Japanese artist Aya Takano is associated with the Superflat movement. Her paintings are known for their dreamlike and bizarre appearance, populated often by androgynous female characters.
She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at leading galleries and participated in important group exhibitions.
Solo Exhibitions
Represented by Perrotin, Aya Takano has held several solo exhibitions and group exhibitions with the gallery, including liminal, ego (2021); Let’s make a universe a better place (2020); Union Mystica (2019); and The Jelly Civilization Chronical (2017).
Further selected solo exhibitions include: _The Ocean Inside, The Flowers Insid_e, Johyun Gallery, Busan (2015); May All Things Dissolve in the Ocean of Bliss, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo (2014); The Universal Portal, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Taipei (2010).
Group Exhibitions
Select group exhibitions include A Passion for Drawing. The Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou Paris, The Albertina Museum Vienna (2019); Murakami by Murakami, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2017); Arts Visuels Au Japon Depuis 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2017); Animamix Biennale, Daegu Art Museum (2015); Kyoto-Tokyo: From Samurais to Mangas, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (2010); Garden of Painting Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2010); Winter Garden, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2009); The Sensual Line, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2005).
