Takako Kido was born in Japan in 1970. She received a B.A. in Economics from Soka University in Japan in 1993 and graduated from ICP full-time program in 2003. She has exhibited work in solo and group exhibitions both in Japan and internationally including Foley Gallery in New York, Sprengel Museum Hannover in Germany. Her work has also been appeared in publications internationally. She was one of a Photolucida Critical Mass 2021 Top 50 photographers. In 2022, she received a grant from Women Photograph, was awarded the LensCulture Summer Open 2022 winner. She is currently based in her hometown, Kochi in Japan.