Biography |
| 1976 | Born in Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | Graduated in Painting from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Completed Master’s Degree in Painting at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Completed Ph.D in Painting at the Art Research Department of Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2006–2009 | Worked as an instructor in Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto; Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto; Kibi International University, Okayama, Japan |
| 2010 | Lived and worked in London, UK, supported by the Gotoh Cultural Award |
| 2011 | Lives and works in Berlin, Germany, supported by a fellowship under the Japan Government Overseas Study Programme |
| 2012–2013 | Participates in the International Studio Program in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Tokyo, Japan |
Solo Exhibitions |
| 2024 | AIKO TEZUKA, Hanbey-fu Gojo Bldg. 2F Hall Keiryu, Kyoto, Japan, January |
| 2023 | March, 2023, Tokyo, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, March |
| 2022 | Aiko Tezuka – (Re)weaving Histories, Rijksmuseum (Asian Pavilion), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April |
| Wash hands in a fountain, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Nasushiobara, Japan, April |
| 2021 | STUDIO-Exhibition with Aiko Tezuka, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, May |
| 2019 | Dear Oblivion – 親愛なる忘却へ, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, 13 September – 30 November 2019 |
| Flowery Obscurity – 華の闇, MA2 gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 7 – 28 September 2019 |
| Dear Oblivion – 親愛なる忘却へ, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan, 3 – 28 September 2019 |
| 2018 | Fragments of Thoughts, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 24 April – 25 May 2018 |
| 2015 | Stardust Letters, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan, 18 July – 8 November 2015 |
| Lessons for Restoration, MAGO, Eidsvoll, Akershus, Norway, 27 June – 27 September 2015 |
| Unraveling, Restoring, Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines, 8 June – 19 July 2015 |
| 2014 | Thin Membrane, Pictures Come Down, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany, 13 September – 9 November 2014 |
| Certainty / Entropy, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 13 September – 25 October 2014 |
| Certainty / Entropy, Third Floor Hermès Singapore, Singapore, 9 May – 27 July 2014 |
| Art Basel Hong Kong, booth of Galerie Michael Janssen, Hong Kong, 15-18 May 2014 |
| 2013 | Rewoven, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, 9 November – 21 December 2013 |
| Ghost – Suspended Organs, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 22 March – 9 May 2013 |
| Ghost – Suspended Organs, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 18 January – 10 February 2013 |
| 2011 | Prism Lag, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 17 March – 12 June 2011 |
| Transparent Fruits, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan, 5 March – 23 April (Nagoya), 11 March – 23 April (Tokyo) 2011 |
| 2009 | Fragile Surface – Cat’s Cradle, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 16 July – 9 September 2009 |
| 2008 | Aiko Tezuka, Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company South Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Sewing up, in between Ghosts, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| Thin Film, Underground Forest, SPIRAL/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 5 – 18 January 2007 |
| Aiko Tezuka, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2005 | Aiko Tezuka, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo, Japan, 1 – 26 April 2005 |
| Aiko Tezuka, CASO, Osaka, Japan |
| 2004 | Outside of Modernism, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 5 March – 3 April 2004 |
| 2001 | Aiko Tezuka, Tokyo Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | Aiko Tezuka, Gallery Rasen, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions |
| 2025 | #WhereDoWeStand?―Art in Our Time, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan |
| Spiral Xmas Market 2025 Art Section (MA2Gallery’s booth), Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| ONE FUKUOKA BLDG. XMAS Produced by Spiral, ONE FUKUOKA BLDG, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Collection Exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| MEET YOUR ARTISTS, MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2025 Art Fair, B&C HALL, Tokyo, Japan |
| Ahead of the Rediscovery Stream, MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2025 Exhibition, Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F, Tokyo, Japan |
| The Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan (in the State Guest House), Yumeshima-Osaka, Japan |
| Jakob Gasteiger & Aiko Tezuka Duo Exhibition, Richeldis Fine Art, Barcelona, Spain |
| CURATION⇄FAIR Tokyo (MA2Gallery’s booth), kudan house, Tokyo, Japan |
| Collection 2: Undo, Redo, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| Cut From The Same Cloth: Textile & Technology, Palo Alto Art Center, California, USA |
| 2024 | KUNSTAUKTION Hilfe für Flüchtlingshilfe, Charity auction exhibition to support refugees, Kultur-Kirche St. Matthäus, Berlin, Germany |
| drucken…, drj: dr.julius art projects by Matthias Seidel + Christiane Bail, Berlin, Germany |
| Dissonance – Platform Germany #3, The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania |
| The Peacock Room, faro WORKPLACE, Tokyo, Japan |
| Hyper Adaptation: Craft and Expression in a New Era, artKYOTO, Shōsei-en, Kyoto, Japan |
| ART NAKANOSHIMA 2024, hosted by Kumi Okumura (MA2Gallery’s booth), DOJIMA RIVER FORAM, Osaka |
| Artek with Interior architects Joanna Laajisto & Kentaro Kudo | Crafted through time, DESIGNART TOKYO 2024 DESIGN & ART FESTIVAL, Tokyo, Japan |
| “That is, someday, someone’s, somewhere’s, world” GIII_Vol.157 CAMK Collection, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan |
| Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship, The Peranakan Museum, Singapore |
| Chiaroscuro – Etching Exhibition by Edition Works, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| WEEKENDERS (FINCH ART’s booth), Sansiao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, July |
| RANGE ROVER HOUSE 2024, RANGE ROVER SV BESPOKE EDITIONS exhibition and sale, Nakameguro private residence, organized by GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, Tokyo, Japan, June |
| EXPO CHICAGO (JANE LOMBARD GALLERY’s booth), Chicago, America, April |
| Opening and Connecting – A Study of Incision and Suture, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan, April |
| ONE DOJIMA PROJECT, Commissioned Work, Brillia Tower Dojima, Osaka, Japan, April |
| Dissonance – Platform Germany (2), Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany, March |
| CURATION⇄FAIR (MA2 Gallery’s booth), kudan house, Tokyo, Japan, March |
| ZONAMACO (Jane Lombard Gallery’s booth), Mexico City, Mexico, February |
| ONE ART TAIPEI 2024 (AKI Gallery’s booth), Taipei, Taiwan, January |
| 2023 | Opposing Materiality, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, USA, December |
| Art Miami (Maybaum Gallery’s booth), One Herald Plaza, Miami, USA, December |
| OFFICINA, De Rerum Natura, Kanalidarte Gallery, Brescia. Italy, October |
| ASIA NOW 2023 (art fair), Monnaie de Paris, France, October (Majhi International Art Residency 2023) |
| Is memory a time? SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan, October |
| OFFICINA, De Rerum Natura, Officina Flower Shop, Verona, Italy, October |
| ArtVerona 2023 (Kanalidarte’s booth), Verona, Italy, October |
| artKYOTO 2023 Art Fair (KYOTO INTERCHANGE’s booth), Nijo-jo Castle, Kyoto, Japan, October |
| Artists, Collectors, Scholars: Women’s Contributions to the Japanese Art Collection, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany, September |
| Art Market San Francisco (Maybaum Gallery’s booth), Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, USA, April |
| Art Fair Tokyo (MA2 Gallery’s booth), Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, March |
| 2022 | Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, December |
| The 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2022, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, October |
| PRINT&PAINT. 350 years flowers on cotton, KASTEEL D’URSEL, Belgium, May |
| —t—e—x—t—i—l—e—, HAUNT//frontviews and drj art project, Berlin, Germany, April |
| 2021 | Fuji Textile Week, Fujiyoshida, Japan, December |
| Loose Ends, Jane Lombard Gallery, NY, June |
| Charlottenburg, Bar Am, Berlin, Germany, April |
| Workation Risort Bichu Yakage, Yakage, Okayama, Japan, January |
| 2020 | Made in Fuchu: Twenty Years of Open Studio Programs, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, December |
| Linking Transformations. Positionen japanischer und norddeutscher Gegenwartskunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 26 September 2020 – 21 February 2021 |
| The Haptic Eye, online group exhibition, Curated by Mark Gisbourne, Organized by ArtCircle, Artists: Shaarbek Amankul, Birgit Dieker, Sheila Hicks, Ritzi & Peter Jacobi, Marie Claire Messouma Manlanbien, Aiko Tezuka, Günter Weseler, Magda (Vitalyos) Ziman, 18 September – 30 December 2020 |
| Loose Thread, online group exhibition, BLANK SPACE Gallery, NY, USA, 6 September – 27 September 2020 |
| Collection Highlights, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 28 April 2020 – 31 March 2021 |
| 2019 | MOT Collection: Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 29 March – 16 June 2019 |
| Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art – Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 29 March – 16 June 2019 |
| This is our collection + Yinka Shonibare CBE: Flower Power, Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 21 March – 26 May 2019 |
| 2018 | Group show (featuring three artists), MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 30 November – 22 December 2018 |
| Cultural Threads, TextielMuseum Tilburg, Netherlands, 24 November 2018 – 12 May 2019 |
| RAUM XVII, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin, Germany, 13 – 30 September 2018 |
| Notes from a trembling community in a wilful state of flux, Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK), Hoorn, The Netherlands, 8 September – 20 October 2018 |
| Watch Your Bubble!, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, 10 May – 23 June 2018 |
| Mobile Worlds or the Transcultural Museum of Our Present, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany, April |
| A Painting for the Emperor, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 February – 31 May 2018 |
| I HEAR YOU (Jeg Hører Deg), The Art Museum in NorthTrøndelag, Namsos, Norway, 20 January – 26 May 2018 |
| 2017 | re:construction, PLADS artspace, Aarhus, Denmark, 29 October – 25 November 2017 |
| Sommerfest, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 11 – 26 August 2017 |
| ripple effect – through the surface, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 26 May – 17 June 2017 |
| New Acquisitions 2013~16 Samramansang from KIM Whanki to YANG Fudong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 13 March – 13 August 2017 |
| CAMK Collection vol.5 / You know? It’s said that Kumamoto-local-treasures have unveiled!, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, 18 February – 26 March 2017 |
| Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 28 January – 7 May 2017 |
| 2016 | Nightfall (LE RETOUR DES TÉNÈBRES), Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 December 2016 – 19 March 2017 |
| Spider’s Threads – Spinning images of Japanese beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 15 October – 25 December 2016 |
| Bleibt man an einem Ort, oder nicht (2-persons show with Shingo Yoshida), Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, 9 September – 21 October 2016 |
| Schnittmengen, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 3 June 2016 – 08 January 2017 |
| Die Gezeiten, Transmitter – Raum für Kultur und Sprache, Berlin, Germany, 24–26 June 2016 |
| Disegno – Japanische Zeichenkunst der Gegenwart, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, 9 April – 28 May 2016 |
| HÖHENRAUSCH, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany, 12 February – 05 March 2016 |
| 2015 | Artist File 2015 Next Doors, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea, 10 November 2015 – 14 February 2016 |
| Artist File 2015 Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, 29 July – 12 October 2015 |
| TOMROM, Larvik kunstforening, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway, 23 May – 21 June 2015 |
| Ob das Blatt sich an die Wurzel erinnert?, Galerie Dina Renninger, Munich, Germany, 13 May – 13 July 2015 |
| TOMROM, Sandefjord kunstforening, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway, 9 May – 7 June 2015 |
| 2014 | Mr. I Prize winner exhibition, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, 8 November – 14 December 2014 |
| h a u s s t e l l e n , exhibition concept in Pompéry’s apartment, Berlin, Germany, 25 April – 5 May 2014 |
| Japanische Gegenwartskunst und Textil, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, 24 January – 22 February 2014 |
| Installation View / Installationsansicht, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany, 17 January – 9 March 2014 |
| In Search of Critical Imagination, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 5 January – 23 February 2014 |
| 2013 | To Open Eyes, Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 17 November 2013 – 2 March 2014 |
| Disruptive Patterns. Plots, Plans and Movements. (Prelude), Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 16 -20 September 2013 |
| The Empire of Folds: Fashion and Textile Art from Japan, Museum Bellerive, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland, 30 August 2013 – 12 January 2014 |
| Embracing the land: reframing textiles, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art KINARE, Niigata, Japan, 20 July – 20 October 2013 |
| STOFF Summlung Textile Skulpturen, Kreissparkasse Rottweil, Germany, 18 June – 28 July 2013 |
| BLUMEN, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany, 24 May – 31 August 2013 |
| How to become who you are, BWA, Tarnów, Poland, 10 May – 23 June 2013 |
| Home Stories, Villa 102, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 102 (former Literaturhaus), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 15 March – 28 April 2013 |
| MOT Collection, Our Ninety Years: 1923-2013 Afterimages of tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 6 April – 9 June 2013 |
| Please do not touch!? (a special exhibition from the permanent collections), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 12 January – 7 April 2013 |
