Chiho Aoshima
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Pop art
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ist and member of Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami
is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art...
's Kaikai Kiki
Kaikai Kiki
Kaikai Kiki Co. is an artists' collective founded by the artist Takashi Murakami of Japan.Kaikai Kiki was originally founded to manage the many assistants employed to create Murakami's work. It gradually evolved into a collaborative vehicle for other like-minded artists...
Collective. Aoshima graduated from Department of Economics, Hosei University
Hosei University
is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha , established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō . This was from 1883 headed by Dr. Gustave Emile Boissonade, and was heavily influenced by the French legal tradition...
, Tokyo. She had a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
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in 2006. This young graphic artist began in Murakami’s factory with no formal art training. Aoshima’s work often involves surreal scenes and dreamscapes, often including ghosts, demons, nature and young women. Aoshima mostly prints large scale images onto papers with heavy-duty printers, but she has also printed on materials such as leather and plastic surfaces to give her images different textures. Aoshima now lives and works in Tokyo.
Aoshima has also done a sculpture piece and an animation, and she has recently revealed her largest image yet which measures 32.5 meters in length and 4.8 meters in height. In addition, Aoshima has her work on the walls of the New York City Transit. The images in the train station are part of her City Glow Series. She is also displaying her work in an exhibition in the Gloucester Road tube station
Gloucester Road tube station
-Deep-level station:By the beginning of the 20th century, the MDR had been extended to Richmond, Ealing Broadway, Hounslow West and Wimbledon in the west and to New Cross Gate in the east...
in London and the 14th Street – Union Square subway station in New York City. Aoshima states that, "My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialise."
The works of Aoshima are considered to be superflat, the postmodern art movement which was founded by Takashi Murakami.
Exhibitions
2008: City Glow Video Installation was on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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in Washington, D.C. through May 11. Now on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery
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through September 7, 2008
2007: The Divine Gas on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, on the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. Ending October 28. http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/aoshima/
2007: City Glow on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Ending September 9.
Gloucester Road tube station
-Deep-level station:By the beginning of the 20th century, the MDR had been extended to Richmond, Ealing Broadway, Hounslow West and Wimbledon in the west and to New Cross Gate in the east...
, London
London
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. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/196445606/
2006: Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon
Lyon
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, France and Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Gateshead
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, United Kingdom
2005: Installation at 14th Street – Union Square subway station, New York City
New York City
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2003: UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
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, and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Paris
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External links
- Chiho Aoshima at Kaikai Kiki Collective
- Examples of work
- Article, with photograph
- City Glow, Mountain Whisper Photo gallery of Gloucester Road underground station exhibit.