Artists

Ryota Aoki

ARTWORK
1978 Born in Toyama Prefecture
2002 Graduated from Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technique Center
2004 Incited as a trainee at Ecole de arts Decoratifs in Switzerland

Solo Exhibitions
2012 Gallery cinquième (Ehime)
Ichukyo (Tokyo)
Gallery Yoyo (Ibaraki)
Gallery Tourin Shunyoh (Gifu)
Gallry Tamura (Hiroshima)
gallery artra (Ishikawa)
Tenmaya (Hiroshima)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Tortoise (Los Angeles)
Toukyo (Tokyo)
CARGO (Toyama)
Tokinokumo (Shiga)
Roppongi Hills A/D gallery (Tokyo)
2011 Gallery cinquième (Ehime)
Art Salon Yamaki　(Osaka）
Daimaru (Tokyo)
Tenmaya (Okayama)
Ichukyo (Tokyo)
Daimaru (Fukuoka)
Gallery Yoyo (Ibaraki)
Tenmaya (Hiroshima)
Tortoise (Los Angeles)
Gallery Tamura (Hiroshima)
Gallery Tourin Shunyoh (Gifu)
gallery artra
daimaru (Hokkaido)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Toukyo (Tokyo)
CARGO (Toyama)
Tenmaya (Hiroshima)
Matsuzakaya (Aichi)
Roppongi Hills A/D gallery (Tokyo)
2010 Gallery cinquième (Ehime)
Art Salon Yamaki (Osaka)
Ichukyo (Tokyo)
Gallery Yoyo (Ibaraki)
Art Salon Kohgen (Aichi)
gallery artra (Ishikawa)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Gallery Tourin Syunyoh (Gifu)
Seigendoh (Hokkaido)
Valveat 81 (Tokyo)
Koyama Tomio Gallery (Kyoto)
Daiwa (Toyama)
Toukyo (Tokyo)
CARGO (Toyama)
Tokinokumo (Shiga)
Tenmaya(Hiroshima)
Daimaru (Tokyo)
2009 Art Salon Yamaki (Osaka)
Tokyo Art Club (Tokyo)
Matsuya Department Store (Tokyo)
Toutouan (Tokyo)
Isetan Department Store (Tokyo)
Koyama Tomio Gallery (Tokyo)
Kanazawa Bijutsu (Ibaraki)
Art Salon Kohgen (Aichi)
Tortois (L.A., USA)
Akamamma (Gunma)
ippodo Gallery (New York)
Niki Resort (Tokyo)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Tenmaya (Hiroshima)
Toukyo (Tokyo)
CARGO (Toyama)
Matsuzakaya Department Store (Nagoya)
2008 TONGIN GALLERY (Seoul)
Toutouan (Tokyo)
Kanazawa Bijutsu (Kasama)
Art Salon Kohgen (Aichi)
Kohsai (Oosaka)
Gallery Ten (Chiba)
TKG Editions (Tokyo)
Mes Poteries (Shizuoka)
Tennnmaya (Hiroshima)
Gallery Utsuwakan (Kyoto)
Gallery Tourin Syunnyoh (Gifu)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Toukyo (Tokyo)
Ippodo Gallery (New York)
Tokinokumo (Shiga)
Tennmaya (Hiroshima)
2007 Tennmaya (Okayama)
Kohgen (Nagoya)
Seigendo (Hokkaido)
gallery Yohyoh (Ibakaraki)
CARGO (Toyama)
Toukyo (Tokyo)
KOUBOU IKUKO (Okayama)
Moegi galleru (Tochigi)
2006 Helenee Poret (Paris / France)
galeria selene (Fukuoka)
gallery Tousei (Kyoto)
gallery Voice (Gifu)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Toukyo (Tokyo)
Akamanma (Gunma)
Tokinokumo (Shiga)

 Group Exhibitions
 2012 Ichukyo (Tokyo)
Shibuya Hikarie 8/ ART GALLERY (Tokyo)
Art Salon Yamaki (Osaka)
Gallery Mon (Ibaraki)
Roppongi Hills A/D gallery (Tokyo)
Gallery Tourin Shunyoh (Gifu)
EYE OF GYRE (Tokyo)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (Gifu)
Koyama Tomio Gallery (Kyoto)
Nagoya Dome (Aichi)
neutron (Tokyo)
2011 Roppongi Hills A/D gallery  (Tokyo)
neutron (Tokyo)
Art Salon Yamaki (Osaka)
Ichukyo (Tokyo)
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi (Tokyo)
Gallery Tourin Shunyoh (Gifu)
a.k.a (Ishikawa)
CARGO (Toyama)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
Nagoya Dome (Aichi)
Koyama Tomio Gallery (Kyoto)
2010 Lucie Rie (Tokyo)
Niki Club (Tokyo)
Art Salon Yamaki (Osaka)
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi (Tokyo)
Koubou IKUKO (Okayama)
2009 Tachikichi (Kyoto)
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi (Tokyo)
2008 Utsuwa Nanohana (Shizuoka)
Gallery Satsu (Tokyo)
2007 Moegi gallery (Tochigi)
a.k.a (Ishikawa)
NilanoHihu (Gifu)
White gallery
PARCOURS CERAMIQUE CAROGEOIS (Switzerland)
2006 NEWS Big Tea Ceremony
Seigendo (Hokkaido)

Awards
2008 Taiwan International Ceramic Biennale  Special Prize (Taiwan)
2007 4th World Ceramic Biennale 2007  Silver Award (Korea)
2006 Tableware Festival  Grand prix (Tokyo)
2005 Crafts Competition in Takaoka Grand Prix (Toyama)
International Triennial of Silicate Arts Silver Prize (Hungary)
Tableware Festival Supreme Prize (Tokyo)
International Ceramics Festival Mino Bronze Award (Gifu)
Lifestylist of the Year 2005
2004 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award Silver Award (Australia)
2003 Crafts Competition in Takaoka Silver Award (Toyama)
2002 Tableware FestivalSupreme Prize, Mayor’s Prize (Tokyo)
Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition Honorable Award (Tokyo)