Tomoko Konoike

鴻池朋子

Tomko Konoike

Tomoko Konoike was born in 1960 in Akita Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Painting (Japanese Painting) at Tokyo University of the Arts, she was involved in planning and design of toys, sundries, and furniture, and these activities have carried over into the present day. Even as she employs several kinds of media—animation, illustrated books, painting, sculpture, songs, photography, handcrafts, or fairy tales. She has participated in many interdisciplinary sessions with people in other fields, created site-specific works that incorporate descriptions of a region’s climate and terrain, and continued to address primordial questions about art.

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  • 2025
    • Projects
      • Sakuya Wolf Project, Osaka Healthcare Pavilion (Indoor/Outdoor), Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
      • Workshop: Hand puppets travelling between forests and humans, University of Tartu, Estonia
      • Performance: Finger Puppet Play – The Mystery of Ringwanderung, National Sanatorium Oshima Seishoen, Kagawa
    • Exhibitions
      • 35th Anniversary Exhibition: Art and the Wild — Toward the Origins of Humanity, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
      • Setouchi Triennale 2025, Oshima Island, Takamatsu
      • 2025 Collection Exhibition 1, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
      • Beginning Awareness, Arts Maebashi, Gunma
      • PART OF THE ANIMAL: Between Animals and Humans, Lifestyle Design Center Gallery (Seikatsu Kobo), Tokyo
      • The 12th Enku Grand Award Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
    • Lectures
      • Keynote Speech & Symposium: Reimagining Nature with Japanese Studies and Art: Challenging Thought Boundaries to Overcome Eco-Anxiety, University of Adelaide / Art Gallery of South Australia
      • Lecture: The Birth of Seeing – Activities and Creation since 2015, Nagoya University of the Arts
      • Lecture: The Birth of Seeing, a New Infrastructure, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Radio Appearance: TALK TO NEIGHBORS, J-WAVE
      • Talk: Flying out of the Expo, Traveling Wolves, Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
      • Talk: Setouchi 2025 – Asking Tomoko Konoike about “Behavioral Display”, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
      • Event: Oshima Tour by Boat with the Finger Puppet Troupe, Oshima Island
      • Talk: Fieldwork Connects Art and Anthropology, with Mikako Yamaguchi and Toshiaki Ishikura, Bookshop B&B, Tokyo
    • Illustrations / Publications
      • Illustration for “Drawing Animals: Why are humans attracted to animals?”, edited by Mikako Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Ishikura, and Mitsuru Moriguchi, Iwanami Shoten
  • 2024
    • Projects
      • Storytelling Curtain Project, 166 temporary housing units in Suzu City, Ishikawa
    • Exhibitions
      • Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art × Taguchi Art Collection: How did you come into this world?, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori
      • A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Tomoko Konoike: Medicine Infrastructure, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
      • MOMOPOLY, Spiral, Tokyo
    • Lectures
      • Lecture & Dialogue: On Setouchi Triennale, with Fram Kitagawa, Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ)
      • Lecture & Workshop: School Nalanda, with Takeshi Ise and Hiroaki Nagata, Hongwanji Otaru Betsuin, Hokkaido
      • Lecture & Dialogue: A New Teacher is Born Every Time, with Takahiro Okuwaki, Hirosaki University, Aomori
      • Lecture & Dialogue: Tomoko Konoike + Takahiro Okuwaki “Maps, Bears, and Museums”, Akita City Cultural Creative Center, Akita
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Three-way Conversation: A Talk, with Emi Zozawa and Naoyuki Kinoshita, Social Exchange Hall, National Sanatorium Matsuoka Hoyoen, Kumamoto
      • Performance: Fuyuki Yamakawa “The 115th Summer” (Finger puppet cooperation), Social Exchange Hall, National Sanatorium Matsuoka Hoyoen, Kumamoto
      • Reading & Talk: Autumn Readings and Stories, with Natsuki Ikezawa, Social Exchange Hall, National Sanatorium Matsuoka Hoyoen, Kumamoto
      • Talk: Viva Niki: The Way to the Tarot Garden, with Michiko Matsumoto, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
      • Talk: Opening Talk with Finger Puppets, with Takahiro Okuwaki, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
      • Performance Talk: Written Communication Dance, with Tomotake Kinoshita, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
      • Talk & Lecture: Mid-Summer Interim Talk, with Mikako Yamaguchi (Hokkaido University), Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
      • Talk: [A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection] – Talk Series: In Front of the Artwork / Tomoko Konoike, with Tomoko Yabumae, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
      • TV Appearance: DESIGN X STORIES “Embroidery”, NHK BS
    • Illustrations
      • Cover Illustration: “Animals × Gender: Into the Forest of Multi-species Narratives”, edited by Mayako Murai and Kensuke Kumagai, Seikyusha
  • 2023
    • Projects
      • Medicine Infrastructure Project 2023–, Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Fukushima, Ibaraki, and other locations
    • Exhibitions
      • The 10th Children’s Drawing Exhibition: Things Other Than Humans, Things Not Made by Humans, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
      • Stories Stitched and Sewn in Aniai, Kita-Akita Moriyoshi-zan Welcome Station, Akita
      • Takahashi Ryutaro Collection: ART de Cha-Cha-Cha – Exploring the DNA of Japanese Contemporary Art, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo
      • Seekers of Dreams and Nature: From 19th-Century Fantastic Prints and Surrealism to Contemporary Japanese Artists, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma
      • Roppongi Art Night 2023: Encyclopedia of Urban Creatures, The National Art Center and other venues, Tokyo
      • Structure by Tomoko Konoike, GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
      • 2023 Collection Exhibition 2, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
      • Gallery Show, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
      • Things That Tell Stories, Things That Don’t, and Things That Can’t, Hajimari Art Museum, Fukushima
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: The 75th Kochi City Exhibition Contemporary Art Study Group, Kochi City Culture Plaza Karupo-to, Kochi
      • Talk: Written Communication Talk, with Tomotake Kinoshita
      • Reading: Lost and Found Mirutan, with Junko Ogawa, Junko Sugawara, Kozue Handa, and Kaoru Hosoya, GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
  • 2022
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: The Birth of Seeing, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
        Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape, Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo, Tokyo
      • Amabie in the Age of COVID-19, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Tokyo
      • The Animals’ Conference, PLAY! MUSEUM, Tokyo
        Kazuo Umezz: The Great Art Exhibition, Tokyo City View, Tokyo
      • The Little Animals’ Conference, PLAY! KICHIJOJI, Tokyo
        Storymakers in Contemporary Japanese Art, The Japan Foundation, Sydney, Australia
      • Setouchi Triennale 2022, Oshima Island, Takamatsu
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: The Challenge of the “Art Prefecture” Aomori!! Vol. 2, with Takahiro Kaneshima, Meruro Washida, and Eri Kobayashi, Aomori Art 5 Museum Collaboration (YouTube Streaming)
      • TV Appearance: Artful World, Fuji TV
      • TV Appearance: Art Shisso (Art Sprint), NHK
    • Other Activities
      • Public Art Installation, Nagasakibana Resort Campsite, Oita
  • 2021
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Underground Exploration at GALLERY MoMo: Tomoko Konoike’s “Dancing Hands”, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
      • Print Exhibition: From the Site of Creation, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo
      • Ryushi Kawabata vs. Ryutaro Takahashi Collection: Makoto Aida, Tomoko Konoike, Hisashi Tenmyoya, Akira Yamaguchi, Ota City Ryushi Memorial Museum, Tokyo
      • Forms of the Beginning: Centering on Tomoko Konoike’s “Unglazed Clay” with Prints by Fautrier, Michaux, Miró, and Matta, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto
    • Lectures
      • Lecture: The Logic of Hands, the Birth of Seeing – Groping the World from the Ground Up, with Asa Ito, Asahi Culture Center (Online)
      • Symposium: Travel Dialogue Form, with Mayako Murai, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow
      • Symposium: Knowledge of Practitioners Who Reflect on Humans and Non-Humans – Building a Body to Face the Unknown, Japanese Society for the Science of Design Spring Research Conference, with Ken Yokomizo, Tamaki Motoki, Hirotoshi Fukuda, Yuya Mikawa, and Miyu Hirao, Nagaoka Institute of Design, Niigata
