Aya Takano
Profile
AYA TAKANO’s artistry has yet to be fully dissected by the art world at large. She is that rarest of creators who forges their own unique artistic context - one that is far ahead of its time. Her work draws its themes from the schematics of unknown worlds, the frayed edges of society, misshapen animal life forms, and the dogma of human desire.
It took thirty years for society to unlock the labyrinthine content of the novels of Phillip K. Dick and other hard-boiled 1960’s science fiction authors, a fact that is reinforced by the way their material has formed the mainstream of Hollywood literary adaptations since the 1990’s. Likewise, the true value of TAKANO’s work lies thirty or more years in the future, when audiences will decipher the vast range of uncharted information which lies beneath its surface.
| 2000 | Graduated from Department of Fine Art, Tama Art University |
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| 1976 | Born in Saitama |
| 2022 | "thank you world, you now look a little bit like a wonderland" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Shanghai |
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| 2021 | "beginning, liminal, ego" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Hong Kong |
| 2020 | "Let’s make the universe a better place" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Seoul |
| 2019 | "UNIO MYSTICA" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, New York, NY |
| 2017 | "Synesthesia" Pavillon Bosio, Monaco "The Jelly Civilization Chronicle" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France |
| 2015 | "The Ocean Inside, The Flowers Inside" Johyun Gallery, Busan, South Korea |
| 2014 | "May All Things Dissolve in the Ocean of Bliss" Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2012 | "Heaven Is Inside Of You" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Hong Kong "To Lose Is To Gain" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France |
| 2011 | "Stars, flowers and honeynight" Sieboldhuis, Leiden, Netherlands |
| 2010 | "The Universe Portal" Kaikai Kiki Gallery Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan "Artiste du New Pop SWR3 2010" Museum Frieder Burda, Baden baden, Germany |
| 2009 | "Reintegrating Worlds," Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2008 | "Toward Eternity" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France |
| 2007 | "Wild dogs, hawks, owls, cats, a landfill the size of 44 and a half Tokyo Domes, the stratosphere," Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL |
| 2006 | "Aya Takano" Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France "City Dog," Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
| 2005 | Frieze Art Fair, London "The Far Reaches of The Universe, My Garden," Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2004 | Aya Takano, a web project for Digital Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Naoki Takizawa for Issey Miyake, 2004-5 Autumn Winter Collection, Paris, Tokyo (collaboration) |
| 2003 | Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France Naoki Takizawa for Issey Miyake, Tokyo, Japan (collaboration) |
| 2002 | "Space Ship EE," Nano Galerie, Paris, France |
| 1997 | "SHU WA KIMASERI," shop33, Tokyo |
| 2022 | "Roppongi Art Night 2022", Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo "Head in the Clouds", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Tokyo |
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| 2021 | "2021 Kaikai Kiki Autumn Show", Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "HEALING x HEALING", Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Healing", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Shanghai, China |
| 2020 | "Healing", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France "Healing", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2018 | "MANGASIA: WONDERLANDS OF ASIAN COMICS" Villa Reale, Monza Italy |
| 2017 | "Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970" Centre Pompidou-Metz, Lorraine, France "MANGASIA: WONDERLANDS OF ASIAN COMICS" Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy |
| 2015 | "Animamix Biennale" Daegu Art Museum, South Korea |
