Tomoko Konoike

One of Japan's leading artists, Tomoko Konoike Born in 1960 in Akita, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. In collaboration with Tomoko Konoike, lammfromm is offering books, pin badge, note books and other art pieces she has created.

日本當代藝術家鴻池朋子畢業於東京藝術大学繪畫科日本畫專門後，經歷玩具家具的設計師後才邁上藝術家之路。她的作品因其綿密的描繪、纖細的筆觸和豐富的故事性而被稱為是「會說故事的繪畫」。她的創作多元不僅繪畫作品，也有動畫、鉛筆畫、大型裝置作品和繪本。她的原創商品就在lammfromm!

About Artist

Born in 1960 in Akita, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Received B.A., in Japanese Traditional Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Worked as a toy and furniture designer. After the graduation, she was involved in the planning and the design of some goods including toys. It was quite influential in her executing art works.

Biography

1. 1960 Born in Akita, Japan
2. 1985 B.A., in Japanese Traditional Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
3. After Working as a toy,furniture, miscellaneous goods designer, Konoike started painting in 1997.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1. 1997 "SOFT," AXIS GALLERY, Tokyo
2. 1998 "SOFT PROTOTYPE," Living Desing Gallery, Tokyo
3. 2001 "Original pictures of Mimio," Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo; "GI・GA," Fujikawa Gallery / Next, Osaka; "Thousands of Rough Sketches, Breathing," AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
4. 2002 "Outside Over There," Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
5. 2005 "Emergency Landing in Mimio," NADiff, Tokyo; "Emergency Landing in the Meadow," Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
6. 2006 "The planet is covered by silvery sleep," Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo; "Emergency Landing in Achi," Koubou-IKUKO, Okayama; "Chapter#0," Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki
7. 2008 "The visitor from the alien world: Three days with a six-legged wolf in Kanazawa," shoutou-an and San-u-tei (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa), Nakamura-tei and Bai-an (Kanazawa Nakumura Memorial Museum), Ishikawa; "Hidden Mountain & the Lodge," Mizuma Art gallery, Tokyo; "Mine is Yours," Takahashi Collection, Tokyo
8. 2009 "Inter-Traveller: Twelve Wolf Poets," Kirishima Open Air Museum (Kagoshima Pref.), Kagoshima; "Inter-Traveller," Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
9. 2011 "Hidden Mountain Reverse," Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

1. 2002 "Art Video Lounge," Art Basel Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA; "Kageki Metonymics: Subversions and Transformations from the Japanese Fring," Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2. 2004 "I just don't know what to do with myself," Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; "OFFICINA ASIA," Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
3. 2005 "SKETCH IN MOTION," Sketch Gallery, London, U.K.; "Psionic Distortion," Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA; "MOT Annual 2005: Life Actually," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
4. 2006 "Fiction@Love," Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
5. 2007 “Linie,”Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Germany; "Right in the middle of the story - Three storytellers in art," Kawaguchi Art Galery ATLIA, Saitama
6. 2008 "Neoteny Japan - Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection," Kirishima Open Air Museum (Kagoshima Pref.), Kagoshima, Sapporo Artpark, Hokkaido
7. 2009 "Neoteny Japan - Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection," The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectual Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
8. 2009 "Inter-Traveller: Twelve Wolf Poets," Kirishima Open Air Museum (Kagoshima Pref.), Kagoshima; "Inter-Traveller," Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
9. 2010 C.Square, Chukyo University Art Gallery, Aichi; "Narrative Paingitngs," The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata; "The 7th Busan Biennale-Living in Evolution," Busan, Korea; "Hong Kong International Art Fair," Hong Kong; "Neoteny Japan - Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection," Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, The Museum of Art, Ehime
10. 2011 "The Most Requested Top 30/ 10 Years of TAKAHASHI COLLECTION," TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo

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