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: Shima-kan Talk Final – The Birth of Seeing: Oh Viewer, What Do You See?, with Atsuhiko Shima, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
      • Online Program: Beyond the Lines: Japanese Contemporary Artists Series, The Japan Foundation
      • Radio Appearance: Radio Shin’ya-bin – Words for Tomorrow: Questioning the Roots of Art, NHK Radio 1
      • TV Appearance: Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum) – 10 Years After the Earthquake: The Imagination of Artists, NHK
        Talk: THE Doraemon Exhibition KYOTO 2021, with Takayuki Yamada, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
      • Performance: Dance in Writing, with Tomotake Kinoshita and Akiko Otake, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
    • Other Activities
      • Collaboration Items: Design Tshirts Store graniph
  • 2020
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection x Tomoko Konoike – Tomoko Konoike: Flip, Artizon Museum, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Limestone, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo
      • Mythology ⇆ Story: Tomoko Konoike | Tomoyasu Murata, Gallery MoMo Projects, Tokyo
      • Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present, The National Art Center, Tokyo
      • She Songs, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
    • Lectures
      • Lecture: Animals Shaking Up Art, with Mayako Murai, Asahi Culture Center
      • Lecture, Department of Sculpture, Tama Art University, Tokyo, invited by Tadasu Takamine
      • Symposium: Series on Lifelong Learning in a Pluralistic Symbiotic Society Vol. 24 – How to Dialogue with the Incommunicable: When a Path Opens, with Dominique Chen
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Workshop: The Birth of Seeing – Viewing Session
      • Talk: Artist Talk for “Jam Session: Tomoko Konoike” and “Cosmo-Eggs”, with Toshiaki Ishikura, Artizon Museum, Tokyo
      • Talk: Timeless Conversations 2020, with Kanji Yumisashi, The National Art Center, Tokyo
      • Talk, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo
      • TV Appearance: DESIGN TALKS Plus “Organic”, with Haruka Misawa and Shaula, NHK World
      • Performance: Folding a kite, folding another kite, folding a bird, with Kohei Sekigawa, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino
    • Other Activities
      • Tokyo 2020 Official Art Poster, Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee
  • 2019
    • Exhibitions
      • Curation: Stories Stitched and Sewn: Tomoko Konoike and Needleworkers, Gallery Järnätti, Finland
      • The Sarashina Diary: Rooms of Women’s Imagination, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
      • The Spherical Palette: Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Sapporo Art Park Museum, Hokkaido
      • Setouchi Triennale 2019, National Sanatorium Oshima Seishoen, Kagawa
      • Ecosystem of Expressions: Remaking Our Relations with the World, Arts Maebashi, Gunma
      • Events Here, Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima
    • Lectures
      • Symposium: How to Inherit and Develop Artistic Assets for the Future, Agency for Cultural Affairs, with Hiroko Ikegami, Kikuko Iwai, Junya Komatsu, Akira Tatehata, and Tsukasa Kodera, The National Art Center, Tokyo
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: Regenerating Energy of “Narratives”, with Sukeyuki Miura, Tokyodo Shoten, Tokyo
      • Talk: Kataricoco 2019, with Akiko Otake, Book Gallery Popotame, Tokyo
      • Talk: Animals Unlocking Art, with Mayako Murai, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
      • Talk, with Zaigo Tsuguchi, Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima
  • 2018
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Little fur anger, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Tomoko Konoike: Fur Story, Leeds Arts University, UK
      • Solo Exhibition: Hunter Gatherer, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
      • The Echoes from the Past | Tokyo | Berlin | Kerava, Kerava Art Museum (Sinkka), Finland
      • Dialogue: Tomoko Konoike and Nienke Koster, GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
      • Odilon Redon: The Open Dream – From the Enigmatic Symbolism to Contemporary Art, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
    • Lectures
