1965
Born in Niigata, Japan、Lives and works in Chiba, Japan.
1991
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, MFA in painting
1989
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, BFA in painting

Solo Exhibition
2009
*"I'm working on huge paintings in Beijing", Mizuma and One Galery, Beijing, China
*"Photo Works by AIDA Makoto", A・Zone, Okayama, Japan
2008
"I'm IWAKI of Mizuma Art Gallery!!" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
"DOUBLE FANTASY", lammfromm The Concept Store, Tokyo,Japan
2006
"Picture of Mountain Stream and others", Andrew Roth Inc. NYC, U.S.A.
2005
"Pre-Climacteric Love", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo,Japan
"Drink SAKE Alone", Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco,U.S.A.
"Donki-Hote", Man in the Holocene at IBID Projects, London,U.K.
2004
"Aida's Work", Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2003
"My KENTEN", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Chukyo University Art Gallery C-square, Aichi, Japan
2001
"Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan", Murata&friends,Berlin, Germany
"Edible Artificial Girls, Mi-Mi Chan", NADiff, Tokyo,Japan
1999
"It's a man's alcoholic drink - Millennium", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"DOUTEI", Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
1998
"Paris,Tsudanuma", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996
"NO FUTURE", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"War Picture Returns", Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan
1994
"SARIN", Nasubi Gallery, Chiba, Japan
"Poster", DOWA KASAI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992
"Pictures don't need to be not square", Yanaka Furufuru, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibition
2010
*"Exhibition Commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the renewal of the NMAO", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2009
*"TWIST and SHOUT Contemporary Art from Japan", Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
*"Dojima RIver Biennale 2009 Reflection: The World Through Art", Dojima RIver Forum, Osaka, Japan
"Wallworks", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
"Artium Prospective", Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
"MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II Collaboration with art students", GALLERY RAKU, Kyoto, Japan
Dorodoro, Doron-The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2008
"-hiragana art- CHIBATORI", Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
"SUICIDE EXPOSITION 2008", Otto Mainzheim Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II Collaboration with art students", Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi, Japan
"The Group 1965: Tokyo Guide 2008", NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan
"UNSTERN. SINISTRE. DISASTRO.", ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
"neoteny japan - From Takahashi Collection", Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido/ 2009 The Ueno Royal Museum, TOkyo: The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan)
"ORDER RECEIVED", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"8th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art," Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan
"Heavy Light : Recent Photography and Video from Japan" International Center of Photography, New York, U.S.A.
"Off the Rails", Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China
"Typical! Cliches about Jews and Others." Jewish Museum Berlin, Berline, Germany (traveled to Spertus Museum, Chicago, U.S.A.: 2009 Judisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria)
"MANGAMANIA Comic-Kultur in Japan 1800-2008" Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfrut, Germany (traveled to Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Hamlebeak, Denmark)
"SHELTER x SURVIVAL Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives," Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Laughing in a Foreign Language" Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
"Eyes & Curiosity: Japanese Contemporary Art," SOKA Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2007
"Poetic Terrorism", FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuwvos Creadores, Madrid, Spain
"Beautiful New World : Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan", Long March Space, Beijing, China (traveled to: Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China)
"Three Generations," Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
"Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves", ZKM, Karlsruhe,Germany
"Art de Sauro : Aida Makoto / Yamaguchi Akira", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"7th The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art", Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan
"Portrait Session", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Portrait Session@NADiff", NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
"all about laughter: The Role of Humor in Contemporary Art", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2006
"Oriental Metaphor", Alt Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
"Somewhere in Time", Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
"Paprika", TSUTAYA TOKYO ROPPONGI, Tokyo, Japan
"ALLLOOKSAME? ARTCHINAJAPANKOREART", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
"NIPPON vs FINEART-Striving for Identity in the Context of Western art, Osaka City Museum of Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka, Japan
"Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary",Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
"Singapole Biennale 2006 : BELIEF", National Museum of Singapore / Tanglin Camp, Singapore
"Berlin-Tokyo", Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
"The Child", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
"Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art from Japan", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005
"BankART Life", BankART studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
"Tokyo Souvenir by The Group 1965 - New Tokyo Public Art Program"(40x40 project), Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
"GUNDAM Generation Futures," SUNTORY Museum, Osaka, Japan (traveled to The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo: 2006 Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi; Kawara Museum, Aichi; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido; 2007 Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, Japan)
