Education
Graduated from Department Of Fine Art, Tama Art University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Thank you world, You now look a little bit like a wonderland, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2021
Beginning, liminal, ego, Perrotin, Hong Kong
2020
Let’s make the universe a better place, Perrotin ,Seoul, South Korea
2019
Unio Mystica, Perrotin Gallery, New York,USA
2015
The Ocean Inside, The Flowers Inside, Johyun Gallery, Busan, South Korea
2014
La Maisond’Aya BIBO, Hong Kong
May All Things Dissolve in the Ocean of Bliss Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Heaven Is Inside Of You, GaleriePerrotin, Hong Kong
To Lose Is To Gain, GaleriePerrotin, Paris, France
2011
Stars, flowers and honeynight, SieboldHuis, Leiden, Netherlands
2010
The Universe Portal, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Aya Takano, Museum FriederBurda, Baden Baden, Germany
Hong Kong Art Fair, Booth Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Hong Kong
2009
Reintagrating Worlds, Skarstedt Gallery, New York USA
2008
Toward Eternity, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2007
Tradition and modernity, curated by Hélène Kelmachter, Miro Foundation, Barcelone, Spain
Wild dogs, hawks, owls, cats, a landfill the size of 44 and a half Tokyo Domes,
the stratosphere, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA
2006
Aya Takano, Muséed’ArtContemporain, Lyon, France
City Dog, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2005
Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
The Far Reaches of The Universe, My Garden, Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2004
Aya Takano, a web project for Digital Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,USA
Naoki Takizawa for Issey Miyake, 2004-5 Autumn Winter Collection, Paris, Tokyo (collaboration)
2003
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2002
Space Ship EE, nanogalerie, Paris, France
2000
Hot Banana Fudge, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
1997
SHU WA KIMASERI, shop33, Tokyo, Japan
Selceted Group Exhibitions
2022
Roppongi Art Night Group Show. Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Head in the clouds, Tokyo,Japan
2021
Apple Cycle / Cosmic Seed, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirosaki, Japan
2021Kaikai Kiki Autumn Show, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Healing, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2020
Kaleidoscopes contemporary portraiture, Hong Kong
Healing, PALPAN-GIL, Seoul
Healing, Paris
Wanted ! art is yours at Grand Palais, Grand Palais, France
Healing curated by takashi Murakami, Shanghai
2019
A Passion for Drawing. The Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou Paris, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
MURAKAMI VS MURAKAMI, Takashi Murakami's solo show, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2019 Kaikai Kiki Summer Show, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo
2018
Summer gallery highlights, Connaught road central (Perrotin Gallery), Dubai
2017
- Murakami by Murakami, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
- Arts Visuels Au Japon Depuis 1970, Pompidou Metz, France
2015
Animamix Biennale, Daegu Art museum, Daegu, South Korea
2014
Bishojo: Young Pretty Girls in Art History – 16 Perspectives for Studying the Idea of the bishojo,
Aomori Museum, Aomori City, Japan
2010
Kyoto-Tokyo: From Samurais to Mangas, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Garden of Painting Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2009
The Very Bottom Of The Air, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Winter Garden, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
VRAOUM, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2008
Aya-Chiho-Drive, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Quandovidas se tornam forma – Panorama da arte contemporaneabrasileira e japonesa,
Museum of Modern Art, San Paolo, Brazil / Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
Kaikai Kiki Artists, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Kawaii! Japan now, Fundation Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
The Door to Summer, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2006
Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Etoile, Xavel, Inc. (Virtual department store design)
Aya Takano, ChihoAoshima, Chinatsu Ban Exhibition, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
2005
Kaikai Kiki Exhibition, Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Japan Pop, Helsinki Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland
The Sensual Line, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Japan Society, New York, USA
(curated by Takashi Murakami)
MTA Subway Poster Design, Public Art Fund and Japan Society, New York, USA
What’s Good Conference, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong (Lecture), China
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2004
T-Junction, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Fiction. Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
ChihoAoshima, Mr., Aya Takano, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin at LFL Gallery, New York, USA
Tokyo Girls Bravo, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Naoki Takizawa for Issey Miyake, Tokyo (collaboration), Japan
Hope—The Future is in Our Hands, LaForetHarajuku, Tokyo
2002
The Japanese Experience – Inevitable, Das Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Tokyo Girls Bravo 2, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
ChihoAoshima, Aya Takano, Mr., Takashi Murakami, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2001
Superflat, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN;
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Hiropon Show, White Cube Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Shinsaibashi Parco, Osaka, Japan
Yokai Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Superflat (curated by Takashi Murakami), Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999
Tokyo Girls Bravo, NADiff, Tokyo; Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Hiropon Show, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Hiropon 32/80, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Ero Pop Christmas, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
Hiropon Show, George’s, Los Angeles, USA
1997
Hiropon Show, shop33, Tokyo; Iwataya Z-side, Fukuoka, Japan
Hiropon Show, Manken Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan