Les Rencontres-Arles 2024
Ishiuchi Miyako, Yamazawa Eiko, Okanoue Toshiko
Monday, July 1 - Sunday, September 29, 2024
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Ishiuchi Miyako, Solo Exhibition as a winner of Woman in Motion Award by Kering and Les Rencontres d’Arles, in collaboration with Kyotographie._Belongings
Ishiuchi Miyako, Yamazawa Eiko and Okanoue Toshiko, Group Exhibition_I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now
Please join us.
July 1 – September 29, 2024
Ishiuchi Miyako
Outline
| 1947 | Born in Gunma |
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| 1953 | Moves to Yokosuka |
| 1966 | Entries Tama Art University, major in design and textiles |
| 2007 | Starts photographing the “ひろしま/hiroshima” series at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum |
Prize
| 1979 | Awarded the 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award |
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| 1999 | Awarded the 11th Shashin-no-kai Award Awarded the 15th the Domestic Photographer Award of the Higashikawa Award |
| 2003 | Awarded the 15th Shashin-no-kai Award |
| 2006 | Awarded the Photographic Society of Japan's Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 2009 | Awarded the 50th Mainichi Art Award |
| 2011 | Awarded the 60th Kanagawa Culture Award |
| 2013 | Awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon |
| 2014 | Awarded the Hasselblad Award 2014 |
| 2016 | Awarded the Avon Awards to Women 2016 |
| 2023 | Awarded the Asahi Prize 2022 |
| 2024 | Awarded Inoue Yasushi Kinen Prize |
| 2024 | Woman in Motion |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | Silken Dreamsーsilk threaded memories. Minatomirai Line Bashamichi Station Concourse, Yokohama The Drowned. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka Belongings. Rencontres-Arles, Arles |
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| 2023 | Naked Rose. SUPER LABO STORE TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan Ginza was My First Tokyo. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 | Ishiuchi Miyako. Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan Ishiuchi Miyako. Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland Ishiuchi Miyako in Tsudajuku. Tsuda University , Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 | Seen and Unseen -Tracing Photography. Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan |
| 2020 | Sprits Rising-ひろしま/hiroshima. Portland Japanese Garden Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 2019 | Fabric of Memory- From ひろしま/hiroshima. Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography, Nara, Japan Ishiuchi Miyako. Fergus McCaffrey, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Frida A Photographic portrait. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England |
| 2017 | Art Basel Hong Kong 2017. Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong Grain and Image. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2016 | Childhood Garments. Iwami Art Museum, Masuda, Japan Frida is. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Childhood Garments. Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan |
| 2015 | Frida by Ishiuchi Miyako. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England Ishiuchi Miyako-Postwar Shadows. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Dikanyama photo fair 2015. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | Semamori-Stitched Amulets on the Back of Children’s Kimono’s. Lixil Gallery, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan For Young Children’s Clothing. Lixil Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, ひろしま/Hiroshima 1945/2007— . Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY Ishiuchi Miyako -The Fabric of Photography. Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden Paris Photo 2014. Grand Palais, Paris, France |
| 2013 | sa・bo・ten. CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan sa・bo・ten. Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan Ishiuchi Miyako. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England |
| 2012 | SILKEN DREAMS. The Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan ひろしま/hiroshima via Vancouver. Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | From [Mother's] to [hiroshima]. 11th Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan ひろしま/hiroshima in NAGANO. Naganoken Kenminbunka Kaikan, Nagano, Japan ひろしま/hiroshima by ISHIUCHI MIYAKO. The Audian Gallery of Museum of Anthropology at Brisith Columbia University, Vancouver, Canada Ishiuchi Miyako. Paris Photo, Paris, France |
| 2010 | Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980. Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY ひろしま/hiroshima in OKINAWA. Sakima Art Museum, Ginowan, Japan Tokyo Bay Blues. Sokyusha, Tokyo, Japan ひろしま/hiroshima six, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 2009 | Ishiuchi Miyako Infinity. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan Ishiuchi Miyako on the wind of Jyoshu 1976/2008. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan |
| 2008 | Clubs Courts Apartments Ishiuchi Miyako. Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY Miyako Ishiuchi photographs 1976-2005. Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic; traveled to Foam, Amsterdam, Nederland; La Filature, Mulhouse, France and Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England. ひろしま/hiroshima Strings of Time. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Ishiuchi Miyako Hiroshima/Yokosuka. Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan ひろしま/hiroshima is....... Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Mother's. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Innocence. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Mother's. Aurora arte Contemporanea, Trent, Italy Ishiuchi Miyako mother's. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Mother's. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan Innocence. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan mother's 2000-2005 - traces of the future. The 51st international art exhibition of la Biennale Venezia, Venice, Italy Timeless encounters in the photography of Miyako Ishiuchi. House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | Mother's. Sepia International, New York, NY Mother's. Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2002 | Works of Miyako Ishiuchi. Photographers' Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Mother's. C Square, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2001 | Endless Night 2001. Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Endless Night 2001. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan Miyako Ishiuchi Exhibition. Aya Bis, Osaka, Japan Nail. Galerie deux, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | 1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face. Gallery RAKU, Kyoto, Japan 1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face. The Third Gallery Aya; amus, Osaka, Japan. |
