ARTIST
- 1965 Born in Niigata, Japan、Lives and works in Chiba, Japan.
- 1991 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, MFA in
painting
- 1989 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, BFA in
painting
WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2010
- "E-BAKA", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2009
- "I'm working on huge paintings in Beijing", Mizuma and One Galery, Beijing, China
- "Photo Works by AIDA Makoto", A・Zone, Okayama, Japan
- 2008
- "I'm IWAKI of Mizuma Art Gallery!!" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007
- "DOUBLE FANTASY", lammfromm The Concept Store, Tokyo,Japan
- "Art de Sauro : Aida Makoto / Yamaguchi Akira", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 2006
- "Picture of Mountain Stream and others", Andrew Roth
Inc. NYC, U.S.A.
- 2005
- "Pre-Climacteric Love", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo,Japan
- "Drink SAKE Alone", Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco,U.S.A.
- "Donki-Hote", Man in the Holocene at IBID Projects,
London,U.K.
- 2004
- "Aida's Work", Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- 2003
- "My KENTEN", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002
- Chukyo University Art Gallery C-square, Aichi, Japan
- 2001
- "Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan", Murata&friends,Berlin,
Germany
- "Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan", NADiff, Tokyo,Japan
- 1999
- "It's a man's alcoholic drink - Millennium", Mizuma
Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "DOUTEI", Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
- 1998
- "Paris,Tsudanuma", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996
- "NO FUTURE", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "War Picture Returns", Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan
- 1994
- "SARIN", Nasubi Gallery, Chiba, Japan
- "Poster", DOWA KASAI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1992
- "Pictures don't need to be not square", Yanaka Furufuru,
Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
- *forth coming exhibition
- 2011
- *"Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art", Japan Society, New York, U.S.A.
- 2010
- "Sydney Biennale 2010 : THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in Precarious Age", Sydney, Australia
- "Garden of Painting - Japanese Art of the 00s", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- 2009
- "TWIST and SHOUT Contemporary Art from Japan", Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
- "Dojima River Biennale 2009 Reflection: The World Through Art", Dojima RIver Forum, Osaka, Japan
- "Wallworks", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
- "Artium Prospective", Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
- "MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II Collaboration with art students", GALLERY RAKU, Kyoto, Japan
- "Dorodoro, Doron-The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
- 2008
- "-hiragana art- CHIBATORI", Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
- "SUICIDE EXPOSITION 2008", Otto Mainzheim Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II Collaboration with art students", Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi, Japan
- "The Group 1965: Tokyo Guide 2008", NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan
- "UNSTERN. SINISTRE. DISASTRO.", ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
- "neoteny japan - From Takahashi Collection", Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido/ 2009 The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo: The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan)
- "ORDER RECEIVED", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "8th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art," Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan
- "Heavy Light : Recent Photography and Video from Japan"
International Center of Photography, New York, U.S.A.
- "Off the Rails", Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China
- "Typical! Cliches about Jews and Others." Jewish Museum Berlin, Berline, Germany (traveled to Spertus Museum, Chicago, U.S.A.: 2009 Judisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria)
- "MANGAMANIA Comic-Kultur in Japan 1800-2008" Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfrut, Germany (traveled to Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Hamlebeak, Denmark)
- "SHELTER x SURVIVAL Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives," Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- "Laughing in a Foreign Language" Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
- "Eyes & Curiosity: Japanese Contemporary Art," SOKA Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2007
- "Poetic Terrorism", FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuwvos Creadores, Madrid, Spain
- "Beautiful New World : Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan", Long March Space, Beijing, China (traveled to: Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China)
- "Three Generations," Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
- "Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves", ZKM, Karlsruhe,Germany
- "7th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art", Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan
- "Portrait Session", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- "Portrait Session@NADiff", NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
- "all about laughter: The Role of Humor in Contemporary Art", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 2006
- "Oriental Metaphor", Alt Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
- "Somewhere in Time", Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
- "Paprika", TSUTAYA TOKYO ROPPONGI, Tokyo, Japan
- "ALLLOOKSAME? ARTCHINAJAPANKOREART", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
- "NIPPON vs FINEART-Striving for Identity in the Context of Western art, Osaka City Museum of Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka, Japan
- "Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary",Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
- "Singapole Biennale 2006 : BELIEF", National Museum of Singapore / Tanglin Camp, Singapore
- "Berlin-Tokyo", Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
- "The Child", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
- "Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art from Japan", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- 2005
- "BankART Life", BankART studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
- "Tokyo Souvenir by The Group 1965 - New Tokyo Public Art Program"(40x40 project), Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- "GUNDAM Generation Futures," SUNTORY Museum, Osaka, Japan (traveled to The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo: 2006 Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi; Kawara Museum, Aichi; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido; 2007 Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, Japan)
