1980 Born in Tokyo, Japan

Ai Takahashi  lives and works in Japan. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tama Art University in Tokyo and the Master of Fine Arts degree in Inter Media Art from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts in 2010. Recently, Takahashi received prestigious Japanese emerging artist grant from Pola Art Foundation, 2012 Overseas Study by Young Artists Fellowship to support her project to live and photograph in the United States of America.   Takahashi's work is show in Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia and the United States of America and her work is in the permanent collection at the Kuma Museum in Japan.

Education

2010 Master of Fine Arts, Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo, Japan

2003 Bachelor of Fine Art, Tama Art University, Department of Information Design, Media Art course, Tokyo, Japan.

Researche

Since 2009 Okinawa University, The institute of Regional Study, Special researchers, Okinawa, Japan

Since 2004-2008 Tama Art University, Assistant for professor Chihiro Minato (Photographer)

Grant

2012 Pola Art Foundation, scholarship for young artist, Japan,

Solo Exhibition

2011 Aminism, sen-gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2011 Yama Mura Nora, 1839 little gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 Yama Mura Nowa, Nikon Salon, Shinjuku/Osaka, Japan

2001 Garden of Time, Place M, Japan

Selected group Exhibition

2013 Contemplation, TWU gallery, Texas, the U.S.

2013 Curatorial Project/ Photographers: network selection 2013, Studio Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany

2012 Angkor photo festival, McDermott Gallery, Angkor, Cambodia

2012 Contemplation, Pictura gallery, Indiana, the U.S.

2011 Art @ Tsuchizawa, Iwate, Japan (selected competitionartist)

2009 Let back home! Our field will get desolate, why not go back home, Kuma Museum, Ehime, Japan

2008 ATLAS, Tokyo National University of arts, Ibaragi, Japan

2007 Insight Vision, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Collection

Kuma Museum (Japan)

Film

2009 Assistant director, KUDAKA Odyssey（Director Junichiro Ohshige）, Tokyo National University, Tokyo

2008 Assistant director, class of 1916-about Kusatao Nakamura（- Director Masato Inagawa） Kuma Museam, Ehime, Japan