House Chant, 2025
Pigment transfer on muslin, gauze dyed with natural pigments, hide glue
150 x 90 x 3 cm
Before the Smoke There Was Water, 2025
Pigment transfer on muslin, gauze dyed with natural pigments, hide glue
90 x 60 x 3 cm
Juniper, 2025
Pigment transfer on muslin, gauze dyed with natural pigments, hide glue
130 x 110 x 3 cm
Tree Line, Installation view
Tree Line, 2025
Pigment transfer on muslin dyed with natural pigments
21 x 30 x 5 cm
Tree Line, 2025
Pigment transfer on muslin dyed with natural pigments
21 x 30 x 5 cm
Tree Line, 2025
Pigment transfer on muslin dyed with natural pigments
21 x 30 x 5 cm
Before the Room Had a Door It Had a Shape, 2025
Hide glue on fabric, polyethylene
81 x 44.5 x 4 cm
Before the Room Had a Door It Had a Shape, 2025
Hide glue on fabric, polyethylene
77 x 46 x 4 cm
Before the Room Had a Door It Had a Shape, 2025
Hide glue on fabric, polyethylene
83 x 40 x 4 cm
HOME, Installation view
Pink Treble, 2025
Ink transfer on fabric
40 x 30 x 4 cm
White Treble, 2025
Ink transfer on fabric
40 x 30 x 4 cm
Black Treble, 2025
Ink transfer on fabric
40 x 30 x 4 cm
Godsend (Sun), 2024
Plywood, hair, graphite, monkey skull
168 x 63 x 12 cm
Godsend (eclipse 4, eclipse 5, eclipse 2), 2023
Cement, graphite, hair, steel, rope, silk, tin
46 x 86 x 4 cm
Godsend (eclipse 7), 2023
Cement, graphite, hair, steel, rope, silk, tin
15 x 15 x 3 cm
Godsend (eclipse 3), 2023
Cement, graphite, hair, steel, rope, silk, tin
36 x 46 x 4 cm
Godsend (eclipse 3), 2023
Cement, graphite, hair, steel, rope, silk, tin
36 x 46 x 4 cm
lost and found / everything, Installation view
Claudia and Jamie, 2024
Soil, lamp, coins
Dimensions variable
Claudia and Jamie, 2024
Soil, lamp, coins
Dimensions variable
lost and found / everything, Installation view
Séance situation map 1, 2024
Alloy embedded in wood panel
140 x 100 cm
Séance situation map 2, 2024
Alloy embedded in wood panel
140 x 100 cm
Séance situation map 3, 2024
Alloy embedded in wood panel
140 x 100 cm
Sketch of séance situation map, 2024
Graphite on washi
13 x 16 c
specter, Installation view
Separation, serration, 2023
Found umbrellas, hair, cement, tin
Dimensions variable
Godsend (energy drain 3), 2023
Fabric, wood, plaster, dye, ropes, epoxy resin, cement, nails, tin
130 × 90 cm
Godsend (energy drain 2), 2023
Fabric, wood, plaster, dye, ropes, epoxy resin, cement, nails, tin
175 × 270 cm
Godsend (energy drain 2), 2023
Fabric, wood, plaster, dye, ropes, epoxy resin, cement, nails, tin
175 × 270 cm
Godsend (energy drain 2), 2023
Fabric, wood, plaster, dye, ropes, epoxy resin, cement, nails, tin
175 × 270 cm
Drain water chrysalis, 2023
Epoxy resin, hair, copper, ink, river water from Matsudo
50 × 150 × 20 cm
Drain water chrysalis, 2023
Epoxy resin, hair, copper, ink, river water from Matsudo
50 × 150 × 20 cm
Spirit Heart Soul Flesh Body, Installation view
Godsend (honey and sun), 2023
Galvanized steel, steel rods, resin, zipties, concrete, tin, ropes, hair
63 x 336 x 50 cm
Godsend (honey and sun), 2023
Galvanized steel, steel rods, resin, zipties, concrete, tin, ropes, hair
63 x 336 x 50 cm
godsend (energy drain 1), 2023
Cane, plaster, deer skull, ink, fabric, wire, jute rope, motor, blood collection tube, human blood, incense
200 x 150 cm
godsend (energy drain 1), 2023
Cane, plaster, deer skull, ink, fabric, wire, jute rope, motor, blood collection tube, human blood, incense
200 x 150 cm
godsend (energy drain 1), 2023
Cane, plaster, deer skull, ink, fabric, wire, jute rope, motor, blood collection tube, human blood, incense
200 x 150 cm
Cold Space, 2023
Site-specific performance
East East, Installation view
untitled, 2023
Mixed media
100 x 30 x 25 cm
Alagya, Installation view
Godsend 2, 2021
Hair, cement, steel wire, binding tape
57 × 15 cm
down4u, Installation view
Godsend 4, 2022
Hair, concrete, steel, ropes, candle
63 x 15 cm
Watercolor (hair), 2022
Aluminum plated print
15 x 12 cm
only only makes sense if there’s nothing else, Installation view
The tyranny of positivity (desires to meet Sadako or Samara), 2021
Polystyrene, acrylic paint 
Dimensions variable
only only makes sense if there’s nothing else, Installation view
The tyranny of positivity (desires to meet Sadako or Samara), 2021
Polystyrene, acrylic paint 
Dimensions variable
dream knowledge, no, ledge, noh, no knowledge, Installation view
Light force, 2021
Hand-kneaded incense blended with human hair
Dimensions Variable
Cold Space, 2021
Site-specific performance
Tomorrow force, 2021
Latex, cotton
16 x 30 cm

