Tomoko Konoike

tomoko konoike continues to question primordial questions about art through a variety of media including painting, sculpture, and performance, as well as site-specific expression realized through travel. Recent solo exhibitions include Konoike Tomoko: Inter-Traveller (2009) at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima; Primordial Violence (2016) at Kanagawa Prefectural Hall and The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma that received the Art Encouragement Prize by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Fur Story (2018) at Leeds Arts University; Hunter Gatherer (2018) at the Akita Museum of Modern Art; FLIP (2020) at Artizon Museum that received the Mainichi Art Prize; and The Birth of Seeing (2022) at Takamatsu Art Museum and the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art . Group exhibitions include Temporal Turn (2016) at the Spencer Museum of Art / KU Natural History Museum ; Japan: Spirits of Nature (2017) at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (Nordic Watercolour Museum) ; ECHOES FROM THE PAST (2018) at Kerava Art Museum ; and Storymakers in Contemporary Japanese Art (2022) at The Japan Foundation in Sydney . She has also published The Language of Animals: Beyond Primordial Violence and a picture book (Hatori Press).

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