2017 - Present Currently undertaking her masters in printmaking at Tokyo University of the arts, Tokyo, Japan 2014Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours | University of Auckland, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Love is blind | Marueido Japan Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo 2018Folding in Forests | PG Gallery 192, Christchurch 2017 Intimate Whispers Hidden in the Shadows of the Trees | Milford Galleries Dunedin Sighs on a Midnight Pillow | Solander Gallery, Wellington 2016 Afternoon Delight | PG Gallery 192, Christchurch Lovers Cannot See | Solander Gallery, Wellington Gallery, Wellington 2015Love is Blind | Fox Jensen Gallery, Auckland Head over Heels | PG Gallery 192, Christchurch
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019Portrait without a face, Art Basel Hong Kong | Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney Australia Fletcher/Peter Trevelyan/Aiko Robinson | milford galleries queenstown The Earl Street Journal | milford galleries queenstown Eros | Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia Eros | Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland Art Osaka | Marueido Japan Fine Art Galley Auckland Art Fair | Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2018 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair | Solander Gallery, Wellington Diffusion | Marueido Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo Venus Bound | Art Complex Centre, Tokyo Wunderkammer | Milford Galleries Dunedin
2017Sydney Contemporary Art Fair | Solander Gallery, Wellington Fine Lines | Milford Galleries Dunedin Show & Tell | Milford Galleries Dunedin
2016Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair | Lans Gallery, Hong Kong Asia Contemporary Art Show, Spring 2016 Edition | Lars Gallery, Hong Kong Last Judgement | PG Gallery 192, Christchurch
2015Seeing Stars | Seed Gallery, Auckland Made by Hand | Solander Gallery, Wellington Christmas Show | PG Gallery 192, Christchurch New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards | Waikato Society of Arts 2014Graduate Show | Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland Open Studio | Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship for watercolour painting, Project Space
SELECTED COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS 2018 O-shi Kinen Award
2017 The 42nd Annual Exhibition of the Japan Society of Printmaking MEXT Scholarship 2015 Auckland Print Studio Prize | Inaugural Recipient New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards | Finalist 2014Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship for Watercolour Painting | Finalist International student printmaking exhibition - selected to have work exhibited in 14 galleries worldwide, including the Gus Fisher gallery in Auckland
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Auckland Print Studio | Auckland, New Zealand Machiya city museum of graphic arts | Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2019 “Not to be missed”, Art Collector Australia, July- September 2019, Cover page and pg 74-75 “Aiko Robinson Interview”, Art Collectors Japan, July 2019, pg 36-37 Borrowdale, laura, “Aoterotica”, Volume six, 2019, pg 10, 13, 16, 20, 29, 2018 Robinson, Aiko, “Picturing Spring”, Art News New Zealand. Autumn 2018, pg 64-66 “In residence” section. Phillips, Thomas, “This artist creates sex-positive erotica inspired by Traditional Japanese porn”, 2018, retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/ev38xm/this-artist-creates-sex-positive-erotica-inspired-by-traditional-japanese-porn 2017 Kapuki Kimono, “Bu”, First volume, 2017, pg 108 2016 Feeney, Warren, “In the realm of erotic wonder”, Asian Art newsVolume 26 Number 4, 2016, pg 52-55 2015Chapman, Wallace, "The cult of the accessible". Art News New Zealand. Summer 2015, pg 100-4 Davis, Sophie, "Aiko Robinson Head over heels". Art New Zealand. Spring 2015: Number 155, pg 40 Feeny, Warren, ‘Let's Talk About Sex - East Meets West in Christchurch Exhibition.’ The Press, 10 July 2015, retrieved from http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/art-and-stage/visual-art/70087386/lets-talk-about-sex--east-meets-west-in-christchurch-exhibition http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/art-and-stage/visual-art/70087386/lets-talk-about-sex--east-meets-west-in-christchurch-exhibition