      • Lecture, Global Art Practice, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
      • Lecture, with Toshiaki Ishikura, Akita University of Art, Akita
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Performance: Frozen River, with Fuyuki Yamakawa
      • Workshop: Old Maid with Spirits, navigated by Koichi Oyama
      • Talk (Dialogue and Review), with Yohei Kurose, Genron Café, Tokyo
      • Talk: Ghost Walking Inside a Book, with Fuyuki Yamakawa, Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo
      • TV Appearance: Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum) – Seeing the Invisible: The Gaze of Odilon Redon, NHK
    • Publications / Illustrations
      • Serial Illustration: “Wakatakeru” by Natsuki Ikezawa, The Nikkei (Morning Edition) [2018–2019]
      • Book: “Hunter Gatherer”, Hatori Press
  • 2017
    • Exhibitions
      • Universal Nature: Kalevala by 6 Japanese Contemporary Artists, SEZON ART GALLERY, Tokyo
      • GLOBAL NEW ART: Essence of Taguchi Art Collection, Woodone Museum of Art, Hiroshima
      • Oku-Noto Triennale 2017 – Stories Stitched and Sewn in Suzu, Suzu, Ishikawa
      • Art Corridor of Sea and Mountains, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
      • Japan: Spirits of Nature, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (The Nordic Museum of Watercolour), Skärhamn, Sweden
      • THE Doraemon Exhibition, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo; Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama [2018]; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi [2018]; Osaka Culturarium at Tempozan [2019]; Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum [2020]; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama; National Museum of Singapore [2022]; Huis Ten Bosch Museum, Nagasaki; Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taiwan [2023]
      • Art Riddles: Takahashi Collection – Resonate or Rebel?, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
    • Lectures
      • Lecture, Akita University of Art, Akita
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: Potluck of Words Vol. 14 – The True Power of Art!, with Akiko Otake and Toshiyuki Horie, SARAVAH Tokyo
      • TV Appearance: Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum) – Inheriting Rikyu’s Spirit: 450 Years of Raku Ware, with Kichizaemon Raku XV, NHK
    • Publications / Other Activities
      • Serial Illustration: “Asahi Kadan” (Poetry Column), Asahi Shimbun (Morning Edition)
      • Serial Essay: “The Wolf Dwelling in My Heel”, Kyodo News [2017–2018]
      • Public Art, Lotte World Mall, Seoul, South Korea
      • Public Art, Entrance of a residential complex designed by Toyo Ito, Singapore
      • Award: The 67th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize (Fine Arts Division)
  • 2016
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Primordial Violence Vol. 2 – New Bones, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
      • Solo Exhibition: Primordial Violence Vol. 3 – Leather, Needle, and Thread, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata
      • Curation: Stories Stitched and Sewn in Tasmania, University of Tasmania / Frangipani Fabrics, Australia
      • Nous, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
      • Opening the Spirit World: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons and Contemporary Art, Akita Museum of Art, Akita
      • Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas / Natural History Museum, Lawrence, USA
    • Lectures
      • Lecture, Himeji City Museum of Art (in conjunction with “Cray-pas Masterpieces Exhibition”), Hyogo
      • Lecture, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, USA
      • Lecture, University of Tasmania, Australia
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Performance: Art Complex – New Voices, with Fuyuki Yamakawa
      • Performance: Art Complex – Winter Howl, with Fuyuki Yamakawa
      • Workshop: Art’s First Errand
    • Publications
      • Book: “Words of Animals: Beyond Primordial Violence”, Hatori Press
  • 2015
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Wearing Japanese Nature: Flower, Wind, Water, Moon, Bird, Mountain, Sea, Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka
      • Solo Exhibition: Primordial Violence, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Yokohama
      • Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
      • Hokkoru-bi Museum (Cozy Museum), Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa
