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.

Select Exhibition

  • 2024
    • Tomoko Konoike: Medicine Infrastructure, Aomori Museun of Art, Aomori
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    • Project “Curtain Project”, Temporary housing in Suzu City, Ishikawa
    • Momopoly, Spiral, Tokyo
  • 2023
    • Tomoko Konoike Exhibition, GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
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    • The 10th Children’s Art Exhibition, “Something other than human, Anything other than what man has created”, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
    • Storytelling Table Runner in Aniai, Kita-akita Mt. Moriyoshi welcome station, Akita
    • “ART de Cha Cha Cha − Exploring the DNA of Japanese Contemporary Art −” from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo
    • Seeking Dreams and Nature – From 19th Century Fantasy and Surrealism to Contemporary Japanese Art, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma
    • Roppongi Art Night 2023, National Art Center, Tokyo and Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo
    • Tomoko Konoike Exhibition, GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
    • Permanent Collection 2nd term 2023, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa
    • Gallery Show, Gallery Momo Ryogoku, Tokyo
    • Stories to be Told, Stories Not to be Told, Stories that Cannot be Told, Hajimari Art Center, Fukushima
  • 2022
    • The Birth of Seeing: Tomoko Konoike, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa [2022]; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka [2022]; Aomori Museum of Art [2024]
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    • Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape, Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo, Tokyo
    • “Amabie in the age of Covid-19” project, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama
    • Animals’ Conference, PLAY! MUSEUM, Tokyo
    • KAZUO UMEZZ THE GERAT ART EXHIBITION, Tokyo City View, Tokyo; ABENO HARUKAS Art Museum, Osaka; TELEPIA HALL, Aichi [2023]
    • Small Animals’ Conference, PLAY! KICHIJOJI, Tokyo
    • Story makers in Contempray Japanese Art, The Japan Foundation Sydney, Australia
    • Setouchi Triennale 2022, National Sanatorium Oshima Seisho-en, Kagawa
  • 2021
    • Exploration in Underground by Gallery MoMo :Tomoko Konoike “Dancing Hands”, Gallery Momo Ryogoku, Tokyo
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    • Print Exhibition – From the Place of Production, Tokyo
    • Collaborative Exhibition: Kawabata Ryushi + Takahashi Ryutaro Collection – Aida Makoto, Konoike Tomoko,Tenmyoya Hisashi, and Yamaguchi Akira, Ryushi Memorial Museum, Tokyo
    • Beginning and form: Tomoko Konoike “Unglazed Clay” with prints by Fortrier, Michaux, Miro, Matta, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto
  • 2020
    • Jam Session: Ishibashi Foundation Collection x Tomoko Konoike Tomoko Konoike FLIP, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo
    • Tomoko Konoike: Limestone, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo
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    • Mythology ⇆ Story: from Mythology to Story / from Story to Mythology 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
    • Listen to Her Song, Tokyo University of the Arts The University Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2019
    • Captured in a table runner in Järvenpää, Galleria Järnätti, ärvenpää-talo, Finland, Curation
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    • Women Imagining Rooms: About the Diary of Lady Sarashina, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
    • Globe as a Palette: Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art; Kushiro Art Museum; Hakodate Museum of Art; Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido
    • Setouchi Triennale 2019, National Sanatorium Oshima Seisho-en, Kagawa
    • The Ecology of Expression Remaking Our Relations with the World, Arts Maebashi, Gunma Koko No Dekigoto, Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima
  • 2018
    • Tomoko Konoike: Little fur anger, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo
    • Tomoko Konoike: Fur Story, The Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Art University, U.K.
