Education
| 1991 | MFA in Oil Painting (Technique and Material Studio), Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | BFA in Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | I can’t stop the patriotism, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | MAM Collection 008: Crows – Aida Makoto + Chim↑Pom, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan GROUND NO PLAN, Aoyama Crystal Building, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Yasuki Ooe and Makoto Aida － Before and After: The Dropping of the A-Bomb, Garter, Tokyo, Japan Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things., Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | So, this is what they call ‘Still Alive’, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan |
| 2014 | Sophie Calle / Makoto Aida, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong The Road to World Heritage!! – Meet the real AMK48 years old, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan Le Non-penseur (The Non-Thinker), Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France AIDA Makoto: Mini-mini Exhibition, Ryutopia Gallery, Niigata, Japan Don’t expect anything from me anymore., Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | MONUMENT FOR NOTHING, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Diena ir naktis (Day & Night), Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 2010 | E-BAKA, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | I’m working on huge paintings in Beijing, Mizuma & One Gallery, 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 | Art de Sauro: Aida Makoto / Yamaguchi Akira, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan DOUBLE FANTASY, lammfromm The Concept Store, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Picture of Mountain Stream and Others, Andrew Roth Inc., New York City, New York, USA |
| 2005 | Pre-Climacteric Love, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Drink SAKE Alone, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Donki-Hôte, Man in the Holocene at IBID Projects, London, UK |
| 2004 | Aida’s Work, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | My KENTEN, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Makoto Aida, Chukyo University Art Gallery C · Square, Aichi, Japan Makoto Aida & Koki Tanaka, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, 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 |
| 1997 | BIJIN-GA Makoto Aida vs Hiroyuki Matsukage, 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 |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | “Covid-19 Crisis & Amabie: Six Artists Reflect on the ‘Now’”, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama, Japan |
| 2021 | “Collaborative Exhibition: Kawabata Ryushi + Takahashi Ryutaro Collection – Aida Makoto, Konoike Tomoko, Tenmyouya Hisashi, and Yamaguchi Akira”, Ryushi Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22 Altruism and Fluidity, Onagawa Station, Miyagi, Japan “TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY”, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, U.K. Tokyo Toyo FESTIVAL Special13 “Pavilion Tokyo 2021”, Ginkgo Avenue in Meiji Jingu Gaien,Tokyo, Japan “Next World – Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum”, Iwaki City Art Museum,Fukushima, Japan |
| 2020 | “INSIDE THE COLLECTOR’S VAULT, VOL.1”, WHAT, Tokyo, Japan “PUBLIC DEVICE: Symbolism and Permanence of Sculpture”, Chinretsukan Gallery (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), Japan “Amabie in the age of Covid-19 Project”, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama, Japan “Living Tokyo – I Love Art 15”, WATARI-UM The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “Early 90’s Tokyo Art Squad”, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | “Miraibi 3”, Tenmonkan Niwa Building, Kagoshima, Japan “Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Non-Freedom of Non-Freedom Exhibition”, Gallery Nabesan, Tokyo, Japan “The Group1965: Korea – Japan Interchange Exhibition <50/50>, Multiplex Art Salon, Seoul, Korea “Japan Unlimited”, frei_raum Q21 exhibition spaces, Vienna, Austria “TOKYO2021 un/real engine”, TODA BUILDING, Tokyo, Japan “The End of Freedom”, HALLE14, Leipzig, Germany “Takahashi Collection”, Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata, Japan “MAM Collection 010: Fake News?”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Reopening Celebration A Museum-wide Collection Exhibition: Who opens up the world?”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan “Spring Opening of Villa Yurinso 2019: The Green Beauty in the Green Palace – Millet, Cézanne, Makoto Aida, and Rothko etc.”, Villa Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan “Tokyo Independent 2019”, Chinretsukan Gallery (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), Japan “Grand Reopening Exhibition: Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “IMPOSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE – ANOTHER HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (traveled to Niigata City Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; 2020 National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan) “Heroes and People in the Japanese Contemporary Art”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan |
| 2018 | 8th Yeosu International Art Festival: Now Here Once Again, Yeosu EXPO Exhibition Hall, Yeosu, South Korea Two houses: Politics and histories in the contemporary art collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE, Singapore Takahashi Collection – Face and Abstraction, Museum of the Light, Yamanashi, Japan |
| 2017 | The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo 2017, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2018 traveled to Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama) Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France A Corridor of Art through the Mountains and Seas, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan GLOBAL NEW ART – The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection, Woodone Museum, Hiroshima, Japan TAKAHASHI COLLECTION – Mindfulness 2017, Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan GEI “DAI” Collection, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan COOL JAPAN, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands The Cosmos of the Takahashi Collection, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan Imaginary Asia, Nam June Paik Center, Gyeonggi, Korea |
