Education
| 2001 | MFA in Fiber and Material Study Department, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1998 | BFA in Textiles, Visual Art Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | Everyday Art Market @GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo, Japan Everyday Art Market: Pop-up Store, ARTS ISOZAKI, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2019 | The Lonely Labourer, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Ota Art Archives #1 Satoru Aoyama, KOCA, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 | News From Nowhere, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Age of Disappearance, Satoru Aoyama x Ken Ikeda, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore |
| 2016 | Division of Labour, White Rainbow, London, UK |
| 2015 | Dedicated to Unknown Embroiderers, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | "About Painting" Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | "The Man-Machine (Reprise)" Featuring HIRAISHI Hirokazu, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Artists Must Earnestly Make Six Roses in Their Lives, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | COMPLEX CIRCUIT － Contact Zone 5 / Satoru AOYAMA (curated by Mizuki Takahashi), Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | Glitter Pieces #1-22, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Open Studio, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Ancient Pixels, Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Crowing in the Studio, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Good Aliens, One in the Other, London, UK |
| 2005 | Air, Coffee, Good Morning Tokyo, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Aoyama Satoru Criterium 60, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan YU-KEI, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Satoru Aoyama, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, USA In Stitched, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | N/World, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2021 | Real by ArtSticker DAIKANYAMA ART WEEK, Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion?, Bundeskunsthalle, Germany Hana Atarashi/12Flowers, art space Kimura ASK?, Tokyo, Japan Electrical Line Exhibition -Kobayashi Kiyochika to Yamaguchi Akira-, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2020 | Within Sight, Mizuma & Kips,New York, U.S.A. Uninterrupted Wander, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Re construction, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan DOMANI plus Online 2020: Living on the Eve (online) Dress Code: Are You Play Fashion?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan |
| 2019 | Amazing Craftmanship! From Meiji Kogei to Contemporary Art, Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, Japan “Dress Code: Are You Play Fashion?” The National Museum of Art, Kyoto, travelling to Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan “SUKIKEI/NEW VIEW” Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, MITSUBISHI ESTATE ARTIUM, Mitsukoshi Gallery Fukuoka, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo, Japan (-2020) “Takahashi Collection” Tsuruoka art Forum, Yamagata, Japan “Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life” Center for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| 2018 | Contemporary Art of the 21st Century: Exhibition of Taguchi Art Collection from Andy Warhol to Yoshitomo Nara, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Takahashi Collection ─ Face and Abstraction, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, Japan |
| 2017 | Museum of Together, SPIRAL Garden, Tokyo, Japan Amazing Craftsmanship! From Meiji Kogei to Contemporary Art, Mitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan A Corridor of Art through the Mountains and Seas, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan Yokohama Triennale 2017, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1, Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall, and others, Kanagawa, Japan Takahashi Collection, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan ESACAPE from the SEA, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 2016 | Even if contemporary art ended, Gallery Sokyo, Kyoto, Japan Takahashi Collection, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui Prefecture, Japan The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum - A Concise Guide to Life with Japanese Contemporary Art, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan |
| 2015 | Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection - A Walk Around the Contemporary Art World After Paradigm Shift, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan Rokko Meets Art 2015, Rokkosan, Kobe, Japan Takahashi Collection Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Embroidery × Sound × Art, Aoyama Satoru, Daikanyama Tsutaya Books, Tokyo, Japan Alternative Choice, Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2014 | Arafudo Art Annual 2014, Arafudo Onsen, Fukushima, Japan Red Bull Music Company, Red Bull Japan, Tokyo, Japan Anti-War: Resistance Against the Anticipated War, SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan Find Asia, Yokohama Creative City Center, Yokohama, Japan Mikkeru Visitor Center Yokohama, Zou-no-hana Terrace, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2013 | Why not live for Art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Wonderful My Art, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan Flowers, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan |
| 2012 | Meguro Addresses – Artist in Urban Life, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Photo Reference: Photographic Image in Contemporary Japanese Art Practices, Belgrade Cultural Center - The Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia Zipangu- The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, traveled to Takasaki Art Museum, Gunma Storyteller - Units of Recognition, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori |
| 2011 | VOCA 2011, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan Dojima River Biennale 2011, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan Art for Tomorrow, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan ZIPANGU – 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Takashimaya Osaka, Japan and Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan) CAFE in Mito 2011: Relationships in Color, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan COWBOY & PHOTON, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan Parallel Running Theory, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan Cross Counter: Artist Cooperative Project, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan TARO LOVE, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | TWIST and SHOUT: Contemporary Art from Japan, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2008 | neoteny japan - From Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido, Japan; Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan) THE ECHO, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan Akasaka Art Flower 08, Akasaka Sacas, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Neighbourhood Watch, Nettie Horn, London, UK |
| 2006 | New Art 2006, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama, Japan ALLLOOKSAME? Art from China, Japan, and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy The Souvenir Mine (created by Satoru Aoyama), Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Swallow harder, Frey Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| 2005 | Since 1994 - Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Scape Codes: Neo-Topography, PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2004 | Officina Asia (curated by Renato Barilli), Galleria de Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Boys Who Sew (curated by Janis Jefferies), Crafts Council, London, UK |
| 2003 | Don’t Look Down, Nunnery, London, UK |
| 2002 | Small Collection (curated by Roger MacDonald), Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| 2001 | MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 2000 | Kindergarten (curated by Roger McDonald), Sumida Kindergarten, Tokyo, Japan |
Public Collections
| Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan |
