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Chie Aoki |

Urushi Sculpture Artist, Japan

Exhibitions

2025

Group Exhibition

Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

2025

Group Exhibition

KOGEI ARTISTS LEAGUE – MUFG Crafts Project, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (6F, Main Building), Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan.

2025

Solo Exhibition

Grind Through the Dark -Forms and Lacquer of Chie Aoki -, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan.

2025

Group Exhibition

The Power of Urushi — Kanazawa · Wajima · Yamanaka —
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Traditional Arts and Crafts, Shiinoki Cultural Complex ,Ishikawa, Japan.

2025

Group Exhibition

Tokyo Gendai, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan.

2024

Group Exhibition

Cutting Edge 2024, Korimbo Daiwa, 8th Floor Hall ,Kanazawa, Japan.

2024

Group Exhibition

Contemporary Urushi Expressions 2024 — Perspectives on Lacquer —, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Ishikawa, Japan.

2023

Group Exhibition

Diversifying Crafts — Kanazawa College of Art Relocation Promotion Exhibition, Dining Gallery Kanazawa in Ginza, Tokyo,Japan.

2023

Group Exhibition

Urushi in Turbulence — Contemporary Kyuushitsu Expressions in Motion —, Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan

2022

Group Exhibition

Metal and Urushi of Crafts, Toyama, Japan.

2022

Solo Exhibition

Tranqull Bodies, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.

2022

Group Exhibition

Collection Exhibition 1 Vessels,
21st Centru Museum of Contemporary Art. Kanazawa.

2022

Group Exhibition

illusionary microcosm -Phosphorescence of four contemporary lacquer artists-, SEIKO HOUSE GINZA WAKO HALL.

2022

Group Exhibition

Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going, MORI ART MUSEUM.

2022

Group Exhibition

IKERU NONOICHI 2022, Nonoichi, Ishikawa, Japan.

2022

Group Exhibition

Genreless Kogei, National Crafts Museum, Ishikawa, Japan.

2022

Group Exhibition

Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play Season 1, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan.

2021

Solo Exhibition

Melting Bodies, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.

2021

Group Exhibition

GO FOR KOGEI 2021, Special Exhibition I - Shokoji Temple, Japan.

2021

Group Exhibition

FEMINISMS, 21st Centru Museum of Contemporary Art. Kanazawa.

2020

Group Exhibition

"Special Exhibition: Expressive Lacquerware, Concurrently Included: Exhibition of Donated Cloisonné Works from the Ise Collection," Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum.

2020

Group Exhibition

Asia Week New York 2020, NY, USA.

2020

Group Exhibition

2D & 3D collaboration exhibition, Takashimaya.

2020

Group Exhibition

Assemble ~ Accumulating technique and body ~, The Musuem of Arts & Crafts ITAMI, Japan.

2019

Group Exhibition

Design Miami 2019, Miami Beachi Convention Center, Miami, USA.

2019

Group Exhibition

artKYOTO2019, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan.

2019

Group Exhibition

HUBEI INTERNATIONAL TRIENNALE OF LACQUER ART 2019, China.

2019

Group Exhibition

Exposure of the method, Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Kanazawa, Japan.

2019

Group Exhibition

ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2019, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China.

2019

Group Exhibition

Development of modern crafts 2019, Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Kanazawa, Japan.

2019

Group Exhibition

4th Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary art, Kanazawa, Japan.

2018

Group Exhibition

"Current Urushi Expression Vol.1" Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo

2018

Group Exhibition

2018 Fuzhou International Lacquer Art Biennial, China.

2018

Group Exhibition

MATERIAL×ART, Traditional Art & Craft of Ishikawa.

2018

Group Exhibition

Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2018, The Niigata Saitou Villa, Niigata, Japan.

2018

Group Exhibition

ART TAIPEI 2018, Taiwan.

2018

Group Exhibition

Thick chat, Kanazawa Citizen's Art Center, Kanazawa.

2018

Group Exhibition

"Contemporary Lacquer Art" Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Japan.

2018

Solo Exhibition

A Body in Solitude, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2018

Group Exhibition

"Current Lacquer 2018 Exhibition" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo

2017

Group Exhibition

The Ishikawa International Urushi Exhibition 2017, Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Kanazawa, Japan

2017

Group Exhibition

Shapes and Figures, SPIRAL, Tokyo, Wacoal Study Hal, Kyoto, Japan.

2017

Solo Exhibition

Shikkoku no Shintai,
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

2017

Group Exhibition

Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

2016

Group Exhibition

HATCHi to Art Tourism, The share hotels, Kanazawa, Japan.

2016

Group Exhibition

"The Cutting Edge of Contemporary Crafts in Kanazawa" Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Japan.

2016

Group Exhibition

Spider’s Thread, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

2016

Group Exhibition

World of Lacquer: Cycle of Time, 3rd Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China.

2015

Group Exhibition

The Future of Lacquer: The People Who Are Following Setsuro Takahashi, Takahashi Setsuro Art Museum, Azumino, Nagano, Japan.

2015

Group Exhibition

Four Spirited Artists, Shinoda Toko Art Space, Seki, Gifu, Japan.

2015

Group Exhibition

Fruitfulness: Contemporary Art in Toyokawa, Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan.

2015

Group Exhibition

Gifu DNA -Seiji Tamai and his bright students-, The Museum of Fine Arts, GIFU, Japan.

2015

Group Exhibition

Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos, Gifu, Japan.

2014

Group Exhibition

Shizubi Project 4: The Human Form and Sculpture, Tsuda Akiko, Fujiwara Ayato, Aoki Chie, Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan.

2013

Group Exhibition

World of Great Lacquer: Origin and Flows, 2nd Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China.

2012

Group Exhibition

Resonant Uruwashi: New Vibrance in International Woman’s Urushi Art, Yamawaki Gallery Tokyo, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto Kitakata City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan.

2012

Group Exhibition

Blank Speculations, Toiyamachi Studio, Ishikawa, Japan.

2011

Solo Exhibition

Urushi Body, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo.

2011

Group Exhibition

Aizu Urushi Art Festival, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan.

2011

Group Exhibition

Urushi Exhibition: New Form of Urushi, The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami, Japan.

2010

Group Exhibition

1st International Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa “Network Crafting”, Rifare, Kanazawa, Japan.

2010

Group Exhibition

Curving Out the Future of Lacquer: Age of the New 2010, Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum, Wajima, Ishikawa, Japan.

2010

Group Exhibition

Lacquer: Searching for New Expressions, Kitakata City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan.

2010

Group Exhibition

Aizu Urushi Art Festival, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan.

2010

Solo Exhibition

"Chie Aoki Exhibition" Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan.

2009

Group Exhibition

Emerging Directors’ Art Fair Ultra 002, SPIRAL, Tokyo.

2009

Solo Exhibition

"Chie Aoki Exhibition" Gallery Art Concept, Kanazawa, Japan.

2008

Group Exhibition

Tama Vivant II: Seed of Images, Tama Art University, Tokyo Minatomirai Station, Yokohama, Japan.

2008

Group Exhibition

Kanazawa Art Platform 2008: To Create Our Own Place by Ourselves, Tsubakihara Tenmangu Shrine, Kanazawa, Japan.

2007

Solo Exhibition

"Chie Aoki Exhibition" Gallery TE, Tokyo.

2006

Solo Exhibition

"Chie Aoki Exhibition" Gallery TE, Tokyo.

2006

Group Exhibition

45th Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

2006

Group Exhibition

Tama Vivant: Now Rhythm Is Overlapping, Tama Art University, Tokyo Minatomirai Station, Yokohama, Japan.

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