    • Hunter Gatherer: Tomoko Konoike, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
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    • AJAN KAIKUJA Tokio I Berliini I Kerava (Echoes from the Past | Tokio | Berliini | Kerava), Kareva Art Museum, Finland
    • Tomoko Konoike + Nynke Koster “Dialogue”, Gallery MoMo Projects, Tokyo
    • Redon and His World: Beyond Imagination, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
  • 2017
    • The Universal Nature: Rediscovery of Kalevala by 6 Contemporary Japanese Artists, Sezon Art Gallery, Tokyo
    • Global New Art: The Essence of the Taguchi Art Collection, Woodone Museum of Art, Hiroshima
    • Suzu 2017: Oku-Noto Triennale, Ishikawa
    • Storytelling Table Runner in Suzu, Ishikawa
    • A Corridor of Art through the Mountains and Seas, Onomichi City Art Museum, Hiroshima
    • Japan: Spirits of Nature, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet [Nordic Watercolour Museum], Skärhamn, Sweden
    • THE Doraemon Exhibition, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo; Takaoka City Museum of Art, Toyama [2018], Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi [2018], Osaka Cultural Center at Tempozan, Osaka [2019], The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum [2020], The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, OKAYAMA; National Museum of Singapore, Republic of Singapore [2022], Huis Ten Bosch Museum, Nagasaki; National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, China [2023],
    • The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection Resonance or Repellence?, Shizuoka prefectural Museum of Art
  • 2016
    • Tomoko Konoike “A New Species of Bone,” Primordial Violence Vol.2, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma
    • Tomoko Konoike “Skin, Needle, Thread,” Primordial Violence Vol.3, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum
    • Storytelling Table Runner in Tasmania, University of Tasmania / Frangipani Fabrics, Australia, Curation
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    • Nous: sewing and living, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa
    • Exposing Ikai — The Different World: Visitors in Past and Contemporary Art, Akita Museum of Art
    • Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia, Spencer Museum of Art, U.S.A.
  • 2015
    • Tomoko Konoike: Dressed in the Nature of Japan, Hankyu Department Store, Umeda, Osaka Tomoko Konoike: Primordial Violence, Kanagawa prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa
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    • Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
    • Hokkori Museum, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa
    • Aomori Earth 2015: To the Heart of the Unknown Trail, Aomori Museum of Art, Mt. Bonju
    • Cray-Pas Art, Takashimaya Osaka; Himeji Museum of Art, Hyogo [2016]; Takanabe Museum of Art, Miyazaki [2017]; Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo [2018]; Nara Prefecture Complex of Man’yo Culture [2018]; Kure Municipal Museum of Art, Hiroshima [2019]
    • Poetry of the painter, Painting of the poet, 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, Towada Art Center, Aomori
    • Cosmos / Intime: La collection Takahashi, Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, France
  • 2014
    • Lodge The Art Museum Projects: Mt. Moriyoshi’s Mountain Hut, a strategic plan to install the mural “Mt. Moriyoshi’s Mountain Hut and the Snow Queen”, Mt. Moriyoshi, Akita
    • Remapping Hibiya Project: Art in the Interstices between Bity and Forest, Hibiya Library & Museum, Tokyo, Curation
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    • Masterpieces from Ohara Museum of Art, Akita Museum of Modern Art
    • Rokko Meets Art 2014, Rokkosan Hotel, Hyogo
    • Odate & Kitaakita Festival of the Arts 2014, Kitaakita City, Mt. Moriyoshi, Akita
    • An Enchanted Forest, The Kanagawa University Library
  • 2013
    • Tomoko Konoike: Earthshine, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, U.S.A.
