Works
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1983, lives and works in Tokyo.
M.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Inter-Media Art, 2008.
Focusing on the act of “making” is not exclusive to human beings, Inomata creates art works with various species “collaboratively.” She investigates relationships between animals and human beings and the creation emerging from them.
Her major works include Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?, an attempt she created 3d printed shells for hermit crabs and handed it over to them, and I Wear the Dog’s Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair, in which the artist and her dog wear capes made from each other’s respective hair.
Her recent exhibitions include Broken Nature, MoMA (2021; New York, USA), AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness, Towada Art Center (2019; Aomori, Japan), The XXII Triennale di Milano, La Triennale di Milano (2019; Italy), Thailand Biennale 2018 (Krabi), and Aki Inomata, Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?, Musée d’arts de Nantes (2018; France).
Her works are included in the collections of MoMA, Art Gallery of South Australia, and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
Exhibitions
Videos
News
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- 2024.12.18
- AKI INOMATA:Love Fashion: In Search of Myself@Contemporary Art Museum,Kumamoto
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- 2024.12.17
- AKI INOMATA:AKI INOMATA:RadicalTextiles@Art Gallery of South Australia
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- 2024.11.12
- AKI INOMATA:Mutual Aid. Art in Collaboration with Nature@Castello di Rivoli, Italy
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- 2024.10.29
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AKI INOMATA: DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy@21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Aki will participate in the international symposium on the first day, November 2nd.
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- 2024.10.17
- AKI INOMATA: Bangkok Art Biennale 2024
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- 2024.09.21
- AKI INOMATA:Forest Festival of the arts Okayama
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- 2024.08.23
- AKI INOMATA:LOVE Fashion – When You Dress Me@ National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
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- 2024.07.13
- AKI INOMATA:Dialogue with Joseph Beuys@GYRE GALLERY, Tokyo
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- 2024.06.19
- AKI INOMATA:11th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
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- 2024.04.26
- AKI INOMATA:AGSA Screen: Wavelength@Australia
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- 2024.03.22
- Art Basel Hongkong 2024
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- 2024.03.04
- AKI INOMATA: 「Rebel Garden」@ Belgium
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- 2023.12.05
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- 2023.10.26
- AKI INOMATA:group exhibition 「Stories After Extinction」@MtK contemporary Art
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- 2023.09.12
- AKI INOMATA: 「Homo migratio」@Jeju Museum of Art, Korea
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- 2023.06.28
- AKI INOMATA solo exhibition@MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
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- 2023.06.06
- AKI INOMATA:Group Show@Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei
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- 2023.05.18
- AKI INOMATA 「Autobiographical Animals」@the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Until 31 May
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- 2023.02.24
- AKI INOMATA 「Autobiographical Animals」@the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
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- 2022.11.29
- AKI INOMATA:Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going@Mori Art Museum
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- 2022.11.10
- AKI INOMATA: 「POESÍA EN VOZ ALTA 2022」 in Mexico
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- 2022.11.02
- AKI INOMATA: 「FOREST FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS OKAYAMA」Artist in residence
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- 2022.09.29
- AKI INOMATA:talk event at Aichi Triennale 2022
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- 2022.09.06
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AKI INOATA:Collection Exhibition at Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
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- 2022.07.19
- AKI INOMATA will participate in Aichi Triennnale 2022 STILL ALIVE.
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- 2022.07.12
- AKI INOMATA:Biotopia @Le Pavillon, Belgium
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- 2022.05.28
- AKI INOMATA:Talk event at 21century museum of contemporary art,Kanazawa
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- 2022.05.24
- AKI INOMATA: “Art & New Ecology” at The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Art
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- 2022.05.10
- AKI INOMATA hold solo exhibition at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
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- 2022.04.28
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AKI INOMATA “MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2022”
at YEBISU GARDEN PLACE
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- 2022.04.28
- AKI INOMATA 〝End of the World and Self-centered World〟
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- 2021.11.29
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AKI INOMATA :
" Sapporo Parallel Museum 2021 "
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- 2021.11.29
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AKI INOMATA : " New Elements "
The New State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
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- 2021.10.19
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AKIINOMATA_Group Show
@ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
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- 2021.10.12
- AKIINOMATA " Re:Home " Seian University of Arts and Design, Otsu-city, Shiga-pref.
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- 2021.10.08
- AKIINOMATA" Matsudo International Science Art Festival " Mtsudo-city
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- 2021.05.07
- AKI INOMATA: CAFAA 2020-2021Exhibition
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- 2020.11.20
- AKI INOMATA: Broken Nature@MoMA
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- 2020.10.28
- ART 021 2020 online PLATFORM
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- 2020.06.25
- Donation to Médecins Sans Frontières' COVID-19 Crisis Fund (VIDEOTOPIA)
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- 2020.06.13
- Virtual Collect + Connect Photo L.A.
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- 2020.02.22
- AKI INOMATA: School of the Future Festival by Tokyo Midtown and Ars Electronica
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- 2019.11.15
- AKI INOMATA: Solo Exhibition, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
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- 2019.11.14
- AKI INOMATA: ELLE LOVES ART, KASHIYAMA DAIKANYAMA, Tokyo
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- 2019.10.19
- AKI INOMATA 's first art book will be published soon
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- 2019.08.30
- AKI INOMATA: ALLIGA FEATURING CECILIA BENGOLEA, AKI INOMATA AND SISSEL TOLAAS, SFER IK, Mexico
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- 2019.08.21
- AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness at Towada Art Center
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- 2019.03.06
- Art Basel Hong Kong : AKI INOMATA
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- 2019.03.02
- AKI INOMATA: the XXII Triennale di Milano
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- 2018.11.02
- AKI INOMATA:Thailand Biennale 2018, Krabi, Thailand
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- 2018.09.19
- AKI INOMATA: Scopiton Festival 2018, Nantes, France
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- 2018.05.01
- Kentaro Kobuke, AKI INOMATA: Genbi Shinkansen
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- 2018.01.30
- AKI INOMATA: Asian Art Award 2018 supported by Warehouse TERRADA ‒ Finalist Exhibition
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- 2017.08.28
- AKI INOMATA participates "Coming of Age" at Sector 2337, Chicago.
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- 2017.07.12
- AKI INOMATA : Shirahama Aquarium of Kyoto University / Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre
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- 2017.02.09
- AKI INOMATA participates "MEDIA AMBITION TOKYO 2017"
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- 2017.01.16
- AKI INOMATA participates "The Great Ordinary" at The Borderless Art Museum NO-MA
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- 2016.10.20
- AKI INOMATA participates “Moths, crabs and vibrations” Griffin Art Space, Warsaw
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- 2016.09.02
- AKI INOMATA participates in "KENPOKU ART 2016"
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- 2016.05.20
- AKI INOMATA participates "ECO EXPANDED CITY" at WRO Art Center, Poland
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- 2016.02.25
- AKI INOMATA
Biography