- "The Group 1965 - Seven Samurais, even"(40x40 project), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
- "Villa YURINSO Special Open : AIDA Makoto / OZAWA Tsuyoshi / YAMAGUCHI Akira", Ohara Museum of Art Yurinso, Okayama, Japan
- "The World of Matchbox Labels", The Okayama Prefectual Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
- "Nishiogi Biennale", Makoto Aida's home, Nishiogikubo,Tokyo, Japan
- "sight-cruising", Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
- "Since 1994" : Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo,Japan
- "AniMate。" , Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
- 2004
- "Nonchalant", 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
- "TOKYO STYLE IN STOCKHOLM 2004", Milliken Gallery, Stockholm,Sweden
- "KOTATSU-HA 2", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "Picture in Motion", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
- "Officina Asia", Palazzo del Ridotto, Cesena, Italy
- "lonely planet", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
- "Mediarena" : contemporary art from Japan, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
- "Fast Forward", Nassauischer Kunstverein (NKV), Wiesbaden, Germany
- "Les metamorphoses du quotidan", The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
- "Roppongi Crossing : New Visions of Japanese Art 2004", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- "Landscape of Eastern Asia (from Travel sketches to War pictures) - Yasugoro Ataka, Ryoichi Sasagawa and Makoto Aida", Niitsu Museum of Art, Niigata, Japan
- The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
- 2003
- "FLESH FOR FANTASY", Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
- "A retrospective : NARITA Tohl and several things he has left behind", Shichinohe-cho Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan、 Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi
- "Revolving Door : iscp <-> asia", Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
- "A Creating Workshop for Children in Aomori 2003", Mutsu Municipal Library, Mutsu City, Aomori, Japan
- "The American Effect - Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
- "girls don't cry", Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002
- "7th Kitakyushu Biennale : ART FOR SALE", Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
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- "Coloriage", Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
- "BABEL2002", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
- "eleven&eleven Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002", Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
- "Exhibition of New Acquisitions+Contemporary Paintings" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- "XXV" Biennale de Sao Paulo", Sao Paulo, Brasil
- 2001
- "Makoto Aida, Hiroko Okada with their baby Torajiro", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "Sex and Consumerism : Contemporary Art in Japan", University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
- (traveled to: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth / Stanley Pick Gallery, London / Hot Bath Gallery, Bath), U.K.
- "Yokohama 2001; International Triennale of Contemporar Art", Kanagawa, Japan
- "S(h)itting in the mirror", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2000
- "Cultural Ties Exhibition", Westzone gallery space, London, U.K.
- "Five Continents And One City", Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
- "White Hot", Smack Mellon Studios, New York, U.S.A.
- "The Group 1965 in Osaka", Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "Open Studio", International Studio Program(ISP, Tribecca), New York, U.S.A.
- "VACANT LOT", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
- 1999
- "GROUND ZERO JAPAN", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
- "Artists' works", Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "The Group 1965", NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
- "Makoto Aida-Hlynur Hallsson", The Municipal Art Museum of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
- "Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s", The Japan Foundation Forum Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- "The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo", Contemporar Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan
- "VOCA'99", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 1998
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- "Sanatorium", Recent Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
- "So-What, Donai-Ya-Nen", Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris, France
- "TOKYO ELEGANCE", Recent Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
- "TAKEO Communication Design 1998", SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan
- "HOLY GIFT vol.2 -Small Works", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997
- "The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo", Galeria Metropolitana de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (1998 traveled to Galerie Espace Flon, Lausanne, Switzerland; ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany)
- "Document & Art", Art Muesum Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
- "KOTATSU-HA", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "WALKING MUSEUM", Shinjuku Takashimaya TIMES SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996
- "HOLY GIFT vol.1 -Drawings-", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "ART SCENE 90-96", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
- "On Camp / Off Base", Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
- "The Group 1965", Synapse Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "TOKYO POP", The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
- 1995
- "Photographic Narration IV", Art Gallery of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
- "Morphe'95 CITY CRACK", Mizuma Art Gallery/ Nikka Whiskey Hall /West gate of the Shinjuku Station,Tokyo, Japan
- "Card board and Blue sheet", PAP FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan
- "Pool 2 : Collection / Selection", ROENTGEN KUNST INSTITUT, Tokyo, Japan
- "PAP OPENING EXHIBITION", PAP FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan
- 1994
- "The Group 1965 in Nasubi Gallery", Roppongi WAVE,Tokyo, Japan
- "I can not tell without picture", DOWA KASAI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- "Smooth Surface", ROENTGEN KUNST INSTITUT, Tokyo, Japan
- "Happy Violence", Nagoya City Archives, Aichi, Japan
- "Shinjuku Shonen Art", Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
- 1993
- "THE GINBURART", Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
- "Fo(u)rtunes", ROENTGEN KUNST INSTITUT, Tokyo, Japan
Public Collection
- The Japan Foundation
- Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
- Takamatsu City Museum of Art
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- Asia Society