyo,
Japan“Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22 Altruism and Fluidity, Onagawa Station, Miyagi, Japan“TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY”, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, U.K.
Tokyo Toyo FESTIVAL Special13 “Pavilion Tokyo 2021”, Ginkgo Avenue in Meiji Jingu Gaien,Tokyo, Japan“Next World – Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum”, Iwaki City Art Museum,
Fukushima, Japan
2020“INSIDE THE COLLECTOR’S VAULT, VOL.1”, WHAT, Tokyo, Japan“PUBLIC DEVICE: Symbolism and Permanence of Sculpture”, Chinretsukan Gallery (The
University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), Japan“Amabie in the age of Covid-19 Project”, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama, Japan“Living Tokyo – I Love Art 15”, WATARI-UM The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan“Early 90’s Tokyo Art Squad”, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan2019“Miraibi 3”, Tenmonkan Niwa Building, Kagoshima, Japan“Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow”, Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, Japan“Non-Freedom of Non-Freedom Exhibition”, Gallery Nabesan, Tokyo, Japan“The Group1965: Korea – Japan Interchange Exhibition <50/50>, Multiplex Art Salon, Seoul, Korea“Japan Unlimited”, frei_raum Q21 exhibition spaces, Vienna, Austria“TOKYO2021 un/real engine”, TODA BUILDING, Tokyo, Japan“The End of Freedom”, HALLE14, Leipzig, Germany“Takahashi Collection”, Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata, Japan“MAM Collection 010: Fake News?”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan“Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Reopening Celebration A Museum-wide Collection Exhibition:
Who opens up the world?”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan“Spring Opening of Villa Yurinso 2019: The Green Beauty in the Green Palace - Millet, Cézanne,
Makoto Aida, and Rothko etc.”, Villa Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan“Tokyo Independent 2019”, Chinretsukan Gallery (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of
the Arts), Japan“Grand Reopening Exhibition: Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern /Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan“IMPOSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE – ANOTHER HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE”, The Museumof Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (traveled to Niigata City Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum ofContemporary Art; 2020 National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan)“Heroes and People in the Japanese Contemporary Art”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan2018“8th Yeosu International Art Festival: Now Here Once Again”, Yeosu EXPO Exhibition Hall, Yeosu,
Korea“Two houses: Politics and histories in the contemporary art collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam
Yang”, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore“Takahashi Collection – Face and Abstraction”, Museum of the Light, Yamanashi, Japan
2017“The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection”, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan“The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo 2017”, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to 2018
Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Aichi; 2019 Osaka Culturarium
at Tempozan; 2020 Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum; 2021 Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art;
Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; 2022 Okayama Prefectural
Museum of Art; National Museum of Singapore; 2023 Huis Ten Bosch Museum, Nagasaki; Chiang
Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan)

“Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970”, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France“A Corridor of Art through the Mountains and Seas”, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima,Japan“GLOBAL NEW ART – The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection”, Woodone Museum, Hiroshima,
Japan“TAKAHASHI COLLECTION – Mindfulness 2017”, Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan“GEI “DAI” Collection”, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan“COOL JAPAN”, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands“The Cosmos of the Takahashi Collection”, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan“Imaginary Asia”, Nam June Paik Center, Gyeonggi, Korea
2016“Takahashi Collection - Mindfulness! 2016”, The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan“Busan Biennale 2016

an/other avant-garde china-japan-korea”, Busan Museum of Art, Korea“P. SS. 40 - Public School by The Group 1965: Setouchi Triennale 2016”, Umenoya Ryokan, Ogi
Island, Kagawa, Japan“Current war painting exhibition”, TAV GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan“Takahashi Collection”, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan“Rewind: Selections from the Harold and Ruth Newman NewMedia Collection”, Asia Society, New
York, U.S.A.
“Taguchi Art Collection – Correlation Diagram of Happiness”, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka,
Japan“The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum – A Concise Guide to Life with JapaneseContemporary Art”, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan“4th Annual Collectors’ Contemporary Collaboration – Intimate Curiosity”, Hong Kong Art Center,
Hong Kong
2015“Cosmos/Intime – Collection Takahashi”, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France“MESSAGES – TAKAHASHI COLLECTION”, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan“Shogai Kakko Kari”, Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima, Japan“Gender, Genitor, Genitalia – Rokudenashiko Tribute”, Woofer Ten, Hong Kong
“FURTHER TOWARDS THE FUTURE”, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore“An Art Exhibition for Children – Whose place is this?”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan“Unveiling Fundamentals in Contemporary Art Through Asia”, OHD Museum, Magelang, Indonesia“Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“Korin’s Art – Korin and Modern Art”, MOA Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan“Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection – A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift”,
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
2014“DOMMUNE University of the Arts – Tokyo Arts Circulation-“, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan“TAG-TEN (Taguchi Art Collection)”, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan“AAA (Asia Anarchy Alliance)”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan“Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection – Chronicle 1995-”, Museum of Modern Art Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan“Takahashi Collection 2014 - Mindfulness!”, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan“To see, To paint - The Artists from Oil Painting Technique and Material Studio”, The University Art
Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan2013“P. SS. 40 - Public School by The Group 1965: Setouchi Triennale 2013”, Ogi Elementary and JuniorHigh School, Kagawa, Japan“Why not live for Art? II 9 collectors reveal their treasures”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo,
Japan“Takahashi Collection - Mindfulness!”, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima (traveled toMuseum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan)“The Group 1965 - We Were Boys.”, Kamada Museum, Kagawa, Japan“Ohara Contemporary”, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan“MOT Collection: Our Ninety Years 1923 – 2013”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo,
Japan“Re: Quest - Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s”, Museum of Art, Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea
2012“ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art”, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum,Niigata (2013 traveled to Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art,
Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan)“Mediaions Biennale: The Unknown”, Poznan, Poland“Art and Air - A Story of Art and Science Involving the Skies and Aircraft”, Aomori Museum of Art,
Aomori, Japan“The First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times,
Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine“The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: The Allure of the Collection”, The

National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan“Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia(traveled to Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel)
2011“Kobiken - from the Takahashi Collection”, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan“Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 Finalist Exhibition”, Singapore Art
Museum, Singapore“EMERGING / MASTER 1: AIDA Makoto | Be it Art or not Art”, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo,
Japan“TARO LOVE”, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan“Nakanoshima Collections”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan“Medi(t)ation: 3rd Asian Art Biennial”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan“ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art”,
Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo (traveled to Takashimaya Osaka, Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan)“The Group 1965: We are boys!”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (traveled to Mystetskyi Arsenale,
Kiev, Ukraine)“The Origin of 20”, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa (traveled to Shimonoseki City Art
Museum, Yamaguchi; Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi; Ashikaga
Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan)“Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art”, Japan Society, New
York, U.S.A.
“The Most Requested Top 30 / 10 Years of Takahashi Collection”, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo,
Japan“All cannibals?”, La maison rouge - fondation antoine de galbert, Paris, France (traveled to me
Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany)“15th Tallinn Print Triennial - For Love Not Money”, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2010“Made in Popland”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea“TDW-ART Jalapagos”, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo (2011 traveled to
Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan)“THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney”,
Sydney, Australia“AIDA Makoto + TENMYOUYA Hisashi + YAMAGUCHI Akira”, Takahashi Collection Hibiya,
Tokyo, Japan“GARDEN OF PAINTING - Japanese Art of the 00s”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2009“Twist and Shout: Contemporary Art from Japan”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok,
Thailand“November Steps -Susan Phillipsz & Gallery Artists”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“East Asia Image of Modern Ages”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan“Dojima River Biennale 2009 Reflection: The World Through Art”, Dojima River Forum, Osaka,
Japan“Wallworks”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
“Artium Prospective”, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan“DORODORO, DORON -The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia”, Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan2008“-hiragana art- CHIBATORI”, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan“SUICIDE EXPOSITION 2008”, Otto Mainzheim Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“The Group 1965: Tokyo Guide 2008”, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan“UNSTERN. SINISTRE. DISASTRO.”, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany“neoteny japan - Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection”, Kirishima Open-Air
Museum, Kagoshima (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido; 2009 The Ueno
Royal Museum, Tokyo; The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata; Akita Museum ofModern Art, Akita; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan)“ORDER RECEIVED”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“8th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art”, Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan“Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan”, International Center of Photography,
New York, U.S.A.
“Off the Rails”, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China“Typical! Cliches of Jews and Others”, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (traveled to Spertus
Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, U.S.A.; 2009 The Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria;
2010 Jewish Museum Munich, Munich, Germany)“MANGAMANIA Comic-Kultur in Japan 1800-2008”, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt,Frankfurt, Germany (traveled to Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Hamlebaek, Denmark)“SHELTER x SURVIVAL: Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives”, Hiroshima City Museum ofContemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan“Takahashi Collection”, Takahashi Collection Kagurazaka, Tokyo, Japan“Laughing in a Foreign Language”, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
“Eyes & Curiosity: Japanese Contemporary Art”, SOKA Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2007“Poetic Terrorism”, FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuwvos Creadores, Madrid, Spain“Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan”, Long March Space, Beijing(traveled to Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China)“Nihonga Metsubou-ron”, Chukyo University Art Gallery C-square, Aichi, Japan“Three Generations”, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China“Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany“7th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art”, Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan“Portrait Session”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan“Portrait Session@NADiff”, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan“All about Laughter: humor in contemporary art”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2006“Oriental Metaphor”, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea“Somewhere in Time”, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea“Paprika”, TSUTAYA TOKYO ROPPONGI, Tokyo, Japan“Alllooksame? / Tutttuguale?, Art from China, Japan and Korea”, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy“NIPPON vs FINEART - Striving for Identity in the Context of Western Art”, Osaka City Museumof Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka, Japan“Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary”, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori,Japan“Singapore Biennale 2006 : BELIEF”, National Museum of Singapore / Tanglin Camp, Singapore“Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin”, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany“The Child”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan“Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005“The Group 1965 - GRAND FINALE (40x40 project)”, BankART1929 yokohama, Kanagawa,
Japan“The Group 1965 - Tokyo Souvenir (40x40 project)”, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan“The Group 1965 - BankART Life: 24 hours hospitality (40x40 project)”, BankART studio NYK,
Kanagawa, Japan“Rosa! The Exposed Colour: Pink”, Chinretsukan Gallery (The University Art Museum, Tokyo
University of the Arts), Japan“GUNDAM Generation Futures”, Suntory Museum [Tempozan], Osaka (traveled to 2006 The Ueno
Royal Museum, Tokyo; Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi; Takahama Kawara Museum, Aichi; 2007

