LADY IKO HANDSTYLE ON CHECK RECEIPT

LADY IKO
Lady Aiko’s original signed artwork is a handmade drawing that showcases her street art style. The artwork features a tag on a guest check receipt, adding a unique touch to the piece. As a renowned artist featured in Beyond the Streets, Lady Aiko’s signed artwork is a must-have for any street art enthusiast.

AIKO was born and raised in Tokyo before moving to New York City in the mid-90’s. Already creating art since a young age, her art career in NYC began when she started working for Takashi Murakami. She apprenticed in Murakamiʼs studio in Brooklyn and worked for him until the late 90’s going on to a direct a digital biography on the artist（”superflat” 1998）. AIKO continued to practice her own art and after leaving Murakamiʼs studio graduated from The New School University where she finished her MFA Media Studies and later met up with two American artists, the three of them would come to establish the group now known as FAILE. Creating work within the collective locally and abroad for a number of years, she moved on and established herself as AIKO in 2006. AIKO’s the most significant BUNNY stencil was originally created in 2005 at Banksy’s studio in London where she used to spend time with him as fellow artist. The first BUNNY was sprayed and tested on his studio’s bathroom. Since then, AIKO has been traveling with the stencil and spraying all over the world. It is symbol of her love, peace, independency and freedom.AIKO continues to create work in the studio as well as public space. She is acclaimed in the contemporary art world and well-respected within the international graffiti and street art scene. She had a two-person show “Brick Ladies” with Lady Pink in Brooklyn in 2008, and she worked with Banksy on “Exit Through the Gift Shop” in 2010. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in many cities, including Miamiʼs Wynwood Walls in 2009, New York Cityʼs Bowery Wall in 2013, and Coney Art Walls in 2015/2016/2017, all three curated by Jeffrey Deitch. AIKO has also been involved in a large collection of group shows from “Animamix Biennale” at Shanghaiʼs MoCA in 2009, “Edo Pop” at Japan Society NYC in 2013, BEYOND THE STREETS LA/NY/London in 2018/2019/2023 to her more solo show, “Sweet Heart” at The Outsiders Gallery in the UK in 2014 and Lady Go at Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum in 2018. AIKO has also been commissioned to create works in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, FENDI, Coach, Apple, Microsoft, Estée Lauder, Kiehlʼs, The Standard, W Hotel, Sanrio Hello Kitty, Isetan, Warner Bros., RED, Pepsi, Reebok, WTC and former First Lady Michelle Obama etc. Currently AIKO is focusing on studio practice and commissions at her studio in financial district, NYC.

SOLO PROJECT
2024 Solo Exhibition at XXL Gallery
2023 Mural Commission for 7WTC
2022 Showcase for WPP ‘Making Space’, WTC NY
2022 AIKO x Pearl Jam Tour Poster
2020 AIKO BOOK released by Beyond The Streets
2020 AIKO x Estée Lauder Limited edition products
2018 Artist Residency at Museum Quartier & Solo exhibition at Jan Arnold Gallery, Vienna Austria
2018 Lady Go! Solo exhibition at Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum- Shizuoka, Japan
2018 “AMERICAN DREAM” limited edition wood block prints by Adachi Hanga, Tokyo Japan
2018 AIKO x Reebok SS2018 collection
2017 Roskilde Festival Orange Stage Wall – Denmark
2015 EDO CITY GIRL at Ink_d Gallery – Brighton UK
2015 LADY BUTTERFLY Limited Edition Sculpture/ Pink Gold
2014 SWEETHEART at The Outsiders Gallery – Newcastle UK
2014 AIKOʼs Bunny Party at Gallery Brooklyn – Brooklyn NY
2014 AIKO x ISETAN Window Dispray Project – ISETAN Tokyo Japan
2013 LADY BUTTERFLY Limited Edition Sculpture/ Pearl White
2013 FOULARDS DʼARTISTES, AIKO x Louis Vuitton 2012 The Bowery Wall- NYC