AKI INOMATA

Works

「Mutual Aid. Art in collaboration with nature」Installation View, 2024, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2024 / Photo：Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

「DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy」Installation view, 2024, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Photo：Yuasa Akira

「Bangkok Art Biennale」Installation view , 2024, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre(BACC) / Image courtesy Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)

「Thinking of Yesterday's Sky」Installation View, 2023, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY Photo: Hayato Wakabayashi

2023

「Thinking of Yesterday's Sky」Installation View, 2023, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY Photo: Hayato Wakabayashi

2023

「Thinking of Yesterday's Sky」Installation View, 2023, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY Photo: Hayato Wakabayashi

Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2022, Passing her a piece of cloth, 2022 ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee Photo: ToLoLo studio

Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2022, Passing her a piece of cloth, 2022 ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee Photo: ToLoLo studio

Installation view of “APERTO16 AKI INOMATA Acting Shells” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Photo: KIOKU Keizo

Installation view of “APERTO16 AKI INOMATA Acting Shells” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Photo: KIOKU Keizo

Installation view of “APERTO16 AKI INOMATA Acting Shells” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Photo: KIOKU Keizo

Installation view of “APERTO16 AKI INOMATA Acting Shells” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Photo: KIOKU Keizo

CAFFA Award 2020-2021 Finalist solo-exhibition "How to Carve a Sculpture"installation view

2021

Contemporary Art Foundation Secretariat (Pyramide Bldg, Roppongi, Tokyo Photo by Keizo Kioku, courtesy of Contemporary Art Foundation

"Memory of Currency"

2021

Archival pigment print ( 2 pieces set ) Photo : Hayato Wakabayashi

"Memory of Currency"

2021

Pearl oyster's shell, resin Photo : Hayato Wakabayashi

"Memory of Currency" installation view, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

2021

Photo : Hayato Wakabayashi

"Memory of Currency" installation view, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

2021

Photo : Hayato Wakabayashi

Think Evolution #1 : Kiku-ishi (Ammonite)

2016-2017

HD video, 1min 58sec

Installation view from “ALLIGA” SFER IK

2019

Tulum, Mexico, 2019. Image courtesy SFER IK

2019

"Significant Otherness" Towada Art Center, Aomori Photo: Eisuke Asaoka

2019

"Significant Otherness" Towada Art Center, Aomori Photo: Eisuke Asaoka

2018

"Thailand Biennale 2018" Installation view, Krabi, Thailand Photo:Puchong Puangphet

How to Carve a Sculpture

2018

"Thailand Biennale 2018" Installation view, Krabi, Thailand Photo:Puchong Puangphet

2018

Installation view at Musee d'arts de Nantes ©︎Nantes Metropole - Nantes Art Museum - Photograph: C. Clos

2018

Installation view at Musee d'arts de Nantes ©︎Nantes Metropole - Nantes Art Museum - Photograph: C. Clos

2018

"Asian Art Award 2018 finalist exhibition” Installation view at Terrada Art Complex, Tokyo photo: Ken Kato

Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs? -Tokyo-

2009- (on going)

3D printed resin

2016

Installation view of "ECO EXPANDED CITY 2016" at WRO Art Center, Poland, Wroclaw photo: WRO ART CENTER

Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs

2009- (on going)

3D printed resin

Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs

2009- (on going)

3D printed resin

Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs

2010/2019

Ink jet print

Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?

2010/2019

Ink jet print

Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs? -White Chapel-

2014-15

video、photo

I Wear the Dog's Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair

2014

two channel video installation (5min. 21sec. each), a cape out of my dog's hair, a cape out of my hair

I Wear the Dog's Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair

2014

two channel video installation (5min. 21sec. each), a cape out of my dog's hair, a cape out of my hair

I Wear the Dog's Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair

2014

two channel video installation (5min. 21sec. each), a cape out of my dog's hair, a cape out of my hair

I Wear the Dog's Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair

2014

two channel video installation (5min. 21sec. each), a cape out of my dog's hair, a cape out of my hair

girl, girl, girl . . .

2012

video (5min. 39sec) photo (fresco giclee)

girl, girl, girl . . .

2012

video (5min. 39sec) photo (fresco giclee)

girl, girl, girl . . .

2012

video (5min. 39sec) photo (fresco giclee)

girl, girl, girl . . .

2012

video (5min. 39sec) photo (fresco giclee)

French lessons with a Parakeet

2010

video (5min.21sec)

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 “Bangkok Art Biennale 2024” (BACC, 2024), “Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-skies Country”(Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art, Okayama, Japan, 2024), “Roppongi Crossing 2022” (Mori Art Museum, 2022), “Aichi Triennale 2022” (House of Oka, 2022), “Broken Nature” (MoMA, 2020), “The XXII Triennale di Milano” (Triennale Design Museum, 2019), “Thailand Biennale Krabi 2018” (Krabi city, 2018), “AKI INOMATA, Why Not Hand Over ‘Shelter’ to Hermit Crabs?” (Musée d’arts de Nantes, 2018).
Her works are included in many collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, and the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art.