Bio


Taka Kono (b. 1994) lives and works in Tokyo. His practice centers on installation and objects that examine how spaces absorb use and contact over time, treating material surfaces as sites where intimacy becomes spatial, infrastructural, and quietly unstable.

Contact


takakono0513@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae


Education
2012–2017 BFA, Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, US

Solo Exhibitions
2025 HOME, Hunsand Space, Beijing, CN
2024 lost and found / everything, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2023 specter, Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, CN
2022 down4u, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2021 only only makes sense if there’s nothing else, darkZone, New Jersey, US
2020 dream knowledge, no, ledge, noh, no knowledge, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP

Group Exhibitions
2025 Easternization Movement: Radiance Peak, Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, CN
2025 Ambiguous Intentions, Two Monologue, Tokyo, JP
2025 Best wishes, Plague, Kazan, RU
2024 XO.1, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, JP
2024 Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery Sampling Project, Hunsand Space, Beijing, CN
2024 Opening Exhibition, Hunsand Space, Shijiazhuang, CN
2024 Contemporary Goth, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2023 Spirit Heart Soul Flesh Body, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2023 kirakira, off-site, Shiramine, JP
2023 Usual Group Show at an Emerging Gallery, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2022 Terminal B, Smena Center of Contemporary Culture, Kazan, RU
2022 Vectored Goth, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2022 The Aftercare in Order to Betray, akibatamabi21, Tokyo, JP
2022 Apocalypse Celebration, Boulevard Adolphe Max 26, Brussels, BE
2022 Garden of Gods, SXSW, Austin, US
2022 Garden of Gods, Vellum Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2022 BAITBALL (02), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2022 and then, when I sleep, without language of night, I do not realize, See U, Brussels, BE
2021 A Portal Fantasy, Plague Space, Krasnodar, RU
2021 ATK/0 DEF/10000, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 2121 Time Capsule, Goodbuy Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2021 Haunting Liminality: Refugia, off-site, Hung Hom, HK
2020 allelopathy of the wasteland, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2020 A postnet folk fanfiction fairytale mythology: Part 1, Online

Projects
2023 ill omen 3, malpaís, Barcelona, ES
2022 ill omen 2, CHURCH, Copenhagen, DK
2021 ill omen 1, dungeon detroit, Detroit, US

Art Fairs
2025 ART021, Shanghai, CN
2024 artKYOTO, Kyoto, JP
2024 JINGART, Beijing, CN
2024 Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
2023 EASTEAST, Tokyo, JP

Curatorial Projects
2025 Revelation of Divine Love, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, JP
2024 XO.1, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, JP
2022 Dirty Laundry, KEIV, Athens, GR
2022 BAITBALL (02), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2022 Screening program: sundae, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 ATK/0 DEF/10000, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 Your Fate, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 look past this, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 It’s always someone’s birthday, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 鬼由心生, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 damp plosive roam, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP
2021 runurunu + Hirari Ikeda + Risako Yamada, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP