aaron ossia is a uk--japan based multi-media artist working across installation, performance, video, print and sound. his practice explores themes of futility, ambiguity, alienation and escapism. through physically demanding actions, repetition, and the use of found materials, he creates ritualistic gestures that appear to transform nothing, yet leave resonant traces of the activity of the artist. irony and play complicate these gestures, opening space for absurdity, pointlessness and awkwardness. shifting between melancholia and speculative optimism, the work proposes temporary zones of suspension—where meaning is unsettled, and the useless becomes a site of quiet resonance.
education
2015 ma fine art, chelsea college of arts, university of the arts london
2011 - 2014 ba (hons) fine art, chelsea college of arts, university of the arts london
2009 - 2011 fine art, kunsthochschule berlin weissensee
2004-2009 psychology, freie universität berlin
residencies
2026 tenjinyama art Studio, sapporo, japan
2026 urban animals, berlin, germany
2025 paradise air matsudo, japan
2025 tenjinyama art Studio, sapporo, japan
2025 studio 459, tomar, portugal
2024 tenjinyama art Studio, sapporo, japan
2023 studio kura itoshima, fukuoka, japan
2022 paradise air matsudo, japan
2022 eastcheap project space, letchworth garden city, uk
selected shows
2026, frédéric-aaron: I, sound art/experimental music, sapporo, japan
free listening: https://frederic-aaron.bandcamp.com/album/i
2026, zine: restraint - poetry of detachment, berlin, germany
2025, tokyo art book fair, TATA press, japan
2025, hitoria, sapporo, japan
2024, veni vidi mori: I came, I saw, I died, sapporo, japan
2023, veni vidi clamavi: I came, I saw, I cried, itoshima fukuoka, japan
2022, veni, vidi, ambulavi : I came, I saw, I waked, matsudo, japan
2022, meet me half way: on the line, eastcheap project space, letchworth garden city, uk
2021, the RSA 195th annual exhibiton, royal scottish academy, edinburgh, uk
2021, art matters 4, gallery biesenbach, cologne, germany
2021, V, alfa gallery miami, usa
2021, behappy, alfa gallery miami, usa
2020, XS, alfa gallery miami, usa
2020, The RSA annual exhibition, royal scottish academy, edinburgh, uk
2020, london art fair : 22 jan - 26 jan 2020
2020, 3D - alfa gallery miami for artbasel miami, usa
2019/20, royal scottisch academy, society of scottisch artists, edinburgh : 22 dec 2019 - 30 jan 2020
2019, perhaps we should have stayed, warbling collective, hoxton 253, london : 27 nov 2019 - 30 nov 2019
2019, shutters!, arbyte, london : 9 oct - 13 oct 2019
2019 bow open, nunnery gallery, curated by carey young, london : 26 sept 2019 - 15 dec 2019
2018 inside job, tate modern, london
2017 hereafter, bow arts, london
2017 eyeball: position 2, bow arts, london
2017 a letter in mind, gallery @oxo, london
2015 MA Fine art degree show, chelsea college of arts, london
2015 I want to disappear, project spaces at chelsea college of arts, london
2014 breaching into the unknown, chelsea college of arts, london
2014 a national brain appeal, gallery@oxo, london
2014 ba fine art degree show, chelsea college of arts, london
2013 translation show, triangle space, chelsea college of arts, london
2013 hello-goodbye, bauhaus, dessau
2013 when i grow up – a life on the move, schillerpalais, berlin
2012 UND DAFUER ZAHLEN WIR STEUERN, khb, berlin
2012 britwinter, umea
2011 300 plakate, khb tag der offenen tur, berlin
2011 CLASHANDCONVERGEII, camberwell space, london
2010 fine line - fine space, neonchocolate gallery, berlin
publications, presentations and teaching
2026 zine: restraint - poetry of detachment, berlin, germany
2025 book illustration: an dar hekayat, tehran, iran
2025 the anonymous art book
2021 ongoing workshops at wysing arts centre
2020 art then and now, resonance fm, london
2019 Presentation and talk at Emerge Festival, Nunnery Gallery, london
2019 guest lecturer at hmkw school of design, berlin
2018 guest lecturer at von erlenbach art school, berlin
2013 hello-goodbye, stiftung bauhaus dessau
2013 berlin what?: 102 contemporary artists, die neue sachlichkeit