Tomio Koyama Gallery | Tokyo - Kyoto - Singapore

Aya Ito was born in Arida-city, Wakayama in 1987. She graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2009, and from Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate School of Art, painting this year.
Ito received Suntory award at in Art Camp in Kunst-Bau 2007 (Suntory Museum, Osaka), Runner-Up Prize in Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2009 (Gyokochika Gallery, Tokyo), and the Graduate School Mayer award at Annual Exhibition of Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto).
Her major solo exhibitions include “Umaretsuki J” (Art Jam Contemporary, Tokyo, 2009), and her major group exhibitions include “Mont Blanc Young Artist Patronage in Japan” (Mont Blanc GINZA, Tokyo, 2009), “VOCA 2010” (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2010), and “RESONANCE” (Suntory Museum, Osaka, 2010). She will exhibit at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2011 (July 3 to July 31, 2011).

1983　Born in Wakayama, Japan
2009　B.F.A. Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto
2011　M.F.A. Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto

2012
”Hahaha at Hyperspeed”　Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2011
Smelling Mildly, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010
TKG Project #2, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2009
Naturally J, Art Jam Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan

2012
「TOKYO FRONTLINE 2012」　3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

2011
"Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2011"　Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi, Tokyo
"ROKKO MEETS ART 2011"　Hyogo, Japan

2010
Resonance, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
VOCA 2010, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2009
Art Award Tokyo, Gyoukou Chika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2008
Montblanc Young Artist Patronage in Japan, Montblac GINZA, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Art Camp in Kunst-Bau, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan

2011
Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2011 shu uemura Prize, Judge's prize (Yuko Hasegawa)

2009
Art Award Tokyo, Runner-up Prize

2007
Art Camp in Kunst-Bau, Suntory Prize