河野幸人
YUKIHITO KONO

Artist / photographer based in Kanazawa Japan

1989年生まれ、石川県金沢市在住。2011年に渡英し、ロンドン芸術大学ロンドン・カレッジ・オブ・コミュニケーションのファインアート・フォトグラフィー修士課程を修了。文学と芸術を異なる地で学んだ彼の作品は、繊細な選択と大胆な偶然性の受容の果てに形成されており、写真の伝統に根差しながらも、ジャンルや時代の垣根を超えた思索に開かれている。2017年には「開かれた書斎」というコンセプトのもと、アトリエ兼ギャラリー&ブックショップのIACKを金沢市にオープンした。

Born in 1989, based in Kanazawa, Japan. Kono is an artist who works seamlessly across photographic practice, seeking and enacting a renewed model of what a photographer can be. In 2011 he moved to the UK and completed an MA in Fine Art Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Based on an inquiry into the function of images in society and their reconstruction, his practice has produced numerous artist books and installations. Having studied literature and art in different cultural contexts, his work emerges from a delicate balance between rigorous selection and the bold acceptance of chance. While grounded in the traditions of photography, it remains open to modes of thought that traverse genres and historical periods. In 2017, he founded IACK in Kanazawa, an atelier, gallery, and bookshop that also serves as the base of his practice.


Solo Exhibition
And Then, Hanamurasaki, Yamanaka Onsen, 10 April – 10 May 2026
Sandō Compositions, CANDLE CAFE & Laboratory ∆II, Tokyo, 21 February – 23 March 2025
Landscape Manual, IACK, Kanazawa, 27 April – 12 May 2024
Research – Progress – Practice, IACK, Kanazawa, 25 August – 9 September 2018
Parkland Walk, BOOKS f3, Niigata, June 2017
Soliloquy, IACK, Kanazawa, May 2017
Selected Exhibition
early spring, early spring gallery, Tokyo, April 2026
PHOTOGRAPHS, ESD, Tokyo, February 2025
burning with pleasure, DKUK, London, December 2016
burning with pleasure, Materia, Rome, December 2016
Between the lines — an artist's books exhibition, Roz Barr Gallery, London, October 2016
Ouvrage — An Artist Books Exhibition, Twenty14 Contemporary, Milan, October 2016
dix vol.01, QUIET NOISE arts and break, Tokyo, September 2016
Periscope, MC2 Gallery, Milan, June 2016
burning with pleasure, CURIOUS DUKE GALLERY, London, October 2015
TURN THE PAGE, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, September 2015
________ in the Room, V ART CENTER, Shanghai, August 2015
INTEL STORE, CLUB CIRCUS, Osaka, February 2015
H Book Show, Doomed Gallery, London, November 2014
HALF TONE, Open Space Gallery, Copenhagen, April 2014
F Book Show, 72Gallery, Tokyo, March 2014
Interim Show, Upper Street Gallery, London, March 2014
Bright Sparks, Upper Street Gallery, London, April 2012
Artist Books
River, Stratum─, April 2026
And Then, Self Published, April 2025
Landscape Manual II, Self Published, November 2024
Landscape Manual, Self Published, June 2024
Index (Third Edition), Self Published, January 2023
Distant Lights (Third Edition), Self Published, January 2023
Index (Second Edition), Self Published, October 2022
Distant Lights (Second Edition), Self Published, October 2022
Ironing Photographs, Las Injurias, April 2021
Madrid Flowers, Self Published, March 2018
Parkland Walk, Self Published, June 2017
244_5, Self Published, October 2015
244_4, Self Published, September 2015
Publications
asia Issue 01, published by asia publication, 2025
Kairanban, published by Keijiban, November 2024
STAY ALONE #2 Yukihito Kono × Ren Hang, STAY ALONE, March 2014
STAY ALONE #1 Suguru Ryuzaki × Yukihito Kono, STAY ALONE, November 2013
Curation
Director of IACK, 2017–
On the To-Come, Former U-Style building, Aomori, 2026
New Japanese Photography, London, co-curation with SPACE CADET, 2015
STAY ALONE, 2014–2016
Education
MA Photography, with Distinction, London College of Communication, 2014–2015
FdA in Photography, with Distinction, London College of Communication, 2011–2012
BA in Literature, Kanazawa Gakuin University, 2008–2012