Emiko Aida was born in Tokyo, Japan and graduated from MA, Fine Art, The Tokyo University of Arts / MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art, UK.
She is currently a painter, printmaker and mixed media artist living in London, UK. Her work is exhibited in the U.K., the U.S.A., Italy, China and Japan and in many private, public and corporate collections including the New York Public Library, USA, Guangdong Museum of Art, China, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. She is a member of Royal Society of Painter–Printmakers, U.K.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Art in Bloom’, Liberation Art Gallery, Brighton, UK / ‘Walking with Giants’, Boomer Gallery, London, UK / ‘Chelsea Physic Garden 350 Years in Paint & Prints’, Bankside Gallery, London, UK / London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
2022 ‘In Print: Kaleidoscopic', group show, Watts Gallery, Surry, UK / ‘From Within’, Group show, Liberation Art Gallery, East Sussex, UK
2021 London Art Biennale, UK
2020 Women’s Essence Show, Roma, Italy / London Original Print Fair, UK
2019 Art on Paper, New York / Personal Structures, Venice Art Biennale, Italy / Solo Show, For Art Sake, London / Print show, Coombe gallery, Devon / Artist from Japan, a group show, New York, USA
2018 The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, UK / Art Box Project (on screen), New York / Clio Art Fair, New York / Woolwich Print Fair, London, UK / London Original Print Fair, UK
2017 International Print Triennial, Sweden / Sydney Art Fair, Australia
2016 Bluecoat display Centre, Liverpool, UK / National Open Art Competition, UK
2015 National Open Art Competition, UK / Burton Art Gallery, Devon, UK / St. Barbes Museum, Lymington, UK / The Rheged Gallery, Cambria, UK
2014 National Open Art Competition, UK / National Original Print Competition, UK
2013 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London, UK / Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, UK
2007 Florence Biennale, Italy
AWARDS AND COMPETITIONS
2023 ‘International Prize PEGASUS for the ARTS', Scola Grande of San Teodoro, Venice, Italy
2020 Artist of the year, Finalist Award, Circle Foundation, France
2016 International Print Triennial, Forum, Sweden
2014 Thomas Word Award, National Open Competition, UK
2014 Vivien Leigh Bequest Prize, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
2014 16th SPACE International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea
2010 The Qijiang International Print Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
1997 The Nordstern Award in Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1990 Kochi International Triennial Exhibition, Ino Cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan
PUBLICATIONS
'PRINTMAKERS TODAY' Edited by Jeffrey B. Snyder, Schiffer Publishing, 2010, USA
‘Florence Biennale 2007’, catalogue, Italy
‘Venice Biennale 2019', catalogue, Italy
‘London Art Biennale 2021’, catalogue, London
‘Scintilla 18’, The Journal of the Vaughan Association, 2015, UK
‘Circle’ Magazine, Quarterly Art Review, No.4, CFA Press, 2019, France
‘Spotlight’, Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 27, Circle Foundation, 2021, France
‘International Prize Pegasus for the arts’, 2023, Italy
'50 Artist to watch: 2023 Edition’, Florence Contemporary Gallery
‘Contemporary Celebrity Masters, Art Diamond 26’, 2023, Italy
‘Top Contemporary Artists to Watch in 2024, Contemporary Art Curators Magazine’, 2024, Italy