      • Aomori EARTH 2015: Into the Deep Michinoku, Aomori Museum of Art [Natural Fureai Center / Rokkakudo Rest Area, Mt. Bonju], Aomori
      • Cray-pas Masterpieces Exhibition, Osaka Takashimaya; Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo [2016]; Takanabe Town Museum of Art, Miyazaki [2017]; Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo [2018]; Nara Prefectural Manyo Museum [2018]; Kure Municipal Museum of Art, Hiroshima [2019]
      • Painter’s Poem, Poet’s Painting: Paintings like Poems, Poems like Paintings, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa; Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi; Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo; Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido
      • Messages: Takahashi Collection – From Yayoi Kusama to teamLab, Towada Art Center, Aomori
      • Cosmos / Intime: Takahashi Collection, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France
    • Lectures
      • Public Discussion: Art Complex 2015, moderated by Mayako Murai, with students from Kanagawa University and University of Tasmania
      • Lecture, with Shihoko Iida, Global Art Practice, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
      • Lecture, with Ren Fukuzumi, Tama Art University, Tokyo; Tokyo Zokei University; Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Performance: Art Complex 2015 – Tales of Interspecies Marriage: We Cannot Remain the Same, with Fuyuki Yamakawa and Mayako Murai
      • Workshop: Art is within each of us! A Workshop, moderated by Yuri Namiki
      • Talk: New Animals – Deconstruction of Art Mythology, with Toshiaki Ishikura and Kotaro Yoshikawa
      • Talk: Secrets of the Patchwork Hut, with Keitaney Love Kojima, Yutaka Ito, and Mayako Murai
      • TV Appearance: Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum) – Korin is Alive, NHK
    • Illustrations
      • Serial Illustration: “Until I Kill You” by Atsuko Asano, Asahi Shimbun (Evening Edition)
  • 2014
    • Projects
      • Museum Lodge Project – Mount Moriyoshi Hut Mural Installation Mission: “Mount Moriyoshi Hut and the Snow Queen”, Mount Moriyoshi Shrine Refuge Hut, Aniai, Akita
    • Exhibitions
      • Curation: Remapping Hibiya Project 2014 – Art Appearing at the Boundary between City and Forest, Hibiya College (Hibiya Library & Museum), Yurakucho, Tokyo
      • Ohara Museum of Art Exhibition, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
      • Rokko Meets Art: Art Walk 2014, Rokkosan Hotel, Hyogo
        Odate-Kitaakita Arts Festival 2014: Dogs in Villages, Bears in Mountains, Aniai, Mount Moriyoshi, Akita
      • AN ENCHANTED FOREST: Fairy Tale Forest, Kanagawa University Library, Kanagawa
    • Lectures
      • Lecture: Museum Lodge Project Report – Mount Moriyoshi Hut and the Snow Queen, interviewed by Rieko Sakamoto, College Plaza, Akita
      • Lecture: Myth and Region – Starting from “Myths Opening Up Tohoku”, Tottori University, Tottori; Global Art Practice, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
      • Symposium: Art Appearing at the Boundary between Humans and the Wild, moderated by Rieko Sakamoto, with Satoshi Yano and Toshiaki Ishikura, Hibiya College, Tokyo
      • Symposium: Fairy Tales and Art – Leaving the Forest, moderated by Rieko Sakamoto, with Mayako Murai and Kunio Iwaya, Hibiya College, Tokyo
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: Last Scene, with Naoya Hatakeyama, Nobuhiro Kanagawa, and Kunio Iwaya, Chukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Aichi
  • 2013
    • Projects
      • Museum Lodge Project – Operation Moriyoshi 1 & 2; Operation 3: Boats Climbing Mount Moriyoshi; Operation 4: Boats Arrive at Mount Moriyoshi Hut!, Mount Moriyoshi Shrine Refuge Hut, Aniai, Akita
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Tomoko Konoike: Earthshine, Gallery Wendy Norris, San Francisco, USA
      • Curation: Akita Art Project – Myths Opening Up Tohoku,
      • Chapter 2: The Second Tool – Finger Puppets; Large Finger Puppets Dig the Earth, Small Finger Puppets Climb Mountains, Akita Museum of Art, Akita
      • Wonderful My Art: Artists of the Takahashi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi
      • OHARA CONTEMPORARY, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
      • Takahashi Collection: Mindfulness!, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima; Sapporo Art Park Museum, Hokkaido; Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi [2014]; Museum of Art, Kochi [2016]; Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata [2017]