    • Akita Art Project “Myths Open Tohoku,” Chapter 2: The Second Tool — a Hand Puppet, The Akita Museum of Art, Curation
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    • Wonderful My Art, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi
    • Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
    • Takahashi Collection: Mindfullness!, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima; Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido; Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi [2014]; The Museum of Art, Kochi [2016], Yamagata Art Museum [2017]
    • Last Scene, Chukyo University Art Gallery C Square, Aichi
  • 2012
    • Akita Art Project “Myths Open Tohoku,” Chapter 1, Digging into Akita’s Layers of History Under the Mysterious Spell of Tomoko Konoike and 40 Artists, The Akita Museum of Art, Curation
    • Lodge The Art Museum Projects “Operation 1, 2” [2012], “Operation 3: The Ship, Climbing Mt. Moriyoshi” [2013], “Operation 4: The Ship, Arriving at Mt. Moriyoshi’s Mountain Hut” [2013], Mt. Moriyoshi, Akita
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    • Art Stage Singapore 2012, Marina Bay Sands Exhibition and Convention Center, Singapore The Collectors Show: Chimera, Singapore Art Museum
    • The 5th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
    • Masterpieces from the Ohara Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
    • Zipangu: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum; Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma [2013]; Hachinohe Museum of Art, Aomori [2013]; Akita Museum of Modern Art [2013]
  • 2011
    • Konoike Tomoko: Hidden Mountain Reverse, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
    • Konoike Tomoko: Donning Animal Skins and Braided Grass, Gallery Hyundai, Korea
    • Tomoko Konoike: In the blink of an eye, I have come this far, Slant, Ishikawa
    • The Mimio Library, Ishinomaki City Library, Miyagi; Temporary Housing on the Onagawa Town; Baseball Field, Miyagi [2012]; Tamura City Funehiki Athletic Field, Fukushima Prefecture [2012]; Temporary Housing at the Ayukawa Elementary School, Miyagi [2013], Curation
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    • The Most Requested Top 30: 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo Insects in Art, Akita Museum of Modern Art
    • Zipangu-31 Spirited Artists Cutting Through New Territories of Japanese Contemporary Art, Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Osaka; Kyoto
    • Jalapagos, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka
    • Wabisabi, Oroshimachi Art Festa 2011, Noh-BOX, Miyagi
    • Taro Love, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
    • TDW-ART “Elpis-Sky of Hope”, Tokyo Designers Week 2011, Tokyo
    • Kobiken: from the Takahashi Collection, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2010
    • Art HK 2010 (Art Hong Kong), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, China
    • Busan Biennale 2010 Living in Evolution, Busan Museum of Art, Korea
    • Ohara Best: Ohara Museum of Art 80th Creation Anniversary Memorial Exhibition, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
    • Narrative Paintings, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum
    • TDW-ART “Jalapagos”, Tokyo Designers Week 2010
    • The World of Pencil Drawing, Chukyo University, Art Gallery C Square, Aichi
  • 2009
    • Konoike Tomoko: Inter-Traveller, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
    • Konoike Tomoko: Inter-Traveller Twelve Wolf Poets, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
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    • Souvenirs from Kenji Miyazawa, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka
    • Kami. Silence-Action, Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Germany
    • Art-anime screening, Stanford University, U.S.A., Screening
  • 2008
    • Tomoko Konoike: Mine is Yours, Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Tokyo
    • Tomoko Konoike: Hidden Mountain & the Lodge, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
    • Tomoko Konoike: The visitor from the alien world: Three days with a six-legged wolf in Kanazawa, Ishikawa(21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art)
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    • Vision of East Asian 2008, Art Exhibition Hall, Gehua Plaza, Beijing, China
    • The 3rd Guangzhou Triennale: Farewell to Post-Colonialism, Guangdong Museum of Art,
    • China Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists After 1990’s — From Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima; Sapporo Artpark, Hokkaido; The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo [2009]; The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum [2009]; Akita Museum of Modern Art [2009]; Yonago City Museum of Art, Shimane [2009]; Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art [2010]
    • Tezuka Gene: Light In the Darkness, PARCO Factory, Tokyo
    • VIVA Festival, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Germany, Screening
  • 2007
    • Linien, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
    • Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, Long March Project, Beijing, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, China
    • The Geopolitics of the Animation, The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo (MARCO), Spain
    • Right in the middle of the story: 3 storytellers in art, Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA, Saitama
    • 3rd Life 4th Dimention, National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Tamagawa Art Line Project, Art Line Week, Unoki station, Tokyo
    • Animationism, Uplink Factory, Tokyo, Screening
    • VIVA Festival, Ciclo de Música Contemporánea: CIMTEC Sevilla Transit, Spein, Screening
  • 2006
    • Tomoko Konoike: Chapter #0 — A world of never-ending wonder, secret and mystery, Ohara Museum of Art Yurinso, Kojima Torajiro Memorial Hall, Okayama
    • Tomoko Konoike: Emergency Landing in Achi, Koubou IKUKO, Okayama
    • Tomoko Konoike: The planet is covered by silvery sleep, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
    • A Lunch “an art exhibition with a menu” , AXIS Gallery Annex, Tokyo, Curation
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    • Fiction@Love, Musuem of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai), China
    • Videoformes 2006 21ème Manifestation internationale d’art vidéo et nouveaux médias, Clermont Ferrand, France
    • PhotoEspaña 2006 Naturaleza: Experiencia, Museo San Roman, Toledo, Spain
    • The Scarecrow, Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece
    • Rapt!: 20 Contemporary Artists From Japan, CCP, Melbourne, Australia
    • Eyes and Curiosity from Tokyo, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • VIVA Festival, Stedelijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Antwerpen, Kingdom of Belgium; Confluencias España, Spain; The Stadals Theater, Netherlands, Screening
  • 2005
    • Emergency Landing in the Meadow, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
    • Emergency Landing in Mimio, NADiff, Tokyo
    • A Lunch: An art exhibition with a menu, AXIS Gallery Annex, Tokyo, Curation
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    • MOT Annual 2005: Life Actually, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
    • The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
    • Psionic Distortion, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
    • Paradiso d’Amore -Neo-Aesthetics of Animamic Age, Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Center, Hangzhou; Beijing World Art Museum, China
    • Spoltore Ensemble 2005 “The Evening Traveling: Animations, Dreams and Visions from Contemporary Japan”, Pescare, Italy
    • Sketch in Motion, Sketch Gallery, London, U.K.
  • 2004
    • Officina Asia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
    • I just don’t know what to do with myself, Marella d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
  • 2003
    • Deep Forest Beyond Five Senses, AXIS Gallery, AXIS building, Tokyo, Curation
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    • City_net Asia 2003, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
    • Edges of the Earth, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
  • 2002
    • Tomoko Konoike: Outside Over There, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
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    • Kageki Metonymics: Subversions and Transformations from the Japanese Fringe, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
    • Art Video Lounge, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art, U.S.A.
  • 2001
    • Thousands of Rough Sketches, Breathing, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
    • Tomoko Konoike: GIGA, Fujikawa Gallery / Next, Osaka
    • Tomoko Konoike “mimio” exhibition, Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo
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    • art connection, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2000
    • Tomoko Konoike: Awakening from the Cold Glitter, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1999
    • mimio, animation on the Q-Front screen, Tokyo, Screening
  • 1998
    • Tomoko Konoike solo exhibition SOFT II Prototype, Living Design Gallery, Tokyo
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    • Sol-Levato 5 designer dal Giappone, Fondazione Mudima Gallery, Milan, Italy
    • Morphe’98 Beyond the Horizon, Nanseicho, Mie, Japan
  • 1997
    • Tomoko Konoike’s SOFT, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
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    • Artwork: Message from the Future, Kiryu City Performing Arts Center, Gunma

Selected Activities

  •  2023
    • Public talk Kochi-city Culture Plaza Cul-port, Takamatsu
    • Talk in writing with Tomotake Kinoshita, GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
    • Reading session “Lost and Found Mirutan” with Junko Ogawa, Junko Sugawara, Kozue Handa, Kaori Hosoya, GALLERY MoMo Projects
  • 2022
    • Public Art Project nagasakibana resort Campsite, Oita
    • Online talk with, Takahiro Kaneshima, Meruro Washida, Eri Kobayashi, YouTube
    • Appear Fuji Television, “Artful World”
    • Appear NHK, “Art Sprint”
  • 2021
    • Online talk with Shima Atsuhiko, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
    • Appear Online exhibition: Beyond the Lines, The Japan Foundation
    • Appear NHK Radio Mid-night Mail -Words for Tomorrow-
    • Online Lecture with Asa Ito, Asahi Culture Center Shinjuku, Tokyo
    • Symposium with Mayako Murai, Centre for Contemporary Arts, United Kingdom
    • Appear NHK, “Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum)”
    • Online Symposium with Ken Yokomizo, Tamaki Motoki, Hirotoshi Fukuda, Yuya
    • Mikawa, Miyui Hirao, The Japanese Society for the Science of Design, Nagaoka Institute of Design, Niigata
    • Public talk with Yamada Takayuki, The Doraemon Exhibition Kyoto, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
    • Collaboration with Design Tshirts Store graniph
    • Performance Dance in writing, with Tomotake Kinosita, Akiko Otake, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Yokyo
  • 2020
    • Workshop The Birth of Seeing
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    • Public talk with Toshiaki Ishikura (Exhibition in Japan of the Japan Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition̶La Biennale di Venezia “Cosmo-Eggs”)
    • Online talk with KanjiYumisashi, “Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present,“ The National Art Center, Tokyo
    • Online talk, KIDO Press, Tokyo
    • Lecture with Mayako Murai, Asahi Culture Center Shinjuku, Tokyo
