Ayako Kuno
Artist
Artist
Under the theme of “what can be seen by taking a bird's-eye view of the city's activities,” they mainly use lost wax precision casting techniques that enable precise expression, and create self-made parts by replacing metals such as brass and bronze.
By cutting out elements of the outline and surface shape that can be seen from what humans have manipulated, shaped, and constructed, scrap-and-build is repeated over time, and a landscape that can be seen after the structure has been proliferated is expressed.
Born in 1983 in Tokyo
Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Industrial and Industrial Design, Department of Metalwork in 2008
Completed the master's program at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Crafts (Metal Casting) in 2010
Currently living in Tokyo.
2014 Audience Award (SICF15)
2014 Runner-up Grand Prix (TAGBOAT ART FES 2014)
2014 Rokka File 5th Term Selection (Rikka Bunko)
2014 3331 Chiyoda Art Festival 2014 Audience Award (Arts Chiyoda 3331)
2015 Special Jury Award (Okada Tsutomu Award) (Yokohama Art Competition 2015)
2016 Art in the Office 2016 CCC Awards Exhibition Selected
2016 SHIBUYA AWARDS 2016 Grand Prize
2017 Open Call Exhibition “2017 Kanazawa World Craft Competition” Selected
2017 Open Call Exhibition “9th Sano Renaissance Metal Casting Exhibition” Encouragement Award
2021 Selected for the 3rd Open Call Art House Oyabe Contemporary Art Exhibition
Selected for the
2022 Open Call Exhibition “2022 Kanazawa World Craft Competition”
2025 40th Tamsui Okina Award Grand Prize
2025 5th Open Call Art House Oyabe Contemporary Art Exhibition Honorable Mention
Selected for the 2025 Open Call Exhibition “2025 Kanazawa World Craft Competition”
2026 “Reassemble/Undulation” (Isemiyacho Hotel 1st floor gallery)
2024 “Starting to Move” (Gildahl Gallery)
2024 “REASSEMBLE” (IRIYA GALLERY)
2023 Construction Demolition (Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery/Yokohama Takashimaya Art Gallery)
2022 -TRANSITION- (Iriya GALLERY)
2021 -Opening- (Nihonbashi Takashimaya Main Building 6th Floor Art Gallery X)
2020 “LINE” (Art Front Gallery)
2019 Ayako Hisano Solo Exhibition (Garden Terrace Kioicho)
2019 Apert 11 “Urban Metamorphosis” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Long-term Installation Room)
Major Group Exhibitions
2025 Special Exhibition: “Kanazawa Crafts Now” (galleria PONTE)
2025 6th Kanazawa World Crafts Triennale Open Call Exhibition (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Civic Gallery A)
2025 AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2025 -Newfound- (ART FACTORY Jonanjima)
2025 Group Exhibition “Time After Time: Trails of Time” (Geidai Art Plaza)
2025 Art Fair Beppu 2025 (Beppu International Convention Center Beacon Plaza)
2025 Group Exhibition “BLURRED: Intersecting Boundaries” (BONDED GALLERY)
2025 IZUMIYA BIENNALE SELECTION (Izumiya Hakukokan Tokyo)
2025 5th Open Call Art House Oyabe Contemporary Art Exhibition (Art House Oyabe)
2024-25 Collection Exhibition 2 Urban Drifting (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
2024 OPEN STUDIO 2024 (ART FACTORY Jonanjima)
2024 Ota-ku OPEN ATELIER 2024 (ART FACTORY Jonanjima)
2024 Okunoto Suzu Reconstruction Support Art Sale (Art Front Gallery)
2024 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2024 (Fukuoka Kokusai Center)
2024 ART OSAKA 2024 (Osaka City Central Public Hall 3rd Floor)
2023-24 Dogo Art 2023 Craft Museum “U.F.O. - UNIDENTIFIED FABULOUS OBJECT - UNIDENTIFIED CRAFT OBJECT” Exhibition (Kowakien Haruka) 2023 SPIRAL XMAS MARKET 2023 (spiral)
2023 Group Exhibition “METAL AS IMPACT: The Power of Metal Crafts” (Galleria PONTE)
2023 7th “KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2023" (Hyatt Centric Kanazawa)
2023 Group Exhibition Everyone Exhibition vol.3 (Gildahl Gallery)
2023 Special Exhibition Izumiya Biennale 2023 Re-sonation Loud Voices (Izumiya Hakukokan) 2023 Group Exhibition “Prospect” (Art Front Gallery)
2022 Group Exhibition “PARTNER” (Gallery CONTAINER)
2022 Group Exhibition “5th Kanazawa World Crafts Triennale: What Crafts Imagine” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Civic Gallery A)
2022 Group Exhibition “OPEN STUDIO 2022” (ART FACTORY Jonanjima)
2022 Collection Exhibition 1: Containers (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
2022 Group Exhibition “SELECTION X” (Yokohama Takashimaya Art Gallery)
2021 Special Exhibition “Metal Crafts 2021" (Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Crafts Museum)
2021 Ayako Hisano Solo Exhibition “Rebirth” (Gildahl Gallery)
Participated as a member of the 2021 Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+ Suzu Theatre Museum “The Ark of Light” project
2021 Group Exhibition “OPEN STUDIO 2021” (ART FACTORY Jonanjima)
2021 Special Exhibition “Electric Wire Painting Exhibition - From Kobayashi Kiyochika to Yamaguchi Akira” (Nerima Art Museum)
2020 2-Person Exhibition “City Outline” (Nihonbashi Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery)
2020 2-Person Exhibition (Gildahl Gallery)
2020 2020 ART TAICHUNG (Taiwan)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Senoku Hakukokan Kyoto
