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Aya Shimohara / 下原亜矢
<BIOGRAPHY>
Aya Shimohara was born in 1986.
She majored in design at Kyoto Saga University of Arts but focused on painting independently.
She started her career as a planner and designer in the apparel industry before becoming an independent artist in earnest in 2017.
To date, she has actively exhibited in various countries.
She uses her own painting techniques, “Mirror Paint” and “Index Finger Paint”.
Also, the panel that imitates the digital device she uses is her original.
<STATEMENT>
Using panels that resemble digital devices, I create paintings with selfie compositions and mirror painting on the theme of the relationship between others and self, and the ambivalent nature of having incompatible feelings at the same time, which is highlighted by online activities.
I want to communicate with the viewer by creating an interactive trick where the viewer can see their reflection in the mirror-painted area.
This is because what I want to convey is universal and applicable to everyone.
EXHIBITION
Solo
- 2024 Feb. 「Mirror Mirror On The Post」 excube (Osaka/JPN)
- 2023 May 「AM I THERE ?」 gallery GiGi (Kanagawa/JPN)
- 2020 Aug. 「hUMAn next」 excube (Osaka/JPN)
- 2020 Mar. 「hUMAn」 Garden City Space of Art（田園城市風格書店1F 芸術空間） (Taipei/TAIWAN)
- 2018 Sep. 「IN FACING」 studio diffuse make+ (Osaka/JPN)
- 2014 Jul. 「MOMENT」 Ouchi Gallery (NY/USA)
Art Fair
2023 Mar. 「BAMA」BEXCO (Gallery edel) (Busan/KOREA)
- 2022 Nov. 「Diaf」EXCO (Gallery edel) (Daegu/KOREA)
- 2021 Oct. 「ART EXPO NY」Pier36 (Gallery edel) (NY/USA)
- 2018 Jul. 「ART FORMOSA」松山文創/Eslite Hotel (Taipei/TAIWAN)
- 2015 May. 「ART EXPO NY」Pier94 (KITAI Gallery) (NY/USA)
SELECTED Open call / Group / Curated
- 2025 Mar. 「All The Light I See」Van Der Plas Gallery (NY/USA)
- 2024 Jun. 「ILLUSIONS」The Holy Art Gallery (London/UK)
- 2023 Nov. 「texture」TOKYO PARK GALLERY (London/UK)
- 2022 May. 「Exhibition of “SYNESTHESIA” vol.2」YOSEIDO Ginza FUTURE LABO （Tokyo/JPN）
- 2022 Feb. 「EPIC PAINTERS Vol.10 -PORTRAITS-」THE blank GALLERY （Tokyo/JPN）
- 2021 Aug. 「Independent Tokyo」 (Tokyo/JPN)
- 2020 Dec. 「Independent Tokyo」 (Tokyo/JPN)
- 2019 Nov. 「糸 ito」dear deer (Taipei/TAIWAN)
- 2019 Apr. 「THE STORIES」The Stories (DMOARTS) (Osaka/JPN)
- 2019 Apr. 「Vol.6 Aratapendan」Creative Center Osaka(Site of Namura Shipbuilding factory) (Osaka/JPN)
- 2017 Nov. 「UNKNOWN/ASIA2017」Herbis Hall (Osaka/JPN) ＊Prize
- 2016 Aug. 「LIFE」Noho M55 Gallery （NY/USA）
- 2015 Sep. 「JAPAN NOW」Espacio Gallery (London/UK)
- 2015 Apr. 「Evolution of Art」NY realism fine art Gallery (NY/USA)
- 2012 Nov. 「Seven deadly sins, seven virtues」ME & ART GALLERY (Sydney/AUSTRALIA)
- 2009 Feb. 「Japan Art Salon Painting Award」The National Art Center, Tokyo・Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts (Tokyo・Osaka/JPN)
Bibliography
- 2025 Apr. 「Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine #18」 (Spain) https://www.altiba9.com/magazine
- 2024 Oct. 「Create! Magazine #47」 Curated by Tax Collection and Square One Gallery (USA) https://www.createmagazine.co/
Public Art
- 2019 Mar. Project「ART GUSH」 Izumi city in Osaka/JPN ＊Installed on the tank tower of the Izumi Water and Sewerage Department.
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