Kanoko Takaya (born in Kyoto, 1990) has an interest in Indonesian culture, especially since her mother often visited Bali. In 2014, her love for Indonesian culture developed until she finally decided to move and continue her studies at Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI), Surakarta after graduating from the visual design department at Kyoto Seika. While studying in Solo, she paid attention to Indonesian masks, which she thought were more expressive, detailed and evocative than Japanese masks. Until the end of 2019, she moved to Bali and worked as a Pithecanthropus artist under her own brand called Kanokon. So far, she has produced three series of works of art entitled Indonesian Series, Inner Series and Movement Series.

The Indonesian series depicts Kanoko's perspective as a foreigner living in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the Inner Series is an attempt to see her own self and the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. The works in this series tend to be tactile and intuitive. This series later developed into the Movement Series. In the final series, she shifts her focus to the ideas of fluidity, movement, and balance. She also emphasizes material experimentation to find balance and harmony between two opposing qualities, namely spontaneity and control.

Kanoko's ideas and works have been displayed in her solo exhibitions entitled Te To Te, Kochi, Japan (2023), Kune Kune, Semarang Gallery (2023), Naluri Arus: Instinct of the Current, Artsphere Gallery (2021), and Lucky Indonesia, H2O gallery, Kyoto, Japan (2014). Meanwhile, several group exhibitions that she participated in are Printmaking collaboration with Devfto Printmaking Institute, Bali (2023), TITICARA, ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta (2022), Time Capsule, CANS Gallery, Jakarta (2021), and Pegang - Pegang, Titik Dua, Bali (2020).