Photographer and artist. Born in 1974 in Ibaraki, Japan. Based between Ibaraki and Rio de Janeiro. Working across photography, video, light, sound, text, and performance, she explores and reexamines the conditions of perception through a diverse range of technologies and media. In recent years, her research has focused on the relationship between natural environments and social structures, producing works that take geological strata, history, and human migration as their themes. She also continues to photograph in South America and Europe, and in her latest series—shot with an instax instant camera—she captures the traces of light that linger within landscapes.

Major exhibitions include the solo exhibition “Look Exhaustively ” (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, 2022) and the TOKAS Creator-in-Residence 2024 Exhibition “Breathing Particles” (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, 2024). Her publications include the photo-poetry book TO LIVE (poems by TANIKAWA Shuntaro, photographs by MATSUMOTO Mieko).

Mami Aota currently is a lecturer in the department of aesthetics and art history at Gunma Prefectural Women’s University. She got her PhD degree at the University of Tokyo in 2018. She has published Critiquing the Environment: A Theory of Environmental Aesthetics (Shumpu-sha, 2020), “The Artistic Value of “Community-Engaged Art Project”: From the Perspective of Environmental Aesthetics” in BIGAKU Vol.72, No.1 and other various papers.