      • Last Scene, Chukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Aichi
    • Lectures
      • Symposium: School of Spirits – How to Dialogue with the Invisible, with Toshiaki Ishikura and Kotaro Yoshikawa, Co-Co-Laboratory, Akita
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: On Mimio Library (in conjunction with “To Create is to Live: East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Support Exhibition in Tokyo”), 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
    • Other Activities
      • Public Art, WATERRAS, Kanda Awajicho, Tokyo
  • 2012
    • Exhibitions
      • Curation: Akita Art Project – Myths Opening Up Tohoku, Chapter 1: Tomoko Konoike and 40 Artists Excavate Akita’s Ancient Layers with Mysterious Incantations, Akita Museum of Art, Akita
      • Art Stage Singapore 2012, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
      • The Collectors Show: CHIMERA, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
      • The 5th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award Exhibition, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
      • Ohara Museum of Art Exhibition: From Monet, Renoir, and Modigliani to Yayoi Kusama, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido
      • ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum; Takasaki City Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
    • Lectures
      • Lecture: Things That Cannot Be Named, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Talk: The Path Between Humans and the Wild, with Akio Shonai, Yutaro Fujiwara, and Toyojiro Hida, College Plaza, Akita
      • Talk: Seeking New Possibilities for Museums – Homage to Tsuguharu Foujita, with Shuji Takashina and Emiko Yamanashi, Akita Museum of Art, Akita
      • Talk: GTS Art Talk Café, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
      • TV Appearance: Shiten Ronten (Point of View) – Myths Opening Up Tohoku, NHK
    • Other Activities
      • Public Art, Konan Children and Youth Plaza “Purariba,” Minato City, Tokyo
      • Award: The 5th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award
  • 2011
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Hidden Mountain: Reverse Climb, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Tomoko Konoike: Wearing a Beast’s Skin, Knitting with Grass, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
      • Solo Exhibition: While I was blinking, I came a long way, SLANT, Ishikawa
      • Curation: Mimio Library, Ishinomaki City Library, Miyagi; Onagawa Town Temporary Housing; Tamura City Funabiki Sports Ground, Fukushima; Ayukawa Elementary School Temporary Housing, Ishinomaki
      • Takahashi Collection Hinode Opening Exhibition: Request Top 30 – 10 Years of Progress, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo
      • Art de Mushi-Mushi: Special Collaboration Mission!, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
      • ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Nihombashi Takashimaya, Tokyo; Osaka Takashimaya; Kyoto Takashimaya
      • Jarapagos, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka
      • Japonisme for Japanese: Wabi-Sabi, Oroshimachi ART FESTA 2011, Miyagi
      • TARO LOVE: Taro Okamoto and 14 Genes, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
      • TDW-ART: The Sky of Elpis, TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2011, Tokyo
      • Kobiken is Alive: From the Takahashi Collection, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo
    • Lectures
      • Lecture: Answering 100 Questions from Joshibi Students – Students, Stand in the Tsunami, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo
      • Lecture: Insights from the Activities of Tomoko Konoike, Kanazawa College of Art, Ishikawa
      • Symposium: Let’s Do Our Best, Tohoku! The Power of Art for Community Building, Akita Municipal Junior College of Arts and Crafts
      • Symposium: Motoi Masaki Course – Visualizing the Atomic Bomb, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Ibaraki
    • Publications
      • Picture Book: World of Wonder (Open Book Series), Hatori Press
  • 2010
    • Exhibitions
      • Art Hong Kong 2010, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
      • Busan Biennale 2010: Living in Evolution, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
      • Special Exhibition for the 80th Anniversary of the Ohara Museum of Art: OHARA BEST, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
