Chiho Aoshima
22-Oct-2009
Chiho Aoshima’s work can be described as combination of manga and traditional Japanese scroll painting. The artist is associated with the superflat movement, a contemporary Japanese art movement reflecting the two-dimensionality in contemporary Japanese pop culture.
Chiho Aoshima (青島千穂, Chiho Aoshimaborn 1974, in Tokyo is a Japanese pop artist and member of Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective.
This young graphic artist began in Murakami’s factory with no
formal art training. Aoshima’s work often involves surreal scenes and
dreamscapes, often including ghosts, demons, nature and young women.
Aoshima mostly prints large scale images onto papers with heavy-duty
printers, but she has also printed on materials such as leather and
plastic surfaces to give her images different textures. Aoshima now
lives and works in Tokyo.
Aoshima has exhibited internationally, and her work is held in a number
of collections - including Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina, and the
Seattle Art Museum. She has also shown her work in London and New York
subway stations.
Aoshima has also done a sculpture piece and an animation, and she
has recently revealed her largest image yet which measures 32.5 meters
in length and 4.8 meters in height. In addition, Aoshima has her work
on the walls of the New York City Transit. The images in the train station are part of her City Glow Series.
Aoshima states that, "My work feels like strands of my
thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to
materialise."