Born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. Ryosuke Kondo is an artist, art critic, and Research Associate at the University of Tokyo. He obtained his B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, the University of London, and his M.A. from the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (2014-16) and a Fulbright visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016-17).

Specializing in Aesthetics and History of Landscape, his research primarily focuses on the theory of painting and gardening in modern Britain, America, and Japan. In addition to academic articles, he writes reviews for art and culture magazines, such as Bijutsu Techo and Ohararyu SOKA, and organizes contemporary art exhibitions, including Individual Sansui (Komagome SOKO, 2020) and The Genius Loci of Kudan and the Niki of the Japanese Garden (kudan house, 2018).