      • Narrative Painting, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata
      • TDW-ART: Jarapagos, TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2010, Tokyo
      • The World of Pencil Drawings, Chukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Aichi
    • Lectures
      • Lecture, Department of Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
      • Lecture: People Who Play with Imagination, Asahi Culture Center Shinjuku, Tokyo
      • Lecture: People Who Play with Mythology, Bunkyo University, Tokyo
    • Illustrations
      • Serial Illustration: “Fuse” by Kazuki Sakuraba, Weekly Bunshun [2010–2011]
  • 2009
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Inter-Traveller: Playing with Myth, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Inter-Traveller: Twelve Poets, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
      • A Gift from Kenji Miyazawa: How to Journey toward Happiness, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka
      • Kami: Silence and Action – Japanese Contemporary Art, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany
      • Screening: Art-Anime Screening, Stanford University, USA
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Workshop: Let’s Grasp a Stone of Narrative! Sakurajima Volcano Edition
      • TV Appearance: Shiten Ronten (Point of View) – Inter-Traveller: Playing with Myth, NHK
    • Publications
      • Book: “Future Map of Rokkomori”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
      • Book: “Inter-Traveller: Playing with the Dead”, Hatori Press
      • Documentary Book: “Searching for the Wolf’s Path: Inter-Traveller: Twelve Poets”, Sankei Shimbun
  • 2008
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: My Works Belong to Others, Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Hidden Mountain & The Lodge, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Visitor from Another World: Six-legged Wolf and Three Days in Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa [Shoto-an / San-u-tei]; Kanazawa City Nakamura Memorial Museum [Former Nakamura Residence / Baian], Ishikawa
      • 2008 South East Asia Visual Arts Exhibition, Capital Library of China, Beijing
      • The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial: Farewell to Post-Colonialism, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
      • Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists from the Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima; Sapporo Art Park Museum, Hokkaido; The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Akita Museum of Modern Art; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori; Museum of Art, Ehime
      • Genes of Osamu Tezuka: Light in the Darkness, PARCO FACTORY, Tokyo
      • Screening: VIVA Festival, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Japanisches Kulturinstitut (The Japan Foundation), Cologne, Germany
    • Lectures
      • Public Lecture, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Workshop: The Time is Future – Release the Wolves in Roppongi! “Future Map of Rokumori” Project Finale, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2007
    • Exhibitions
      • Linien (Lines), Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (NKV), Germany
      • Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, Long March Space, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
      • Geopolitics of the Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (MARCO), Spain
      • In the Midst of a Narrative, Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA, Saitama
      • 3L4D: Anime Aesthetics New Century, National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
      • Tamagawa Art Line Project: Art Line Week 2007, Unoki Station, Tokyo
      • Screening: Animationism, UPLINK Factory, Tokyo
      • Screening: VIVA Festival, Ciclo de Música Contemporánea CIMTEC, Spain
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Workshop: Release the Wolves in Roppongi! “Future Map of Rokkomori” Project, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
      • Workshop: The Season is Autumn, The Time is Future – Release the Wolves in Roppongi! “Future Map of Rokumori” Project Part 2, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2006
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Chapter #0 – The World is Always Secret, Wonderful, and Enigmatic, Ohara Museum of Art: Yurinsou and Kojima Torajiro Memorial Hall, Okayama
