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Ayaka YAMADA -Profile
 
2014  Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Fine
     Arts, Doctoral cours (Art), Tokyo, Japan.
2011-2012  Exchange student program of École nationale supérieure des
           Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France.
2009  Currently attending Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,
           Department of Fine Arts, Printmaking Research Course, MFA ,
           Tokyo, Japan
2008  Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Oil
            Painting BFA, Tokyo, Japan
1985  Born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan

 

 -Exhibition, Award, Collection

 

2020  "FACE Exhibition 2020 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition"

Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art

(Tokyo / Shinjuku) Audience Award

2020  "13th Okayama Prefecture Up-and-coming Artist Development Mr. I Award

   Selected Works Exhibition" Encouragement Award

2020  "Goldfish World Exhibition" Art Space Goldfish Space (Taipei / Taiwan)

2020  Solo Exhibition "Ayaka Yamada Exhibition" Kyoto Art Zone Kaguraoka

          (Kyoto)

2020  Yonden Arts and Culture Encouragement Award: Yonden Culture Promotion

           Foundation (Kagawa)

2020  Solo exhibition "Ayaka Yamada Exhibition-Deep Dream" B-gallery

           (Tokyo/ Ikebukuro)

2020  "Staying and watching" Gallery FIXA group exhibition

           Port Art & Design Tsuyama joint project (Okayama)

 

2019  "Artemis" Exhibition Gallery ARK: Group Exhibition

   (Yokohama / Kanagawa)

2019  "HANGA" NEXT GENERATION-Tomorrow's Stars Exhibition ":

   Group Exhibition Keifu Gallery (Kyoto)

2019  "Alchemical Muse Exhibition" Shinobazu Gallery: Group Exhibition

   (Tokyo / Nihonbashi)

2019  "13th Artist Federation New Member Encouragement Exhibition '19"

   Artist Federation Gallery (Tokyo / Ginza)

2019  "5th Bangkok International Print Triennale" Silpakorn University,

   Bangkok Art and Culture Center

   Purchase Prize -Print Purchase Prize (Thailand / Bangkok)

2019  "Ayaka Yamada Solo Exhibition-Beyond the Fog":

   Solo Exhibition Ginza Shirota Gallery (Tokyo / Ginza)

2019  "Ayaka Yamada x Shoko Noma-Young Artist Exhibition"

   Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art, Imabari (Ehime)  

   8/18 Artist Talk

8/17 "Printmaking Technique-Lithography Production Experience"

  Workshop Lecturer

2019  "CWAJ 70th Anniversary Exhibition" Daikanyama Hillside Forum

   (Tokyo / Daikanyama) Kobe Club (Hyogo / Kobe)

2019  Musashino Art University Special Lecture

   [Ayaka Yamada Creative expression through lithographs and prints]

: Musashino Art University Oil Painting Department Print Laboratory

Sponsored Print Graduate Studio

2019  "New Japanese Prints Exhibition": Group Exhibition Xuying Art Gallery

   (Beijing)

 

2018  "ART TAIPEI 2018" Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1F

   (Taiwan / Taipei) 

2018  "Goldfish Space" Exhibition Art Space Goldfish Space: Group Exhibition

   (Taiwan / Taipei) 

2018  "HANGA" NEXT GENERATION-Tomorrow's Stars Exhibition

   Nihonbashi Takashimaya (Tokyo / Nihonbashi)

 

2017  "Sleepless Night Girls" Exhibition Gallery ARK:

   Group Exhibition (Yokohama / Kanagawa) 

2017  "BLIND PEAK-Dream Fetal Movement" Shinobazu Gallery:

   Three-person Exhibition (Nihonbashi / Tokyo)

2017  "Ayaka Yamada Exhibition" Kyoto Art Zone Kaguraoka:

   Solo Exhibition (Kyoto)

2017  "Louvre Museum Art Fair" Louvre Museum (France / Paris) 

2017  "ART TAIPEI 2017" Taipei World Trade Center Building No. 1

   (Taiwan / Taipei) 

2017  "Tokyo University of the Arts 130th Anniversary Project National Art and

   Education Research Project-Aiming to Expand Cultural Arts Base-"

   "Every child is an artist. The question is whether he can be an artist even as 

an adult. Pablo Picasso" "Tokyo University of the Arts Museum

(Tokyo / Ueno) 

2017  Croatia Zagreb Exhibition "50 Contemporary Japanese Prints Exhibition"

   National Academy of Sciences and Arts 

 

2016  "28th Contemporary Art Exhibition-by a local artist-"

   Imabari City Kono Museum of Art (Ehime / Imabari) 

2016  "Print Studio Contorpois vol.6 Lithograph / Copper engraving Exhibition" 

Palette Kumoji Naha Citizen's Gallery (Okinawa) 

2016  " Lithograph Two-person Exhibition-"

   RYUBO Ryubo 7th Floor Art Salon (Okinawa) 

