Aki KONDO
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- Born in Hokkaido, Japan, in 1987. Currently lives and works in Yamagata. As Kondo describes, “painting is exactly like living one’s life,” her body of work is full of energy which can be quantifiable. Kondo paints as if she inscribed all of her experiences and emotions that have passed through her body. Going back and forth between memory, reality and fiction, the artist generates new experiences, or in another word, paintings. Without limiting her support to canvas or panel, Kondo confidently applies her paints on three-dimensional objects or spaces surrounded by the ceiling and walls. In addition, the artist is the director, screenwriter and producer of HIKARI, a short film consisting of live action and animation with about 14,000 frames which she painted in oil based on her crayon drawings. This is one of many examples why Kondo is considered as a heaven-sent child of painting, constantly unleashing her extraordinary potential.
Selected exhibitions: I Wanted to See You, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2023; Aichi Triennale 2022, Aichi, 2022; Stars, Sparkling, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, 2021; The Happiness that Exists Here, ShugoArts/ Phillips Tokyo/ Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo, 2021; Takamatsu Art Museum Collection + Body and Movement, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 2020; Flowers in the Heart, ShugoArts Online Show, Tokyo, 2020; Today Waiting for That Day and Tomorrow, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2018; Paintings Here And Now, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, 2018; HIKARI, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, 2016; HIKARI, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2015; THE ECOLOGY OF AKI KONDO, JIKKA, Tokyo, 2013; PHANTOMS OF ASIA: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2012. VOCA 2022 Honorable Mention Award, 2022. - cv
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Aki Kondo: What I Saw, When I Tore Myself Open
15 February - 6 May 2025 -
Layers of Accumulated Time: depicting the world we live in
29 April - 28 September 2025

Aki Kondo: What I Saw, When I Tore Myself Open at Art Tower Mito

Publication of the Aki Kondo’s first monograph: The Happiness that Exists Here
Aki Kondo's first monograph, The Happiness that Exists Here, has published in March, 2021.
220 x 280mm, 128pages
Price: 5,500JPY
Text: Aki Kondo, Ryoko Kamiyama
Translation: Christopher Stephens
Design: Satoshi Suzuki
Publisher: T&M Projects + ShugoArts
First Edition: March 2021
ISBN:978-4-909442-18-5
https://www.tandmprojects.com/products/aki-kondo/
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I Wanted to See You
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Aichi Triennale 2022
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Venue of Kondo's work: Former Ichinomiya Central Nursing School (5F), Ichinomiya City, Aichi
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“Stars, Sparkling” Yamagata Museum of Art
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The Happiness that Exists Here Installation movie, 2021, ShugoArts

The Happiness that Exists Here
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A Hundred Flowers—100 artworks by Aki Kondo for a special edition of The Happiness that Exists Here

Takamatsu Art Museum Collection + Body and Movement
Takamatsu City Museum of Art
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HIKARI
ShugoArts Online – Film Screening
As a special program for Flowers in the Heart, the current online exhibition by Aki Kondo, we are going to stream the full length of Kondo's film work HIKARI from Saturday, May 2 to Wednesday, May 6.
HIKARI is Kondo’s first short film, which was released to the public in 2015.
Using the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami as its motif, Kondo put stop motion animation with 14,000 scenes painted in oil and live action depicting a story of a painter and his lover together. Throughout the film the artist expresses her thoughts toward the victims of the disaster and presents us with a silver lining. Made up of both animated and live action segments, the work functions as an extension of her paintings or as a painting with words.
It is our wish that we can deliver Kondo’s strong message to you in this uncertain and unstable time. Please enjoy the film along with our online exhibition Flowers in the Heart and our Online Catalogue.

Flowers in the HeartShugoArts Online – Exhibition
We humans have experienced various histories since our birth. Many conflicts and famines have changed our cultures and medical science. As science has developed and changed our daily lives blazingly fast, our common sense is also at stake now.
However, just as there is no night without a dawn, the morning always arrives, the season changes and the spring comes around with new greens and blooming flowers. Some things do not change even when people all over the world are struggling to live their own lives. It seems like they are telling us how to go through a severe winter.
We have art and music that enrich our hearts, and there are flowers in our hearts. Thanks to them, we have found peace of mind and become compassionate to one another. Those may not be able to save people’s lives as the power of science obviously does. But we go insane if we are scared of an invisible menace which is currently attacking us, with only two options available to us, to live or die.
Making my own paintings, I believe it is very important for us to nourish our hearts in order to live today and create our future.
Now, prosper your creativity and bloom the flowers in your heart.
I wish everyone in the world good health and I hope we can hug each other with smiles on our faces again soon.
Aki Kondo April, 2020

Today Waiting for That Day and Tomorrow
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Participate : Paintings Here And Now Fuchu Art Museum
Artist Talk 2PM. 13/Jan.
Movie "HIKARI"Shows on 3PM. 13/Jan
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participate: TAKAHASHI COLLECTION / Mindfulness2017 Yamagata Museum of Art

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