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Fumiaki Aono

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1968 Born in Sendai, Japan
1992 M.A. in Art Education, Miyagi University of Education Graduate School
2005 Miyagi Prefecture Award for Artistic Excellence (Sculpture)
2013 Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, U.S.A.
2015 Takashimaya Art Direction Award

Collections
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 21st century museum of contemporary art, kanazawa, Arario Museum, Rias Ark Museum of Art, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Consulate – General of the Republic of Korea in Sendai, TAKASHIMAYA、Luciano Benetton Collection(Imago Munm), KOOHOUSE Museum of Art&Design Colletion(Korea), Mori Art Museum, Um museum

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Each Planet and Their Inhabitants”, LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2024 “Unknown memories Open, Um Museum, Hwaseong, Korea
2023 “Restoration of the Future and the Wandering Time: From Fragments of Fictional City Flyers 1996 – 2011 – 2023” Gallery TURNAROUND, Miyagi, Japan
2023 10th Anniversary Relay Exhibition “Fumiaki Aono Exhibition: 
Wandering Drives    Ghost Ships    People Returning from the Other Side of the Earth 1613 – 2023 (From Recycled Materials of the San Juan Bautista (Model) of the Keicho Embassy to Europe)” Akiu no Mori Sasaki Art Museum&Ningyo Museum, Miyagi, Japan
2022 “Small Exhibition: Fermentation of Fkidamari – The World Then and Now” Gallery TURNAROUND, Miyagi, Japan
2022 “Where do we come from and where are we going” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Growing from the valley: The remnant of a Tate-mono”, LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Comprehensive restoration” Gallery TURNAROUND, Miyagi, Japan
2019 “AONO FUMIAKI: Mono, sleeping, Koejiyama, voice – over” sendai mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
2017 “CONSERVATION PIECE/PEACE: from here to there part A, AONO FUMIAKI Exhibition” Kichijōji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016Fumiaki Aono Exhibition” Gallery TURNAROUND, Miyagi, Japan
2015 “Palimpsest – Superimposed Memories” Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Skull Cup II – On Alterity and Inevitability – ” Gallery TURNAROUND, Miyagi, Japan
2011 “Scull Cup” Gallery TURNAROUND, Miyagi, Japan
2010 “On The Road, Restoration, Live – Visual Record No.1 – ” Onward Square, Miyagi, Japan
2007 “N.E.blood 21 Vol.28 Fumiaki Aono” Rias Ark Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
1997 “Repairing, Muen – Yuen” Miyagi Museum of Art Gallery, Miyagi, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2024 “Kobe Rokko Meets Art 2024 beyond” Hyogo, Japan
2024 “Ilha Formosa – Group Exhibition of Five Artists from Taiwan & Japan” Soka Art.Tainan, Taiwan
2024 “AOMORI GOKAN Arts Fest 2024    Interweavers in Open Fields  – ” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre(ACAC), Aomori, Japan
2023 “Aimaina Awaino Manimani” HAJIMARI ART CENTER, Fukushima, Japan
2022 “Yamagata Biennale 2022” Old City Hall of Yamagata Prefecture (Bunshoukan), Yamagata, Japan
2022 “Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Eternally Yours” Somerset House, London, UK

2020 “Yamagata Biennale 2020 – Consideration of modern Yamagata  Lake Moga Legend –” Tohoku University of Art And Design, Yamagata, Japan
2020 “Yokohama Triennale 2020 AFTERGLOW” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

2019 “Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions” Mori Art Museum,Tokyo,Japan
2017 “Nice to meet you Artechnik” sendai mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
2016 “The Present Areas Affected by the Catastrophe – The Art of IWATE, MIYAGI and FUKUSHIMA” Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 “Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition 2016” Royal Academy London, London, UK
2015 “Collection 2 History, Regrowth, and Future” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2014 “Time Sharing” Okinawa Contemporary Art Center(OCAC), Okinawa, Japan
2014 “BY DESTINY” Arario Museum Dongmun Motel, Jeju, Korea

2013 “Aichi Triennale 2013 – Awakening – Where Are We Standing? – Earth, Memory and Resurrection” Nagoya, Japan
2008 “The Law of Life – Three Books to Help Understand Life – ” Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
2001 “VOCA – The vision of the Contemporary Art – ” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2000 “Exhibition of the Sublime and the Labour” Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2000 “Miyagi Art NOW” The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan

Artist WEBsite
aono – fumiaki.com

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