Profile
| Born in Hiroshima, Japan in1972 Lives and works in Hiroshima, Japan |
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| 【Education】 | |
| BA in Photography, Nihon University College of Art, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】 | |
| 2025 | Life Studies, KOSHA KOSHA AKIHAVARA, Tokyo, Japan Aya Fujioka: Life Studies, SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO 凸, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2024 | Taiwan Time Traveler, IG gallery, Ginza Tokyo, Japan |
| 2023 | Bang Bang, Fugensha, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 | New Stories, Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, Nara, Japan Ayako Ekoda Kibun, OGUMAG, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 | Trace Of Flower, Fugensha, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | Time Traveler, Good Underground Art Space, Hualien, Taiwan |
| 2018 | Comment te dire adieu, Visual Arts Gallery, Osaka, Japan Here Goes River, Tokyo, Osaka Life Studies, with AKAAKA, The Gallery Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Here Goes River, Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, Japan |
| 2014 | Life Studies, Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan Life Studies 2, Place M, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Saudade, Gallery G, Hiroshima, AKAAKA, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Life Studies, AKAAKA, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Home Alone, Dixon Place Gallery, New York |
| 2009 | I Don’t Sleep, AKAAKA, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | I Don’t Sleep, Nikon Salon Tokyo Ginza, Osaka, Japan |
| 2004 | Comment te dire adieu, Visual Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Japan Repatriate, Nikon Salon Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Comment te dire adieu, Nikon Salon Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1996 | Namida-tsubo, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan Laugh And Go Fat, Gallery WORKS H, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 【Selected Group Exhibitions】 | |
| 2025 | AWAI: MARINA BERIO, AYA FUJIOKA, ASA HIRAMATSU, SEIZAN Gallery, New York TOP 30th Anniversary State of the Artist: So Far and From Now On, TOP MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan boss/ working women, Open Exhibition in Hanover City, Germany LIFE STUDIES: VINCENT CHONG, AYA FUJIOKA, ALEX ITO, CHARLIE MAI, HOMER SHEW, SEIZAN Gallery, New York |
| 2023 | THINGS SHE CARRIES: Miné Okubo/ Aya Fujioka/ Yukiko Hata, SEIZAN Gallery, New York |
| 2021 | Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
| 2020 | Art, With Daily Life, Higashihiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan Hiroshima: Everyday Light Image, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan DOMANI 2020, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo 2020 The Spring During COVID, Fugensha, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | Time Of The Times, AiDEM Photo Gallery Sirius, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Taipei Photo 2018, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2016 | Tbilisi Photo Festival 2016, Georgia |
| 2015 | Hana-Ikirutoiukoto, Higashihiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan |
| 2014 | AKAAKA sha: From Book from Photography, The Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Message, Ricoh RING CUBE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China Photography 1980-2005, Nihon University Portrait Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Repatriate, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan Marie Clear White Campaign 2005, Tokyo, Japan |
| 【Public Collections】 | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Higashihiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 【Awards】 | |
| 2024 | Hiroshima City Cultural Award |
| 2023 | The 39th Higashikawa New Photographer Award |
| 2019 | Hiroshima Cultural Prize |
| 2018 | The Kimura Ihei Award Hayashi Tadahiko Award |
| 2016 | Ina Nobuo Award |
| 2010 | The Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer’s Award |
| 2004 | Visual Arts Photo Award Grand Prix Hitotsubo Prize, Competition Gallery, Guardian Garden |
| 1994 | The Art Incentive Award for graduation thesis, Nihon University |
| 【Publications】 | |
| 2021 | Fujioka, Aya, Ayako Edoka Kibun/ My Life as A Dog, Self-published |
| 2017 | Here Goes River, AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc. |
| 2009 | I Don’t Sleep, AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc. |
| 2007 | Beach Life Beach Sandals, omnibus book, Bueno! Books |
| 2004 | Comment te dire adieu, Visual Arts College, Tokyo |
| 1996 | Shutter and Love: 16 Young Girl’s Photographers, INFAS Publications |
| 【Grant & Artist in Residence】 | |
| 2019 | Good Underground Art Space, Hualien, Taiwan |
| 2018 | Sakaimachi building project, Hiroshima, Japan |
| 2007 | Japanese Government Overseas Study Program in New York (through 2008) |