| 2016 | Takahashi Collection: Mindfulness!, Kōchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kōchi, Japan Setouchi Triennale: Ogi School PSS40 – The Group 1965, Ogijima Community Area, Japan Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Takahashi Collection, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui Prefecture, Japan Taguchi Art Collection - Correlation Diagram of Happiness, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum - A Concise Guide to Life with Japanese Contemporary Art, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan 4th Annual Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration - Intimate Curiosity, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong 「Impacts! 勢み」, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2015 | Cosmos / Intime - The Takahashi Collection, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France Messages - Takahashi Collection, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan Shogai Kakko Kari, Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima, Japan Gender, Genitor, Genitalia - Rokudenashiko Tribute, Woofer Ten, Hong Kong Further towards the future, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore An Art Exhibition for Children - Whose place is this?, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Unveiling Fundamentals in Contemporary Art Through Asia, OHD Museum, Magelang, Indonesia Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Korin's Art - Korin and Modern Art, MOA Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection - A Walk Around the Contemporary Art World After Paradigm Shift, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan |
| 2014 | DOMMUNE University of the Arts - Tokyo Arts Circulation, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan TAG-TEN (Taguchi Art Collection), Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan AAA (Asia Anarchy Alliance), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection – Chronicle 1995, Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan To see, To paint – The Artists from Oil Painting Technique and Material Studio, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 | P. SS. 40 – Public School by The Group 1965: Setouchi Triennale 2013, Ogi Elementary and Junior High School, Kagawa, Japan Why not live for Art? II 9 collectors reveal their treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Takahashi Collection – Mindfulness!, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido; 2014 Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan) The Group 1965 – We are boys!, Kamada Museum, Kagawa, Japan Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan MOT Collection: Our Ninety Years 1923 – 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2012 | ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan (traveled to: Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan 2013) Mediations Biennale: The Unknown, Poznan, Poland Art and Air, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art - The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: The Allure of the Collection, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (traveled to: Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel) |
| 2011 | Kobiken - from the Takahashi Collection, Takahashi Collection X BRUTUS, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 Finalist Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore EMERGING / MASTER 1: AIDA Makoto | Be it Art or not Art, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan TARO LOVE, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan Nakanoshima Collections, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Medi(t)ation: 3rd Asian Art Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan 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) The Group 1965: We are boys!, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (traveled to: Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine) The Origin of 20, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York City, New York, USA The Most Requested TOP 30 - 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan All cannibals?, La maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France (traveled to: Me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany) 15th Tallinn Print Triennial: For Love Not Money, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 2010 | MADE IN POPLAND, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea TDW-ART Jalapagos, Meiji Jingu Gaien Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan 2011) 17th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney, Australia Garden of Painting – Japanese Art of the 00s, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| 2009 | TWIST and SHOUT: Contemporary Art from Japan, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand November Steps - Susan Philipsz & Gallery Artists, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan East Asia Image of Modern Ages, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Dojima River Biennale 2009: Reflection - The World Through Art, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA Artium Prospective, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan Dorodoro, Doron - The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan |
| 2008 | -hiragana art- CHIBATORI, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan SUICIDE EXPOSITION 2008, Otto Mainzheim Gallery, Tokyo, 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, 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) ORDER RECEIVED, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 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 City, New York, USA Off the Rails, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China Typical! Cliches about Jews and Others, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (traveled to: Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 2009; Jewish Museum Munich, Munich, Germany 2010) MANGAMANIA Comic-Kultur in Japan 1800-2008, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (traveled to: Louisiana 2008 Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark) SHELTER x SURVIVAL: Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Takahashi Collection, Takahashi Collection Kagurazaka, Tokyo, Japan Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 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) Nihonga Metsubou-ron, Chukyo University Art Gallery C · Square, Aichi, Japan Three Generations, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, ZKM|Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany 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, South Korea Somewhere in Time, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea 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 Singapore Biennale 2006: BELIEF, National Museum of Singapore / Tanglin Camp, Singapore Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin, 