Aiko Robinson
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  • Selected exhibitions and works
    • Love is blind
    • Head over heels
    • Pillowed on water
    • The birds and the bees
    • Last Judgement
    • Afternoon Delight
    • Sighs on a midnight pillow
    • 2018 Drawings Tokyo, Japan
    • 恋は盲目 (Love is blind)
    • Selected drawings
    • Bliss and branches
    • Pillowed on water
    • 歌枕 UTAMAKURA
    • When the flowers bloom
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EDUCATION

   2017 - Present      Currently undertaking her masters in printmaking at Tokyo University of the arts, Tokyo, Japan
   2014                       Bachelor 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
   2018                       Folding 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   
   2015                        Love is Blind | Fox Jensen Gallery, Auckland
                                   Head over Heels | PG Gallery 192, Christchurch

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   2019                        Portrait 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 

   2017                          Sydney Contemporary Art Fair | Solander Gallery, Wellington
                                     Fine Lines | Milford Galleries Dunedin
                                     Show & Tell | Milford Galleries Dunedin

   2016                         Hong 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
   
   2015                          Seeing 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
                                     2014 Graduate 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
   2014                         Henrietta 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
    2015                          Chapman, 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

  
  













 










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  • Home
  • Selected exhibitions and works
    • Love is blind
    • Head over heels
    • Pillowed on water
    • The birds and the bees
    • Last Judgement
    • Afternoon Delight
    • Sighs on a midnight pillow
    • 2018 Drawings Tokyo, Japan
    • 恋は盲目 (Love is blind)
    • Selected drawings
    • Bliss and branches
    • Pillowed on water
    • 歌枕 UTAMAKURA
    • When the flowers bloom
  • Artist Statement
  • cv
  • Contact