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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.

Recent Exhibitions include

2023 From Within, Liberation Art Gallery, Brighton, UK / 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, Watts Contemporary Gallery, Surrey, 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, UK
Artist from Japan, a group show, New York, USA
2018 The Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, UK / Art Box Project (on screen)
Clio Art Fair, New York / Woolwich Print Fair, 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

Awards and competitions include2021

2021 International Prize PEGASUS for Arts, Italy
2020 Artist of the year Finalist Award, Circle Foundation, France
2018 The Columbia Threadneedle Prize exhibition, UK
2016 International Print Triennial, Forum, Sweden
2014 Thomas Word Award, National Open Competition, UK
2014 Vivien Leigh Bequest Prize, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
2014 Purchase prize, 16th SPACE International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea
2010 The Qijiang International Print Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
1997 The Nordstern Award, Royal Academy of Arts Summer exhibition, London, UK
1990 Kochi International Triennial Exhibition, Ino Cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan

Publications

‘50 Artist to watch in 2023’, Florence contemporary gallery
‘International Prize PEGASUS for the Arts’, cataloque, Italy
'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