Artists

KONDOH Akino

1980 Born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan


Lives and works in New York since 2008


Education


2003 Graduated from Tama Art University, BA in Graphic Design


 


KONDOH Akino official web site


 


BLOG


https://akinomag.exblog.jp/


 


WEBCOMICS


https://www.akishobo.com/akichi/kondoh


Solo Exhibitions

2023


Noodling in New York, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2019


Kondoh Akino Exhibition: Never Before Named, Art Gallery ARTIUM, Fukuoka  


 


2018


MAM SCREEN 008: KONDOH Akino, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


 


2013


“KiyaKiya 1/15 sec.”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


“The “KiyaKiya” Drawings”, ROPPONGI HILLS A/D GALLERY, Tokyo


“KiyaKiya 1/15 sec.”, galleri s.e, Bergen, Norway


 


2011


“KiyaKiya”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


 


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

2022


Domani: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition 2022-23, The National Art Center, Tokyo


Blue Period Exhibition: Art is a gift, Warehouse TERRADA, Tokyo


 


2020


Uninterrupted Wander, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2019


Annecy 2019 – Tribute to Japanese Animation -, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market (Mifa), Annecy, France (cat.)


 


2017


tricky women 2017, BildRaum07, Wien, Austria


Forms and Effects: Ukiyo-e to Anime, Kresge Foundation Gallery, Ramapo College of New Jersey, U.S.A.


 


2016


Japan Media Arts Festival- Niigata, COZMIX Building, Niigata


Japan Media Arts Festival- 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Power to Change, UDX THEATER, Tokyo


Rewind: Selections from the Harold and Ruth Newman New Media Collection, Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.


POLA MUSEUM ANNEX Exhibition 2016, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo


 


2015


Fermented Souls, KATESHIN Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


Unveiling Fundamentals in Contemporary Art Through Asia, OHD museum, Magelang, Indonesia.


Toutes uniques, toutes identiques: Accumulations, répétitions, proliférations dans l’art contemporain, Espace Sarah Bernhardt, Goussainville, traveled to: Le Musée Alfred Canal, Pont‐Audemer, France


 


2014


Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, traveled to Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, The Museum of Art, Kochi


Impacts! Hazumi : Japanese Contemporary Art, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, USA


JAPON, ABBAYE SAINT ANDRÉ Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France


Tamagura Anime to Manga Haku, akibatamabi21, Tokyo


 


2013


“The Garden of Forking Paths: Exploring Independent Animation, OCAT,”


OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, Shanghai, China


 


2012


“ZIPANGU The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art,” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, traveled to Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita (cat.)


“Planete Manga! (at Studio 13/16),” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France


 


2011


East West Connect, Above Second Gallery, Hong Kong


JALAPAGOS, Art Gallery ARTIUM, Fukuoka


ZIPANGU−31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Takashimaya Nihonbashi Exhibition Hall (8F), Tokyo, traveled to 2 other venues (cat.)


 


2010


DOMANI−The Art of Tomorrow 2010 Exhibition, The National Art Center,Tokyo (cat.)


JALAPAGOS (Tokyo Designer’s week), Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo


YouTube Play: Biennale of Creative Video, Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.


Make Believe, The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, U.S.A.


Dazzled and Enchanted−New Age Animamix, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China


 


2009


Enliven−In Between Realities and Fiction−Animamix Biennial 2009-2010,


Today Art Museum, Beijing, China


November Steps, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2008


Off the Rails, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China (cat.)


KITA!−Japanese artists meet Indonesia, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Indonesia (cat.)


VIDEOFORMES 2008, Clemont-Ferrand, France (cat.)


Eyes & Curiosity, Taiwan version, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan (cat.)


 


2007


3L4D−3rd Life 4th Dimension, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan (cat.)


How to cook DOCOMODAKE ?, 201 Mulberry St., New York, U.S.A., traveled to


Intercommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo (cat.)


Pocheon Asia Biennale 2007−Encounter with Contemporary Asian Art, Pocheon Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea (cat.)


Contemporary Outlook: Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.


International Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, U.S.A.


Get It Louder 2007, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing, China (cat.)


Thermocline of Art


New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)


CORPO SOCIALE, Galleria PACK, Milan, Italy


Festival EXIT, Maison des Arts de Creteil, Cretail, France


No American Talent II, Dark Matter : New Work from Japan, Okay Mountain, Texas, U.S.A.


 


2006


Eyes and Curiosity from Tokyo, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel


videotheque, Site Gallery, Sheffield, U.K.


Fiction@Love, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China (cat.)


 


2005


Swedish Comic Art Exhibition, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa


Spoltore Ensomble 2005


The Evening Traveling: Animations, Dreams and


Visions from Contemporary Japan, Pescara, Italy


Paradiso d’Amore−Neo-Aesthetics of Animamic Age, Hangzhou Peace


International Exhibition and Conference Center, Hangzhou, China,traveled to Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China


Psionic Distortion, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


Since 1994−the 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


A−Lunch−, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo


 


2004


Psionic Distortion, Super Deluxe, Tokyo


Tokyo Style, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden


Four Great Views of JAPAN, Gallery ES, Tokyo


Girls & Guns, The Proposition, New York, U.S.A.


Blind Pilots, The Proposition, New York, U.S.A.


OTOME KAIGI, Gallery ES, Tokyo


Awards

2012


16th Japan Media Arts Festival, Animation Division Jury Recommended work with the animation piece “KiyaKiya


 


2010


YouTube Play: Biennale of Creative Video, TOP 25 videos with the animation piece“Ladybirds’Requiem”digest version


 


2003


7th Japan Media Arts Festival, Manga Division Jury Recommended work with the manga piece “Tsumekiri Monogatari


 


2002


Animation Division Encouragement Prize of the 6th Japan Media Arts Festival, Animation Division Grand Prix of the DIGISTA AWARDS 2002, and Audience Prize of the 3rd Yuri Norshtein Grand Prix with the animation piece“The Evening Traveling


GEISAI1-GP, Yayoi Kusama Award with an installation entitled “Hakoniwa-Mushi


 


2000


2nd AX Manga Newcomer’s Award, Encouragement Award with the manga piece “Kobayashi Kayoko


Public Collection

Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.


Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan


Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


Publications

2023 Thinking in New York 1-4, Akishobo Inc.


2020 A-ko’s Boyfriends 1~7, KADOKAWA


2017 A-ko’s Boyfriends 1~4, KADOKAWA


2014  Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open, Retrofit / Big Planet Comics


2013 The ‘KiyaKiya’ Drawings, Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.


2013 Akino Kondoh 1998-2013, Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.


2012 Usagi no Yoshio, Enterbrain


2012 Fushigi to iu niha Jimi na Hanashi, Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.


2011 Akino Kondoh KiyaKiya Sketch Collection, Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.


2009 Les insects en moi, Le Lezard Noir


2008 Usual Stories, Seirinkogeisha


2006 EIKO, Le Lezard Noir


2004 Hakoniwa-Mushi, Seirinkogeisha