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
| 2024 | “Do you believe in ‘Forever’?” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo “A Boy Who Sews Forever” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo |
| 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
| 2024 | “Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era” Saga Prefectural Art Museum / Hiroshima Museum of Art “Artists Along the Railway Lines: The Odakyu Line” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2023 | “Who will you show your art to?” Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts “stopover” KOCA, Tokyo “ART de Cha Cha Cha− Exploring the DNA of Japanese Contemporary Art −from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo “Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art. through School Subjects” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo “5th Collection Gallery Exhibition 2022-23” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto |
| 2022 | “Dream / Lands” Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery “Everyday Art Market by Satoru Aoyama + ATM face” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki “Void of Nippon 77: Postwar Art History Landscape Sequences” GYRE GALLERY, Tokyo “Art with “Play / Appreciation /Collection”” GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo “Takinogawa Chronicle 2022” Kita-ku Central Culture Center, Tokyo “About Hands” Seki Iron Works Co., Ltd., Tokyo “N/World” MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto |
| 2021 | “Real by ArtSticker DAIKANYAMA ART WEEK” Hillside Forum, Tokyo “Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion?” Bundeskunsthalle, Germany “Hana Atarashi/12Flowers” art space Kimura ASK?, Tokyo “Electrical Line Exhibition -Kobayashi Kiyochika to Yamaguchi Akira-“ Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2020 | “Within Sight” Mizuma & Kips,New York, U.S.A. “Uninterrupted Wander” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo “Re construction” Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo “DOMANI plus Online 2020: Living on the Eve” (online) “Dress Code: Are You Play Fashion?” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery 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 | “Dress Code: Are You Play Fashion?” The National Museum of Art, Kyoto, travelling to Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto “SUKIKEI/NEW VIEW” Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, MITSUBISHI ESTATE ARTIUM, Mitsukoshi Gallery Fukuoka, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo (-2020) “Takahashi Collection” Tsuruoka art Forum, Yamagata “Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life” Center for Heritage Arts & Textile, 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 “Takahashi Collection ─ Face and Abstraction” Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi |
| 2017 | “The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection Resonance or Repellence? ” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art “Museum of Together”, Spiral Garden, Tokyo “A Corridor of Art through the Mountains and Seas”, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima “Amazing Craftsmanship! From Meiji Kogei to Contemporary Art”, Mitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo、 travelled to Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, The Suiboku Museum, Toyama, Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka (-2019) “Yokohama Triennale 2017”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall (Basement) and others, Kanagawa, Japan “ESCAPE from the SEA” National Art gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MY “ESCAPE from the SEA” National Art gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 2016 | “even if contemporary art ended”, Sokyo, Kyoto “Collection Exhibition” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa |
| 2015 | “Alternative Choice”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa “Rokko Meets Art 2015”, Rokkosan, Hyogo “Takahashi Collection Mirror Neuron”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery “Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu |
| 2014 | “Arafudo Art Annual 2014”, Tsuchiyu Onsen, Fukushima “Find ASIA”, Yokohama Creative Center, Kanagawa |
| 2013 | “Why not live for Art ? Ⅱ”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery “Flowers”, Towada Art Center, Aomori |
| 2012 | “Meguro Addresses – Artist in Urban Life”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo “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 City Museum, Gunma / Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori / Akita Museum of Modern Art (-2013) “Storyteller -Units of Recognition”, Aomori Contemporary Art Center |
| 2011 | “VOCA 2011”, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo “Dojima River Biennale 2011”, Dojima River Forum, Osaka “CAFE in Mito 2011: Relationships in Color”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki |
| 2010 | “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2009 | “TWIST AND SHOUT: Contemporary Art from Japan”, Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, Thailand |
| 2008 | “Neoteny Japan – from Takahashi Collection”, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata / Akita Museum of Modern Art / Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori / The Museum of Art, Ehime (-2010) “THE ECHO” , ZAIM, Tokyo |
| 2007 | Neighbourhood Watch, Nettie Horn, London, UK |
| 2006 | “New Art 2006″, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Kanagawa “ALLLOOKSAME? /TUTTTUGUALE? – Art from Japan, China and Korea”, The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy “The Souvenir Mine”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 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 Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo |
