Biography
Aiko Nakagawa, better known as AIKO or Lady Aiko, is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1975 and based in Brooklyn since 1997. A graduate of New York University in media arts, she co-founded the FAILE collective with Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller in the early 2000s, before pursuing a solo career from 2006 onwards.
Her practice blends multi-layer stencilling, street silkscreen and large-format wheatpaste, around an imagery that crosses American pin-ups, Japanese ukiyo-e, flowers and butterflies. Pink, black and gold dominate her palettes, with a marked taste for mixing Western pop culture and Tokyo aesthetics.
In July 2012 she became the first solo woman artist invited to paint the Bowery Wall in New York, a symbolic milestone for the street art movement. She has since shown with Jonathan LeVine, Joshua Liner and Urban Nation in Berlin, and has painted murals in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Berlin, Honolulu and New Delhi (St+Art India). She has also collaborated with Fendi and Louis Vuitton.
Her practice blends multi-layer stencilling, street silkscreen and large-format wheatpaste, around an imagery that crosses American pin-ups, Japanese ukiyo-e, flowers and butterflies. Pink, black and gold dominate her palettes, with a marked taste for mixing Western pop culture and Tokyo aesthetics.
In July 2012 she became the first solo woman artist invited to paint the Bowery Wall in New York, a symbolic milestone for the street art movement. She has since shown with Jonathan LeVine, Joshua Liner and Urban Nation in Berlin, and has painted murals in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Berlin, Honolulu and New Delhi (St+Art India). She has also collaborated with Fendi and Louis Vuitton.
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