Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 1989
Education
MA, Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 2014
BA, Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 2012
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
One-Person Exhibitions
2023
The Ebb and Flow of the Mountain, Art and Culture Village and Barn, Tenri, Nara, Japan
2022
Phantom Body, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Rudiment, Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Avenue, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Tainai Tea Ceremony, Kyoto Municipal Subway, Daigo Depot, Kyoto, Japan
2019
Grace of Taboo, WACOAL STUDYHALL KYOTO Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2018
Grotta / solitude in the womb, Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2017
Folly, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
2016
Creeping Mountains, Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2015
Hollow Tool Box, Gallery Miyagawa, Kyoto, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2024
Deep Japan Contemporary: Made in Shiga, Curated by the director of the Shiga Art Museum and organized by anonymous art project, Omotesando Crossing Park, Tokyo, Japan
Akane Saijo, Yukie Ishikawa, BLUM, Tokyo, Japan
When Two Collections Meet: Co-curated by the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Tokyo, Japan
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Slow Culture #kogei, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
Collectors' Collective vol.7 Osaka, TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY / VIEWING ROOM, Osaka, Japan
2022
1st MIMOCA EYE, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2021
Genta Ishizuka + Akane Saijo by ARTCOURT Gallery, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo, Japan
Lost in Translation, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
a double blanket: Akane Saijo + Keisuke Jimba, haku kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Gazing into the Dark, Touching the Light, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
KYOTO ART LOUNGE Exhibition: Connecting Two Sides, FUJII DAIMARU Black Storage, Kyoto, Japan
Responses in Flux, LOKO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Bi wo motte yo to nasu, Takashimaya Department Store, Kyoto, Japan
2019
KOGEI as Contemporary Craft: Transcending Boundaries, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2019 - Selected Artists in Kyoto, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2018
New Mutation, Kyoto Art Center
Naturen Art-On the boundary between nature and human activity, JARFO Kyo-Bunpaku, Kyoto, Japan
2017
Ascending Art Annual Vol. 1 Shapes and Figures, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Test Case XI, European Ceramic Workcentre, The Netherlands
rhithome Akane Saijo + Shima Haruka, Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2016
ROKKO MEETS ART 2016, Rokkosan Pasture, Hyogo, Japan
2015
Sign of Happiness, Antenna Media, Kyoto, Japan
2014
Yumiko Ono Akane Saijo Exhibition, Sakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art of Moon, Tsuki-no-Niwa Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2013
DOMO, Hackney Gallery, London, UK
2011
Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
Awards
2022
MIMOCA EYE, Marugame Genichiro-Inokima Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa Grand Prize Winner
2019
Kyoto City Art Cultural Special Promotion, Kyoto, Japan
2016
Rokko Meet Art Art Walk 2016 Open Air Museum Award Winner
2011
Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition Tomimoto Prize Winner
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Selected Articles and Reviews
2024
Matsubara, Mari. "Inside the Artists' Mind." GQ Japan (May 2024): 56–59.
2023
Miki Pamela Associates, trans. “Studio Visit: Akane Saijo, Kyoto, Japan.” Ceramicsartsnewtwork.org, May 2023.
2022
Matsumoto, Masanobu. “Akane Saijo.” Artnetnewsjapan.com, December 1, 2022.
2021
Gaskin, Sam. “Art Collaboration Kyoto Transports the Art World to Japan.” Ocula.com, October 29, 2021.
Museum and Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan