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Current Projects: 

multi. diy art fair
Honolulu, HI

Solo Shows:

♡ so glad you came, New Works by Ayaka Takao
The Manifest, Nov 2022 to Jan 2023 - Honolulu, HI


Group Shows + Collaborations:

★ Kagu / Akari
fishcake, Fall 2022 - Honolulu, HI

♡ Cafe - Tropic Editions, Hawai'i Triennial 2022
Hawai'i State Art Museum, 2022 - Honolulu, HI

★ Dipshit Mag - Issue 5 Magazine Release Show
Aupuni Space, 2021 - Honolulu, HI

♡ Until Then
online show and print publication
osseous matter, 2020 - Brooklyn, NY

★ 2020 ICA Flat File Program
ICA Baltimore, 2019 - Baltimore, MD

♡ Dream Journal
Cat Gunn, Kate Sable, Ayaka Takao
Rosenberg Gallery, 2019 - Baltimore, MD

★ Flightless Cranes
Aimi Chinen Bouillen, Ahraun Chambliss, Mary Champagne, Kei Ito, Sanzi Kermes, and Ayaka Takao
Baltimore City Hall Gallery, 2019 - Baltimore, MD

♡ 2019 ICA Flat File Program
ICA Baltimore, 2019 - Baltimore, MD

★ The Outfield - 
Suldano Abdiruhman, Aimee Lin, Olwyn Scarbeary, Ayaka Takao
Mount Royal Station, 
2018 - Baltimore, MD

♡ IN2IT - Suldano Abdiruhman, Aimee Lin, Katie Schweitzer, Marina Constantine, Chahaat Thakker
Middendorf Gallery, 2017 - Baltimore, MD

★ Idea of Orient
 - Office of Diversity Selected Works
Main Gallery,
 2017- Baltimore, MD

♡ LI E S U R E
 - weavings by Aimee Lin and Ayaka Takao
Luca’s Room, 2017
 - Baltimore, MD


★ Sum of Five
 - Anna Archibald and Ayaka Takao
The Outpost, 
2016 - Honolulu, HI

♡ Inflate or Incinerate - One Day Pop Up Show
Brown Atrium, 2016 - Baltimore, MD

★ ROOM - Inflatables and Soft Sculpture
Everyman Theater, 2016 - Baltimore, MD

♡ Foundation Exhibiton - Selected Works
Gateway Gallery, 2015 - Baltimore MD


Readings and Performances:

★ Special Sunset Spectacular - Theatrics and Dance and Music
Wuthering Heights, 2018 - Baltimore, MD


Publications / Press:

♡ Dipshit Mag Artist Feature, Issue 5, 2022

★ Salima Magazine, Issue 1, "Emailing Myself" and "West Virginia", 2021

♡ Pan Pan Press, Lap Dog Faith, online collection, 2020 to present

★ Bmore Art, Collecting Art From the Home Via Innovative Online Art Galleries, April 2020

♡ Hawai'i Review, Issue 87, Book 2: Counjunction, 2019

★ Metro HNL, Long Distance Art, August 2016


Grants, etc:

♡ Women's Studio Workshop, Studio Residency Grant, 2020

teaching, etc:

workshop instructor
fishschool hawaii
current - honolulu, hi

Undergraduate Teaching Intern
Maryland Institute College of Art
Spring 2018 - Baltimore, MD
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Communications Intern, Press Press
Fall 2017- Spring 2018 - 
Baltimore, MD
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Assistant, Baltimore Japan Arts Festival
Spring 2017 - 
Baltimore, MD
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Gallery Assistant, The Outpost
Summer 2017 - 
Honolulu, HI

Education:

BFA, Fiber - Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
2014 - 2018