Ayako David Kawauchi
Born in Ehime (Japan). Lives and works in Paris.

Personal exhibtions

2012 City III, Paris Salon Price (May 2011)
2011 Cultural Contemporary Art Centre Max Juclier, Villeneuve-la-Garenne
2009 Gallery Strenger, Tokyo;GNG Gallery, Paris
2007 GNG Gallery, Paris
2005 The Goutte d'Or / S.T.E.P. (Syringes, swabs, water, condoms)

Group Exhibition

2013 Drawing now Paris,contemporary drawing exhibition,Polad-Hardouin gallery, Paris
Once Upon a Time, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, CH
2012 Catharsis, Galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris.
Large figures, a proposition of Quenehen Lawrence, The Salaisons, Romainville with Céline Berger, Nicolas Bernière, Gwenaël Billaud, Eric Horn, Ayako David Kawauchi, Yves Gobart, Hervé Ic, Natacha Ivanova, Marine Krabowski, Caroline Lejeune, Iris Levasseur, Thomas Levy-Lasne, Dominique Pallier, Nathalie Tacheau,Rada Tzankova
Albert Chanot Contemporary art center with Yves Albert Chanot Gobart, Clamart
2011 Drawing now Paris, the contemporary drawing exhibition with Pauline Fondevila Gael Davrinche, Sara Jerome, Galley Christine Phal.
Auction Japan, Drouot Montaigne. Auctioneers Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr and Georges Delettrez. Sponsor: Issey Miyake
Born, Gallery C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Salon de Mai, Paris
Exhibition Fonds Shakers
2010 Contemporary Drawing Fair, Gallery Christine Phal.
Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo.
Drawing 2, Gallery Christine Phal, Paris.
La Chapelle Sainte-Anne, Tours.
Lifestyle + Lightness + LIFESTYLE LIGHTNESS Commissioner Carlos Cabeza Gallery Celal Salon de Mai, Paris.
Alfred Kubin and twenty contemporary drawing artists at the Auberive Abbey Art Center curated by Christian Noorbergen with Roland Topor, J.Gourmelin, OO.Olivier, Fred Deux, Louis Pons, Jean Rustin, Vladimir Velickovic, Lydie Arickx, P.Ramsey, Jerome Zonder, Ayako David Kawauchi.
This summer, Gallery Christine Phal, Paris.
Collective exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China.
2009 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo.
St.Art, Strasbourg.
ULTRA 2, Tokyo.
Slick Dessin, Gallery Plume, Paris
2008 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo.
Art Elysées, Paris.
Galley Plume, Paris.
Lille Art Fair, Lille
Contemporary Drawing, GNG Gallery, Paris
Art Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 St.Art, Strasbourg
Triptyque, Angers
Art é NIM, Nîmes.
2006 Panorama of young artists, Bourges.
Young designers, Art in the city, Pontault Combault.
Biennale de Cachan.
Discoveries 50th Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge.
2005 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge.
Visuart, the Atrium of the Tribunal de Commerce, Paris. Installation collaboration with Mr. Laurence for the villa Medici, Rome, Paris Gallery ORCOFI, Henri Racamier.

Education

JIYU GAKUEN kogeikenkyusho 1986 in Tokyo, Japan.
1987/1991 ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs), textile section, Paris.
1990/2006 Textile Design for Lidewig Edelkoort and Anne Clert Paris.
Residences Shakers, Montlucon, 2011
Dialogue of Civilizations, from Urumqi to Shanghai, China, 2010

Collections

Fund for Contemporary Art Shakers Montlucon
City of Villeneuve la Garenne
Dialogue of Civilizations,girl in the red dress. Fang Ye, Shanghai, China. 

Publications
- Silent Children by Bernard Point and Thomas Levy-Lasne. Published by the city of Villeneuve-la Garenne, 2011
- Alfred Kubin and twenty contemporary drawing artists, Abbey Auberive Art Centre, 2010
- Dictionary of artists in 2010, Editions Aureolin. - Ayako David Kawauchi, catalog gallery GNG, Aureolin Editions, 2008.
- Triptych, Angers 2007. Press
- Le Nouvel Observateur special edition, Drawing Now, in March 2012
- Journal Arte reportage info / June 2010 (by Jerome Cassou)
- Feminine Plural, September 2009, Area Edition.
- Openings, Molly Mine, May / June and July / August, 2009.
- Artension Christian Noorbergen, May / June 2009.
- Le Revenu, Myriam Simon, May 2009.
- Madame Figaro Japan, 2009.
- The Journal of Arts, March 2008.
- Regional Journal of Bourges, 2006.
- Interview by France Culture for exhibition STEP/2005.