Ayaka Shirota

Shirota Ayaka/Artist.

Born in Mie Prefecture in 2001. Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts and currently studying at the university's Mural Painting Lab. Raised in an environment where he was familiar with art and design from an early age, he creates paintings that explore emotions, memories, and mental landscapes.

In his work, he attempts to visualize internal phenomena common to both the self and others, using the emotional fluctuations that arise in human relationships and the discomforts that lurk in the everyday. Colours and motifs are chosen according to the state of emotions and memories, and the symbolic composition evokes the viewer's own memories and emotions. His works emerge as spaces that encourage a quiet dialogue with one's inner self.

Exhibition

2025 Tokyo・GALLERY ROOM・A Solo Exhibition "I am..."

2024 Korea Art Fair "ASYAAF" (Exhibited by Gallery LVS)

Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Third Year Oil Painting Exhibition "INTRO 1."

2023 "ALPHA ET OMEGA" at Yokohama Marine Tower, Kanagawa (with planning cooperation from OIL by Bijutsu Techo)

Ayaka Shirota/Kouji Masuyama Two-Person Exhibition at Onda Gallery, Tokyo (organized by ALPHA ET OMEGA)

Group exhibition "conversation" at haku kyoto gallery, Kyoto

Tokyo WHAT CAFE "EXHIBITION vol.24"

2022 Tokyo Arts Chiyoda 3331 "3331 ART FAIR 2022"