    • Appear with Haruka Misawa, Shaula, NHK “DESIGN TALKS Plus”
    • Session with Sekigawa Kohei, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, “Sekigawa Kohei: Let’s call it a day,” Kanagawa
    • Lecture with Tadasu Takamine, Tama Art University Department of sculpture, Tokyo
    • Online Symposium with Chen Dominique, Foundation of Global Life Learning Center
    • Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters
  • 2019
    • Public talk with Sukeyuki Miura, “The Energy of Storytelling Reborn,” Books Tokyodo
    • Public talk with Akiko Otake, “Katarikoko 2019,” Books & Gallery Popotame, Tokyo
    • Public talk with Mayako Murai, “Animals Unlocking Art: A Conversation on Contemporary Art and Fairy Tales,” Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA Library), Greece
    • Public talk with Akigo Tsuguchi
    • Symposium with Yuko Ikegami, Kikuko Iwai, Junya Komatsu, Akira Tatehata, Tsukasa Kodera, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo
  • 2018
    • Performance Frozen River, with Fuyuki Yamakawa
    • Workshop The spirit’s old maid, with Koichi Oyama
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    • Public talk with Yohei Kurose, Genron Café, Tokyo
    • Public talk with Fuyuki Yamakawa, “Ghost walking in the book”, Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo
    • Lecture Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Inter-media Art; Akita University of Art (Toshiaki Ishikura’s Class)
    • Appear NHK, “Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum)”
    • Serialized Natsuki Ikezawa “Watakakeru” to illustrate, The Nikkei daily publication,
    • 2018–2019
    • Publication Hunter Gatherer, Hatori Press
  • 2017
    • Public Art Project Lotte World Mall, Seoul, Korea
    • Public Art Project Toyoo Ito design Apartment complex entrance, Singapore
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    • Public talk with Akiko Otake, Toshiyuki Horie, “Kotoba No Potluck Vol.14,” Saravah Tokyo
    • Lecture Akita University of Art
    • Appear NHK, “Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum)”
    • Award The 67th Art Encouragement Prize by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
    • Serialized “waka circle of Asahi” to illustrate, The Asahi Shimbun daily publication
    • Serialized Tomoko Konoike “Wolf on the heel” , Kyodo News, 2017–2018
  • 2016
    • Performance New voice—Art Complex, with Fuyuki Yamakawa
    • Performance Winter howl—Art Complex, with Fuyuki Yamakawa
    • Workshop First mission of Art
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    • Lecture Himeji City Museum of Art (Cray-pas Art) Lecture Spencer Museum of Art; University of Tasmania
    • Publication The Language of Animals: Beyond Primordial Violence, Hatori Press
  • 2015
    • Performance Tales of Marriage to the Other World: You will never be the Same — Art Complex 2015, with Fuyuki Yamakawa, Mayako Murai
    • Workshop Such Workshop “Art is in each person” , with Yuri Namiki
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    • Public talk with Toshiaki Ishikura, Kotaro yoshikawa, “New animals”
    • Public talk with Kojima keitaney-love, Yutaka Ito, Mayako Murai, “Secret of Tsugihagi Hut”
    • Discussion with Mayako Murai, Kanagawa University students, University of Tasmania students
    • Lecture Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Inter- media Art (Shihoko Iida’s Class); Tama Art University (Ren Fukuzumi’s Class); Tokyo Zokei University; Joshibi University of Art and Design
    • Appear NHK, “Nichiyo Bijutsukan (Sunday Museum)”
    • Serialized: Atsuko Asano “Boku ga Kimi wo Korosumade” to illustrate, The Asahi Shimbun evening edition
  • 2014
    • Public talk with Naoya Hatakeyama, Nobuhiro Kanagawa, Kunio iwaya, Chukyo University, Gallery C Square, Aichi
    • Public talk with Rieko Sakamoto, “Lodge The Art Museum,” College Plaza Akita