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido; Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto,
Japan)“The Group 1965 - Seven Samurais, even (40x40 project)”, Hiroshima City Museum ofContemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan“Villa YURINSO Special Open : AIDA Makoto / OZAWA Tsuyoshi / YAMAGUCHI Akira”, Ohara
Museum of Art Yurinso, Okayama, Japan“The World of Matchbox Labels”, The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan“Nishiogi Biennale”, Aida Makoto's home (Nishiogikubo), Tokyo, Japan“sight-cruising”, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan“The Group 1965 - 40 (40x40 project)”, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea“Since 1994: Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo,
Japan“AniMate。”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (traveled to Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul,
Korea)
2004“Nonchalant”, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
“TOKYO STYLE IN STOCKHOLM 2004”, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden“KOTATSU-HA 2”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Picture in Motion”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan“Officina Asia”, Palazzo del Ridotto, Cesena, Italy“lonely planet”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan“Mediarena: contemporary art from Japan”, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New
Zealand“Fast Forward”, Nassauischer Kunstverein (NKV), Wiesbaden, Germany“Les metamorphoses du quotidian”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan“Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,
Japan“Landscape of Eastern Asia (from Travel sketches to War pictures) - Yasugoro Ataka, Ryoichi
Sasaoka and Makoto Aida”, Niitsu Museum of Art, Niigata, Japan“100 Artists from Niigata”, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2003“FLESH FOR FANTASY”, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy“A retrospective : NARITA Tohl and several things he has left behind”, Takayama Uichi Memorial
Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan“Contemporary Nihonga - The Adventurers from Misao Yokoyama to Makoto Aida”, Okazaki City

Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan“Revolving Door : ISCP <-> Asia”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
“A Creating Workshop for Children in Aomori 2003”, Mutsu Municipal Library, Aomori, Japan“The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003”, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, U.S.A.
“girls don't cry”, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan2002“7th Kitakyushu Biennale: ART FOR SALE”, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka,
Japan“Coloriage”, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France“Babel 2002”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea“eleven & eleven: Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002”, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea“Exhibition of New Acquisitions + Contemporary Paintings”, Hiroshima City Museum ofContemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan“25th Biennale de Sao Paulo”, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001“Makoto Aida, Hiroko Okada with their baby Torajiro”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Sex and Consumerism: Contemporary Art in Japan”, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth(traveled to ; Stanley Picker Gallery, London; Hot Bath Gallery, Bath; University of Brighton Gallery,
Brighton, U.K.)“Mega-Wave - Towards a New Synthesis, Yokohama 2001; International Triennale of ContemporaryArt”, Pacifico Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan“S(h)itting in the mirror”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000“Cultural Ties Exhibition”, Westzone gallery space, London, U.K.
“Five Continents And One City”, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico“White Hot”, Smack Mellon Studios, New York, U.S.A.
“The Group 1965 in Osaka”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan“Open Studio”, International Studio Program (ISP, Tribeca), New York, U.S.A.
“VACANT LOT”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan1999“Ground Zero Japan”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan“The View of Contemporary Japanese Painting”, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“The Group 1965”, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan“Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s”, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan

“The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo”, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan“VOCA '99 - The Vision of Contemporary Art”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1998“Sanatorium”, Recent Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan“Donai Yanen! Et maintenant! La Creation contemporaine au Japon”, Ecole nationale superieure desbeaux-arts, Paris, France“TOKYO ELEGANCE”, Recent Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan“TAKEO Communication Design 1998”, SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan“HOLY GIFT vol.2 - Small Works”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997“The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo”, Galería Metropolitana Barcelona, Spain (1998 traveled
to Galerie Espace Flon, Lausanne, Switzerland; ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany)“Document & Art”, Art Museum Ginza, Tokyo, Japan“KOTATSU-HA”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“WALKING MUSEUM”, Shinjuku Takashimaya TIMES SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan
1996“HOLY GIFT vol.1 – Drawings”,

Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“ART SCENE 90-96: Contemporary Art Witnessed by the Art Tower Mito”, Contemporary Art
Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan“Atopic Site: On Camp / Off Base”, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan“The Group 1965”, Synapse Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“TOKYO POP”, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1995“Photographic Narration IV”, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan“Morphe ’95: CITY CRACK – point A”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Cardboard and Blue sheet”, P. A. P. FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan“Pool 2 : Collection / Selection”, Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo, Japan“P. A. P. FACTORY OPENING EXHIBITION”, P. A. P. FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan
1994“The Group 1965 in Nasubi Gallery”, Roppongi WAVE, Tokyo, Japan“I can not tell without picture”, Dowa Kasai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Smooth Surface”, Röentgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo, Japan“Happy Violence”, Nagoya City Archives, Aichi, Japan“Shinjuku Shonen Art”, Shinjuku area, Tokyo, Japan
1993

“THE GINBURART”, Ginza area, Tokyo, Japan“fo(u)rtunes”, Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo, Japan

Workshops:[Aida Makoto + 21st Century Cardboard Guild - MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II]*“Busan Biennale 2016

an/other avant-garde china-japan-korea”, Busan Museum of Art, Korea(2016.9.3-11.30)*“So, this is what they call ‘Still Alive’”, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art(2015.9.12-11.3)*“The Road to World Heritage!! – Meet the real AMK48 years old”, Kirishima Open-Air Museum,Kagoshima(2014.7.18-9.23)*Akita University of Art (2013. 9.9-10.12)*“MONUMENT FOR NOTHING”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012.11.17-2013.3.31)*“Be it Art or not Art”, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo (2011.11.5-12.25)*Kanazawa College of Art, Ishikawa (2011.6.17-7.18)*Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka University, Miyagi (2010.10.1-22)*Kyoto University of Art and Design (2009.4.28-5.24)*Nagoya University of Arts (2008.9.19)*Musashino Art University - “I'm IWAKI of Mizuma Art Gallery!! ”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo(2008.9.3-10.4)[Shit by Jomon-style Monster]*“A Creating Workshop for Children in Aomori 2003”, Mutsu Kamafuseyama Ski Park, Aomori

Public Collections:
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes, France
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Publication:
2022

essays “Sex and Art” (Gentosha Inc.)

2020

novel “GEISAI” (Bungeishunju Ltd.)

2018“Foujita’s Paintings of Girls” (Kodansha Ltd.)2015“Sensoga to Nippon” (Kodansha Ltd.)2012

catalogue “MONUMENT FOR NOTHING: Tensai De Gomen Nasai” (SEIGENSHA Art

Piblishing, Inc.)2012

essays “Utsukushisugiru Shoujono Chibusawa Naze Dairisekide Dekiteinainoka” (GentoshaInc.)2011 supervised pose book “The Complete Girl Pose Book” (Cosmic Publishing Co., Ltd.)2010

essays “Karikori Sentoya Umarekemu” (Gentosha Inc.)2009

photo book “Beijing behind the ART” (Daiwa Press Co., Ltd.)2007

catalogue “MONUMENT FOR NOTHING” (Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd.)

2006

photo book “Apt.Kubo-So#6”

2002

catalogue “LA TRENTAINE” (ABC SHUPPAN Co., Ltd.)

1999

comic “Mutant Hanako” (ABC SHUPPAN Co., Ltd.)1999

catalogue “Lonely Planet” (Danvo Co., Ltd.)

1996

novel “Adolescence and Perversion” (ABC SHUPPAN Co., Ltd.)