Works
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 in 1983, AKI INOMATA graduated with an MFA in Inter Media Art from Tokyo University of the Arts. Lives and works in Tokyo.
AKI INOMATA’s work includes many collaborations with animals. Her Memory of Currency, an attempt to create “money fossils” that link modern currencies with seashells, which were used as currency before modern times. For Think Evolution #1: Kiku-ishi (Ammonite), journey of thought experiments to restore an excavated ammonite shell from CT scan date, and arrange an encounter of an octopus which is closely related to the ammonite. Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs? series, in which she gives hermit crabs shells made with a 3D printer, brings to mind migrants, refugees, and their ability to swap nationalities. I Wear the Dog’s Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair, she makes herself a cape out of her dog’s hair and a smaller cape out of her own hair. Wearing the dog hair cape, the artist has the dog wear the cape made from her hair so that they are wearing each other’s coats.
Her recent exhibitions include “Broken Nature” MoMA NY (2020-2021), “AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness” Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan（2019）, “The XXII Triennale di Milano” La Triennale di Milano (2019), “The Drowned World” Toronto Biennale, Canada (2019), “Thailand Biennale 2018” Krabi Thailand (2018).
Exhibitions
News
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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