2016  "50th Anniversary Exhibition of Shirota Gallery"

   Shirota Gallery (Tokyo / Ginza)

2016  "50 Faces Exhibition" REIJINSHA GALLERY:

   Group Exhibition (Tokyo / Ginza) 

2016  "ART TAIPEI 2016" Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1F

   (Taiwan / Taipei) 

2016  "Japan-China Contemporary Print Exchange Exhibition-2016 China-Japan

   Youth Hangzhou Exhibition"  Pleasure Space (China / Hangzhou)

 

2015  "Japan Print Association 83rd Print Exhibition Winners Exhibition"

   Shirota Gallery (Tokyo / Ginza)

2015  "27th Contemporary Art Exhibition-by a local artist-"

   Imabari City Kono Museum (Ehime / Imabari)

2015  "Tomi Selection New Artist Exhibition 2015"

   Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo / Ueno) 

2015  “Minamishimabara City Seminarillo Contemporary Print Exhibition"

Semi-Grand Prize (Chihiro Watanabe Award) (Nagasaki)Minamishimabara

City Board of Education Lifelong Learning Division, Seminarillo Print

Festival Executive Committee Arie Collegio Hall in Minamishimabara 

2015  "4th Bangkok International Print Triennale": Selected (Thailand) 

2015  "New York City ART FAIR 2015" B-gallery: Group Exhibition

   (NY / CHELSEA) 

2015  "Haruki Murakami Exhibition in Me" Gallery Ekaan: Group Exhibition

   (Tokyo / Ginza) 

2015  " APAN x ITALY CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION 2015 "

   Trattative fra est-ovest "Milan Art Fair" B-gallery (Italy / Milan)

2015  "Tokyo International Miniprint Triennale": Grand Prix (Tokyo)

2015  "Ayaka Yamada Solo Exhibition-Door of Light-"

   Shirota Gallery: Solo Exhibition (Tokyo / Ginza)

2015  "Mitsukoshi Art Specialty Society Start Point x Viewpoint"

 Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store New Building 7th Floor Gallery

(Tokyo / Nihonbashi)

2015  "ART TAIPEI 2015" Gallery Goldfish Space (Taiwan / Taipei)

2015  "Ayaka Yamada Exhibition Daydream-Retrospect and Prospect"

   B-gallery: Solo Exhibition (Tokyo / Ikebukuro)

2015  "CD Jacket Art Exhibition" Gallery ARK (Kanagawa / Yokohama)

2015  "AArt Shanghai City Art Fair " B-gallery: Group Exhibition (China / Shanghai)

 Twelve at Hengshan A Luxury Collection Hotel, Shanghai.

2015  "Ayaka Yamada Exhibition-Connecting Life-"

   Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art, Solo Exhibition (Ehime / Imabari)

2015  "The beginning is from Keiichiro Kume-History and present exhibition of

    medical art & illustration" Tokyo University of the Arts

Organized by: Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts,

Department of Painting, Department of Oil Painting, 

Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Anatomy First Laboratory (Tokyo / Ueno)

2015  "Micro Salon 2015 Small Works Exhibition" Tokyo Gallery + BTAP

   (Tokyo / Ginza)

 

2014  "ART APART FAIR" Singapore Art Fair Park Royal on pickering, B-gallery (Singapore) 

2014  "Mirage Exhibition" Metal Art Museum: Tokyo University of the Arts, Print    

   Laboratory Group Exhibition (Chiba)

2014 "26th Contemporary Art Exhibition-by a local artist" Imabari City,

   Kono Museum (Ehime / Imabari)

2014  "Ayaka Yamada Solo Exhibition -Connecting Life-" Shirota Gallery,

   Solo Exhibition (Tokyo / Ginza) 

2014  "2014 Hangzhou Art Expo 7th HANGZHOU ART FAIR" (China / Hangzhou) 

2014  "MITSUKOSHI x Tokyo University of the Arts Summer Arts Festival 2014-Exhibition of young artists who will lead the next generation" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (Tokyo)

2014  "Republic of China 16th International Print Biennale"

   National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts: Selected (Taiwan) 

2014  "Best Selection Art 2014" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo / Ueno) 

2014  "82nd Print Exhibition of Japan Print Association"

   Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Best Associate Member Award, Member Recommendation (Tokyo / Ueno) 

2014  "ART FAIR DUBAI" B-gallery booth: Group exhibition

   The Address Dubai Mall Hotel (Dubai) 

2014  "Micro Salon Small Works Exhibition 2014" Tokyo Gallery + BTAP:

   Group Exhibition (Tokyo / Ginza) 

2014  "The 3rd Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition 2014

   -Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition"

Reviewer, China Art Museum (Shanghai) 

