ART TAIPEI 2026
GALLERY TSUBAKI
Booth:B17
Akiko Tojo
1984 Born in Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts
2011 Completed Master's Degree in Sculpture, Department of Art Studies at Graduate School of
Tokyo University of the Arts
more
2019
Akiko Tojo Exhibition (Takashimaya Shinjuku, Tokyo)
2020
Quiet Heartbeat (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
2021
Story of the Story (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
2022
Their H20 (Takashimaya Shinjuku, Tokyo)
2023
Akiko Tojo Exhibition (Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo)
Between the Gap (Takashimaya Osaka/Kyoto, Tokyo)
Gap of the Dreams (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
2024
To the Fountain (Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo)
2025
Solo Exhibition (Neptune Gallery,Taipei)
Exhibitions and Awards
2007
Semi-Grand Prize Winner at 2nd Geidai Art Plaza Grand Prize Exhibition (Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
2008
Special Award at International Takifuji Art Award
2009
With My Eyes Closed (Ise Cultural Foundation Front Gallery, New York)
2011
Participation Award from Taito Ward Head
2014
Tree genealogy ‒ Evolving torrents ‒ (Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Osaka, Yokohama)
2015
10th Atelier Descendants or Future (Participated 5th and 6th)(Tokyo University of the Arts Museum Exhibition Hall, Tokyo)
Artistic Christmas vol.IX (Takashimaya Shinjuku, Tokyo)
2016
Women's Sense (Takashimaya, Shinjuku)
2017
Small Art Specialty Exhibition (Takashimaya, Shinjuku)
2018
Wood Carving Sanmai (Takashimaya Yokohama, Shinjuku)
Geidai Art Plaza Grand Prize Winner Invitation Exhibition (Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
2019
Art Taipei 2019 (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
Geidai x Children's Exhibition vol.1 Searching for Forest Treasures (Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
Mr. I Collection Exhibition Today's Art 2020
(Tomioka City Museum of Art, Ichiro Fukuzawa Memorial Museum, Gunma)
One Art Taipei (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
2020
Flower and Bud Exhibition (Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
Art x Archive Exhibition ʻFrom Atelierʼ (Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
Taichung Art Fair (Taiwan)
Geidai's Cat Exhibition (Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
2021
One Art Taipei (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
Sculpture to build tomorrow (Takashimaya Yokohama)
Waiting for Keicho (Takashimaya Shinjuku)
SPES-9 Artists Group Exhibition (Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo)
2022
One Art Taipei (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
Tainan Art Exhibition, Art Tainan (Taiwan)
Sculpture to build tomorrow (Takashimaya Osaka)
ʻTatsushioʼ Sculpture Exhibition (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
2023
One Art Taipei (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
Primaveral (Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo)
2024
One Art Taipei (Neptune Gallery, Taiwan)
Geidai Art Plaza Grand Prize Winner Invitation Exhibition -Stars of the Geidai-(Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
ART TAIPEI 2024 Gallery Tsubaki Booth,Neptune Gallery,Taiwan)
2025
Art Fair Tokyo 2025 Gallery Tsubaki Booth
Art Central 2025 (Neptune Gallery,Taipei)
Early Summer Show (Gallery Tsubaki,Tokyo)
Art Tapei 2025 (Gallery Tsubaki Booth,Neptune Gallery Boot)
2026
Art Fair Tokyo 2026 (Gallery Tsubaki Booth)
She expresses the emotional movements she experienced in her daily life in concrete forms such as
women, children and animals. At first glance, her works colored with wood carving are warm and
cute, but have a feeling of solitude and loneliness.
Tojo stated, “when I try to reach out to the feelings that were born in my daily life, I run away in no
time and sometimes it comes back like a wave. I would like to create a work that cuddles up to my
feelings while leaving such elusive feelings by scooping them up.”
The wood carvings born through dialogue with trees, which have a pale color as if they had sprung
out from her picture book, remind us of the memories of returning back to life and the emotions
accompanying them.
