Shinya Aota

Born in Osaka, Japan, 1982
Lives and works in Nagoya

2008 Graduated from MFA program of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music


Selected Solo shows

2015 ” Product Line “A.B.”” ON READING / ELVIS PRESS, Nagoya, Japan
2014 ” A.B.” NOW IDeA / Tokyo
2014 ” Shinya Aota 2014” AOYAMA| MEGURO / Tokyo
2010 ” AOYAMA| MEGURO / Tokyo
2008 ” years,months,weeks,days” SleeperGallery / Edinburgh

Selected Group shows

2015 ” SHOWCASE “stands”” OMOTESANDO HILLS, Tokyo, Japan
　” TOTSUZEN MUSEUM” Kanagawa Arts Theatre / Kanagawa, Japan
　” Kyoto Seika University Graduates File” Kyoto Seika University / Kyoto, Japan
2014 NADA ART FAIR Miami Beach / Miami, FL
　Yokohama Triennale Associated Program “BankArt Life 4 — Dreams of East Asia” BankART Studio
NYK,Yokohama
　MOT ANNUAL 2014 ” FRAGMENTS INCOMPLETE BEGINNINGS” / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
　” Everyday Life/Off the Record” Kanagawa arts theatre,Kanagawa
　” The Information” Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa
2012 ” COSMOS, BEE, TANGERINE” See Saw gallery + cafe, Nagoya
　” RYUGU IS OVER!!” Ryugu Bijutu Ryokan, Kanagawa, Japan
　” The Position 2012” Contemporary Art from Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi
　” Continuous Art, Impossible Community ” Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON
2011 ” simple things ” Nagoya Civic Art Gallery Yada, Nagoya
　” Keihanna Wander Art 2011 ” keihanna-park, Kyoto
2010 Aichi Triennare2010 Choja-machi area / Aichi
 　Aichi art no mori Nayabashi area / Aichi
2009 Choja-machi project2009 Choja-machi area / Aichi
　Hiroshima Art Project 2009
　• Kippo Maru: Exploring inside the Ship! / Yoshi-jima area, Hiroshima, JAPAN
　Jo NAGASAKA, Schemata Architecture Office Ltd.
　: HAPPA HOTEL / AOYAMA | MEGURO, Tokyo, JAPAN
　AOTA Shinya • NISHIZONO Atsushi / Gallery IND. , Osaka, JAPAN
2008 Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2008 The Museum of Modern Art / Gunma
　1floor 2008: No potato of name Kobe Art Village Center / Kobe
　WORKSHOPS (with Shun Kawami, Shigeki Kosugi, Tan Ru Yi)
2009 ”Let’s make something” pre-event of Aichi Triennale 2010, Choja-machi area, / Aichi
2008 ”Let’s make something” Timescape -Another View of Time- Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi

Awards and others

2008 Encouragement Prize at “Gunma Biennale for Young Artists”

Resident career

2008 Artist in Residence at Edinburgh College of Art, U.K. (for one month)