Biography

Ryoko Aoki
Born in 1973, Hyogo, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
1999

MFA, Kyoto University of Arts, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024

Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (Upcoming)

2020

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

2018

Ryoko Aoki and Zon Ito, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London (with Zon Ito)
Notebook forgotten at three party meeting, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2011

Green Pocket, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo2010

Seeds of Wild Flower, On Sundays, Tokyo

2009

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

2007

Under the Secret, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
Ripples, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

2005

Super Flyer, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
Hammer Projects: Ryoko Aoki, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center at
UCLA, Los Angeles, California

2004

Sliding Circle, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2002

Gluesights, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
Criterium 51: Ryoko Aoki, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024

Rokko Meets Art 2024 beyond, Mount Rokko, Hyogo (with Zon Ito)an arena, Barbati Gallery, Venice
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024: 30 Ways to Go to the Moon,
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (with Zon Ito)

2023

Body, Love, Gender, Gana Art Center, Seoul
AWT FOCUS: Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present,
Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo15, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art
Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

2022

Vision, WATARI-UM, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2021

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

2020

Collection1: Transgressing Lines, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2019

Reborn-Art Festival 2019, Ajishima, Miyagi, Japan (with Zon Ito)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, JapanLocation, 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

2015

Two Sticks, Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, WrocławContemporary tales from the province III - Susaki artist in residence -,Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi, JapanI Love Art 13: 100 artists from the WATARI-UM collection,
WATARI-UM, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, TokyoWabi Sabi Shima - Of the Aesthetic of Perfection and Chaos in the Japanese Archipelago,Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels
Tsubaki-kai 2015 - Shoshin (beginner's mind), Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
For Troedsson Villa, Troedsson Villa, Tochigi, Japan
still moving, @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,
Champasari Art Gallery, Mahasarakham University, Talat; Koala space, Tianjin; 53 Art

Museum, Guangzhou; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Kaohsiung Cultural Center,Kaohsiung; University Malaya Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah,Penang- 2016
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
Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection: Chronicle 1995-,
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,Omani Society Fine Arts, Muscat; M16 Artspace, Canberra; Gallery Central, Perth- 2015Tsubaki-kai 2014 - Shoshin (beginner's mind), Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo2013

5th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, TokyoNow Japan; Exhibition with 37 Contemporary Japanese Artists, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort,Netherlands
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila; Yongdusan Gallery, Busan; Lotte Gallery, Anyang;
Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju; Public Information & Cultual Center, Embassy of Japan, Seoul;
Exhibition House, Ho Chi Minh City Labour Culture Palace, Ho Chi Minh;
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi- 2014
Tsubaki-kai 2013 - Shoshin (beginner’s mind), Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Re: Quest - Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art,Seoul National University, Seoul2012

5th International Biennial of Media Art: Experimenta Speak to Me, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,Sintra Modern Art Museum, Sintra; University of Alicante Museum, Alicante;
Theocharakis Foundation Museum, Athens; Malmitalo, Helsinki- 20132011

Ways of Worldmaking, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Cross Counter Artist Cooperative Project, Capsule, Tokyo
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,Gezira Art Center, Cairo; Tkachi, St. Petersburg; National Center for Contemporary Arts,
Moscow; Ernst Museum, Budapest- 2012
Cafe in Mito, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan2010

Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.01 - Another Carnival,
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
alive - birth of a tale, Gallery Factory, Seoul
The More I Draw - Drawing as a Concept for the World, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst,Siegen, Germany
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,
University Museum of Chopo, Mexico City; Japan Foundation, Tronto;
Japanese American Cultual and Community Center, Los Angeles- 2011
HANA, Oyama City Kurumaya Museum, Tochigi, Japan
Garden of Painting - Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka2009

Twist and Shout, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Japan Cultural Institute in Rome, Rome;Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne, Cologne- 2010
Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2008

Art on Paper, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
MOT Collection - Survival Action, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
When Life Becomes Form; collaboration with Zon Ito, São Paulo Museum of Modern Art,
São Paulo2007

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

2006

Psychic Scope, Space*C, Seoul
Rapt! - 20 contemporary artists from Japan, West Space, Melbourne

2005

Mirage on a Summer Day, Gunma Museum of Art, Japan
PAPER, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York2004

Past in Reverse, San Diego Museum of Art, California
Why Not Live For Art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyoon paper, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

2003

Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Slow Painting, Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japan
Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo2002

Art in Transit, Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto, JapanSogashu, Voice Gallery, Kyoto

2001

Yokohama Triennale 2001: MEGA WAVE - Towards a New Synthesis,
Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Japan (with Zon Ito)
Kyoto x Amsterdam - New Directions, Kyoto Art Center, Japan2000

The J-Way, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm

1998

Donai yanen! Et maintenaint!: La création contemporaine au Japon,
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ParisResidencies
Troedsson Villa, Tochigi, Japan
Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi, Japan
Selected Public Collections
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Modern Art, New YorkThe National Museum of Art, Osaka
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan
Shiseido, Tokyo