      • Solo Exhibition: Emergency Landing in Achi: Mimio Picture Book Print Exhibition, Kobo Ikuko, Okayama
      • Solo Exhibition: The Planet will be Covered with Snow for a While, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
      • Curation: A Lunch, AXIS Gallery Annex, Tokyo
      • Entry Gate: Virtual@Love, MoCA Shanghai, China
      • Videoformes 2006: 21st International Video Art & New Media Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
      • PhotoEspaña 2006: Naturaleza: Experiencia, Museo de San Román, Toledo, Spain
      • The Scarecrow, Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece
        Rapt!: 20 Contemporary Artists From Japan, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, Australia
        Eyes and Curiosity from Tokyo, Shlush-Omanut Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
      • Screening: VIVA Festival, Stedelijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Belgium; Confluencias España, Spain; The Stadals Theater, Netherlands
    • Lectures
      • Symposium: CCJP Symposium, moderated by Dominique Chen, with Lawrence Lessig, Nobuhiro Nakayama, Koichi Yoshie, and Akihiko Takano
      • Lecture: Where Does Imagination Come From?, Creative Commons Japan (CCJP)
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Workshop: Chapter #0 Haiku, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
        Publications
      • Book: “Chapter #0”, Ohara Museum of Art
  • 2005
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Emergency Landing in the Meadow, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: Emergency Landing in Mimio, NADiff, Tokyo
      • MOT Annual 2005: Life Actually, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo
      • The Storytellers: Art into Ideas, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
      • Psionic Distortion, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA
      • The Evening Traveling: Animations, Dreams and Visions, Spoltore Ensemble 2005, Pescara, Italy
      • SKETCH IN MOTION, Sketch Gallery, London, UK
    • Lectures
      • Lecture, Department of Oil Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Workshop: Let’s Find a Stone of Narrative, Mori Art Museum / J-WAVE, Tokyo
  • 2004
    • Exhibitions
      • Officina Asia, MAMbo (Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna), Bologna, Italy
      • I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
    • Illustrations
      • Illustrations for “Kobiki” (Fox Enchantment) by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Heibonsha
  • 2003
    • Exhibitions
      • Curation: Forest of the Six Senses, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
        City_net Asia 2003, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
      • Edge of the Earth, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
    • Appearances / Public Programs
      • Workshop: Another “Eye,” Another Forest, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
    • Publications / Other Activities
      • Book: “Rokumori Notebook”, Executive Committee of Forest of the Six Senses
      • Public Art, MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall, Kanagawa
  • 2002
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: The Outside is Just There, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
      • Kageki Metonymics, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
      • Art Video Lounge, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA
  • 2001
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Thousands of Breathing Roughs, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
      • Solo Exhibition: GI-GA, Fujikawa Gallery Next, Osaka
      • Art Connection, Bangkok, Thailand
    • Publications
      • Picture Book: “Mimio”, Seigensha Art Publishing
  • 2000
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: Awaken, Chilly and Brightly, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1999
    • Exhibitions
      • Screening: Mimio (Animation), Q-FRONT Q’S EYE Vision, Shibuya, Tokyo
  • 1998
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: SOFT II – Prototype, Living Design Gallery, Tokyo
      • Sol-Levante: 5 Designers from Japan, Mudima Foundation, Milan, Italy
      • Morphe ’98: Beyond the Horizon, Nansei-cho, Mie
  • 1997
    • Exhibitions
      • Solo Exhibition: SOFT, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
      • Art Work: Requests from the Future, Kiryu City Performing Arts Center, Gunma
    • Other Activities
      • Public Art, Kiryu City Performing Arts Center, Gunma