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  • 近藤 聡乃
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  • KONDOH Akino

KONDOH Akino was born in Chiba in 1980 and graduated from Tama University Department of Graphic Design in 2003. In 2000, Kondoh won 2nd AX Manga Newcomer's Award / Encouragement Award (Seirin Kogeisha) with manga "Kayoko Kobayashi", and in 2002 her animation “The Evening Traveling”, on which girls dance rhythmically to the music by Toshiaki Chiku (former member of music group, Tama), brought her Grand Prix for DIGISTA AWARDS 2002 / Animation Division. Her drawing is known for a fine and delicate touch with a mechanical pencil. She recently made approach to oil painting and the second manga book “Itumo no hanashi”(Seirin Kogeisha) has been published in 2008.

WORKS

EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions
2008
"Flesh", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
"hint", Tache Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2006
"Ladybirds' Requiem", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
"Kondoh Akino Exhibition", trance pop gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2003
"Kondoh Akino Exhibition", GALLERY ES, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2008
"Off the Rails," Mizuma &One Gallery, Beijing, China (cat.)
“KITA! − Japanese artists meet Indonesia,” Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Indonesia, curated by Mizuki Takahashi, Hideki Toyoshima (cat.)
“VIDEOFORMES 2008,” Clermont-Ferrand, France
“Eyes & Curiosity,”Taiwan version, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
2007
"3L4D : 3rd Life 4th Dimension", National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan (cat.)
"Pocheon Asia Biennale 2007", Pocheon Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea (cat.)
"Contemporary Outlook: Japan", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.
"Get It Louder 2007", China（Guangzhou , Gurandview Mall/ Shanghai, Daning/The Life Hub/ Beijing, SOHO Shangdu）, curated by Ou Ning (cat.)
"Thermocline of Art- New Asian Waves", ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Wonil Rhee (cat.)
"International Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum Collection", Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, U.S.A.
"EXIT Festival", Maison des Arts de Creteil, Cretail, France
2006
"Eyes and Curiosity from Tokyo", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
"videotheque", Site Gallery, Sheffield, U.K.
"Fiction@Love", MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China, curated by Victoria Lu (cat.)
2005
"Swedish Comic Art Exhibition", Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
"Paradiso d'Amore -Neo-Aesthetics of Animamic Age", Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Center, China, traveling to: Millennium Museum, Beijing, curated by Victoria Lu,
"Psionic Distortion", Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"A-Lunch-", AXIS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
"Tokyo Style", Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"Four Great Views of JAPAN", Gallery ES, Tokyo, Japan
"Blind Pilots", The Proposition, New York, U.S.A

Public Collection

    Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.
    Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
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