| 1999 | Scars. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan Miyako Ishiuchi : Time Textured in Monochrome. National Film Center; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Body and Air. Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | Yokosuka Again. Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan Yokosuka Again. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 1997 | 1·9·4·7. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan Yokosuka Story. Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 1996 | Chromosome XY. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 1995 | To the Skin. Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Japan Hiromi 1995. Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan Chromosome XY. Zeit- Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1994 | To the Skin. Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan 1·9·4·7. Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY 1906 To the Skin. Dickson Foundation Gallery, Charlotte, NC |
| 1993 | Interior3. Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1992 | Interior2. Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1991 | Interior. Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 1988 | From Yokosuka Third Position. Room 801, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1986 | Tokyo Bay Cities in Yokosuka. Saikaya Salon, Yokosuka, Japan |
| 1985 | Tokyo Bay Cities. Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan Endless Night. Space Aupa, Nagoya, Japan |
| 1984 | Tokyo Bay Cities. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1982 | Bottled Time / Tokyo Dental College. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1981 | From Yokosuka. Cabaret 2nd New Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Japan Endless Night. Workshop Observatory, Yokosuka, Japan |
| 1980 | Endless Night. Ginza Nikon Salon; Shinjyuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1979 | The 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award Exhibition -in Apartment-. Ginza Nikon Salon; Shinjyuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1978 | Apartment. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1977 | Yokosuka Story. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | Square. Gallery 58, Tokyo, Japan I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now.Rencontres-Arles, Arles Collection 2024 Ⅱ: Expressions about Time. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan Collection 2024-Ⅱ: Highlight + Relations [Guest Artist: NAKANISHI Sawa]. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 20 Years After the Passing of TANEMURA Suehiro: A Corridor of Fantastical Art. SPAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan 100 Year Story of Photography. Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan Collection 1: Portraits of Her. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
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| 2023 | Square. Gallery 58, Tokyo, Japan Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art. Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan. Before/After. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan. Views through my window. KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kondaya Genbei Chikuin-no-Ma), Kyoto, Japan CAMK Collection Vol.7 Memory Storage for The Future. Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan Collection: Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition Collection+: From a Palm to the Universe. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan “MEMORIES 01” selected by Yoshiaki Inoue. cadan Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan À PARTIR D'ELLE. DES ARTISTES ET LEUR MÈRE. LE BAL, Paris, France Kyuryudo 100th Anniversary Exhibition. Gallery ARUKESTRA, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 | Square-30x30cm. Gallery58, Tokyo, Japan Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Fair. Grand Front Osaka, Osaka, Japan Shifting the Silence. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,SF Beautiful Roses: centering on Les Roses by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki MOT Collection. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo Mirrors and Windows. Asama International Photo Fesvival, Miyota MOMAT Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 | Square-30x30cm. Gallery58, Tokyo, Japan The Seventieth Anniversary of the Hiroshima Panels. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan Frida Love and Pain. Chelsea Music Festival, New York, NY. Decades 2000_2020. Kana Kawanishi Photography, Tokyo, Japan CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985－2015. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Collection3: Between Visible and Invisible. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan Mother!. Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark; traveled to Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Dress Code-Are You Playing Fashion? The Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany YAMAZAWA Eiko,OKANOUE Toshiko, ISHIUCHI Miyako 2021. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Capsule, Tokyo, Japan Reversible Destiny- Australian and Japanese contemporary photography. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Ishiuchi Miyako From Distant Future and Jyoshu. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan Paris Photo 2021. Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, France |