| 2012 | Letters from the Field (curated by NODE), Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 21 – 26 August 2012 |
| The New Contemporaries, @KCUA gallery, Kyoto Art University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 3 – 25 March 2012 |
| 2011 | Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 8 January – 27 March 2011 |
| 2010 | SHOW in the project space, Royal College of Art, Sculpture, London, UK, 12 – 15 December 2010 |
| The 20th Anniversary of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 30 October – 7 November 2010 |
| Celebratory Textiles – from Edo to the present day, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan, 10 April – 13 June 2010 |
| 2009 | City_net Asia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 30 September – 22 November 2009 |
| Sidetrack, Tokorozawa Biennial, Saitama, Japan, 28 August – 23 September 2009 |
| Stitch by Stitch, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 18 July – 27 September 2009 |
| New power! New collections in 2008, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 11 April – 21 June 2009 |
| 2008 | Pre-Exhibition Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD, Saitama, Japan, 27 August – 12 September 2008 |
| Secrets and Trick, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan, 5 July – 24 August 2008 |
| Tangent, Artist in residence, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan, 14 June – 13 July 2008 (Residence: 28 April – 19 July 2008) |
| New collections show, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan, 16 February – 13 April 2008 |
| MOT annual 2008, Unraveling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 9 February – 13 April 2008 |
| Art in TIME AND STYLE MIDTOWN vol.3 Drawing, TIME&STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo, Japan, 1 February – 31 May 2008 |
| 2007 | Cycle and Recycle, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 7 September – 4 November 2007 |
| Paradise of Illusion, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 11 May – 16 June 2007 |
| Sawako Tanizawa, Aiko Tezuka, Gunji Fukasawa, Kentaro Yokouchi, CASO, Osaka, Japan, 17 – 29 April 2007 |
| Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan, 10 February – 25 March 2007 |
| 2006 | Echigo – Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan, 23 July – 10 September 2006 |
| √roots, Honenin temple, Kyoto, Japan, 15 – 24 June 2006 |
| 2005 | Spiral Take Art Collection, Spiral/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 20 – 30 October 2005 |
| WILD GIRLS LULLABY, art zone, Kyoto, Japan, August 2005 |
| art in transit, The Palace Side Hotel (Room 439), Kyoto, Japan, June 2005 |
| VOCA 2005 The Vision of Contemporary Art (3rd prize winner), Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 15 – 30 March 2005 |
| 2004 | Spiral Take Art Collection, Spiral/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 23 October – 7 November 2004 |
| Selected Artists in Kyoto-2004 New Wave, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, 24 January – 8 February 2004 |
| 2003 | Art Court Frontier, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 12 July – 3 August 2003 |
| 2002 | Kyo-Ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (1st prize), Japan, 4 – 20 June 2002 |
Awards |
| 2010 | Fellowship under the Japan Government Overseas Study Programme (for 2 years), Tokyo, Japan |
| 2nd prize at the award of Mr. I, Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, Japan |
| 2009 | Annual award from The Gotoh Memorial Foundation (fellowship to study abroad for 1 year), Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | 3rd Prize, VOCA Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | 1st prize, Kyo-ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan |
Public Collection |
| The Peranakan Museum, Singapore |
| The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan |
| The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (Long-term loan from a private collection) |
| BLUE NOTE PLACE, Tokyo, Japan |
| Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Nasushiobara, Japan |
| THE HOTEL HIGASHIYAMA by Kyoto Tokyu Hotel, Kyoto, Japan |
| TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands |
| Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland |
| The Art Museum in NorthTrøndelag (Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag), Namsos, Norway |
| Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
| National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, South Korea |
| Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany |
| The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
| Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan |
| Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan |
| Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan |
| The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan |
| TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, Aichi, Japan |
Artist Website |
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