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 AYA’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
- 1976
Born in Saitama
- 2024
“LONGER THAN THE MYTH OF OUR GALAXY alternative future”, Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2023
“New Myth”, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon, France)
- 2022
“thank you world, you now look a little bit like a wonderland”, Perrotin（Shanghai, China）
- 2020
“Let’s make the universe a better place”, Perrotin（Seoul, Korea）
- 2019
“UNIO MYSTICA”, Perrotin（New York, America）
- 2017
“Synesthesia”, Pavillon Bosio (Monaco)
“The Jelly Civilization Chronicle”, Perrotin（Paris, France）
- 2015
“The Ocean Inside, The Flowers Inside”, Johyun Gallery (Busan, Korea)
- 2014
“May All Things Dissolve in the Ocean of Bliss”, Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2012
“Heaven Is Inside Of You”, Perrotin（Hong Kong, China）
“To Lose Is To Gain”, 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, America)
- 2008
“Toward Eternity”, Perrotin（Paris, France）
- 2007
“Wild dogs, hawks, owls, cats, a landfill the size of 44 and a half Tokyo Domes, the stratosphere”, Perrotin（Miami, USA）
- 2006
“Aya Takano”, Musée d’Art Contemporain (Lyon, France)
“City Dog”, Parco Museum (Tokyo, Japan); Parco Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)
- 2005
Frieze Art Fair (London, UK)
“The Far Reaches of The Universe, My Garden”, Blum & Poe Gallery (Santa Monica, California)
- 2003
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
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, Japan)
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