BIOGRAPHY   1971 Born in Osaka, Japan 1996 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Art lives and works in Kyoto with artist RYOKO AOKI   SOLO EXHIBITIONS   2009 Zon Ito & Ryoko Aoki, "Camp", Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf "April Pool", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo 2008 Zon Ito, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo 2007 "Space of NEW TOWN", Littlemore Chika, Tokyo 2006 "Three Individuals", Zon Ito, Hajime Imamura, Yoshihiro Suda, The National Museum of Art, Osaka 2005 Zon Ito, "Key of your Fountain", Kodama Gallery, Osaka 2004 „Veins“, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf 2003 „The End of the Neighbourhood“, Watarium, Tokyo 2002 „Alchemist Meeting“, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto „Leap“, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya 2001 „Bula Bula Liquids“, Kodama Gallery, Osaka „ZON ITO EXHIBITION“, On Sundays /Watarium, Tokyo 2000 „Yamanami Highway“, Kodama Gallery, Osaka   GROUP EXHIBITIONS   2009 time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf "Stitch by Stitch", Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Tokyo Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Zon Ito + Teppei Kaneuji, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "Neoteny Japan. Artists from the Takahashi Collection", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art / Akita Museum of Modern Art / Yonago Museum of Art 2008 "When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with The Future Brazil", Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo "Neoteny Japan. Artusts from the Takahashi Collection", Kirishima Museum, Kagoshima / Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo 3rd Nanjing Triennial - Reflective Asia, The Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing 2007 "La Chaine", BankART1929, Yokohama "Painting as Forest", Okazaki City Museum Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo 2006 NICHT WEIT VOM STAMM, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf "Psychic Scope", Space*C, Seoul "Nature in Dreams", Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi "Rapt!", WestSpace, Melbourne (video collaboration with Ryoko Aoki) "Childrens of Veins", Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia (video collaboration with Ryoko Aoki) 2005 "I Still Believe In Miracles", Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC au Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France "Disappearance", Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland "Karou Arima - How latitudes become forms - Arte en la era global", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey - MARCO, Monterrey, NL, Mexiko 11th Triennale India, Rabindra Bharan Galleries, New Delhi "AniMate", Fukuoka Asian Art Museum / Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul 2004 „A Fripon et Demi“, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon „Roppongi Crossing“, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo "Slow Painting", Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima "Why not life for art?", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery "Fusion: Architecture + Design from Japan", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (video collaboration with Ryoko Aoki) 2003 „Study“, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo „Slow Painting“, Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima „Art Court Frontier 2003“, Art Court Gallery, Osaka „How Latitudes Become Forms“, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis 2002 „Private Luxury“, Manno Art Museum, Osaka „Beautiful Life?“, Art Tower Mito, Mito „Art in Transit“, The Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto 2001 „Kyoto x Amsterdam- New Directions-“, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama 2001“, Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Yokohama „Art Crossing 2001“, Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima „The Vision of Contemporary Art 2001, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo 2000 „Twilight Sleep“, Instituto Giapoponese di Cultura, Rome „Screening Japan, Hallo!“, Aarhus, Copenhagen „VIDEO-BAR“, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulun Kaupunki, Finland „Psychic Scope“, Kodama Gallery, Osaka 1999 „Doughnut“, On Sundays / Watarium, Tokyo „FLOW“, Kodama Gallery, Osaka   PUBLICATIONS   Vera Tollmann, "Aoki Ryoko", in: Kat. documenta 12, Kassel: 2007. Adriano Pedrosa, "Ryoko Aoki", in: Vitamin D. New Perspectives in Drawing, London: Phaidon, 2005. Philippe Vergne, "Zon Ito and Ryoko Aoki", in: ARTFORUM, Jan 2005, 153-154. "Ryoko Aoki + Zon Ito", in: Roppongi Crossing. New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art, cat. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo: 2004, 29-32. Philippe Vergne, "Zon Ito", in: How Latitudes Become Form. Art in a Global Age, cat. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: 2003, 196-199. "Zon Ito", in: Slow Painting, cat. Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima 2003. Beautiful Life?, cat. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo: 2002. "Zon Ito" and "Ryoko Aoki", in: Zero-Zero-Generation. Nippon 2002 / BT Bijutsu Techno, vol. 54, no. 816, Feb. 2002, 12-19.