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Chihiro Honda
Chihiro Honda is an artist whose practice explores the relationship between material, body, and consciousness.
Living with titanium implanted in her spine, she works with metal as both a physical presence and a conceptual mediator—an element that unsettles the boundary between inside and outside.
Her work focuses on the moment when things “stand,” observing how slight shifts in gravity, balance, or arrangement generate changes in perception. She listens to these subtle displacements—vibrations, gaps in sound, or variations in light—approaching space much like improvised music, where small differences allow structure to emerge.
Honda is drawn to traces of repair, ritualistic forms, and exposed frameworks that reveal how all things exist within ongoing processes rather than fixed states. Using metal as a medium that spans from the body to architecture and planetary scale, she examines the structures that arise between material and mind, linking individual experience to larger spatial and temporal contexts.
Solo Exhibitions
Dec. 2025 (Scheduled) – New City, Soko, Bangkok, Thailand
2025 – Time, River, Bridge, MIKAWA (SOTO), Kyoto, Japan
2024 – cell, STUDIO STAFF ONLY, Tokyo, Japan
2023 – The Island, The White, Tokyo, Japan
2023 – When Where, CAGE GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2020 – Kukei no Ku-do, The White, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2025 – khôra 場 Book Launch Exhibitionain, tata bookshop / gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 – Rain or Shine (雨にもまけず), BankART R16 Studio, Yokohama, Japan
Art Fairs
2025 – Time, River, Bridge, WHAT CAFE × DELTA “TOPOLOGY 02”, Tokyo, Japan
Residencies
Dec. 2025 (Scheduled) – Bangkok Tokyo Architecture, Bangkok, Thailand
2022 – LAKE HARUNA ARTIST RESIDENCE, Gunma, Japan – MFA in Graphic Design, Graduate School of Art and Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Education
2012 – MFA in Graphic Design, Graduate School of Art and Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Professional Background
2022–Present – Lecturer, Department of Design, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
2018–2021 Art Director / GINZA (fashion magazine), Tokyo
2016–Present Freelance Graphic Designer
Publications
2025 – cell
2025 – The Island, Parts (self-published artist book)