"The Group 1965 - Seven Samurais, even"(40x40 project), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
"Villa YURINSO Special Open : AIDA Makoto / OZAWA Tsuyoshi / YAMAGUCHI Akira", Ohara Museum of Art Yurinso, Okayama, Japan
"The World of Matchbox Labels", The Okayama Prefectual Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
"Nishiogi Biennale", Makoto Aida's home, Nishiogikubo,Tokyo, Japan
"sight-cruising", Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
"Since 1994" : Mizuma Art Gallery the 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo,Japan
"AniMate。" , Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2004
"Nonchalant", 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
"TOKYO STYLE IN STOCKHOLM 2004", Milliken Gallery, Stockholm,Sweden
"KOTATSU-HA 2", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Picture in Motion", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
"Officina Asia", Palazzo del Ridotto, Cesena, Italy
"lonely planet", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"Mediarena" : contemporary art from Japan, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"Fast Forward", Nassauischer Kunstverein (NKV), Wiesbaden, Germany
"Les metamorphoses du quotidan", The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
"Roppongi Crossing : New Visions of Japanese Art 2004", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Landscape of Eastern Asia (from Travel sketches to War pictures) - Yasugoro Ataka, Ryoichi Sasagawa and Makoto Aida", Niitsu Museum of Art, Niigata, Japan
The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2003
"FLESH FOR FANTASY", Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
"A retrospective : NARITA Tohl and several things he has left behind", Shichinohe-cho Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan、 Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi
"Revolving Door : iscp <-> asia", Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
"A Creating Workshop for Children in Aomori 2003", Mutsu Municipal Library, Mutsu City, Aomori, Japan
"The American Effect - Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
"girls don't cry", Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002
"7th Kitakyushu Biennale : ART FOR SALE", Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
"Coloriage", Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
"BABEL2002", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
"eleven&eleven Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002", Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
"Exhibition of New Acquisitions+Contemporary Paintings" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"XXV" Biennale de Sao Paulo", Sao Paulo, Brasil
2001
"Makoto Aida, Hiroko Okada with their baby Torajiro", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Sex and Consumerism : Contemporary Art in Japan", University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
(traveled to: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth / Stanley Pick Gallery, London / Hot Bath Gallery, Bath), U.K.
"Yokohama 2001; International Triennale of Contemporar Art", Kanagawa, Japan
"S(h)itting in the mirror", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000
"Cultural Ties Exhibition", Westzone gallery space, London, U.K.
"Five Continents And One City", Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
"White Hot", Smack Mellon Studios, New York, U.S.A.
"The Group 1965 in Osaka", Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Open Studio", International Studio Program(ISP, Tribecca), New York, U.S.A.
"VACANT LOT", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
1999
"GROUND ZERO JAPAN", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"Artists' works", Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"The Group 1965", NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
"Makoto Aida-Hlynur Hallsson", The Municipal Art Museum of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
"Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s", The Japan Foundation Forum Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo", Contemporar Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan
"VOCA'99", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1998
"Sanatorium", Recent Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
"So-What, Donai-Ya-Nen", Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris, France
"TOKYO ELEGANCE", Recent Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
"TAKEO Communication Design 1998", SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan
"HOLY GIFT vol.2 -Small Works", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
"The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo", Galeria Metropolitana de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (1998 traveled to Galerie Espace Flon, Lausanne, Switzerland; ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany)
"Document & Art", Art Muesum Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
"KOTATSU-HA", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"WALKING MUSEUM", Shinjuku Takashimaya TIMES SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan
1996
"HOLY GIFT vol.1 -Drawings-", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"ART SCENE 90-96", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"On Camp / Off Base", Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
"The Group 1965", Synapse Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"TOKYO POP", The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1995
"Photographic Narration IV", Art Gallery of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
"Morphe'95 CITY CRACK", Mizuma Art Gallery/ Nikka Whiskey Hall /West gate of the Shinjuku Station,Tokyo, Japan
"Card board and Blue sheet", PAP FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan
"Pool 2 : Collection / Selection", ROENTGEN KUNST INSTITUT, Tokyo, Japan
"PAP OPENING EXHIBITION", PAP FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan
1994
"The Group 1965 in Nasubi Gallery", Roppongi WAVE,Tokyo, Japan
"I can not tell without picture", DOWA KASAI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Smooth Surface", ROENTGEN KUNST INSTITUT, Tokyo, Japan
"Happy Violence", Nagoya City Archives, Aichi, Japan
"Shinjuku Shonen Art", Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
1993
"THE GINBURART", Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
"Fo(u)rtunes", ROENTGEN KUNST INSTITUT, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collection
The Japan Foundation
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Takamatsu City Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Asia Society