Born in 1972, Katsuyo Aoki is a Japanese artist who practices in ceramics. In 1998 she attended the Tama Art University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. In 2000 she received a Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramic Art. Aoki makes highly intricate porcelain sculptures, incorporating various decorative styles, patterns, and symbolic forms as the principal axis in her work. Each of the decorative forms present in her work contain a story from myths and allegories. She hopes that by bringing those historical legends into the present day she will convey feelings of romance, adoration, tranquility while alluding to religion and places of worship. She expresses these concepts through the use of the ceramics, which, due to its fragility and delicateness seems the most appropriate medium for such concerns.
Read MoreKatsuyo Aoki has held solo exhibitions in Tokyo since 1998. In 2010 she received the DE LE MER Female Artist Award. She currently lives and works in Toyko.
Text courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery.