Sponsored by: Shanghai City Culture Department,

China Art Museum, Shanghai Artist Association

 
2013  "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Doctoral
             examination Exhibition" Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
             and Music, Art Museum of the University of collection work, 
             Nomura Art Award, Tokyo
2013   " Tokyo Gallery + BTAP micro Salon 2013 " Tokyo Gallery + BTAP     
             Tokyo
2013   " Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, ed.99 prints first
             laboratory lithographic copperplate Exhibition " Mochizuki Sadako
             museum . Kujukuri Art Museum, Chiba
2013   " Japan Print Association 81st exhibition of print " Tokyo Metropolitan
            Art Museum,  associate member FY Award, Tokyo 
2013   " Print Exhibition of the end of summer " group exhibition,
              KAWAUSO Gallery Ginza, Tokyo 
2013   " New Year Exhibition" Shirota Gallery, Group Exhibition, Tokyo
2013   " The 25th Contemporary Art Exhibition - by local artist born "
              Imabari Kono Museum, Ehime
 
2012  Kanda Art Project "TRANS ART TOKYO" Old Tokyo Denki University.
            Dr. volunteer group exhibition, Tokyo
2012   "4SCÉNES" four-person exhibition, Maison du Japon, Cité
             International Universitaire de Paris France, 
             Group Exhibition, Paris, France
2012   " Japan Print Association 79th Winners Exhibition" Shirota Gallery,
             Tokyo
 
2011  "Sato International Culture Scholarship Foundation. 20th Scholarship
            Art Exhibition" The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo
2011   "Japan Print Association 79th exhibition of print" Kyoto Municipal
            Museum of Art, Yamaguchi Gen newcomer special Award, Associate
            member nominated, Kyoto
2011   "World Exhibition of silence" Shirota Gallery, group exhibition, Tokyo
2011  "Japan Print Association The 78th Winners Exhibition" Shirota Gallery,
            Tokyo
 
2010   "Ehime Prefectural Museum, 21 year New Collection Exhibition".
             Ehime Prefectural Museum. Collection.
2010   "Japan Print Association 78th exhibition of print" Kyoto Municipal
             Museum of Art. Yamaguchi Gen newcomer Award, Kyoto
2010  Tokyo Gallery + BTAP 60th anniversary "small painting Exhibition,
            Micro salon 60"  Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo
 
 
2009  “Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Prints Collection”
            Omotesando GYRE EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo
2009   "University Print Exhibition Winners Exhibition" 33rd National Print
             Exhibition University,  Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo
2009  “2nd art_icle Award 2009 in Asia” Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing
2009  “2nd art_icle Award 2009 in Asia” Keumsan Gallery, Korea
2009  "Tokyo Regionalism-Japanese Emerging Artist’ Exhibition"
             Pepper’s Project, New York
2009  “2nd art_icle Award 2009 in Asia” Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo
 
2008  “National University Printmaking Exhibition” Machida International
            Print Museum, Tokyo
2008  “Midsummer Show 2008 –10 emerging artists” Pax Arts Asia, Beijing
2008   Solo Exhibition ”INNOCENCEⅡ” Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo
2008   Azabu Art Salon group show, Tokyo
2008  “University Printmaking Award Winners Exhibition”
            Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo
2008   Break Station Gallery, JR Ueno Station, Tokyo
 
2007  “National University Printmaking Exhibition” Machida International
            Print Museum, Tokyo
2007  “PRINTS TOKYO 2007“ Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
2007   Solo Exhibition, Gallery Ginza Forest, Tokyo
 
-Awards

2007/2008  32nd / 33rd National University Print Exhibition Collection Award

                    / Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

2008  Tokyo University of the Arts Museum of Art Purchase Award

          / Tokyo University of the Arts

2008  Mr. O Memorial Award / Tokyo University of the Arts

2008  Septeni Award / Tokyo University of the Arts

2010  Gen Yamaguchi New Face Award / Japan Print Association

2011  Gen Yamaguchi Special New Award / Japan Print Association

2013  Associate Member FY Award / Japan Print Association

2014  Nomura Art Award: Nomura Foundation

           / Tokyo University of the Arts Museum of Art

2014  Associate Member Best Award / Japan Print Association

2015  Semi-Grand Prize (Chihiro Watanabe Award) /

           Minamishimabara Seminarillo Contemporary Print Exhibition

          Minamishimabara City Board of EducationSeminarillo Print Festival

          Executive Committee in the Lifelong Learning Division

2015  Grand Prix

            / Tokyo International Miniprint Triennale Tama Art University Museum

2019  Purchase Prize -Print Purchase Prize

            / 5th Bangkok International Print Triennale

2020  Audience Award

           / FACE Exhibition 2020 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition

Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art

2020  Encouragement Award / Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art

/ 13th Okayama Prefecture Up-and-coming Artist Development

Mr. I Award Selected Works Exhibition" 

2020  Yonden Arts and Culture Encouragement Award

             / Yonden Culture Promotion Foundation

 
-Collection 
 

Machida Municipal International Print Museum / Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum / Shizuoka Prefecture Numazu City Shoji Museum / Ehime Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts / National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art / Tama Art University Museum / Silpakorn University (Thailand)