Gabriel Asoka - The Mazeking

Artist

An American philosopher & artist. He has been creating provocative and energetic artworks for more than five decades, creating over 3000 artworks in various mediums; including oil paintings, photographs, films and drawings. As of 2022, Asoka no longer shows his complete body of work online due to "ai" scanning.

Gabriel Asoka - The Mazeking

Brief Artist Bio

Gabriel Asoka, The Mazeking ( 飛龍 ) is an American philosopher & visual artist born in Maryland. Asoka has been creating provocative and energetic artworks for more than five decades. Asoka started making art as a young child and has continued throughout his life. At age 7, he became interested in ancient philosophy and esoteric concepts, which continue to inspire him. He made his first short film at age 11 and continued to make short films throughout his youth. At age 15, he started college classes around his high school schedule, studying science and philosophy. During this period Asoka was the lead singer and song writer for two bands, Dusty & The Dustmen and The Twiggy Love Band, recording three albums and performing over 50 live shows. After high school, Asoka briefly worked for a bank for several months before leaving to pursue work in the motion picture industry as a means of supporting himself and further exploring visual imagery and cinema; working on films including, Mars Attacks, Flags Of Our Fathers and Beautiful Daydreams. In 1998 he started to focus his time and energy on painting, still photography and other artistic mediums, producing a series of oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and paper. In 2002, he had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. In early 2008, Asoka spent 3 weeks in a self imposed meditation retreat and in the last 10 days, produced a handwritten 500 page book on meditation methods, to be used as a meditation manual. Asoka utilizes various mediums in the process of creating works, including oil paint, acrylic paint, organic dyes, oil sticks, charcoal, gesso, film celluloid and handmade paper. His primary interest is imagery and light. Over the years, his art has been collected by private collectors from around the world.Education:
MIT - Future Banking - Certificate
Columbia College - MA
Yale University (SP) - Art
University of Maryland - BFA
NYUTisch/University of London (SP) - History & Film
Peabody Preparatory/JHU – Music Theory - Certificate
St. Johns College - Philosophy

Group Exhibitions:
2016 The New York Group, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Autumn Group Show, Zizzi Gallery, Portugal
2015 Exposure, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
2008 New Beijing Int'l Festival, China
2007 Big Gig International Festival, UK
2003 The Hollywood Show, O'Melveny Gallery, LA
2002 Launch Pad, O'Melveny Gallery, LASolo Exhibitions:
2021 Flatbush Open Studio Brooklyn, New York
2019 Flatbush Open Studio Brooklyn, New York
2016 Consciousness, Zizzi Gallery, Portugal
2002 Snow, The O'Melveny Gallery, LAPublic Art Installations:
2017 Happiness Here Installations, NY, NY
2015 Love, Meaning, Sanctuary Installations, NY, NY
2015 Happiness Here Installations, NY, NY
2014 Happiness Here Installations, Paris, France
2014 Love, Meaning, Sanctuary Installations, NY, NY
2014 Happiness Here Installations, NY, NY
2013 Happiness Here Installations, NY, NY
2013 Happiness Here Installations, Chicago, IL
2012 Happiness Here Installations, NY, NYArtists Collaborations:
2015-2016 Art QA Magazine - Editor
2014-2015 Happiness Here, with Somewhere Fr., Paris
2013 Street Poems, with Poet Marie Howe, NY