Biography
Profile
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- 1983
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Born in Tokyo, Japan
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- 2008
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MFA in Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
lives and works in Tokyo
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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- 2023
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“Thinking of Yesterday’s Sky” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo
“Autobiographical Animals” The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK
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- 2022
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“APERTO16 AKI INOMATA Acting Shells” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa
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- 2021
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“How to Curve a Sculpture” Contemporary Art Foundation,Tokyo
“Memory of Currency” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
Tamagawa Takashimaya, GRAND PATIO Library&Art
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- 2020
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“Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?” Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
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- 2019
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“AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness” Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
“guest room 004 AKI INOMATA Poetics of Analogy -The process of Collaboration with Different Species” Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
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- 2018
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“Aki Inomata, Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?” Musée d’Arts de Nantes, France
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- 2015
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“Solaé Art Gallery Project vol.11” Tokyo electron, Tokyo
“Spectrum File 07 AKI INOMATA” SPIRAL, Tokyo
“Emergencies! 025 AKI INOMATA ‘Inter-Nature Communication’” NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo
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- 2014
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“HAMBURG ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA” FRISE, Hamburg, Germany
“I Wear the Dog’s Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair” HAGISO, Tokyo
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- 2013
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“WORKS 2009-2013” ONE, Shanghai
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- 2012
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“girl, girl, girl . . . ” SEIBU SHIBUYA, Tokyo
“girl, girl, girl . . . ” STRIPED HOUSE GALLERY, Tokyo
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- 2011
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“Aki Inomata : Why Not Hand Over a ‘Shelter’ to Hermit Crabs?” Fleming Museum of Art – University of Vermont, Vermont, USA
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- 2008
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“AKI INOMATA” Gallery Teo, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
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- 2023
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“Homo migratio” Jeju Museum of Art (JMoA), Korea
“Memory Palace in Ruins” Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei
“Entangled Intelligences: Interspecies Dialogues of Art” Tyrell Gallery, Austin, USA
“Drawn to Ambiguity” 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo
“Faint Afterglow” Gallery Baton, Seoul
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- 2022
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“Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Aichi Triennale 2022” House of Oka, Nagoya, Japan
“Festival Poesía en Voz Alta”,Casa del Lago UNAM,Mexico
“Poetry Out Loud Festival 2022: On the body time is made”,Casa del Lago UNAM,Mexico
“Collection ExhibitionⅡ: Broaden your Imagination”, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
“Biotopia”, le pavillon, Namur, Belgium
“Art & New Ecology” The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts2022, Tokyo
“End of the World and Self-centered World” Gyre Gallery, Tokyo
“MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2022”, Ebisu Garden Place, Tokyo
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- 2021
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“Sapporo Parallel Museum 2021”, Akarenga Terrace, Sapporo, Japan
“New Elements” The New State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“The World Began without the Human Race and It Will End without It” National Taiwan Museum of Fine
Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“Re:Home” Seian University of Arts and Design, Shiga, Japan
“Matsudo International Science Art Festival ” Tojo-tei, Chiba, Japan
“Broken Landscapes: Have Our Cities Failed?” Jut Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
“So Close/So Far”, Hycp Veddel-Space, Hamburg, Germany
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- 2020
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“Tokyo 2X2X” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
“VIDEOTOPIA” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
“Broken Nature” MoMA, New York City
“Space Art Tanegashima 2020” Hirota Site Museum, Tanegashima, Kagoshima, Japan
“Made in Tokyo:Architecture and Living 1964/2020”, Japan Society, New York City
“ALLIGA”, SFER IK, Tulum
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- 2019
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“Festival ]interstice[ 14” Abbaye-Aux-Dames, Caen, France
“STRP Festival” Eindhoven, Netherlands
“The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival”, La Triennale di Milano
“FEMUFACTURE” Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney
“Videoart Made in Japan” Umakart, Bruno, Czech
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- 2018
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“Thailand Biennale Krabi 2018” Krabi, Thailand
