Born in Kanagawa, Japan. After graduating with a degree in wood-block printing from the Sokei Academy of Fine Art & Design, she went on to study at the Tokyo Photographic College. She held her first solo exhibit in 1985 with Still Life, and has focused on creating peculiar still life assemblages using anything from fish and vegetables to flowers and insects ever since. Her wildly artistic works, beautifully captured using a complex monochromatic process, exist on a plane somewhere between the real and the imagined.
Exhibitions at PGI
| 2024.10.23－12.07 | Michiko Kon 2024 |
| 2018.03.07－04.28 | Recent Works 2018 |
| 2014.01.08－03.01 | Recent Works |
| 2008.10.03－11.08 | Platinum Print Collection |
| 1998.11.25－1999.01.29 | Photographs 1998 |
| 1998.05.20－06.26 | Still Life by Woman Photographers |
| 1997.10.14－10.31 | Michiko Kon |
| 1994.11.15－12.22 | Still Lives |
| 1990.10.16－11.16 | EAT : Recent Works |
Related Exhibitions
| 2024.08.29－09.24 | Twenty Years After the Death of Suehiro Tanemura: A Fantastical Art Corridor, Span art Gallery |
| 2024.08.19－08.24 | Hikari no Kyomei, Ginza Okuno Building (Gallery Kobo + Room 306) |
| 2024.07.01－09.29 | I’m So Happy You Are Here, PALAIS DE L’ARCHEVÊCHÉ Arles France |
| 2024.07.01－07.31 | From Japan with Love, Galerie Huit Arles Arles France |
| 2023.03.30－06.28 | The Crystallization of Photographic Expression and Technique, FUJIFILM Photo Collection Special Exhibition, FUJIFILM SQUARE |
| 2022.10.14－2023.06.18 |
The amana Collection Exhibition, Miyota Museum of Photography |
| 2022.05.27－06.02 | Award Winner Exhibition of Photographic Society of Japan Award, FUJIFILM Square, Tokyo |
| 2022.01.10－01.22 | México Mágico, Gallery Kobo |
| 2021.11.23－2022.01.30 | Phila—KON Michiko, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Annex |
| 2021.05.10－05.22 | Michiko Kon, iGallery |
| 2020.11.02－11.08 | 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Ginza Okuno Building Room 306, Ginza, Tokyo |
| 2020.08.25－11.03 | 瞬く皮膚、死から発光する生, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan |
| 2019.11.18－11.30 | Michiko Kon, Gallery Kobo |
| 2019.09.12－10.19 | Michiko Kon: Cannibal Feast, Robert Mann Gallery, NY |
| 2019.09.01－10.29 | Reviving Objects, FujiFilm Square |
| 2019.07.08－08.16 | Sleep with the Fishes, Robert Mann Gallery, NY |
| 2019.06.07－07.27 | Summer Exhibition, Michel Soskine Gallery, Madrid |
| 2019.06.08－06.30 | Immigrantes, KYOTOba |
| 2017.08.24－10.01 | Naturaleza Muerta, Fototeca Nacional, Sinafo. INAH, Pachuca, México |
| 2017.06.22－07.29 | Michiko Kon, Michel Soskine Gallery, Madrid |
| 2017.07.07－07.31 | The here in there, Salon de Vert |
| 2017.06.17－06.25 | 永遠の幻想・美の幻影 Roppongi Stripe’s Space |
| 2017.04.21－05.07 | The 9th Gelatin Silver Session 2017, AXIS Gallery |
| 2017.02.09－03.18 | Birds of a Feather, Robert Mann Gallery, NY |