Kioto Aoki is a Chicago-based artist, educator and musician whose studio practice navigates propositions of spatial and visual acuity through the explorations of the body in space. Her works balance the act of revealing and withholding along axes of sight and relativity, while body serves as an inflection point oscillating between assertions of personal, communal, cultural narratives.

Primarily an analogue photographer and filmmaker, vernaculars of conceptual photography and experimental cinema operate as tangential frameworks of analogue processes and negotiations of time, frame, and motion within the mundane. A research-based methodology integrates material, geographic and spatial histories into the conceptual and applied processes and her Installations are arranged to accentuate the relationship between the work, viewer and exhibition environment, playing with the activation of two-dimensional images in a three-dimensional space.

She has performed and exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery Kobo Chika (Tokyo, Japan), The Lab (San Francisco), and the Barbican Centre (London); among others.

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