Chiaki Ajioka
ACADEMIC AND CURATOR
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Chiaki Ajioka worked at SBS Television as a Japanese subtitler (1986-96), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) as assistant curator (1992-96) and as Curator of Japanese Art (1996-2003). She then went on to teach Japanese art at the University of Sydney (2004-08). She is a 2013 Japan Fellow, The National Library of Australia (2013) and Board member of Australia Japan Foundation (2012-15). She assists public institutions in their projects relating to Japanese art, and is currently working on a research on Mingei outside Japan with international researchers.
Chiaki curated and co-curated exhibitions including Modern boy, modern girl: modernity in Japanese art 1910-1935 (AGNSW 1998), HANGA: Japanese Creative Prints (AGNSW 2000), Japan in Sydney: Professor Sadler & modernism 1920-30s (University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney 2011).
Publications include: ‘Out of context: towards presentation of Japanese art in Western Museums’, Proceedings of the 32nd CIHA conference, Melbourne, 2009; ‘Aspects of the 20th century crafts: the New Craft and Mingei movements’ in Thomas Rimer (ed.), Since Meiji: perspectives on Japanese visual arts 1868-2000, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2012; ‘Modern Tokyo in the 1920s and 1930s’ in Stars of the Tokyo Stage (National Gallery of Australia exhibition 2012); ‘Colour woodcut international: modern printmaking in Japan and the West’ in TAASA Review, Vol.21, No.4, 2012, 16-18. ‘Itō Shinsui’ publication date2015 publication descriptionAndreas Marks. Seven masters: 20th-century Japanese woodblock prints from the Wells Collection. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts; 「三銃士」の米国横断：1952-53年の柳・濱田・リーチの米国巡回『美術運動史研究会ニュース』No. 151, 1-12, 2015; ‘The nature of artistic groupings: sōsaku hanga and the Japan Creative Print Association’ (co-authored), Chris Uhlenbeck, Amy Reigle Newland and Maureen de Vries, Waves of renewal: modern Japanese prints, 1900 to 1960, Leiden: Brill, 2016; 「恩地孝四郎展」Onchi Koshiro exhibition『現代の眼』No 618, 2016; ‘Onchi Koshiro – pioneer of abstract expression’ TAASA Review: the journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia vol.25, No. 3, 2016; 「英米のMingei ネットワーク1910-1930年代」『ジャポニスム研究』No.36, 2017.
Craft in America presents a talk with scholar Chiaki Ajioka on Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada’s travels to the US, and the international transmission of Mingei. The talk is moderated by Center Director Emily Zaiden.
www.craftinamerica.org/talk/mingei-hamada-and-leach