Born in 1988 and living in Tokyo, Ai Onoda is a contemporary artist working in paintings, videos, performances, and installations. He is also the only Japanese to have performed Erik Satie’s “Vexations”, which took 20 hours to complete without a break. Onoda holds a BA from the Musashino Art University and an MFA in the Inter-Media Art from the Tokyo University of the Arts. His works have been exhibited at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, BankART, and Arts Maebashi. He is known to have performed Satie’s “Vexations” at places such as bookstores, cafes, public restrooms besides art spaces. Onoda also curated an art exhibition and organized a series of poetry, literature, and philosophy workshops at the Hirosegawa Court, an art space in Gunma, Japan. Onoda currently works as a research assistant at Musashino Art University.
