Love MonsterBorn 1975, Tokyo, Japan
Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
“Love Monster” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (April-May)
“Shut up & Look” at Brooklynite Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Sept.-Oct)
“Hard Left #2” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin (March-May)
“Street Crush” at Alphabeta, Brooklyn, NY (Feb.)
“New Image Art 15 Years Anniversary show” at New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA (Jan.)
“Heart & Soul” at Alphabet, Queens, NY (Oct.)
“Time Changes” at Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (June 7th-8th)
“NEXT: Mike Ming and Friends” at Uplink Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (June 5th-16th)
“Locked and Loaded” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Apr.-May)
“Grand Opening Exhibition: Hard Left” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany (Mar.-May)
“PINK AIKO: Brick Ladies of NYC” at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY (Mar.-Apr.)
SCOPE at Lincoln Center, New York, NY (Mar. 26th-30th)
“Pop Subversion” at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY (Feb.-Mar.)
“Poster Renaissance 2” at New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA (Jan.-Feb.)
“Run to the Hills” at Andenken Gallery, Denver CO (Dec.-Jan. 2008)
“Behind the Seen” at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY (Dec.-Jan. 2008)
F.A.M.E. Collective at Art Basel, Miami, FL, curated by Joshua Liner Gallery (Dec.)
“Santa’s Ghetto”, Bethlehem (Dec.)
“Independent Residents” at Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Oct.-Nov.)
“Beatnik” at Revelations, Tokyo, Japan (June-Sept.)
“Decade: 10th Year Anniversary Exhibition” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (June-July)
“No Sleep Till Bushwick” at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY (June)
“Atlantic Avenue ARTWALK”, Brooklyn, NY (June 6th-7th)
“Miss Van” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Mar.-Apr.)
“Bestial” at Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona Spain
“Eleven” at Leonard Street Gallery, London, England (Mar.-Apr.)
“Heart Throb” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Mar.-Apr.)
“My 2007” at Colette, Paris, France (Jan.)
SCOPE Miami – Joshua Liner Gallery
SCOPE New York at Lincoln Center - New Image Art
Coco, Evah Fan, Jihyun Heo, Maia Lee, Gi Myao, Aiko Nakagawa, Grace Yung Ting Teng and Jaewon Yun. “8 Tales of Girlhood.” Theme Magazine 16 (2008): 64-73
Gavin, Francesca. Street Renegades: New Underground Art. CITY: Laurence King Publishers, 2007
Choi, Eunice, Prithi Gowda, Jennifer Lew, Aiko Nakagawa, and Wing Shya. “Inside the Private Journals.” Theme Magazine 10 (2007): 64-71
Fairey, Shepard and Anne Keehn. “Faile.” Swindle Magazine 12 (2006)
WK Interact. “Art of the Street.” Time Magazine, October 24, 2005
Zeegen, Lawrence. Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Creative Image Making. Switzerland: RotoVision Books, 2005
Kienyo, Patrick McNeil, and Aiko Nakagawa. “Lavender.” New York: Die Gestaiten Veriog, 2004
Panel Discussion, “Envisioning Japan: A Creative Dialogue with the Wider World” at the Brooklyn Museum (May 17th)
“Visual Release: Gender, Art, Representation and Exchange” as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s Love and Pop symposium (April 12th)