1989

Born in Hyogo Prefecture

2012

B.A., Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Ceramic Art Course

2013

Exchange Program at the Royal College of Arts, London, UK

2014

M.A., Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Ceramic Art Course

2020

Receives Kyoto City Special Bounty Program for Art and Culture

2023

Receives the The Best Young Artist Award by City of Kyoto

2024

ART SCRAMBLE Akane Saijo“Rebecca”, GRAND FRONT OSAKA, Osaka [-'25]

2023

Bunkamura Creation vol.3 Akane Saijo Exhibition "The Ebb and Flow of the Mountain", Nara History, Art and Culture Village and Barn, Tenri, Nara

2022

Phantom Body, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Rudiment, Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Avenue, Tokyo

2021

Tainai Tea Ceremony, Kyoto Municipal Subway, Daigo Depot, Kyoto

2019

Grace of Taboo, WACOAL STUDYHALL KYOTO Gallery, Kyoto

2018

Grotta / solitude in the womb, Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto

2017

Folly, Art Space Niji, Kyoto [’15]

2016

Creeping Mountains, Gallery shop collage, Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto

2015

Hollow Tool Box, Gallery Miyagawa, Kyoto

2024

"Deep Japan Contemporary Made in Shiga", OMOTESANDO CROSSING PARK, Tokyo
"SKILLS ACADEMY: SUMMER CLASS ‘Earth-Life Learning’", GINZA MAISON HERMÈS Le Forum, Tokyo
"Yukie Ishikawa and Akane Saijo", BLUM Tokyo, Tokyo
"Thirty Years:Written with a Splash of Blood", BLUM Los Angeles, USA / BLUM Tokyo, Tokyo
"When Two Collections Meet: Co-curated by the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum", Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

2023

"Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Slow Culture #kogei, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
Collectors' Collective vol.7 Osaka, TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY / VIEWING ROOM, Osaka

2022

1st MIMOCA EYE, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa [Grand prize] [-'23]

2021

Genta Ishizuka + Akane Saijo by ARTCOURT Gallery, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo
Lost in Translation, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto *Participated as art unit TŌBOE
“a double blanket” Akane Saijo + Keisuke Jimba, haku kyoto, Kyoto
Gazing into the Dark, Touching the Light, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
KYOTO ART LOUNGE Exhibition: Connecting Two Sides, FUJII DAIMARU Black Storage, Kyoto *Participated as art unit TOBOE
Yuka MORI, Akane SAIJO duo exhibition “Responses in Flux”, LOKO Gallery, Tokyo

2020

Bi wo motte yo to nasu, Takashimaya Department Store, Kyoto

2019

KOGEI as Contemporary Craft: Transcending Boundaries, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2019 - Selected Artists in Kyoto, The Museum of Kyoto [’17]

2018

New Mutation, Kyoto Art Center
Naturen Art-On the boundary between nature and human activity, JARFO Kyo-Bunpaku, Kyoto

2017

Ascending Art Annual Vol. 1 Shapes and Figures, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Test Case XI, European Ceramic Workcentre, The Netherlands
rhithome Akane Saijo + Shima Haruka, Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto

2016

ROKKO MEETS ART 2016, Rokkosan Pasture, Hyogo [The Hakone Open-Air Museum Award]

2015

Sign of Happiness, Antenna Media, Kyoto

2014

Yumiko Ono Akane Saijo Exhibition, Sakura Gallery, Tokyo
Art of Moon, Tsuki-no-Niwa Gallery, Kyoto [ Jury Prize]

2013

DOMO, Hackney Gallery, London

2011

Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition [Tomimoto Award]

2022

Creative Residency, Arita, Saga

2019

Le Maupas A.I.R., France

2017

European Ceramic Workcentre, The Netherlands

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Mori Art Museum / Bank of Kyoto / Shinkenchiku-sha Office

• Akane Saijo “Phatom Body” ( Performance Archive @ARTCOURT Gallery, 2022)｜Movie: SHINSEKI, Inc.