Aiko Yamamoto
1991 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
Education
2019 Short-term Lecturer, China Academy of the Art
2019 Research Student, Inter Media Art, China Academy of the Art
2017 MA, Graduate School of Fine Arts Inter-Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
2014 BA, Craft Design Textile Course, Industrial and Craft Design, Musashino Art University
Solo exhibition
2020 It stay here, It go far (Soku-an, Shizuoka, Japan)
2019 Pathos of Things ( Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan )
2018 Mountain Puddle (Old warehouse Daimaru, Ibaraki )
2013 When it pulses (Art Lab AKIBA, Tokyo )
Selected exhibition
2020 Daigo Machinaka Art Week 2020 ( Daigo-City, Ibaraki )
2019 A Gentle Gaze ( HWA’S Gallery, Shanghai, China )
2019 Kompas Yokohama ( Yokohama Museum, Kanagawa )
2019 Sea of Memory ( Xiangshan Yishu Commune, Hangzhou, China )
2019 Under the table ( Future Domain Talents Home, Hangzhou, China )
2019 Writing of the Romance (Nanjing 24hours Museum, Nanjing, China )
2019 The 1st Zhejiang International Youth Art Week ( Xiangshan Yishu Commune, Hangzhou, China )
2019 Daigo Machinaka Art Week 2019 ( Daigo-City, Ibaraki )
2019 Hopes & Dialogues in Rumah Kijang Mizuma（Mizuma Art Gallery , Singapore）
2018 “CROSS DOMAIN” （Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum , Suzhou , China）
2018 Arts Challenge 2018(Aichi Art Center, Aichi)
2017 TAMAVIVANTⅡ - Traveling exhibition (Parthenōn Tama / Tokyo )
2017 TAMAVIVANTⅡ"Pogative" (Art Thaque gallery, Tokyo)
2017 Tokyo Art University graduate exhibition (Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo)
2016 Play with the forest (Salon-de-vert / Nagano )
2016 Window gallery "My constellation diary " (Space8x8 / Ibaraki )
2015 Open Studio ( Rumah Kijang Mizuma / Yogyakarta )
2015 Good Design Prize Exhibition 2015 (Tokyo Midtown, Roppongi, Tokyo)
2014 Window gallery "Crystal of time" (Space8x8 / Ibaraki )
2014 OPEN STUDIO 2014 ( Ino artist village, Ibaraki )
2014 Epoch Garden (Tomyamachi studio, Ishikawa)
2014 Atlas exhibition (Tokyo art university museum / Ibaraki )
2014 ROKKAN(Seiryu-kan, Kyoto)
Project
2019 Like a water, like an island ( BARRACK , Okinawa, Japan)
2019 PLAYSHOP - Young to Young ( Xiangshan Yishu Commune, Hangzhou, China )
2018 Majutsuya (Daigo front, Ibaraki)
2017 Play with Indigo Batik (BankART1929, Kanagawa)
2015 Seimeiryoku no Odoriba (Kobichizawa hall, Yamanashi)
Artist in Residence
2020 Soku-an , Shizuoka , Japan
2019 BARRACK , Okinawa, Japan
2019 Artist in Residence Taipei program , Taipei , Taiwan
2018 Daigo Artist in residence , Daigo-sity, Ibaraki, Japan
2015 Rumah Kijang Mizuma , Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2015 KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Others
2019 Interview about my solo exhibition
2019 run a serial in six parts on the website of Melting Pot Co., Ltd.
2018 ASIA DAIHYO Workshop leader ( Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka )
2018 My article appeared in the Newspaper
2018 ASIA DAIHYO MATCH FLAG PROJECT (CJCC / Cambodia, Phnompenh)
2016 Open discussion "Research about Indonesia" ( BankART1929 / Kanagawa )
2014 The 3rd Tokonoma Art Competition judge
2013 Tokyo MX TV "Let's go to the art museum" Work introduction
Award / Fellowship
2018-2019 The Pola Art Foundation Fellowship - Stay in China
2015 Tobitate Japan program
2015 Niigata Traditional Textile Kamedashima - Good Design Award
2013 2nd Tokonoma Arts Competition - Best Award Winner
Aiko Yamamoto mainly creates works based on dyeing techniques and essence of textile. She thinks about the sastainability and indigenous of natural life-bearing materials such as threads and dyes. She does fieldwork especially in Asia, and also works on growing plants that become dyes.
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