Profile

  • 1983

    Born in Tokyo, Japan

  • 2008

    MFA in Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
    lives and works in Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2023

    Thinking of Yesterday’s Sky” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo
    Autobiographical Animals” The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK

  • 2022

    APERTO16 AKI INOMATA Acting Shells” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa

  • 2021

    How to Curve a Sculpture” Contemporary Art Foundation,Tokyo
    Memory of Currency” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
    Tamagawa Takashimaya, GRAND PATIO Library&Art

  • 2020

    Why Not Hand Over a Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?” Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo

  • 2019

    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

  • 2018

    Aki Inomata, Why Not Hand Over a Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?” Musée d’Arts de Nantes, France

  • 2015

    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


  • 2014

    HAMBURG ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA” FRISE, Hamburg, Germany
    I Wear the Dog’s Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair” HAGISO, Tokyo

  • 2013

    WORKS 2009-2013” ONE, Shanghai



  • 2012

    girl, girl, girl . . . ” SEIBU SHIBUYA, Tokyo
    girl, girl, girl . . . ” STRIPED HOUSE GALLERY, Tokyo

  • 2011

    Aki Inomata : Why Not Hand Over a ‘Shelter’ to Hermit Crabs?” Fleming Museum of Art – University of Vermont, Vermont, USA

  • 2008

    AKI INOMATA” Gallery Teo, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2023

    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

  • 2022

    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

  • 2021

    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

  • 2020

    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

  • 2019

    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

  • 2018

    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

  • 2017

    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


  • 2016

    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


  • 2015

    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



  • 2014

    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


  • 2013

    3D PRINT SHOW” The Business Design Centre, London
/ Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris
    Ogaki Biennale 2013” IAMAS, Gifu, Japan

  • 2012

    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

  • 2011

    NAKANOJO BIENNALE 2011” Former Public School 3, Gunma, Japan
    Art exhibition in Onsenkyo” Former Public School 3, Gunma, Japan


  • 2009

    No Man’s Land” Former French Embassy, Tokyo



  • 2008

    Graduation Exhibition (M.F.A.) Inter Media Art Course, Tokyo University of the Arts” ZAIM, Yokohama

, Japan

  • 2007

    Toride ART Project 2007” Ibaraki, Japan
    Kiryu saien 13” Maehara Garage, Gunma, Japan

  • 2005

    P&E 2005” ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
, Japan

  • 2004

    Kodaira Field Festival” Kodaira central Park, Tokyo
    Tokyo Competition #1” Marunouchi Building, Tokyo
    Mobile Art” Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto

Awards

  • 2021

    CAFAA Award Finalist, Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo

  • 2018

    Asian Art Award 2018 supported by Warehouse TERRADA, Special Prize, Tokyo

  • 2014

    YouFab Global Creative Awards 2014, Grand Prize, Tokyo

  • 2012

    Selected for the 15th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan

Grant

  • 2015

    Asian Cultural Council (ACC)

Residency Programs

  • 2017

    ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York City

  • 2014

    FRISE Art Center, Hamburg, Germany

Collections

  • 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