1996

  • Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2019
    1996, 2019
    Photo: Ito Tetsuo

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AOKI Miku

  • Born 1996 in Tochigi, Japan
  • Based in Tokyo, Japan
  • Photo: Keiichi Tatsumura

Aoki Miku is a student in oil painting at Tama Arts University. In 2019, she received the Gold Prize at the final selection exhibition for the fourth term of the Genron Chaos*Lounge New Art School. One day when she was 18 years old, her mother informed her that, desperately wanting a child, her parents underwent an artificial insemination procedure that resulted in her birth. This was also the moment she understood the excessive amount of love she'd felt from her mother since childhood. Born--oddly enough--in the same year as the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, Aoki has since focused on examining necessity and contingency, blessings and curses related to forms of purposely engineered life, including herself. Her artwork consists of installations, zoetropes (series of rotating images that appear to move), drawings created from skin-soft lamé thread embroidery, and more.

Selected Works & Awards

2019 Genron Chaos*Lounge New Art School Class Final Selection Exhibition Home Land, Tokyo, Japan, Gold Prize
2018 Genron Chaos*Lounge New Art School Class 4 Outcome Exhibition Vertigo, Genron Chaos*Lounge Gotanda Atelier, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Kanji Yumisashi solo exhibition Mermaid in April, Genron Chaos*Lounge Gotanda Atelier, Tokyo, Japan (as a featured artist)
2018 Contemporary Art Black Market, BUCKLE KÔBÔ, Tokyo, Japan

Map

Nagoya City Art Museum

Address

2-17-25, Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya 460-0008 JAPAN

Open

9:30-17:00
(Fri-20:00)
Admission until
30 minutes
before closing

Closed

Mondays (Except for National Holidays), Sep.17[Tue]

Access

・8 minutes on foot from Fushimi Station on the Higashiyama Line or Tsurumai Line
・7 minutes on foot from Osu Kannon Station on the Tsurumai Line
・10 minutes on foot from Yabasho Station on the Meijo Line

Inquiries

+81-52-971-6111