Narahashi Asako
NARAHASHI Asako was born in Tokyo in 1959. Graduated from Waseda University, majoring in art from the faculty of Literature. Participated in FotoSession in school days.
After graduation, started on one-man shows, opened the foot gallery 03FOTOS. She lives in Tokyo.
We presented her early series named NU E after 1998. The spirit of NU E (nue, a kind of legendary composite animal) visible in the landscape of Japan can only be captured through photography, and years after the series began, we strongly feel the wonder and eeriness of the unique world expressed in Narahashi's work. We show her the next series Funiculi Funicula in color. There are similar tastes, but different nuances between them. It is hard to convey how effectively Narahashi's snapshots capture the atmosphere of the city and its people in a way only photographs can.
WORKS
Outline
| Born in Tokyo. Graduated from Waseda University, majoring in art of the faculty of Literature. Participated in FotoSession in school days. After graduation, started on one-man shows, opened the foot gallery 03FOTOS. Lives in Tokyo. |
Award
| 1998 | Newcomer’s Award of the Photographic Society of Japan |
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| 2003 | 16th Award of Syashin-no-Kai |
| 2008 | 24th The Higashikawa Prize ; Domestic Photographer Prize |
Selected Solo Exhibition
| 2023 | In Spring, It's the Dawn.PGI, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 2022 | N/A. Visual Arts Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 2021 | Drifting but never sinking. IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan CHIBA FOTO-Sea Side Line. The Historical "Yukari no Ie" House in Inage, Chiba, Japan |
| 2017 | NU・E :New Selections from 1992–1997 Exhibitions @03FOTOS. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan ASAKO NARAHASHI – A RETROSPECTIVE. IBASHO Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2016 | Ever After. Gallery 722, Okayama, Japan |
| 2015 | Biwako. galleryMain, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2013 | Horikawa Horizon. Tyukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2012 | seen when too far away ―Amsterdam and Kurohime. photographers’ gallery, Tokyo, Japan in the plural. Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Coming Closer and Getting Further Away. Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherland |
| 2010 | Asako Narahashi. Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2009-10 | half awake and half asleep in the water. Gun Galley, Stockholm, Sweden Coming Closer and Getting Further Away. Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan funiculi funicula. Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan |
| 2008 | half awake and half asleep in the water. Galerie Priska Pasquer, Köln, Germany another side. Kurenbo, Tokyo, Japan half awake and half asleep in the water, Yossi Milo Gallery, N.Y. |
| 2007 | half awake and half asleep in the water 06/07. Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | half awake and half asleep in the water 04/05. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | half awake and half asleep in the water, BankART1929. The Holl of Basyamichi, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2003 | funiculi funicula. photographers’gallery, Tokyo, Japan half awake and half asleep in the water 2003. il tempo, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to photographers’gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | half awake and half asleep in the water. il tempo, Tokyo, Japan Kabuki no Kuni 02. photographers’ gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Recent Works. 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan NU-E’ Misterijas Dokumentalitate. Latvijas Fotografijas Muzejs, Riga, Latvia |
| 2000 | Kabuki no Kuni. Studio Ebis Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | NU-E–selected in Tokyo. il tempo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | NU-E. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 1992–97 | NU-E series(17 times). 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1992 | Umaretuki no Hiru to Yoru. A part of ASG Garanya Final Exhibitions, Nagoya, Japan |
| 1991 | Kagetomo. 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1990 | Mata Yuku Hito. 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | Dawn in Spring (3 times). Gallery Kaido, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibtition
| 2021 | Paris Photo 2021. Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France CHIBA-FOTO. The Historical "Yukari no Ie" House in Inage, Chiba, Japan Contemporary Photographs in Japan 1985-2015. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Past and Present-Positionen japanischer Fotografie. Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany |
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| 2020 | Sleeping: Life with Art. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | Nurikabe. Tetsuo's Garage, Nikko, Japan |
| 2018 | Paris Photo 2018. Grand Palais, Paris, Japan Amana Collection. IMA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan DESIGNART TOKYO 2018. Herno Minamiaoyama, Tokyo, Japan MOMAT Collection: Uncertain Photography--From the Photographs in 2000's Japan. |
| 2017 | Seize the Uncertain Day. Chinretsukan Gallery (The Univercity Museum, Tokyo University of Arts), Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | 20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and Tokyo. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Festival Images Vevey 2016. Images Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland "Le Bal" Hommage à Etsuro Ishihara. ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan Shape of Scenery. Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga, Japan Get closer and go away 1985/2015 A case of Vietnam. photographer's gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | Mons 2015 / Regards de Femmes. Mons Maison Folie, Mons, Belgium |
| 2014 | Songs from the Heart. Breda Photo, Breda, Netherland |
| 2013–14 | A Sense of Place. Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA |
| 2013 | Edo Pop The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints. Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY 2 years after, Nature, Art, and Requiem. The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Mito, Ibaraki |
| 2012 | Sweet & Salt Water and the Dutch. Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland |
| 2010 | Troubles de l’objectif. Hospice d’ Havre, Tourcoing, France Summit of the Six. Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 2009 | Japan meets China–Our Future reflected in Contemporary Art. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan |
| 2008 | Water in Photography. Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherland |
| 2008 | Heavy Light. ICP, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Rapt! 20 contemporary artists from Japan. Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2002–03 | Black Out : Contemporary Japanese Photography. The Japan Foundation, Roma, Italy; traveled to Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001–02 | Kiss in the Dark. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan |
| 1999 | TONPU- 8 photographers in Japan. 051 Gallery, Pusan, Korea |
| 1998 | Eyes of Women Photographers, A part of Tokyo Photography Month ’98. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | Photography Today; The Absence of Distance National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1996–2000 | main 2 persons-shows (5 times) |
| 1995–96 | Another Reality; Aspects of Contemporary Photography. Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan |
Publication
| 2023 | In Spring, It's the Dawn. Tokyo: Osiris |
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| 2018 | Gips. Tokyo: Osiris |
| 2015 | Biwako. Tokyo: CITY RAT press and 03FOTOS |
| 2013 | Even After. Tokyo: Osiris |
| 2012 | seen when too far away. Tokyo: Photographers' gallery |
| 2009 | Coming Closer and Getting Further Away；Asako Narahashi 2009 / 1989. Tokyo: Osiris |
| 2007 | half awake and half asleep in the water. Paso Robles: Nazraeli Press |
| 2003 | FUNICULI FUNICULA. Tokyo: Sokyusya |
| 1997 | NU・E. Tokyo: Sokyusya |
| 1996-2000 | Ishiuchi, Miyako and Narahashi, Asako. Foto Magazine "main". |
Collection
| The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Houston Museum San Francisco Modern Museum of Art J. Paul Getty Museum Shanghai Art Museum Hokkaido Higashikawa Town Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum Huis Marseille Museum for Photography Joy of Giving Something Foundation BankART 1929 |