Hot Spring

Born in Tokyo in 1974, Chiho Aoshima is an artist affiliated with the Japanese Superflat pop movement. It was under the impetus of Takashi Murakami, who invited her to take part in the 2001 exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, that the artist gained worldwide recognition. Using digital graphics as a creative tool, the artist proposes a fantastic, acidulous universe that she prints on various supports, animates or even sculpts before placing them in impressive installations that can cover entire rooms. Her characters, often female and surrounded by supernatural elements, blend landscapes and the living, drawing on Japanese beliefs that add an obscure depth. The clear contrast between the cheerful colors and strange elements of her work enables her to address certain paradoxes and contradictions that prevail in a constantly changing world. Her work has been represented by Blum & Poe Gallery in Santa Monica and Galerie Perrotin. She has been the subject of numerous exhibitions around the world, notably at the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona in 2008, at the Frimaldi Forum in Monaco in 2010 and more recently at Galerie Perrotin in Shanghai in 2021.