ROKKAKU Ayako
Untitled
2008
Acrylic on canvas
72.7×90.7cm
Framed 89.2×107.5×4.7cm
Signed&dated on the reverse side
SOLD
About
In 1982, she was born in Chiba Prefecture.
After graduating from high school, she went to illustration at a graphic design vocational school and graduated at the age of 20.
She participated in the Design Festa and performed live performances. It is said for the first time that she came up with a method of drawing directly by hand without using a brush.
Began creative activities on the road from 2002 (2002),
and participate in GEISAI # 4 the following year. Ayako who attracted attention on the spot won the Scout Award.
After that, she visited New York, returned to Japan with the knowledge of foreign galleries, and joined GEISAI again in 2006 (2006). Ayako’s work began to be introduced in Europe from around this time, and she recorded more than 100 sales in live paintings performed at the art Basel exhibition in Switzerland. she moved to Berlin around 2009.
Both popularity and evaluation are higher in Europe than in Japan, but mainly in overseas activities, but when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011 (2011), she returned to Japan and let children in the Tohoku region draw by which I made a creation. In the same year, she held a large-scale solo exhibition at the Kunsthall Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and the Danubiana Museum in Slovakia (Slovak edition) the following year. In May 2017, a solo exhibition of three-dimensional works using acrylic board is held at “GALLERY TARGET” in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
2019
Fumble in colors, tiny discoveries, Japan
June 8 – August -25
2018
Bright wind another step, Amsterdam
May 26 – 27
June 8 – August -25
2017
ramblings habitat, Japan
October 21 -November 19
OBSCURA, Japan
May 18 – June 8
2016
Sealed Reminiscence, Amsterdam
May 25 -June 30
2015
Lumpy Fluffy Splatter
Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan
May 30 – Jun 28
2014
Never Ending Love Letter
Gallery Target, Tokyo, Japan
Mar 15 – Apr 13
2012
Where the Smell Comes from
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia (C)
Sep 23 – Dec 9
2011
Colours in my hand
KUNSTHAL Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, (C)
Jun 23 – Aug 21
2010
About Us
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (C)
Jan 12 – Feb 12
About Us
VACANT, Tokyo, Japan, (C)
Nov 16 – 21
2009
Untitled
San Carlo Gallery, Milano, Italy
Jan 12 – Feb 12
Untitled
Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Dec 12 – Jan 21
2008
Untitled
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt, Germany
May 12 – Jun 21