the land has to be the warmth, 2025
digital video 8.21 Minutes, found objects
God Amused, 2025
digital video 13.33 Minutes, found objects
Follower (2024)
Video installation
COSMIC WONDER, Tokyo, Japan
August 10, 2024
February 5, 2023
Europa, NYC
February 5, 2023
Europa, NYC
September, 2024
AKI GOTO
Forgot to tell you, 2022
Pen ink and colored pencil on paper
9 x 12 inches
AKI GOTO
Pubescent, 2022
Pen ink and colored pencil on paper
19 x 27 inches
April 7, 2024
AKI GOTO
B. 1978 Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY
Aki Goto was raised in the Chiba prefecture and later returned to Tokyo to study at Tama Art University. Goto has shown work at the Take Ninagawa Gallery in Tokyo, CLEARING in Beverly Hills and NY, Nonaka Hill Gallery in LA, Starr Suites in Brooklyn, NADA/ Foreland in Catskill. She has toured musically in the Northeast and and shown films at the Greenpoint Film Festival.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCE
2025 Eyes On Shine, Europa, New York, NY
2024 FOLLOWER, COSMIC WONDER, Tokyo
2023 Route Is Clear, Europa, New York, NY
2021 Sacred Shift, CLEARING, Beverly Hills, CA
2021 Certainty vol.2, NADA + Foreland presented by Safe Gallery
2019 I Poison Ivy U, Lite Brite Neon, Kingston, NY
2019 Genderqueer’s Day, Shirotento Orchestra performance vol.3, Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY
2018 Love to Cancer, Love to Kentaro, Sawmill Showroom, Rhinebeck, NY
2016 Leap Year Love, Shirotento Orchestra performance vol.2, COMMEND, New York, NY
2015 BIRTHDAYS, Shirotento Orchestra performance vol.1, Saugerties, NY
2011 NOW Collection Night, VACANT, Tokyo, Japan
2011 NOW Experiment / Experience, Kochi, Japan
2010 Love You More Than Painting, Take Ninagawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 You Are The Universe, Take Ninagawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Somebody's Children, curated by Daniel Merritt, ROXY CINEMA, New York, NY
2024 ROLL, Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie at Museum of Gaspésie, Quebec, CA
2024 Voted the best, The Stable Gallery, Lake Hill, NY
2024 With A Little Help From My Friends, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
2024 Bibliography, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2022 One Hundred Eighty-Six Billion Steps to the Sun, CLEARING, Brooklyn, NY
2022 two teens been left alone without adults in a small town on the countryside and having a wild summer, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Busy Work at Home, Nonaka-Hill Gallery, Los Angels, CA
SELECTED MUSIC SHOWS
2025 Aug Masaaki, Warm Up MoMA PS1, Brooklyn, NY
2025 May Masaaki, Montez Radio, New York, NY
2024 Nov Masaaki, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Aug Masaaki, Marvin Gardens, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Mar Masaaki, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Feb Masaaki, NUBLU, NY
2023 Nov Masaaki, Hudson, NY
2023 Sep Masaaki, Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Aug Masaaki, Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Jun Masaaki, Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY (Summer Thunder)
2023 May Masaaki, Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Apr Masaaki, collaboration with Brian DeGraw, Tribeca Synagogue (npcc), NY
2023 Apr Masaaki, Antidote Outpost Apothecary, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Apr Masaaki, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Jan Masaaki, Europa, New York, NY
2022 Nov Masaaki, Artists Space, New York, NY (Abasement)
2022 May Masaaki, St. Marks Church, New York, NY (Anthology Film Archives)
2022 Mar Masaaki, Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Mar Masaaki, Tubby’s, Kingston, NY
2022 Feb Masaaki, Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Dec Masaaki, Berlin Under A, New York, NY
SELECTED PRESS
2025 Emergent Magazine, by David Rhodes, Issue 13
2023 Brooklyn Rail, [EUROPA], by Pali Kashi, March Issue
2023 MOTHER TONGUE, [Issue 3], Cover Story
AWARDS
2024 Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award by Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
2023 Women’s Studio Art Grant
2011 NOW Collection, Best Experimental Short Award, Greenpoint Film Festival, New York, NY