Michiko Kon
ABOUT IMAGES
BIRTHPLACE
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, 1955
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Michiko Kon: Cannibal Feast, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
2018
Recent Works 2018, PGI
2017
Naturaleza Muerta, Fototeca Nacional Sinafo. INAH, Pachuca, Mexico
Michiko Kon, Michel Soskine Gallery, Madrid
2016
Exposición fotográfica de Michiko Kon, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico
2014
Recent Works, Photo Gallery International (P.G.I.), Tokyo
2012
IMPACT, B Gallery, Tokyo
Michiko Kon, Timeless Gallery, Beijing, China
2011
Michiko Kon, Gallery Kobo, Tokyo
2010
Platinum Prints, Timeless Gallery, Beijing
2009
Michiko Kon, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid
2008
Platinum Prints Collection, P.G.I., Tokyo
2002-03
Michiko Kon, Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei , Taiwan
2000
Michiko Kon : Still Lifes, Paul L. Davies Gallery, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1999
Michiko Kon : Still Lifes, Aperture, New York, NY (tours through 2004)
Michiko Kon, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1996
Michiko Kon, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
1995
Still Lives, Gallery Issis, Kyoto
Still Lives, Picture Photo Space, Osaka
Still Lives, Taipei Photo Gallery International, Taipei
1994
Still Lives, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1993
Michiko Kon, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
Still Lives, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
1992
Still Lives, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Michiko Kon, Old Town Hall Arts Centre, Hemel Hempstead, England
Michiko Kon, Tramway, Glasgow, England
Michiko Kon, Focal Point Photography Gallery, Southend, England
1991
Michiko Kon : Photographs, Exposure Gallery, PARCO, Tokyo
Michiko Kon, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, England
EAT, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo and Osaka
1990
EAT : Recent Works, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1987
EAT, Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo and Osaka
1985
Still Life, Nikon Salon, Shinjuku, Tokyo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Celebrating Women’s History Month, Robert Mann Gallery, NY
2017
Birds in the Hand, PGI, Tokyo
The here in there, Salon de Vert, Nagano, Japan
Eternal Fantasy, Beauty Illusion, Roppongi Stripe’s Space, Tokyo
Birds of a Feather, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
2016
Take In, PGI, Tokyo
2015
What is Naked?, Gallery Shinjuku-za, Tokyo
ARTS & FOODS, La Triennaledi, Milano
2013
Chasing Japan’s Youkai, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2011
Iizawa Kotaro + Kon Michiko, Gallery Kobo, Tokyo
2010
The Letter from X, Salon de Vert, Nagano, Japan
2006
Fish and our Lives, The Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan
2004
Imaging The West: Michiko Kon, Nikki Lee, Yasumasa Morimura, and Tseng Kwong Chi, Seldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
2003
Beyond The Surface: Japanese Style of Making Things, Singapore Art Museum
The History of Japanese Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Contemporary Bulgarian Prints in Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu
2002
The World of Platinum Print, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
Metamorphosis in Art, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
2001
Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists & Clothing, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
2000
Do Not Touch: An Exploration of Delicate Obsessions, Consildated Works, Seattle, WA
1996
Some Assembly Required, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1995
10/10/10, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Texture & Touch, The Art Gallery of the New Wouth Wales, Sydney, Australia
Japan Today, Mouisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Sweden (traveling to Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden)
The Ihei Kimura Photography Award 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1994
When The Body Becomes Art, Itabashi Art Museum
1993
Fabricated Realities, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Make-Believe, Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford, England
Representatives: Women Photographers from The Permanent Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1991
Make Believe: Contemporary Photography from Japan, The Photographers Gallery, London, England
Art is Fun II, Hara Museum ARC, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Gumma Prefecture
1990
Tokyo, Seibu Art Forum, Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Photography: Twelve Viewpoints, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Photography, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France
Beyond the Photographic Frame, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
The Silent Dialogue : Still Life in the West and Japan, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Fotofest / The International Month of Photography, Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX
1989
151st Year of Photography, Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Torino Photografia, Torino, Italy
New Age New Art, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
New Age Photography, Store Days, Roppongi WAVE, Tokyo
1988
Speaking Through Photography, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Peace By Peace, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Women Photographers, Lehigh University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982
Aspects of Fifteen Individuals, Kamakura Community Gallery, Kamakura
1979
Art as Photography, Photography as Art, Shiba Gallery, Yokohama
COLLECTIONS
Books
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, USA
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, USA
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France
EAT, Art Works Committee, 1987 (by Michiko Kon)
EAT, Shogakukan, 1991 (by Michiko Kon, revised)
Michiko Kon : Still Lifes, Aperture New York, 1997
Aperture 130 / Explorations : 10 Portfolios, Aperture, New York, 1993
Michiko Kon : Still Lives, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 1992
Make-Believe : Contemporary Photography from Japan, The Photographers Gallery, London, 1991
Japanese Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 1990
Beyond the Photographic Frame : 11 Recent Works, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, 1990
Déjà-vu No. 2, Photo Planet Tokyo, 1993