Exhibitions

2026

  • Group Urushi Now: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
  • Group Collection Exhibition: Walking, Staying 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Kanazawa College of Art 80th Anniversary Faculty Exhibition 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2025

  • Group Art Fair Tokyo Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group KOGEI ARTISTS LEAGUE – MUFG Crafts Project Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (6F, Main Building), Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
  • Solo Grind Through the Dark -Forms and Lacquer of Chie Aoki - Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan
  • Group The Power of Urushi — Kanazawa · Wajima · Yamanaka — Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Traditional Arts and Crafts, Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Ishikawa, Japan
  • Solo Tokyo Gendai 2025 (Sokyo Gallery booth) Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

2024

  • Group Cutting Edge 2024 Korimbo Daiwa 8F Hall, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Contemporary Urushi Expressions 2024 — Perspectives on Lacquer — 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Rising Tides Floating Art Museum, Alameda, CA, USA

2023

  • Group Diversifying Crafts — Kanazawa College of Art Relocation Promotion Exhibition Dining Gallery Kanazawa in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group Urushi in Turbulence — Contemporary Kyuushitsu Expressions in Motion — Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum, Wajima, Japan

2022

  • Group Metal and Urushi of Crafts Toyama, Japan
  • Solo Tranquil Bodies Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • Group Collection Exhibition 1 Vessels 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group illusionary microcosm -Phosphorescence of four contemporary lacquer artists- Seiko House Ginza Hall, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group IKERU NONOICHI 2022 Kita Family Residence, Nonoichi, Japan
  • Group Genreless Kogei National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play Season 1 Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan

2021

  • Solo Melting Bodies Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • Group GO FOR KOGEI 2021, Special Exhibition I Shokoji Temple, Takaoka, Japan
  • Group FEMINISMS 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2020

  • Group Special Exhibition: Expressive Lacquerware, Concurrently Included: Exhibition of Donated Cloisonné Works from the Ise Collection Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Asia Week New York 2020 New York, NY, USA
  • Group 2D & 3D collaboration exhibition Takashimaya Nihombashi, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya and Yokohama, Japan
  • Group Assemble ~ Accumulating technique and body ~ The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami, Itami, Japan

2019

  • Group Design Miami 2019 Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
  • Group artKYOTO2019 Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
  • Group HUBEI INTERNATIONAL TRIENNALE OF LACQUER ART 2019 Wuhan, China
  • Group Exposure of the method Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2019 Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
  • Group Development of modern crafts 2019 Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group 4th Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2018

  • Group Current Urushi Expression Vol.1 Art Gallery X, Nihombashi Takashimaya 6F, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group 2018 Fuzhou International Lacquer Art Biennial Fujian, China
  • Group MATERIAL×ART Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Traditional Arts and Crafts, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2018 Former Saito Family Villa, Niigata, Japan
  • Group ART TAIPEI 2018 Taipei, Taiwan
  • Group Thick chat Kanazawa Citizen's Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Contemporary Lacquer Art Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Solo A Body in Solitude Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • Group Current Lacquer 2018 Exhibition Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo, Japan

2017

  • Group The Ishikawa International Urushi Exhibition 2017 Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Shapes and Figures SPIRAL, Tokyo / Wacoal Study Hall, Kyoto, Japan
  • Solo Shikkoku no Shintai Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
  • Group Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2016

  • Group HATCHi to Art Tourism The Share Hotels Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group The Cutting Edge of Contemporary Crafts in Kanazawa Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Spider’s Thread Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
  • Group World of Lacquer: Cycle of Time Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

2015

  • Group The Future of Lacquer: The People Who Are Following Setsuro Takahashi Takahashi Setsuro Art Museum, Azumino, Japan
  • Group Four Spirited Artists Shinoda Toko Art Space, Seki, Japan
  • Group Fruitfulness: Contemporary Art in Toyokawa Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Toyokawa, Japan
  • Group Gifu DNA -Seiji Tamai and his bright students- The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan
  • Group Contemporary Arts Exhibition Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos, Gifu, Japan

2014

  • Group Shizubi Project 4: The Human Form and Sculpture, Tsuda Akiko, Fujiwara Ayato, Aoki Chie Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan

2013

  • Group World of Great Lacquer: Origin and Flows Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

2012

  • Group Resonant Uruwashi: New Vibrance in International Woman’s Urushi Art Yamawaki Gallery, Tokyo / Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto / Kitakata City Museum of Art, Kitakata, Japan
  • Group Blank Speculations Toiyamachi Studio, Kanazawa, Japan

2011

  • Solo Urushi Body INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group Aizu Urushi Art Festival Aizuwakamatsu and Kitakata, Japan
  • Group Urushi Exhibition: New Form of Urushi The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami, Itami, Japan

2010

  • Group 1st International Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa “Network Crafting” Rifare, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Curving Out the Future of Lacquer: Age of the New 2010 Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum, Wajima, Japan
  • Group Lacquer: Searching for New Expressions Kitakata City Museum of Art, Kitakata, Japan
  • Group Aizu Urushi Art Festival Aizuwakamatsu, Japan
  • Solo Chie Aoki Exhibition Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan

2009

  • Group Emerging Directors’ Art Fair Ultra 002 SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan
  • Solo Chie Aoki Exhibition Gallery Art Concept, Kanazawa, Japan

2008

  • Group Tama Vivant II: Seed of Images Tama Art University Gallery, Tokyo / Minatomirai Station, Yokohama, Japan
  • Group Kanazawa Art Platform 2008: To Create Our Own Place by Ourselves Tsubakihara Tenmangu Shrine, Kanazawa, Japan

2007

  • Solo Chie Aoki Exhibition Gallery TE, Tokyo, Japan

2006

  • Solo Chie Aoki Exhibition Gallery TE, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group 45th Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Group Tama Vivant: Now Rhythm Is Overlapping Tama Art University Gallery, Tokyo / Minatomirai Station, Yokohama, Japan