Chiho Aoshima
| Chiho Aoshima | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 青島千穂 |
| Born | 1974 Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | Hosei University 1995 |
| Known for | Film and Video Art, Sculpture, Print, New Media, Mixed Media |
| Notable work | City Glow |
| Movement | Superflat |
Chiho Aoshima (青島千穂, born 1974 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She held a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas in 2006.
Chiho was unhappy while studying economics at Hosei University. In an interview with Saatchi Art Aoshima admitted that, "I was bored to death, even when I was hanging out with my friends. I was eager to create something but didn’t know what to create, every day time passed so slowly and I felt like I was going to die." She taught herself how to use Illustrator and began to fall in love with the medium. After participating in her first show, Murakami's Tokyo Girls Bravo, she began to work in Murakami’s factory.
Aoshima’s work often involves surreal scenes and dreamscapes, often including ghosts, demons, nature and shōjo. Aoshima mostly prints large scale images onto papers with heavy-duty printers, but she has also printed on materials such as leather and plastic surfaces to give her images different textures.
Aoshima works in sculpture and animation, her largest image yet is from her City Glow Series. She displayed this work in an exhibition in the Gloucester Road tube station in London and the 14th Street – Union Square subway station in New York City. It measures 32.5 meters in length and 4.8 meters in height.
Chiho's work can be thought to come from somewhere in between innocent reality and a twisted dream world. Aoshima states that, "My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialise."
It's easy to see traditional Japanese artistic tendencies in her artwork. Chiho has said that ukiyo-e painter and printmaker Hokusai has had a great deal of influence in how she approaches her artistic renderings. Much like the traditional ukiyo-e compositions, her subjects are drawn with a well defined flat line and are placed in a single plane of depth. The ukiyo-e principals also play a heavy influence on her overarching style principal known as superflat.
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