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
2021 Syow case gallery Aiko Yamamoto solo exhibition (YOKOHAMA CIVIC ART GALLERY AZAMINO, Kanagawa. Japan)
2021 BankART Under 35 (BankART KAIKO, Kanagawa, Japan)
2020 It stay here, It go far (Soku-an, Shizuoka, Japan)
2020 While swaying in the colors (SIMBALION company , Taoyuan, Taiwan)
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
2021 Food and Contemporary Art vol.8 (BankART Station. Kanagawa, Japan)
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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