NOBUTAKA AOZAKI
b, Kagoshima, Japan
Lives and works in New York
Education
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2012 MFA Hunter College, Combined Media, New York, NY
2005-2007 BFA School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Department, New York, NY
2000 BEd, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Selected Exhibitions
2023 The Hoarder of Things, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
EMERALD CITY BLUE, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY
2022 Grocery Portraits, Marinaro, New York, NY (solo)
Prisoner's Dilemma, Peninsula Art Space, New York, NY
2021 Transient Grounds, Governors Island, New York, NY
The Kit.e Project, online
2020 From Here To There, Japan Society, New York, NY (online)
2019 Futuro Modular, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
NADA Miami, with Ulterior, Miami, FL
Encountered Error, Societe, Brussels, Belgium
Assembridge, Minatomachi Art Table, Nagoya, Japan
A chair that might have been…., Void +, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, Japan
2018 In Practice: Another Echo, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
An Evening with VECTOR, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Quiet Riot, TKG + Project, Taipei, Taiwan
The Collection for the Poor Collector, SPERLING, Munich, Germany
2017 Working at Essex Market, Cuchifritos, New York, NY (solo)
Indigeneity, Stack, Sovereignty, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, NY (solo)
2016 Where Do We Migrate To? , DePauw University Peeler Art Center, IndianaProjects A-E: the Art + Social Justice Working Group, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
CHECK IN / CHECK OUT, NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Chocolate Composition, UTRECHT/NOW IDeA, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
at the moment, statements, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
May We Meet Again, Ulterior, New York, NY
See You On the Other Side, 601Artspace, New York, NY
Imprisoned, Jailbreak, statements, Tokyo, Japan
Stage#3:Transportation, ISCP International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2015 There Is No Alternative, SPIKE, Berlin
What is the Real Value of Wealth, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Where Do We Migrate To?, the Varmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
Studio program artists exhibition, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2014 Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Emerge 11 Fellowship Exhibition, Aljira Center For Contemporary Art, NJ
2013 Queens International 2013, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Japanese Artists in New York, Marunouchi House, Tokyo, Japan
Bronx Calling AIM 2nd Biennial, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
C12 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Marianne Boesky E 64th St, New York, NY (solo)
Significant Matters, Projekt722, Brooklyn, NY
Welcome To The Real, curated by NUTUREart, TEMP Art Space, New York, NY
Video Art and Experimental Film Festival 2013, Tribeca Cinemas, New York, NY
2012 New Wight Biennale, Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
INVITED, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, Maryland
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
NEW FILMMAKERS, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Evidence of Ritual, MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Art In Odd Places 2011 Ritual, West 14th Street, New York, NY
Dumbo Arts Festival 2011, Brooklyn Bridge Park, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
Play It Again, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
You Are Here: Projects in (de)Tourism, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2010 PHYSICAL CENTER - BROOKLYN, Saint Cecila's Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Post-Human//Future Tense, Columbia College Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL
Jamaica Flux Video Slam, Jamaica Performing Art Center, Jamaica, NY
Awards, Grants, Residencies
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, 2021
Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, 2021
Artists' Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2021
FCA Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2020
MAT Nagoya Studio Project, Minatomachi Art Table, 2019
Winter Workspace, Wave Hill, Bronx, 2019
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, New York, 2017 - 2018
Artist-in-Residence, Artist Alliance Inc, 2017
Workspace Artist-in-Residence. Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2016
Artists' Fellowship (Interdisciplinary), New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, 2015
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME, 2015
LES Printshop Keyholder Residency, New York, NY, 2015
Queens Museum Studio Program, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, 2014 - 2016
Artist Files Grant for individual artist, A Blade Of Grass, New York, NY, 2013
LMCC Swing Space residency program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, 2013
The Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, 2013
Aljira Emerge 11 Fellow, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, 2013
Artist In Residence, The Willowell Foundation, Bristol, VT, 2013
The C-12 Emerging Artist Award, Hunter College, 2012
Lectures/ Talks/ Educational Programs
2021 Visiting Artist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Guest Lecturer for photography class (online), University of California, Berkeley