“Frankenstein in 2018: Bio-art throws light on art, science, and society today” EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo
“Asian Art Award 2018 supported by Warehouse TERRADA -Finalist Exhibition” TERRADA ART COMPLEX, Tokyo
“Pilot Plant Anniversary” Contemporary Art and Spirits (CAS), Osaka
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- 2017
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“Shutoko Expressway Fine Art Collection” O Art Museum, Tokyo
“Coming of Age” Sector 2337, Chicago
“Fictitious Realities” Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne, Australia
“NARS Spring Open Studios” Nars Foundation, New York City
“SPRING OPEN STUDIOS 2017” ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York City
“Open Rehearsal” Alwan for the Arts, New York City
“Hermit Crabs and Shelters” Shirahama Aquarium, Kyoto University, Wakayama, Japan
“PLAY! WATER(S)” Ogaki City Cultural Foundation, Japan
“The Great Ordinary” Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan
“Media Ambition Tokyo 2017” Roppongi Hills, Mori Tower 52F TOKYO CITY VIEW, Tokyo
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- 2016
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“Moths, crabs and vibrations” Griffin Art Space, Warszawa, Poland
“Out of Hand: Materializing the Digital” Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney
“KENPOKU ART 2016” Ibaraki, Japan
“TOKYO-LONDON-NEWYORK” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo
“PERFORMATIVE PHASE” gallery blanka, Nagoya, Japan “ECO EXPANDED CITY 2016” WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland,
“Beyond Sugar and Spice Vol.2” CAS, Osaka
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- 2015
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“Show-zui-zu” Nihombashi Takashimaya Gallery-X, Tokyo
“TOKYO DESIGN WEEK 2015 Super Interactive & Robot Museum” Meiji-Jingu Gaien Mae, Tokyo
“Beyond Sugar and Spice – Girls Who Overcome” GALERIE PARIS, Yokohama, Japan
“Généalogie des objets 2.0” Espace Jean Legendre, Compiègne, France
“3331 Art Fair 2015 -Various Collectors’ Prizes -” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo “Digital Choc 2015” Institut français du Japon, Tokyo
“Five Sculptors” hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO
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- 2014
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“Anohito-no-konomimono” Takashimaya Shinjuku Store, Tokyo
“YouFab Global Creative Awards 2014” FabCafe Tokyo
“Port Journeys” Zo-no-Hana-Terrace, Yokohama, Japan
“ARS ELECTORONICA 2014” Akademisches Gymnasium, Linz, Austria
“Materializing II” The University Art Museum –Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
“Withdraw!” Hammer-Head Studio Shin-Minatoku, Yokohama, Japan
“3D PRINT SHOW” Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City
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- 2013
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“3D PRINT SHOW” The Business Design Centre, London / Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris
“Ogaki Biennale 2013” IAMAS, Gifu, Japan
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- 2012
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“The New Phase of Image XII ‘Out of Place’” GALLERY SUZUKI, Antenna Media, Kyoto
“The 15th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art” Taro Okamoto Museum of ART, Kawasaki, Japan
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- 2011
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“NAKANOJO BIENNALE 2011” Former Public School 3, Gunma, Japan
“Art exhibition in Onsenkyo” Former Public School 3, Gunma, Japan
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- 2009
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“No Man’s Land” Former French Embassy, Tokyo
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- 2008
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“Graduation Exhibition (M.F.A.) Inter Media Art Course, Tokyo University of the Arts” ZAIM, Yokohama , Japan
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- 2007
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“Toride ART Project 2007” Ibaraki, Japan
“Kiryu saien 13” Maehara Garage, Gunma, Japan
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- 2005
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“P&E 2005” ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka , Japan
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- 2004
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“Kodaira Field Festival” Kodaira central Park, Tokyo
“Tokyo Competition #1” Marunouchi Building, Tokyo
“Mobile Art” Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto
Awards
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- 2021
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CAFAA Award Finalist, Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo
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- 2018
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Asian Art Award 2018 supported by Warehouse TERRADA, Special Prize, Tokyo
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- 2014
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YouFab Global Creative Awards 2014, Grand Prize, Tokyo
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- 2012
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Selected for the 15th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Grant
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- 2015
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Asian Cultural Council (ACC)
Residency Programs
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- 2017
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ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York City
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- 2014
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FRISE Art Center, Hamburg, Germany
Collections
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Art Gallery of South Australia
JAPIGOZZI Collection, Geneva
Krabi city, Thailand
The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA), NY
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa
Oketa Collection, Tokyo
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
Smiles Collection, Tokyo
Makoto Sassa Collection, Tokyo