若尾藍子　 写真家・翻訳者　ニューヨーク在住

Aiko Wakao Austin is an interdisciplinary artist whose multicultural upbringing informs her exploration of identity, family and cultural memory. Born in Tokyo and raised in Italy, she received a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University. After graduation, she worked in Japan as a journalist for Bloomberg and Reuters, and later in finance at Goldman Sachs.

Austin moved to New York in 2016 and began photographing professionally. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and in public art exhibitions such as Photoville and the Griffin Museum. Her latest project, “what we inherit,” has been recognized internationally, including Top 10 Winner of LensCulture Critics’ Choice, Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 and FRESH KLOMPCHING Edition. She is an Up Next Member with Diversify Photo.

She currently lives and works in New York.

For inquiries, please email: info (at) aikoaustin.com

AWARDS

- LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards 2025, Top 10 Winner, 2025
- Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, 2025
- Fresh Photo Award by Klompching Gallery, Finalist, Klompching Edition Winner, 2025
- Rhonda Wilson Award Shortlist, 2025
- Penumbra Online Members Gallery, Juried by Den Quinsay, 2025
- Lucie Foundation Fine Art Emerging Scholarship Award, Honorable Mention, 2025
- 25th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 1st in Digital Manipulation & Collage, 2024
- 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 1st in the Culture & Daily life

EXHIBITIONS

- Blue, Site:Brooklyn, Online, 2025
- Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY, USA, 2025
- Griffin Museum of Photography, Vision(ary) Public Art Exhibition, Winchester, MA, USA, 2025
- Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2025
- FEARLESS: LACP’s Annual Members’ Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2025
- "Whispering Shadows" Online Exhibition for Float Magazine, Curated by Dana Stirling, 2025
- 21st JMCA Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain, 2024
- “Poetry of the Ordinary” Juried Exhibition, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, USA, 2024
- Kino Saito Annual Community Art Benefit, Verplanck, NY, USA, 2024

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

- Bronx Documentary Center, 12th Annual BDC Portfolio Review, New York, 2024
- Diversify Photo Portfolio Review, Online, 2024

FEATURES & PUBLICATIONS

- ‘To Reinvent, Rebuild, Reimagine. 7 Artists Working with Remains of Stories,” Mindscapes by Contemporary Lynx, Issue 4, January 30, 2025
‘A tour de force!: LensCulture Critics’ Choice awards - in pictures, The Guardian, August 13, 2025
- Vision(ary) Zine Vol. I: Home & Heritage, Griffin Museum, 2025
- Photo Trouvée Magazine Issue 17, Kanyer Publishing LLC, August 20, 2025