Nobutaka Aozaki
Photo by Brad Ogbonna
Nobutaka Aozaki’s playful multifaceted practice focuses on the transactional nature of both art and life in the city.
His work frequently combines performance and sculpture, developing from everyday interactions with people on the street. He collects inspiration from his travels throughout the city, gathering lost and abandoned items found on the streets, sidewalks, and subways. Aozaki records these interactions and objects, bringing these experiences back into the studio, where he studies, documents, assembles, and edits the collected materials, allowing a visual form to emerge. By appropriating collective, participatory, anthropological approaches, he aims to make art through discovery, serendipity, and the collective imprinting of people and the communities.
New York, NY
Born 1977, Kagoshima, Japan
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME
2012 MFA Hunter College, New York, NY
2007 BFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY