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Artist: Lady AIKO

Source: @ladyaiko_nyc

Artist website: beyondthestreets.com

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Lady Aiko: Bunny in PA, 2007 - mixed media on canvas.

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Beyond the Streets, https://www.beyondthestreets.com

(08/18/18)

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 Mural by Lady Aiko in Vienna.

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Lady Aiko x Bast

Bushwick, Brooklyn More photos: Lady Aiko, Bast, Street Art

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Street art. It’s more than just graffiti. Think of the large murals you pass on a daily basis that turn outdoor spaces into airy galleries and transform the vibe of neighborhoods. It’s a medium that’s been used by some of the most celebrated artists of our generation — Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring — and one that continues to produce talents through the modern art movements of today. But as you might have noticed from the above list, given the medium’s roots in graffiti (an often illegal and physically taxing form of creation), street art luminaries often tend to skew male. That doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t some incredible women out there whose art isn’t just eye-popping — it also has something to say. Which is why this month we’re presenting five of our favorite female street artists. From every corner of the world, these are the large-scale creators who infuse ordinary walls with a sense of wonder.

(via 5 Women Bringing Art to the Streets)

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Lady Aiko

AIKO was born and raised in Tokyo before moving to New York City in the mid-90′s. Already creating art since a young age, her art career in NYC began when she started working for Takashi Murakami. She apprenticed in Murakami’s studio in Brooklyn and worked for him until the late 90′s going on to a direct a digital biography on the artist (“Superflat” 1998). AIKO continued to practice her own art and after leaving Murakami’s studio graduated from The New School University where she finished her MFA Media Studies and later met up with two American artists, the three of them would come to establish the group now known as FAILE. Creating work within the collective locally and abroad for a number of years, she moved on and established herself as Lady AIKO in 2006.

AIKO continues to create work in the studio as well as public space. She is acclaimed in the contemporary art world and well-respected within the international graffiti and street art scene.

Current Exhibitions are “BEYOND THE STREET” May 2018 in Los Angeles USA as well as the solo exhibitions “BUNNY IN THE HOUSE” at WALLWORKS Gallery NY Mar 2018, and “LADY  GO” April 2018 at Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum JAPAN.

She worked with Banksy on “Exit Through the Gift Shop” in 2010. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in many cities, including Miami’s Wynwood Walls in 2009, New York City’s Bowery Wall in 2013, and Coney Art Walls in 2015/2016/2017, all three curated by Jeffrey Deitch. AIKO has also been involved in a large collection of group shows, from “AnimamixBiennale” at Shanghai’s MoCA in 2009 to “Edo Pop” at Japan Society NYC in 2013, ‘Some Place Like Home” at Rumney Guggenheim Gallery NY in 2015 to her more recent solo show, “Sweet Heart” at The Outsiders Gallery in the UK in 2014.

AIKO has also been commissioned to create works in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Coach, Apple, Microsoft, Kiehl’s, The Standard, W Hotel, Sanrio Hello Kitty, Isetan, Warner Bros., RED, Pepsi, Reebok and former First Lady Michelle Obama etc.

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Lady Aiko.

Street art passage, Vienna.