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AIMI creates paintings by creating digital images from his own photographs and AI-generated images, and then hand-painting them on panels using airbrushes and other drawing materials. The common body image on the screen is the “body”.
The body images that commonly appear on screen are created by the artist in the form of collages of body images generated from AI-generated models. In this age when social networking services such as Instagram have made it an obligation to commercialize one's own body and life itself, the artist explores the current human figure that lies on the border between the real and the virtual by thinking about the desires that exist there and the body image as an ideal, together with the AI.

[CV]
2001 Born in Saitama Prefecture
2020 Graduated from Saitama Prefectural Omiya Koryo High School
2024 Currently a 4th year undergraduate student at Tokyo University of the Arts, Department
of Painting, Oil Painting

[AWARD]
2024 Selected for TURNER AWORD 2023
2024 Ueno Geiyu Prize

[EXHIBITION]
2022 “super-” Gallery 33 north, Koenji, Tokyo
2024 “intro_1”, Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo
2024 “Undo and History” Gallery Yonroku, Koenji, Tokyo
2024 “Turner Award 2023 Award Winning Works” (Selected), Turner Gallery, Higashi Nagasaki, Tokyo
2024 “ART STUDENTS STARS vol.3” + Art Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
2024 “OPEN STUDIO Akiya Aimi / Kagami Kigitsu / Fumi Takahashi” ABAB Uenoshita Studio, Ueno, Tokyo
2024 “Scraig in the Building”, Turner Gallery, Higashi-Nagasaki, Tokyo
2024 “Lurf Annual Exhibition 2024” Lurf Gallery, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
2024 “Tokyo University of the Arts, Oil Painting Department, Internal Prize Winners Exhibition [triangle cycling]”, Yuga Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan