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Love Monster
Mixed media on canvas
2008
62 x 66 in.
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Born 1975, Tokyo, Japan

Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

“Love Monster” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (April-May)

2008

“Shut up & Look” at Brooklynite Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Sept.-Oct)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

“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.)

2008

“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.)

2007

“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.)

ART FAIRS

2008

SCOPE Miami – Joshua Liner Gallery

SCOPE New York at Lincoln Center - New Image Art

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

LECTURES

2008

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)