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Artist

Endo Kaori

Born in Osaka in 1989, Endo is based in Tokyo and Okinawa.

She graduated from the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in 2013 with a major in textile arts, and completed her studies at Ars Shimura, headed by Shimura Fukumi, in 2016.
Drawing on the crafts and history of the land, whether Okinawa or Tohoku, or further afield in Japan or overseas, Endo unravels the closely intertwined relationships between politics and everyday life, mainly using textile techniques. Her practice centers on expanding the nature of craft, and depending on the theme, her works take various forms, including zokin (cleaning cloths), parachutes, boats and their sails, glass, and ceramics. In recent years, she has begun to create works that are based on her dreams in order to touch the shape of the unconscious. In 2019 she was awarded the 13th shiseido art egg prize.

https://www.kaori-endo.com
Endo Kaori

Photo: Sakai Ryuji

Major exhibitions

2025
Ambient, Environment, Circumstances: The Topography of Contemporary Art, Simose Art Museum, Hiroshima
2024
Ferment Arts and Culture Festival: Journey to Feel the Invisible, Otemachiyokan, Ishikawa
Gewalt: Devenir des résistances à la violence institutionnelle, Institut français du Japon, Tokyo
2023
Kaori Endo – Me and Q: Form in Art – Perceiving with the Hand, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo (solo exhibition)
Osaka Directory 3: Kaori Endo | Gravity and Rainbow – About Minami-Hateruma Island, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka (solo exhibition)
2022
Azamino Contemporary vol.13 | CLOTH × OVER |Thread and Fabric—Writing the everyday and life, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa
Aichi Triennale 2022, Ichinomiya Toyoshima Memorial Museum, Aichi
2021
Portraits of Ryukyu: Turnover from Models to Artists, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa
2020
The Beginning of Life/Art: Cloth Weaves Our Times, from Aomori, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
2019
shiseido art egg 13, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
  • Osaka Directory 3: Kaori Endo | Gravity and Rainbow – About Minami-Hateruma Island, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, 2023

    Osaka Directory 3: Kaori Endo | Gravity and Rainbow – About Minami-Hateruma Island , Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, 2023
    Photo: Endo Kaori

  • Sheep and sleep, Aichi Triennale 2022, Ichinomiya Toyoshima Memorial Museum, 2022

    Sheep and sleep, Aichi Triennale 2022, Ichinomiya Toyoshima Memorial Museum, 2022
    Photo: ToLoLo studio