2021 Juror for Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Scholastic, NY
Guest Lecturer for time based media class (online), New School Parsons, NY
Guest Lecturer (online), Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Guest Performance and site specific installation for Escape East, Japan Society, NY
Fortune Cookie Workshop, Minatomachi Art Table, Nagoya, Japan
Series Heigen vol 5, Nagoya University of the Arts, Nagoya, Japan
Visiting Critic, New York University, NY
Family Art Workshop, Wave Hill, NY
2018 Fortune Cookie Making Workshop, Art Built + Art Parley, Seward Park, New York, NY
Guest performance for BAM Gala After Party, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Artist, CBE x Artists Alliance at Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Visiting Artist, MICA Rinehart School of Sculpture, Baltimore, MD
Guest Presentation, Post Democracy: Indigeneity, Stack, Sovereignty, Vera List Center at New School, New York, NY
Guest Lecturer, Hunter College Asian American Study, New York, NY
2016 Projects A-E: the Art + Social Justice Working Group, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
ACC Artist Talk with Ishu Han, BankART, Yokohama, Japan
Visiting Artist Lecture, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
Guest Lecturer, Vera List Center at New School, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, Project Curate at Juan Morel Campos Secondary School, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Arty Facts Visiting Artist, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Visiting Artist Lecture, Teachers College, Columbia University
2014 Performance Art and Activism Panel, Hyperallergic
Artist Talk, Japan Society, New York, NY
2013 Gertrude Salon, The Standard, New York, NY
Visiting Artist Program at PS.147, NUTUREart Educational Outreach, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Talk, Willowell Foundation, Bristol, VT
2012 Smiley Bag Portrait for teen program, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Writings/Publications
2020 "Portfolio Series "so close, yet so far", EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
2018 Contribution "Round Robin vol II, Invited by Sue Jeong Ka, Art Built
2018 Contribution ""What Can Be Done With an Egg?", Invited by Leticia Gutierrez
2018 Contribution ""Poetry Slam vol. 3 at Café Dan Graham", 3A Gallery
2018 Contribution "Vector Artist Journal issue 8 (New York)"
2018 Contribution "The Collection for the Poor Collector", Invited by Thomas Geiger, Edition
Taube
2017 Contribution "ID Shop: Round Robin", Invited by Sue Jeong Ka
2016 Artist Book "Memorial, 53 Mosquitoes", Press For Arts
2016 Artist Book "Chocolate Composition", hikotaro kanehira, 2016
2012 Artist Project “Value Added #240950.”, Cabinet no.47 (November 2012)
Selected Bibliography
2019 To pick up, Potluck shinbun (newspaper)
The Dallas Museum of Art acquired works at the Dallas Art Fair, Arty
Selections from the Fourth Annual Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program,
Patron Magazine
2018 Neil Chiragdin, Echoes of the Self, Queens Chronicle
2016 Katharine Harmon, You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City, Princeton Press
Diane Daniel, Thinking Outside The Line, Boston Globe
DJ Pangburn, Why NYC Is the Perfect Place for Creative Map-Making, The Creators Project
Shinya Sugawara, On Thinking About Warhol While Eating Potatoship, Bijutsu Techo
Hikotaro Kanehira, 100 New Upcoming Artists You Don’t Know, Bijutsu Techo
Nobutaka Aozaki: at the moment at statements, ART it
Jillian Steinhauer, ArtRx NYC: Citi Bike as Readymade, Hyperallergic
2015 Benjamin Bratton, Spike Art Quarterly (Autumn 2015)
Jooyun Lee, Social practices with the expended communities in New York, Contemporary Art, Beyond the Authority of Global Trends: Six Perspectives on the Art of Today, South
Korea
Manami Fujimori, Young talents discovered by museums and publications, Numero Tokyo
(July-August 2015)
2014 Diana Seo Hyung Lee, Crossing Brooklyn, ArtAsiaPacific
Jeanne Brasile, Art Review: Aljira’s Emerge fellows have arrived, Brick City Live
Ken Johnson, The Artist Next Door: 'Crossing Brooklyn, ' Local Talent at Brooklyn Museum,
New York Times
Jillian Steinhauer, A Survey of Art from Across Brooklyn, Hyperallergic
Power Grid: 29 Artists You Need To Know, Refinery29
Brian Boucher, “Crossing Brooklyn” Highlights Borough’s Artists, from Bushwick to BayRidge, Art in America
2013 Holland Cotter, A Local Place for a Global Neighborhood, New York Times (Nov 7, 2013)
Rozalia Jovanovic, See Artists' "12 Trees of Christmas", BLOUIN ARTINFO
Rebecca Smeyne, Artists Rethink the Christmas Tree, Paper Magazine
Von Anne Lemhöfer, Bloß nicht verzetteln, DIE ZEIT, Germany (Aug 27, 2013)
Artist Files, publication of A Blade of Grass
Kosuke Fujitaka, 3 Upcoming Artists in NY, Art Collectors (Issue no55, September 2013)
Katherine Brooks, Artist Uses Directions Drawn By Strangers To Create Crowd Sourced Map of Manhattan, The Huffington Post
Stephanie Garlock, Meet The Man Trying to Save the Lost Art of Hand-Drawn Maps,
The Atlantic Cities
Max Weintraub, BETWEEN COLLABORATION AND COMMODITY, C12 Emerging Artist Fellowship catalog
Katy Hammer, Welcome to The Real @ TEMP Art Space, Eyes Toward The Dove
NYC artists to lend their talents, Addison Country INDEPENDENT (April 1 2013)
2012 Kalia Brooks, Nobutaka Aozaki, A Blade Of Grass Artist Files
Michael Farley, Station North Turns 10 and Cakewalk Gallery Grows Up, Baltimore OUTloud