    • Lecture Tottori University Art Center; Tokyo University of Arts, Department of Inter- media Art
    • Symposium with Rieko Sakamoto (moderator), Yano Satoji, Toshiaki Ishikura, “Art emerging at the border between human beings and the wild,” Hibiya Library & Museum
    • Symposium with Rieko Sakamoto (moderator), Kunio Iwaya, Mayako Murai, “Nursery- tale and Art,” Hibiya Library & Museum
  • 2013
    • Public Art Project WATERRAS, Tokyo
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    • Public talk “The Mimio Library,” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
    • Symposium with Toshiaki Ishikura, Kotaro Yoshikawa,
    • “School for the Spirits: How to talk with invisible beings,” Cocolaboratory, Akita
  • 2012
    • Public Art Projec t Sunport Konan Minato-ku Public Child Facility, Tokyo
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    • Public talk with Toyojiro Hida (moderator) , Akio Shonai, Yutaro Fujiwara, “A Road on which Human Beings and the Wild Travel,” College Plaza, Akita
    • Public talk with Shuji Takashina, Emiko Yamanashi, Akita Museum of Art
    • Public talk Tokyo University of the Arts, GTS Art Talk Café
    • Lecture Tohoku University of Art and Design, “Things which cannot be named”
    • Appear NHK, “Shiten Ronten (The Viewpoint of Issues)”
    • Awards The 5th Kaii Higashiyama Commemorative Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize
  • 2011
    • Lecture Joshibi University of Art and Design, Organized by Joshibi Insei Project (JIP); Kanazawa College of Art
    • Symposium “Ganbaro Tohoku! Art as a driving force in city development,” Akita Municipal Junior College of Arts and Crafts
    • Symposium Tokyo University of the Arts, Inter Media Art course (Motoi Masaki’s course), “Looking at the Atomic Bomb”
    • Publication Book Burning ̶ World of Wonder, Hatori Press
  • 2010
    • Lecture Tokyo University of the Arts, The Department of Sculpture; Asahi Culture Center (Shinjuku), “Playing with Imagination”; Bunkyo University, “Playing with Myths”
    • Serialized Kazuki Sakuraba “Fuse” to illustrate, Shukan Bunshun
  • 2009
    • Workshop Let’s grasp for a imagination’s stone
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    • Appear NHK, “Shiten Ronten (The Viewpoint of Issues)”
    • Publication Roppongi / Mori Future Map Project, Mori Art Museum
    • Publication Inter Traveller: People Playing with the Dead, Hatori Press
    • Publication On the Trail of the Wolves, The Sankei Shimbun
  • 2008
    • Workshop Release the wolves in Roppongi “A vision of the future for Tokyo” The Final Chapter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
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    • Lecture Tokyo University of the Arts, Inter-media Art
  • 2007
    • Workshop Release the wolves in Roppongi “A vision of the future for Tokyo” The First Chapter, The Second Chapter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2006
    • Workshop Chapter #0
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    • Symposium with Dominick Chen (moderator), Lawrence Lessig, Nobuhiro Nakayama, Koichi Yoshie, Akihiko Takano, Creative Commons Japan, Tokyo
    • Lecture Tomoko Konoike “Where does imagination come from?” Creative Commons Japan, Tokyo
    • Publication Chapter #0, Ohara Museum of Art
  • 2005
    • Workshop Let’s look for a story’s stone, Mori Art Museum / J-WAVE, Tokyo
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    • Lecture Musashino Art University, Oil Painting course
  • 2004
    • Publication Tatsuhiko Shibusawa “Kobiki” to illustrate, Heibonsha
  • 2003
    • Public Art Project MUZA Kawasaki, Kanagawa
    • Workshop One more ‘eye,’ One more forest
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    • Publication Rokumori Techo, The Executive Committee of the “Deep Forest Beyond Five Senses”
  • 2001
    • Publication Mimio, Seigensha Art Publishing
  • 1997
    • Public Art Project Kiryu City Performing Arts Center, Gunma

Tomoko Konoike

鴻池朋子