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青木美紅/Miku Aoki
Born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1996
2020 Graduated from Tamabi University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major
Concept
At age 18, her mother told her that she was a child born through artificial insemination between spouses, as her parents had long desired. She also learned that she was born in the same year as “Dolly,” the sheep born through the world’s first cloning technology. Since then, she has continued to contemplate the coincidence and inevitability surrounding “selected life,” including her own existence, as well as the blessings and curses bestowed upon it.
She overlaps the malformed animals and research on the origins of life and mutations studied by 18th-century British surgeon John Hunter, who performed the world’s first artificial insemination, with the possibilities of contemporary biomedical technology.
While a student at Tamabi University, she was invited as the youngest artist to participate in Aichi Triennale 2019. She graduated from the university in March 2020. In March 2019, she won the Gold Prize at Genron Chaos*Lounge New Art School 4th Term, and served as an instructor at Genron New Art School after the organizational restructuring in the 6th term.
Currently, she is exhibiting at FACT, a multiplex facility in Liverpool, UK that explores digital culture and holds art and film exhibitions, until February 2022.
Major Exhibitions
2021 Future Ages Will Wonder,
Liverpool, UK, currently on view at FACT
www.fact.co.uk/event/future-ages-will-wonder
2020 First Solo Exhibition “ʻʼzoeʻʼ” BLOCK HOUSE (Harajuku)
2020 NADiff Window Gallery Exhibition “1996120519691206” (Ebisu)
2019 Aichi Triennale 2019 “1996” Nagoya City Art Museum
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