Aiko Tezuka

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 Participates in the International Studio Program in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Aiko Tezuka – (Re)weaving Histories, Rijksmuseum (Asian Pavilion), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April

2022 Wash hands in a fountaine (tentative title), Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Nasushiobara, Japan

2021 STUDIO-Exhibition with Aiko Tezuka, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2019 Dear Oblivion – 親愛なる忘却へ, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany

2019 Flowery Obscurity – 華の闇, MA2 gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019 Dear Oblivion – 親愛なる忘却へ, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan 

2018 Fragments of Thoughts, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2015 Stardust Letters, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan

2015 Lessons for Restoration, MAGO, Eidsvoll, Akershus, Norway 

2015 Unraveling, Restoring, Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines

2014 Thin Membrane, Pictures Come Down, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany

2014 Certainty / Entropy, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2014 Certainty / Entropy, Third Floor Hermès Singapore, Singapore

2014 Art Basel Hong Kong, booth of Galerie Michael Janssen, Hong Kong

2013 Rewoven, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany

2013 Ghost – Suspended Organs, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2013 Ghost – Suspended Organs, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2011 Prism Lag, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto, Japan

2011 Transparent Fruits, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan, 5 March – 23 April (Nagoya)

2009 Fragile Surface – Cat’s Cradle, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2008 Aiko Tezuka, Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company South Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007 Sewing up, in between Ghosts, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2007 Thin Film, Underground Forest, SPIRAL/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan

2007 Aiko Tezuka, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

2005 Aiko Tezuka, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo, Japan

2005 Aiko Tezuka, CASO, Osaka, Japan

2004 Outside of Modernism, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2001 Aiko Tezuka, Tokyo Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan

2000 Aiko Tezuka, Gallery Rasen, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

2010 Fellowship under the Japan Government Overseas Study Programme (for 2 years), Tokyo, Japan

2010 Award of Mr. I, Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, Japan

2009 Annual Fellowship Award from The Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Tokyo, Japan 

2005 VOCA Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Kyo-ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

Public collection

Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Nasushiobara, 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

The Palace Side Hotel (Room 439), Kyoto, Japan

Interview, Publication

2014 art magazine, issue September 2014, page 88, Germany

2014 Arte TV ‘Metropolis’  (from around 37minutes 15 seconds, for 6 minutes) 13 – 20 April 2014, Germany and France

Lecture and Speaking

2018 (Artist Talk) Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, 29 April

2018 (Artist Talk) The Art Museum in North­Trøndelag, Namsos, Norway, 20 January

2017 (Artist Talk) HINT Project, Denmark, 28 October

2017 (Lecture) Tokyo University of the Arts, Sculpture course, Tokyo, Japan, 1 June

2017 (Lecture) Département d’histoire de l’art, université de Genève, 17 March

2016 (Artist Talk) Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany, November

2015 (Artist Talk) The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea, November

2015 (Artist Talk) The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, October

2015 (Artist Talk) Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan, July

(Artist Talk) Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines, June

2014 (Artist Talk) Third Floor Hermès Singapore, May

2014 (Artist Talk) Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany, September

2013 (Artist Talk) Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, March

2013 (Artist Talk) Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, February

2013 (Lecture) The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, February

2012 (Artist Talk) Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (with Takeshi Sakurai, director of the museum, and Meo Saito, artist), Kumamoto, Japan, April

2011 (Artist Talk) Royal College of Art, Sculpture (arranged by Prof. Richard Wentworth), London, UK, December

2010 (Artist talk) Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (with Toshiharu Suzuki, curator of the museum), Aichi, Japan, April

2010 (Artist talk) Tokyo Metropolitan TEIEN Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, September

2010 (Lecture) Musashino Art University, Sculpture, Tokyo, Japan, July

2010 (Lecture) Kyoto Seika University, Textile course, Kyoto, Japan, November

2010 (Lecture) Kyoto University of Art and Design, Art Studies and Cultural Production course, Kyoto, Japan, October

2009 (Artist talk) The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (with Mihoko Nishikawa, curator of the museum), Tokyo, Japan, February

2009 (Artist talk) Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan, July

2009 (Lecture) Kawashima Textile School, Kyoto, Japan, February

2009 (Lecture) Musashino Art University, Painting, Tokyo, Japan, May

2008 (Artist talk) Fuchu Art Museum, (with Kunio Motoe, director of the museum), Tokyo, Japan, March

2008 (Artist talk) Okazaki Mindscape Museum, (with Amano Kazuo, chief curator of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, and with Mika Yoshizawa, artist), Aichi, Japan, March

2008 (Lecture) Kobe Design University, Fashion Design course, Kobe, Japan, May

2007 (Artist talk) Fuchu Art Museum, (with Kunio Motoe, director of the museum), Tokyo, Japan, March

2007 (Artist talk) Okazaki Mindscape Museum, (with Amano Kazuo, chief curator of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, and with Mika Yoshizawa, artist), Aichi, Japan, March

