Biography

Born in Chiba, Japan, in 1980. Kondoh graduated from Tama Art University with a BA in Graphic Design in 2003. Her work spans various media—animation, manga, drawing, painting—and has been exhibited internationally. She has earned fundings from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho), the Pola Art Foundation and lives and works in New York since 2008. In 2010, the digest version of her animation “Ladybirds’ Requiem” made it to the top 25 list of the “YouTube Play - A Biennial of Creative Video” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2011 Kondoh presented the animation "KiyaKiya" during the eponym exhibition at Mizuma Art Gallery. Her first essay collection "Fushigi to iu niha Jimi na Hanashi" (Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.) was published in 2012. She contributes biweekly to the online literary magazine "MATOGROSSO" with her manga " New York de Kangae-chu." In 2013, Kondoh published her first monograph “Akino Kondoh 1998-2013” (Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.)."