ROKKAKU AYAKO

• ROKKAKU AYAKO, Japanese contemporary artist. After working in Amsterdam and Berlin, she has been based in Portugal since 2020. She began painting on her own around the age of 20, and established her own style of painting directly by hand, without using any brushes or other tools. She is known for her motif of a girl with big eyes and her colorful style of neon colors. Solo exhibitions: 2009 San Carlo Gallery, Milan, Italy; 2011 Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 2012 Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia 2018 ComplexCon (Los Angeles, USA); 2019 Museum Jan (Amstelveen, The Netherlands); 2020 Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art (Chiba, Japan).