Works

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Ryoko Aoki

Born 1973 in Hyogo
Lives and works in Kyoto

1999 MFA, Kyoto University of Arts,

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020: “Workshop Free Molecules Metamorphoses” (with Zon Ito), Watari-um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2009: “Camp” (with Zon Ito), Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Object Reading,” Foil Gallery, Tokyo

2005: “Super Flyer,” Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
“Hammer Projects: Ryoko Aoki,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2002: “Criterium 51: Ryoko Aoki,” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: Curation⇄Fair, “Pocket Full of Sparks: Sore wa chisainoni totemo oki” (curated by Hikotaro Kanehira), kudan house, Tokyo

2024: AWT Focus 2024, “Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia” (curated by Mami Kataoka), Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo
“Rokko Meets Art 2024 beyond” (with Zon Ito), Hyogo
“an arena,” Barbati Gallery, Venice
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024, “30 Ways to Go to the Moon” (with Zon Ito), Tokyo

2023: “Body, Love, Gender” (curated by Reiko Tsubaki), Gana Art Center, Seoul
AWT Focus 2023, “Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present, (curated by Kenjiro Hosaka), Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo
“15,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

2021: “Some Where Between the Odd and Ordinary” (with Zon Ito), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
“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
“Treasure Box of Contemporary Art: OPAM Toshioka Collection,” Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Public Art Research Center 8, “Parc 8” (with Zon Ito), Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway (Chi-Ka-Ho), Hokkaido
“helen at the mountain,” Tetsuo’s Garage, Tochigi
“181 pieces of Memories: Footsteps of the Takamatsu Art Museum’s Special Exhibition,” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa

2017: “In Focus: Contemporary Japan,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
“Post-Formalist Painting,” Komagome Soko, Tokyo
“Reborn-Art Festival in Tokyo” (with Zon Ito), Watari-um, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, “People’s Skill to Live” (with Zon Ito), Miyagi
“Collection – Contemporary Landscapes,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2016: “Contemporary tales from the province IV: Susaki artist-in-residence,” Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi
“Location, Location, Location,” Marc Foxx Galley, Los Angeles
“Troedsson Villa Mountain School 2016,” Troedsson Villa, Tochigi; 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, Ibaraki

2010: “Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.01: Another Carnival,” Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
“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” (with Zon Ito), São Paulo Museum of Modern Art

2007: documenta 12, “The Migration of Forms,” Kassel
“The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop,” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

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