CHIHO AOSHIMA Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1974 Education B.Ec., Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan Art Pace Residency, San Antonio, TX, Fall 2006 Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan One-Person Exhibitions 2016 Rebirth of the World, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Rebirth of the World, Kaikai Kiki Pop-Up Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 2015 Rebirth of the World, Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2014 City Glow, Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2008 Terror and Seduction, Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona, Spain 2007 City Glow, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Giant and the Courtesans, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (cat.) City Glow, Mountain Whisper, Platform for Art, Gloucester Road Tube Station, London, UK Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (cat.) 2006 City Glow, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall: Chiho Aoshima, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 2005 Asleep. Dreaming of reptilian glory, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA City Glow and Paradise, Installation at Union Square Subway Station, New York Public Art Fund (Part of Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture), New York, NY DoCoMo Kyūshū Ad Campaign, NTT DoCoMo, Kyūshū and Okinawa, Japan 2004 Collaboration with Patrick Demarchelier for the May issue of Harper’s BAZAAR magazine 2003 Matrix 205, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France 2002 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 2001 Collaboration with Naoki Takizawa for Issey Miyake, Tokyo, Japan Group Exhibitions 2017 Takashi Murakami's Superflat Consideration on Contemporary Ceramics, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan 2016 Juxtapoz x Superflat, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA 2015 Immersed, SPACE, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX 2014 G I R L: Curated by Pharrell Williams, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France 2011 Japan: Tradition. Innovation, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2010 Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Disquieted, curated by Bruce Guenther, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2009 15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Wonderland through the Looking Glass, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands Pretty is as Pretty Does, curated by Laura Heon, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico VRAOUM!, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France 2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image Part One: Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Kaikai Kiki Artists, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Culture), Berlin, Germany 2007 6th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium Like color in pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Co MCA Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Red Hot, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Making Worlds, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2006 Artpace, San Antonio, TX Banquet: A Feast for the Senses, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA Berlin-Tokyo, Tokyo-Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany Human Land, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France Il diavolo del focolare (The Devil of Hearth and Home), Palazzo della Triennale, Fondazione Cosmit Eventi, Milan, Italy Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan Painting Codes, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy POPulence, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC See into Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO Spank The Monkey, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (cat.) Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Twogether, 34 Long, Cape Town, South Africa 2005 Ecstasy: In & About Altered States, curated by Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (cat.) Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, curated by Takashi Murakami, Japan Society, New York, NY POPulence, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX Kaikai Kiki, Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan Different Wavelengths, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France MTA Subway Poster Design, Public Art Fund and Japan Society, New York, NY Rising Sun, Melting Moon, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Variations on the Picturesque, Kitchener–Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada 2004 Eijanaikai! Yes Future!, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Fiction. Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan Lonely Planet, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan I Feel Mysterious Today, curated by Dominic Molon, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL (cat.) 54th Carnegie International 2004-05, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (cat.) Tokyo Girls Bravo, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Chiho Aoshima, Mr., Aya Takano, Galerie Perrotin at LFL Gallery, New York, NY T-Junction, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France 2003 Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL (cat.) For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (cat.) Hope—The Future is in Our Hands, Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan Inaugural Group Show, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA SAM Collects: Contemporary Art Project, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (cat.) The Mythical Being of Desire: Chiho Aoshima, Shirin Neshat, Shazia Shikander, Glass Turning Corners, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 2002 Liverpool Biennial 2002, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (cat.) Coloriage, curated by Takashi Murakami, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France Chiho Aoshima, Aya Takano, Mr., Takashi Murakami, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France Tokyo Girl’s Bravo 2, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Hiropon Show, curated by Takashi Murakami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Superflat, curated by Takashi Murakami, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (cat.) 2000 Superflat, Tokyo and Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 1999 Tokyo Girls Bravo, Nadiff, Tokyo and George's, Los Angeles, CA Hiropon 32 - 80, Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan Special Projects Visionaire 50 Toys BIBLIOGRAPHY Catalogues 2017 Kvaran, Gunnar B. Murakami by Murakami. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet; Tokyo: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., 2017: 102-103 2010 Rubin, David S. Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960’s. Texts by Robert C. Morgan and Daniel Pinchbeck. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image. Texts by Kerry Brougher, Kelly Gordon, Kristen Hileman, Anne Ellegood, and Tony Oursler. Washington, D.C.: Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2008. 2006 Chiho Aoshima, Mr., Aya Takano. Paris: Éditions du Panama; Lyon: Musée d'Art Contemporain, 2006. Spank the Monkey. Texts by Pedro Alonzo, Peter Doroshenko, and Carlo McCormick. United Kingdom: BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art; Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006. 2005 What’s Good? Conference. Texts by Connie Lam, and Portia So. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2005. Murakami, Takashi, ed. Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture. Texts by Noi Sawaragi, Midori Matsui, Alexandra Munroe, and Tom Eccles. New York: Japan Society; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. Mark, Lisa, ed. Ecstasy: In and About Altered States. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Vartanian, Ivan, ed. Drop Dead Cute: the New Generation of Women Artists in Japan. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. Populence. Texts by David Pagel and Terrie Sultan. Houston: University of Houston, 2005. 2004 Fiction, Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art. Taiwan: Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004. 54th Carnegie International. Texts by Laura Hoptman, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Jean-Pierre Mercier, and Branka Stipanc̆ić. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004. Molon, Dominic, ed. I Feel Mysterious Today. Lake Worth, FL: Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, 2004. 2003 Augaitis, Daina, ed. For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2003. Macro Matrix: For Your Pleasure: Cai Guo-Qiang, Chiho Aoshima, Angela Bulloch. Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003. The Mythical Being of Desire: Chiho Aoshima, Shirin Neshat, Shazia Shikander. Chicago: Center for Asian Arts and Media, Columbia College, 2003. 2002 Berg, Eddie, ed. International 2002: Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2002. Murakami, Takashi, ed.Tokyo Girls Bravo. Asaka-shi, Japan: Kaikai Kiki, 2002. 2000 Murakami, Takashi. Superflat. Tokyo: Madra, 2000. Articles and Reviews 2016 Aoshima, Chiho. Interviewed by Yusuf Huysal and Ili Saarinen. TimeOut [Tokyo], August 8, 2016. 2015 Graves, Jen. "Big Screen, Big Scream." The Stranger, July 1, 2015. Mishkin, Laura. “’Rebirth of the World,’ Chiho Aoshima.” Daily of the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), May 4, 2015. Rosen, Miss. “Exhibit | Chiho Aoshima: Rebirth of the World.” Crave, September 29, 2015. Wee, Darryl. “Chiho Aoshima at Seattle’s Asian Art Museum.” BlouinartInfo.com, May 7, 2015. 2013 Welch, Matthew. "Artistic Remix: Contemporary Takes on Timeless Prints." Impressions, no. 34 (2013):