Zon Ito
1971
born in Osaka, Japan
lives and works in Kyoto
1996
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Art
lives and works in Kyoto with artist RYOKO AOKI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Ishinomaki City, Miyagi, Japan
2016
Zon Ito, Galerie Michael Werner, Trebbin
The Strange Moves That We Make, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2011
Tide Movements and Nonchalant Objects, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2009
Zon Ito & Ryoko Aoki, Camp, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
April Pool, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2008
Zon Ito, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
2007
Space of NEW TOWN, Littlemore Chika, Tokyo
2006
Three Individuals, Zon Ito, Hajime Imamura, Yoshihiro Suda,
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2005
Zon Ito, Key of your Fountain, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
2004
Veins, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2003
The End of the Neighbourhood, Watarium, Tokyo
2002
Alchemist Meeting, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto
Leap, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
2001
Bula Bula Liquids, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
ZON ITO EXHIBITION, On Sundays /Watarium, Tokyo
2000
Yamanami Highway, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Somewhere Between the Odd and the Ordinary, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2020
Ryoko Aoki + Zon Ito WORKSHOP FREE MOLECULES METAMORPHOSES, Watarium Museum, Tokyo
2019
Rokko Meets Art 2019, Mt. Rokko, Hyogo
Reborn Art Festival, Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survied!, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2018
Ryoko Aoki + Zon Ito, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, UK
helen at the mountaion, Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko, Tochigi
2017
Japanorama. New visions of art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
2016
Moved, Take Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2015
Wabi Sabi Shima, From the Aesthetic of Perfection and Chaos in the Japanese Archipelago, Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels
distant neighborhood, Kara-S, Tsukuru Building 104A, Kyoto
2014
Nippon now, E.ON-Winterausstellung zeigt junge japanische Kunst, Düsseldorf
floating nature, Gallery W, Tokyo
Arts Maebashi Symposium - 3 days Symposium about Art and Local Communities, Gunma
Tsubaki-kai 2014 - Shoshin -, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2013
kei fu syu jo, Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery, Hokkaido
Community Art Project, Isobeyu, Maebashi, Gunma
t-shirts, Taka Ishii Gallery Modern, Tokyo
kei fu syu jo, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Now Japan, Kunsthal KAdE. Amersfoot, The Netherlands
Tsubaki-kai 2013 - Shoshin-, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Welcome to The Small World, Takamatsu Museum of Art, Kagawa
2012
Experimenta Speak to Me, 5th International Biennial of Media Art, Project Space /Spare Room, Melbourne
2011
Ways of Worldmaking, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Pathos and Small Narratives - Japanese Contemporary Art, Gana Art Center, Seoul
CAFE in Mito 2011, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito
Invisibleness is Visibleness–International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman - Daisuke Miyatsu, MOCA Taipei / Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
I Love Art 11: Heartbeat,WATARI-UM (The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art), Tokyo
2010
Primary Field II, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama
NEOTENY JAPAN Contemporary Artists after 1990 - from Takahashi Collection
travelling to ; The Museum of Art, Ehime
2009
time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Stitch by Stitch, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Tokyo
Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Zon Ito + Teppei Kaneuji, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Neoteny Japan. Artists from the Takahashi Collection,
Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art /
Akita Museum of Modern Art / Yonago Museum of Art
2008
When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with The Future Brazil, Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo
Neoteny Japan. Artusts from the Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Museum, Kagoshima / Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo
3rd Nanjing Triennial - Reflective Asia, The Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing
2007
La Chaine, BankART1929, Yokohama
Painting as Forest, Okazaki City Museum
Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo
2006
NICHT WEIT VOM STAMM, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Psychic Scope, Space*C, Seoul
Nature in Dreams, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
Rapt!, WestSpace, Melbourne (video collaboration with Ryoko Aoki)
Childrens of Veins, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
2005
I Still Believe In Miracles, Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC au Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
Disappearance, Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland
Karou Arima - How latitudes become forms - Arte en la era global,
Museo de Arte Contemporeneo de Monterrey - MARCO, Monterrey, NL, Mexiko
11th Triennale India, Rabindra Bharan Galleries, New Delhi
AniMate, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum / Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
2004
A Fripon et Demi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon
Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Slow Painting, Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima
Why not life for art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Fusion: Architecture + Design from Japan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2003
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Slow Painting, Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima
Art Court Frontier 2003, Art Court Gallery, Osaka
How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
2002
Private Luxury, Manno Art Museum, Osaka
Beautiful Life, Art Tower Mito, Mito
Art in Transit, The Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto
2001
Kyoto x Amsterdam- New Directions, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto
International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama
Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Yokohama
Art Crossing 2001, Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima
The Vision of Contemporary Art 2001, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2000
Twilight Sleep, Instituto Giapoponese di Cultura, Rome
Screening Japan, Hallo, Aarhus, Copenhagen
VIDEO-BAR, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulun Kaupunki, Finland
Psychic Scope, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
1999
Doughnut, On Sundays / Watarium, TokyoFLOW, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2018
Zon Ito, The Strange Moves That We Make, Taka Ishii Gallery
2013
Zon Ito, A Collection of Specimens: From the Vaults of Kyoto University Museum, Tokyo (Catalogue).
2011
Zon Ito, Nonchalant Objects, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (Catalogue).
2007
Vera Tollmann, "Aoki Ryoko", in: Kat. documenta 12, Kassel.
2005
Adriano Pedrosa, "Ryoko Aoki", in: Vitamin D. New Perspectives in Drawing, London: Phaidon.
2004
Ryoko Aoki + Zon Ito, Roppongi Crossing. New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Catalogue).
2003
Philippe Vergne, Zon Ito, How Latitudes Become Form. Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Catalogue).
Zon Ito, Slow Painting, Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima (Catalogue).
2002
Beautiful Life, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo (Catalogue).
SELECTED ARTICLES
2005
Philippe Vergne, "Zon Ito and Ryoko Aoki", in: ARTFORUM.
2002
Zon Ito and Ryoko Aoki, Zero-Zero-Generation. Nippon 2002 / BT Bijutsu Techno, vol. 54, no. 816.
