AIKO TEZUKA 手塚愛子

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1976. Lives in Berlin, Germany. Mainly active in Berlin and Tokyo. In 2001, Aiko Tezuka completed the Master’s Degree programme in Painting at Musashino Art University, Tokyo (studied under sculptor Toya Shigeo). In 2005, completed PhD in Painting at the Art Research Department of Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan (studied under painter Usami Keiji). From 2010 to 2011, she lived and worked in London, UK, supported by the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Foundation. Then began to live in Berlin (2011), with the support of a fellowship from the Japanese Government’s Overseas Study Program for Artists. In 1997, Aiko Tezuka embarked on a type of work that unravels readymade fabric. She has continued to create new structural forms through referring to and editing historical objects, using unique methods of her own. Recent exhibitions: The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art; Okazaki Mindscape Museum; Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (above Japan); TextielMuseum (Netherlands); Johann Jacobs Museum (Switzerland); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (Seoul, Korea); Ayala Museum (Philippines); Turner Contemporary (UK); Museum of Asian Art (Berlin, Germany): Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Germany); Kunsthalle Mannheim (Germany); Zhejiang Art Museum (China); Rijksmuseum (Netherlands); The National Museum of Art of Romania (Romania); The Peranakan Museum (Singapore); Stadtgalerie Kiel (Germany); and many others.