Eiko Honda is a curator and writer. She is currently undertaking a DPhil in History at the University of Oxford, with a research focus on the political ecology of Japan in the Meiji era (1868‒1912) and contemporary-era art and architecture. It enquires how a rethinking of the historiography of Japan, and of the wider world, is made possible through the combination of historical archival work and methods derived from curatorial practice and social science theory.

Her recent papers include ‘On Atomic Subjectivity’ in Nuclear Culture Source Book (edited by Ele Carpenter, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016) and ‘Political Ecology of Art and Architecture in Japan: 100 Years Ago and Now’ in the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Bristol: Intellect, forthcoming 2016). Recent exhibitions she curated include ‘Ting-Tong Chang: P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness’, Asia House, London (2016), ‘Saya Kubota: Material Witness’, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London (2016), and ‘Missing Post Office’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2015).

She was the curatorial fellow of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs from 2013-2016 and is the graduate of BA History of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London.