KODAMA Fusako, OSAKA

KODAMA Fusako

Saturday, January 28, 2023 – Saturday, February 25, 2023
12:00–19:00(Wednesday – Friday), 12:00–17:00(Saturday)
By Appointment only on Tuesday

©︎ KODAMA Fusako

We are pleased to announce a solo show by Kodama Fusako, entitled Kodama Fusako: Osaka, as our first exhibition of 2023.
Kodama studied photography at Kuwasawa Design School, and has been active as a photographer in Tokyo since then. For this reason, not many know that she is from Wakayama Prefecture and also took photographs in the Kansai region.
In this exhibition we have unearthed and will exhibit her debut work, the Osaka ’69 series, in which she documented what could be called her starting point, the city of Osaka. The curiosity about cities and their people that consistently characterizes her work is thriving in these photographs as well.
We are sure that Kodama’s work will be a fascinating guide to Osaka in the 1960s.

Kodama Fusako

Outline

1945 Born in Wakayama City
1967 Graduated from Kuwasawa Design School
1970 Selected for “Younger Eyes” in Japan Photo Almanac, published by Heibonsha
Thereafter, her photo works appeared in Graphication, the PR magazine of Fuji Xerox, newspapers and paperbacks.

Prize

1993 Received the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan for Tokyo After 1,000 Years
1995 Received the Third Kuwasawa Award

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Kodama Fusako, OSAKA. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan
2018 criteria. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan
2017 Tokyo After 1000 years. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan
2007 The Contemporary Age We Desire. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Tokyo Suburb. Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo, Japan
1993 When the Flowers Are at Their Best, the People in the City Are…. Sotetsu Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1992 Tokyo Kinetic. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Tokyo Photographs. Olympus Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Criteria. Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2022 Metropolitan Expressway in Art Works. O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2021 ART OSAKA 2021. Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka, Japan
Paris Photo 2021. Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, France
2019 Paris Photo 2019. Grand Palais, Paris, France
2018 daikanyama photo fair 2018. Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Hillside Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2018. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2012 White Future: Thinking of Nuclear. GoEun Museum of Photography, Pusan, Korea
1999 Kiyoji Otsuji and 15 Photographers. Museum of Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Women Photographer’s Eyes 1945-1997: Tokyo Photography Month. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1993 About Big Cities. nGbK, Berlin, Germany
1977 11 Fotografi Italiani e 11 Fotografi Giapponese. Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, Japan
1970 View. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan

Art Fair

2021 Paris Photo 2021. Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
2019 Paris Photo 2019. Grand Palais, Paris, France
2018 daikanyama photo fair 2018. Daikanyama Hillside Forum and Hillside Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2018. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Publications

1992 Tokyo After 1,000 Years. Tokyo: Gendaishokan
1990 Criteria. Tokyo: Inter Press Corporation

Public Collections

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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