2007 (Lecture) Kobe Design University, Fashion Design course, Kobe, Japan, May

Group Exhibitions

2023 Group Show 'Opposing Materiality'  Maybaum Gallery San Francisco CA 

2023 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle WA 

Art Market San Francisco. Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco CA 

2022 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

2021 Loose Ends, Jane Lombard Gallery, NY, June
2021 Charlottenburg, Bar Am, Berlin, Germany, April
Workation Risort Bichu Yakage, Yakage, Okayama, Japan, January

2020 Linking Transformations. Positionen japanischer und norddeutscher Gegenwartskunst, 2020 Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2020 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

2020 Messouma Manlanbien, Aiko Tezuka, Günter Weseler, Magda (Vitalyos) Ziman

2020 Loose Thread, online group exhibition, hosted by BLANK SPACE Gallery, NY, New York

2020 Collection Highlights, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2019 MOT Collection: Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

2019 Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art , Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

2019 This is our collection + Yinka Shonibare CBE: Flower Power, Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2018-2019 Cultural Threads, TextielMuseum Tilburg, Netherlands

2018 Group show (featuring three artists), MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2018 RAUM XVII, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin, Germany

2018 Notes from a trembling community in a wilful state of flux, Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK), Hoorn, The Netherlands

2018 Watch Your Bubble!, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

2018 A Painting for the Emperor, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

2018 I HEAR YOU (Jeg Hører Deg), The Art Museum in North­Trøndelag, Namsos, Norway

2017 re:construction, PLADS artspace, Aarhus, Denmark

2017 Sommerfest, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2017 ripple effect – through the surface, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017 New Acquisitions 2013~16 Samramansang from KIM Whanki to YANG Fudong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2017 CAMK Collection vol.5 / You know? It’s said that Kumamoto-local-treasures have unveiled!, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

2017 Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

2016-2017 Schnittmengen, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

2016 Nightfall (LE RETOUR DES TÉNÈBRES), Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland

2016 Spider’s Threads – Spinning images of Japanese beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2016 Bleibt man an einem Ort, oder nicht (2-persons show with Shingo Yoshida), Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg

2016 Die Gezeiten, Transmitter – Raum für Kultur und Sprache, Berlin, Germany

Disegno – Japanische Zeichenkunst der Gegenwart, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg

2016 HÖHENRAUSCH, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany

2015 Artist File 2015 Next Doors, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea

2015 Artist File 2015 Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

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

2015 TOMROM, Sandefjord kunstforening, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway

2014 Mr. I Prize winner exhibition, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

h a u s s t e l l e n , exhibition concept in Pompéry’s apartment, Berlin, Germany

2014 Japanische Gegenwartskunst und Textil, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2014 Installation View / Installationsansicht, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

2014 In Search of Critical Imagination, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2013 To Open Eyes, Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

2013 Disruptive Patterns. Plots, Plans and Movements. (Prelude), Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany

2014 The Empire of Folds: Fashion and Textile Art from Japan, Museum Bellerive,  Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland

2013 Embracing the land: reframing textiles, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art KINARE, Niigata, Japan

2013 STOFF Summlung Textile Skulpturen, Kreissparkasse Rottweil, Germany

2013 BLUMEN, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany

2013 How to become who you are, BWA, Tarnów, Poland

2013 Home Stories, Villa 102, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 102 (former Literaturhaus), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2013 MOT Collection, Our Ninety Years: 1923-2013 Afterimages of tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

2013 Please do not touch!? (a special exhibition from the permanent collections), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2012 Letters from the Field (curated by NODE), Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

2012 The New Contemporaries, @KCUA gallery, Kyoto Art University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan

2011 Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2010 SHOW in the project space, Royal College of Art, Sculpture, London, UK

2010 The 20th Anniversary of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2010 Celebratory Textiles – from Edo to the present day, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan

2009 City_net Asia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2009 Sidetrack, Tokorozawa Biennial, Saitama, Japan

Stitch by Stitch, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2009 New power! New collections in 2008, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2008 Pre-Exhibition Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD, Saitama, Japan

2008 Secrets and Trick, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

2008 Tangent, Artist in residence, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan

2008 New collections show, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan

2008 MOT annual 2008, Unraveling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2008 Art in TIME AND STYLE MIDTOWN vol.3 Drawing, TIME&STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo, Japan

2007 Cycle and Recycle, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2007 Paradise of Illusion, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007 Sawako Tanizawa, Aiko Tezuka, Gunji Fukasawa, Kentaro Yokouchi, CASO, Osaka, Japan

2007 Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan

2006 Echigo – Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan

2006 √roots, Honenin temple, Kyoto, Japan

2005 Spiral Take Art Collection, Spiral/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan

2005 WILD GIRLS LULLABY, art zone, Kyoto, Japan

2005 art in transit, The Palace Side Hotel (Room 439), Kyoto, Japan

VOCA 2005 The Vision of Contemporary Art (3rd prize winner), Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2004 Spiral Take Art Collection, Spiral/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo 2004 Selected Artists in Kyoto-2004 New Wave, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2003 Art Court Frontier, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2002 Kyo-Ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (1st prize), Japan