1965 Born in Niigata, Japan Lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan Education: 1989 Tokyo University of the Arts, BFA in painting 1991 Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA in painting (Oil Painting Technique and Material Studio) Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions : 2014 "AIDA Makoto: Mini-mini Exhibition", Ryutopia Gallery, Niigata, Japan "Don’t expect anything from me any more.", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2012-13 "MONUMENT FOR NOTHING", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2011 "Diena ir naktis (Day & Night)", Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania 2010 "E-BAKA", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2009 "I’m working on huge paintings in Beijing.", Mizuma and One Gallery, Beijing, China "Photo Works by AIDA Makoto", A・Zone, Okayama, Japan 2008 "I'm IWAKI of Mizuma Art Gallery!!", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2007 "Art de Sauro: Aida Makoto and Yamaguchi Akira", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan "DOUBLE FANTASY", lammfromm The Concept Store, Tokyo, Japan 2006 "Picture of Mountain Stream and Others", Andrew Roth, New York, U.S.A. 2005 "Pre-Climacteric Love", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Drink SAKE Alone", Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. "Donki-Hote", Man in the Holocene at IBID Projects, London, U.K. 2004 "Aida's Work", Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan 2003 "My KENTEN", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2002 "Makoto Aida", Chukyo University Art Gallery C-square, Aichi, Japan "Makoto Aida & Koki Tanaka", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2001 "Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan", Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany "Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan", NADiff, Tokyo, Japan 1999 "It's a man's alcoholic drink - Millennium", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "DOUTEI", Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan 1998 "Paris,Tsudanuma", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1997 "BIJIN-GA Makoto Aida vs Hiroyuki Matsukage", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1996 "NO FUTURE", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "War Picture Returns", Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan 1994 "SARIN", Nasubi Gallery, Chiba, Japan "Poster", Dowa Kasai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1992 "Pictures don't need to be not square", Yanaka Furufuru, Tokyo, Japan Selected Group Exhibitions : 2014 "AAA (Asia Anarchy Alliance)", Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan "To see, To paint - The Artists from Oil Painting Technique and Material Studio", The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan 2013 "P. SS. 40 - Public School by The Group 1965: Setouchi Triennale 2013", Ogi Elementary and Junior High School, Kagawa, Japan "Why not live for Art? II 9 collectors reveal their treasures", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Takahashi Collection - Mindfulness!", Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido; 2014 Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan) "The Group 1965 - We were boys.", Kamada Museum, Kagawa, Japan "Ohara Contemporary", Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan "MOT Collection: Our Ninety Years 1923 - 2013", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan "Re: Quest - Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s", Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 2012 "ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art", The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata (2013 traveled to Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan) "Meditaions Biennale: The Unknown", Poznan, Poland "Art and Air - A Story of Art and Science Involving the Skies and Aircraft", Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan "The First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine "The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: The Allure of the Collection", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan "Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (traveled to Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel) 2011 "Kobiken - from the Takahashi Collection", TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan "Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 Finalist Exhibition", Singapore Art Museum, Singapore "EMERGING / MASTER 1: AIDA Makoto | Be it Art or not Art", Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan "TARO LOVE", Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan "Nakanoshima Collections", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan "Medi(t)ation: 3rd Asian Art Biennial", National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan "ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art", Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo (traveled to Takashimaya Osaka, Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan) "The Group 1965: We are boys!", Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (traveled to Mystetskyi Arsenale, Kiev, Ukrine) "The Origin of 20", The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa (traveled to Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi; Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi; Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan) "Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art", Japan Society, New York, U.S.A. "The Most Requested Top 30 / 10 Years of Takahashi Collection", TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan "All cannibals?", La maison rouge - fondation antoine de galbert, Paris, France (traveled to me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany) "15th Tallinn Print Triennial - For Love Not Money", Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia 2010 "Made in Popland", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea "TDW-ART Jalapagos", Meiji Jingu Gaien, Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo (2011 traveled to Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan) "THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney", Sydney, Australia "AIDA Makoto + TENMYOUYA Hisashi + YAMAGUCHI Akira", Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Tokyo, Japan "GARDEN OF PAINTING - Japanese Art of the 00s", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan 2009 "Twist and Shout: Comtemporary Art from Japan", Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand "Novemver Steps -Susan Phillipsz & Gallery Artists", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "East Asia Image of Modern Ages", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan "Dojima River Biennale 2009 Reflection: The World Through Art", Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan "Wallworks", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A. "Artium Prospective", Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan "DORODORO, DORON -The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 2008 "-hiragana art- CHIBATORI", Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan "SUICIDE EXPOSITION 2008", Otto Mainzheim Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "The Group 1965: Tokyo Guide 2008", NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan "UNSTERN. SINISTRE. DISASTRO.", ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany "neoteny japan - Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection", Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido; 2009 The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan) "ORDER RECEIVED", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "8th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art", Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan "Heavy Light : Recent Photography and Video from Japan", International Center of Photography, New York, U.S.A. "Off the Rails", Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China "Typical! Cliches of Jews and Others", Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (traveled to Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, U.S.A.; 2009 The Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2010 Jewish Museum Munich, Munich, Germany) "MANGAMANIA Comic-Kultur in Japan 1800-2008", Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfrut, Germany (traveled to Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Hamlebaek, Denmark) "SHELTER x SURVIVAL: Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan "Takahashi Collection", Takahashi Collection Kagurazaka, Tokyo, Japan "Laughing in a Foreign Language", Hayward Gallery, London, U.K. "Eyes & Curiosity: Japanese Contemporary Art", SOKA Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan 2007 "Poetic Terrorism", FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuwvos Creadores, Madrid, Spain "Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan", Long March Space, Beijing (traveled to Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China) "Nihonga Metsubou-ron", Chukyo University Art Gallery C-square, Aichi, Japan "Three Generations", Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China "Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves", ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany "7th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art", Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan "Portrait Session", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan "Portrait Session@NADiff", NADiff, Tokyo, Japan "All about Laughter: humor in contemporary art", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2006 "Oriental Metaphor", Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea "Somewhere in Time", Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea "Paprika", TSUTAYA TOKYO ROPPONGI, Tokyo, Japan "Alllooksame? / Tutttuguale?, Art from China, Japan and Korea", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy "NIPPON vs FINEART - Striving for Identity in the Context of Western Art", Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka, Japan "Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary", Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan "Singapole Biennale 2006 : BELIEF", National Museum of Singapore / Tanglin Camp, Singapore "Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin", Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany "The Child", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan "Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 2005 "The Group 1965 - Tokyo Souvenir (40x40 project)", Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan "The Group 1965 - BankART Life: 24 hours hospitality (40x40 project)", BankART studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan "GUNDAM Generation Futures", Suntory Museum [Tempozan], Osaka (traveled to 2006 The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi; Takahama Kawara Museum, Aichi; 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido; Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, Japan) "The Group 1965 - Seven Samurais, even (40x40 project)", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan "Villa YURINSO Special Open : AIDA Makoto / OZAWA Tsuyoshi / YAMAGUCHI Akira", Ohara Museum of Art Yurinso, Okayama, Japan "The World of Matchbox Labels", The Okayama Prefectual Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan "Nishiogi Biennale", Aida Makoto's home (Nishiogikubo), Tokyo, Japan "sight-cruising", Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan "The Group 1965 - 40 (40x40 project)", Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea "Since 1994: Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo,Japan "AniMate。", Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (traveled to Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea) 2004 "Nonchalant", 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A. "TOKYO STYLE IN STOCKHOLM 2004", Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden "KOTATSU-HA 2", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Picture in Motion", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan &