Chie Aoki

Chie Aoki (青木千絵, born 1981 Her sculpture work uses mediums of cloth, foam, lacquer, and she is also known for photography on rice paper. Her sculptures commonly have the shapes of amorphous human bodies, without heads or faces.

Life Aoki was born in 1981 Her father was the curator of the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art and introduced her to Alberto Giacometti's sculptures, which depict existential struggles. She received a degree in arts and crafts from the Kanazawa College of Art in 2005, and completed graduate work in 2006. Her sculptures often start as carved styrofoam blocks over which Aoki layers black lacquer, which is then polished.

Aoki's work is influenced by psychological themes seen in Edvard Munch's art. Kitakata City Art Museum Tama Art University