AYA ITO
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Title: THE SPIRIT OF THE THINKING
Year: 2022
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 112 x 194 cm (44 x 76 3/8 in.)
Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1987. Ito completed the Painting course of the Graduate School of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts in 2011, and while enrolled she studied at the Royal College of Art (London) through an exchange program. From 2016 to 2018 she was active in Dublin, Ireland, and in 2018 completed a six-month residency at the Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin, Ireland). She is currently based in Wakayama. To make a painting, Ito turns the world to be depicted into a diorama of handmade stuffed toys and constructions, photographs it, and paints realistically from the photograph. The fantasy grows all the stronger for the fact that the unreal scenes in the works are not mere imaginings but actually existed in Ito's hands. She received the Arida City Cultural Award for Distinguished Service (2022), the Wakayama Prefecture Cultural Award (Cultural Encouragement) (2021), and the shu uemura Prize and the Judge's Prize (Yuko Hasegawa) at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2011. Her first monograph, "RAPID RABBIT HOLE," was published in 2020.