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 | The Group 1965 – Tokyo Souvenir (40 x 40 project), Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan The Group 1965 – BankART Life, BankART studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan GUNDAM: Generating Futures, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan (traveled to: Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan; 2006 Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan; Kawara Museum, Aichi, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; 2007 Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, Japan) The Group 1965 – Seven Samurais, even (40 x 40 project), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Villa YURINSO Special Open: AIDA Makoto / OZAWA Tsuyoshi / YAMAGUCHI Akira, Ohara Museum of Art, Yurinso, Okayama, Japan The World of Matchbox Labels, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Nishiogi Biennale, Aida Makoto’s home, Nishiogikubo, Tokyo, Japan sight-cruising, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan The Group 1965 – 40 (40 x 40 project), Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea Since 1994 - Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan AniMate。, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (traveled to: Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea) |
| 2004 | Nonchalant, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Tokyo Style, 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 100 Artists from Niigata, 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 Contemporary Nihonga - The Adventurers from Misao Yokoyama to Makoto Aida, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan Revolving Door: iscp <-> asia, Chambers Fine Art, New York City, New York, USA 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 City, New York, USA girls don’t cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | 7th Kitakyushu Biennale: ART FOR SALE, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan Coloriage, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France BABEL2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea eleven & eleven Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Exhibition of New Acquisitions + Contemporary Paintings, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan XXV Biennale de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil |
| 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, UK (traveled to: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK; Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK; Hot Bath Gallery, Bath, UK) Mega-Wave - Towards a New Synthesis, Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan S(h)itting in the mirror, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | Cultural Ties Exhibition, Westzone Gallery Space, London, UK Five Continents And One City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico White Hot, Smack Mellon Studios, New York City, New York, USA The Group 1965 in Osaka, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Open Studio, International Studio Program (ISP, Tribeca), New York City, New York, USA VACANT LOT, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
| 1999 | GROUND ZERO JAPAN, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan The View of Contemporary Japanese Painting, 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, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan VOCA ’99, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | 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 (traveled to: Galerie Espace Flon, Lausanne, Switzerland 1998; ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany) Document & Art, Art Museum 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 Atopic Site: On Camp / Off Base, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan The Group 1965, Synapse Gallery, Tokyo, Japan TOKYO POP, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 1995 | Photographic Narration IV, Art Gallery of Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan Morphe ’95 CITY CRACK, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Nikka Whiskey Hall, Tokyo, Japan; West gate of the Shinjuku Station, Tokyo, Japan Cardboard and Blue sheet, P.A.P. FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan Pool 2: Collection / Selection, ROENTGEN KUNST INSTITUT, Tokyo, Japan P.A.P. OPENING EXHIBITION, P.A.P. 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 Collections
| The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Asia Society, New York City, New York, USA National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes, France |
Publication
| 2020 | novel “GEISAI” (Bungeishunju Ltd.) |
| 2018 | Foujita’s Paintings of Girls, Kodansha Ltd. |
| 2015 | Sensoga to Nippon, Kodansha Ltd. |
| 2013 | MONUMENT FOR NOTHING: Tensai De Gomen Nasai, catalogue, Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc. |
| 2012 | Utsukushisugiru Shoujono Chibusawa Naze Dairisekide Dekiteinainoka, essays, Gentosha Inc. |
| 2011 | The Complete Girl Pose Book, supervised pose book, Cosmic Publishing Co., Ltd. |
| 2010 | Karikori Sentoya Umarekemu, essays, Gentosha Inc. |
| 2009 | Beijing behind the ART, photo book, Daiwa Press Co., Ltd. |
| 2007 | MONUMENT FOR NOTHING, catalogue, Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd. |
| 2006 | Apt.Kubo-So #6, photo book, Andrew Roth, Inc. and Mizuma Art Gallery |
| 2002 | LA TRENTAINE, catalogue, ABC SHUPPAN Co., Ltd. |
| 1999 | Mutant Hanako, comic, ABC SHUPPAN Co., Ltd. Lonely Planet, catalogue, Danvo Co., Ltd. |
| 1996 | Adolescence and Perversion, novel, ABC SHUPPAN Co., Ltd. |
Workshops
| (Aida Makoto + 21st Century Cardboard Guild - MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II) Busan Biennale 2016, an/other avant-garde china-japan-korea, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea So, this is what they call ‘Still Alive’, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan The Road to World Heritage!! – Meet the real AMK48 years old, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan Akita University of Art, Akita, Japan MONUMENT FOR NOTHING, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Be it Art or not Art, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan Kanazawa College of Art, Ishikawa, Japan Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka University, Miyagi, Japan Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi, Japan Musashino Art University - I'm IWAKI of Mizuma Art Gallery!!, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Shit by Jomon-style Monster) A Creating Workshop for Children in Aomori 2003, Mutsu Kamafuseyama Ski Park, Aomori, Japan |