| 2020 | DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2020 -Landscapes in Our Age: Scarred and Reborn. The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan Artists in Kiryu 2020. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan Memories in Thread from the Collection of Arts Maebashi. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan Golden Age: Five Masters of Japanese Photography. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China; traveled to Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Amoi, China; Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China Collection. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan 2020-2 Collection Highlight & Special Feature: Portrait of Self and Others. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Dazzling Skins: Life Illuminated From Death. Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga, Japan Hasselblad Award 40 Years. Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden Memories of the Place: Anamnesis. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan |
| 2019 | Collection3-Image of something invisible. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The Gaze of Things, Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke. Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain Body and Memory from Art Collection of Arts Maebashi. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan CAMK Collection from New Acquisition. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan Emancipation of Humanity: Focusing on Works by Female Artists-Primarily from the Museum Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Flash Memories. The Third Gallery Aya; Sai Gallery; Yoshimi Arts; Osaka, Japan Art Book/Art Goods. BankART1929, Yokohama, Japan My Body, Your Body, Their Body. Kana Kawanishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Feel The Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisition. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Dress Code:Are You Playing Fashion?. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Art and Society-Contemporary Artists, Late period. Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan Miyako and Chihiro: Ishiuchi Miyako Exhibition-The Story of Two Women, Chihiro Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Life-The 100th Anniversary of Chihiro Iwasaki’s Birth ひろしま/hiroshima Ishiuchi Miyako. Azumino Chihiro Art Museum, Nagano, Japan VII Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación ONCE. Fundación ONCE, Madrid, Spain Around the small sea - Photography from Japan. Goeun Museum, Pusan, Korea Body Politics: What Defines the Body?. Kana Kawanishi Photography, Tokyo, Japan Yokohama Museum of Art Collection, Showa Portraits: Tracing the People and History of the Showa Era through Photography. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan To Travel with Glasses. Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan; traveled to Iwami Art Museum, Masuda, Japan; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2017 | Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2017. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan MIMOCA’s Collection: Artworks of All Kinds!. Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan Somewhere I Have Never Travelled. URANO, Tokyo, Japan Ishiuchi Miyako x A&S x mame. Art & Sceience, Tokyo, Japan Collection. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan The 9th Gelatin Silver Session-Portrait. Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Noroshi-Signal Flare For Our Future. Art Museum & Library, Ota, Ota, Japan Okinawa where the photographers looked at, 1972-2017. Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha, Japan 2D Printers. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan inframince-the photography as a film. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan 20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection-Scrolling Through Heisei Part 2 Communication and Solitude. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Nihonbashi Art Photo Exhibition 2017-The world of Art Photography. Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan Kumamoto Admirable. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan CROSSROAD 2. ART BASE MOMOJIMA, Onomichi, Japan Onomichi Art Crossroad. Onomichi, Japan Aging Pride. Belvedere, Vienna, Austria |
| 2016 | ecce homo -The Human Images in Contemporary Art. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan Tegami. Kamoe Art Center, Hamamatsu, Japan Contemporary Photography Asian Perspectives. Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY Dubai Photo. Dubai Design District, Dubai Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2016. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Art Beijing. National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China eyes of six women-Miyako Ishiuchi, Yuki Onodera, Kunie Sugiura, Makiko Koie, Masumi Kura, Yuki Urakami. Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Art Osaka 2016. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan Daikanyama photo fair 2016. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan The Exhibition of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, collection 2016 Part 1. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Unclear nuclear. URANO, Tokyo, Japan Le Bal − Hommage a` Etsuro ISHIHARA Part 3 – − adagio canta, A Memorial Service for Etsuro Ishihara, Where Artist Friends Will Gather. Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX Beyond Hiroshima- The Return of the Repressed-Wartime Memory, Performativity, and the Fictional In Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video Art . Tel Aviv University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Modern Blossoming Garden-Oita World Museum. Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita, Japan Mother of Akiyama Yutokutaishi. Gallery58, Tokyo, Japan Camera Atomica. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada The Art of Life. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan Life=Work. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan The 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War and Peace. Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan Power of Photography. Hotel Granvia, Osaka, Japan Art Osaka 2015. Hotel Granvia, Osaka, Japan Girls- Beyond Sugar and Spice. Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2014 | Fujifilm Photo Collection: My Single Photo-A collection of single photographs from doyens of Japanese photographic history. FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Fuji Film Photo Salon, Osaka, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan; Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Japan; Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, Japan Art Fair Tokyo 2014. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Collection. Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan Intractable and Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979. Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany Art Osaka 2014. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair 2014. Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan Crossroad. Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan Wardrobe Memories. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan Photography is. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Herland. 60 Wall Gallery, New York, NY Dreams of East Asia.BankArt Studio NYK , Yokohama, Japan VENT NOUVEAU × 15 Photographers. Takeo Mihoncho-honten, Tokyo, Japan Collection Ⅲ. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 2013 | Art Fair Tokyo 2013. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Re:Quest. Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Going beyond. Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, Japan Memories of A City-Yokosuka in Photographs and Contemporary Art. Yokosuka Museum of Art, Yokosuka, Japan Art Arch Hiroshima 2013-Peace Meets Art. Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan Transformed Visions. Tate Modern, London, England Art Osaka 2013. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood And Loss. Foundling Museum, London; traveled to Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Paris Photo 2013. Grand Palais, Paris, France |
| 2012 | Art Fair Tokyo 2012. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan The Allure of Collection- The 35th Anniversary of The National Museum of Art, Osaka. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| 2011 | Elegance and Grace:Beautiful People in East Asia. Ewha Women University Museum, Seoul, Korea Timeless. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan HAUT. Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany SKIN/ Dans La peau. Claude Verdan Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade. Photo Ireland Festival, Dublin, Ireland Art Fair Tokyo 2011. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Nostlgia Korea-China-Japan Culture Shuttle 2011. Korea Foundation, Seoul, Korea 5 Women’s eyes. msc gallery in Doshisha Women’s College, Kyotanabe, Japan Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 2010 | Art Fair Tokyo 2010. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Collection 1. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Pictures by Women/ A history of Modern Photography. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY ART OSAKA 2010. Doujima Hotel, Osaka, Japan Miyako Ishiuchi and Ryoji Ikeda. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan Skin. Wellcome Trust, London, England 126 Polaroid. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Hommage, Suehiro Tanemura. Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Collection/Mother’s. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan The 14th Small Museum. Kamaboko Museum, Odawara, Japan |
| 2009 | Art Fair Tokyo 2009. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Aging. Claude Verdan Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland Dark Side II- Photographic Power, Disease, and Death Photographed. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Tokyo Photo. Roppongi Bellesalle, Tokyo, Japan Japan meets China/ Our Future reflected in Contemporary Art. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan Dress Codes/ The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. International Center Of Photography, New York, NY Collection 3. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2008 | Art Fair Tokyo 2008. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan The Human Images in the Twentieth Century by the collection of The Tokushima Modern Art Museum. Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan Collection 1. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan Collection 2. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan The history of art and city -Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai-. Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan Collection 2. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Between the Wall and the Ground. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2008. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan PARIS PHOTO 2008. CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE, Paris, France |
| 2007 | Portraits de L’autre. Musee d’xelles, Brussels, Belgium Vital Signs: Reality of 9 Contemporary Artists. Yokosuka Museum of Art, Yokosuka, Japan The Body Sings of Life. Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan The China International Gallery Exposition 2007. Exhibition hall China World Trade Centre, Beijing, China Japan Contemporary Art Festival. Heiri Art Village, Seoul, Korea The Sense of Collapse. The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Beyond Language. Soka Art Center, Beijing, China; traveled to Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan. Collection-Showa Photography 1945-1989. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Japan Caught by Camera. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China Exquisite Shadows. Sage Paris, Paris, France Mother and Daughter. Art Sonje, Seoul, Korea The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 2006 | Case Study. Beyond the Valley, London, England Sepia at Seven – A Celebration Group Show. Sepia International, New York, NY Food and Contemporary Art Part2: Ishokudogen. BankART 1929 Yokohama; Bankart Market Oceans Bar Rose House, Yokohama, Japan MOT Collection: Art since the 1960s. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan The Photographic Society in Japan’s Awards Exhibition. Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan Berlin- Tokyo: Tokyo- Berlin. Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany Case Study2. Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, England Mite!- Okayama. The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Hajime Sawatari, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yasuhide Kuge: Slide Show at Bookfes 2006. Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo, Japan Modern Paradise. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Family Scenes in Japanese Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Mito, Japan Collection3. The National Museum of Art, Osaka Beyond Lilith: The Sacred Feminine. Scuderie Aldobrandini of Comune di Frascati, Frascati, Itary The Memory of Me: Nikon Salon 1968-2006 Special Exhibition. Nikon Plaza Ginza, Tokyo, Japan From the Garden. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2006. Fukushima City Museum of Photography, Fukushima, Japan Gift, The Store. Spiral, Tokyo, Japan mas alla de lo ordinario/ extraordinario: fotografia japonesa contemporanea. Centro de La Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2005 | Toshodaiji , Photography and Haiku Exhibition for Ganjinwajo and Rashanabutsu. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2005-I. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan Old Age: Beauty and Form. Fukushima Museum, Fukushima, Japan 36 photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award. Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan 85/05 - 20 Years after the Tsukuba Museum of Photography. Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan Video Installation by Bill Viola and Contemporary Works From the Museum Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Traces & Omens- the 12th Noorderlict Photo Festival. Der Aa-Kerk, Groningen, Netherlands The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2005-III. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan Art Fair Tokyo. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Take Art Collection. Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan My Precious: Photos and Words Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers. Art Forum Azamino, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2004 | Landscape and Scalpel. Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Hachinohe, Japan out of the ordinary/ extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography. Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln, Germany; traveled to other venues in Europe and U.S.A Mask of Japan-Japanese Contemporary Photography. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Yokohama Shashinkan. BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan Meguro Art Annual 2004. Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan What’s Art? An Invitation to 20th Century Art: The Collection of National Museum of Art, Osaka. The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan |
| 2003 | The History of Japanese Photography. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Freedom of Photography. Prinz, Kyoto, Japan Beyond The Surface - Japanese Style of Making Things. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; traveled to Cultural Center of Philippines, Manila, Philippines Permanent Exhibition: Miyako Ishiuchi, Jun Shiraoka, Hiromi Kakimoto. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan Mask of Japan-Japanese Contemporary Photography. Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China Collection 3: Miyako Ishiuchi and Osamu Kanemura. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Freedom of Photography. Prinz, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2002 | Uncompleted Century Legacies of 20th Century Art. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2002-1. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan The World of Polaroid Photography: Beyond Time. Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Sen Space, Osaka, Japan Photoneshia: Memories of Light; Fruits of Time. Naha Civic Gallery, Naha, Japan |
| 2001 | Global Visions. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Moderns by The Sumida River. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Off Triennale. Ryunichi Kanton Kaikan, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2000 | Vestiges. Sepia International, New York, NY Main5. 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan Art and Society: Earthquake. Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan Japanese and Chinese Contemporary. Sanya Photography Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 1999 | Rediscovery of Photography, From the Photography Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Skin Dive. Kyoto Art Festival, Kyoto, Japan The Tracing Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award 1975-1999. Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan Art in the Ruins. Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Higashikawa International Photofestival Award Winning Works Exhibition. Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Higashikawa, Japan Premio Michelangelo Antonioni per le Arti 1999. Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy Main. 03Fotos, Tokyo, Japan Yokohama International Photography Festival’99. Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 1998 | Main. 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan Art in the Ruins. Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan 21st Anniversary Zeit-Foto, Artspace Shimoda, organized by Zeit-Foto. Tokyo, Japan Women Photographer’s eyes 1945-1997: Tokyo Photography Month. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan An Incomplete History: Women Photographers from Japan, 1864-1997. Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, Rochester; traveled to New York and other venues in U.S.A. Art and the Environment: From an Ecological Point of View. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Art in the Ruins. Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Art in the Ruins Annex. Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 | Flexible Coexistence: Mito Annual '97. Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan Lust und Leere Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart. Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria; traveled to Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Surface Exposed: Photography in the 90's Art. Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 1997 B semi 30th Anniversary Week in Daikanyama. Hill Side Plaza, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1996 | Prospect '96. Schirin Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Main. 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan Tracing Japanese Contemporary Photography through Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Fujikawaguchiko, Japan Cityscape Japan. Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln, Germany Yokohama International Photo Festival ’96. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Contemporary Art From Galleries '96. Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan Contemporary Photography since the 1980s. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award Exhibition-Japan Contemporary Photography. Kintetsu Art Kan, Osaka, Japan Main. 03FOTOS, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1995 | Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives-Rethinking Modernism. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Alter, Egodocument. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland 20th Anniversary Kimura Ihei Prize. Ginza Canon Salon, Tokyo, Japan Photography and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Rituals and Transformation. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Contemporary Japanese Photography. Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan Contemporary Japanese Photography. The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 1994 | Japanese Art After 1945. Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA When The Body Becomes Art. Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography. The Light Factory Photo Arts Center, Charlotte, NC; traveled to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
| 1993 | Changing I: dense cities. Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland Zeitgenossische Japanische Photographie. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Swtzerland Light and Shadow. Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1992 | Symposion uber Fotografie13, So Oder So Nicht Sein. Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria Photography 1960-1980. Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1991 | Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portrait of Contemporary Women. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Japanese Photography in The 1970s. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Make-Believe. The Photographers Gallery, London, England |
| 1990 | Women’s Perspective in German and Japan. Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan |
| 1989 | The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography. Center for Creative Photography, The university of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 1987 | Japanese Women Photographers. Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA. |
| 1986 | World of Super-Image. Yurakucho Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1985 | Paris, New York, Tokyo. The Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Ibaraki, Japan; traveled to The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan |
| 1984 | Dumont’5: Die Japanische Fotographie. Museum Fur kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1980 | Photo-Session'80. Konishiroku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1979 | Nuzyun in Okinawa Yamato. Dainaha, Naha, Japan Japan : A Self-Portrait. International Center of Photography, New York, NY; traveled to Venice, Italy |
| 1977 | Photography Today'77. Kanagawa Kenmin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 1976 | Hyakka-Ryo-Ran. Gallery Simizu, Tokyo Japan Photographic Effect 5. Espouse Saturday, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1975 | Photographic Effect 3. Gallery Simizu, Tokyo, Japan |
Publications
| 2021 | Moving Away. Tokyo: Sokyusha |
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| 2019 | The Story of Two Women: Miyako and Chihiro. Tokyo: Kyuryudo |
| 2018 | Beginnings 1975. Tokyo: Sokyusha |
| 2017 | Yokohama Gorakuso. Tokyo: Sokyusha Grain and Image. Tokyo: Kyuryudo |
| 2016 | Childhood Garments. Tokyo: Sokyusha Frida Love and Pain. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten About Photography.Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo From Yokosuka. Tokyo: Super Labo |
| 2015 | Maddox, Amanda. Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows. Los Angeles: L.Paul Getty Museum Belongings. Tokyo: Case Publishing and FAPA |
| 2014 | From ひろしま. Tokyo: Kyuryudo Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, ひろしま/hiroshima 1945/2007-. New York: PPP Editions Ishiuchi, Miyako Hasselblad Award2014. Berlin: Kehrer |
| 2013 | sa・bo・ten. Hiroshima: DAIWA PRESS Frida by Ishiuchi. Barcelona: RM |
| 2012 | From Cocoons. Kyoto: Seigensha |
| 2010 | Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980. New York: PPP Editions Tokyo Bay Blues. Tokyo: Sokyusha |
| 2009 | Infinity∞. Tokyo: Kyuryudo |
| 2008 | Hiroshima. Tokyo: Shueisha Ishiuchi, Miyako and Botman, Machiel. Miyako Ishiuchi Photographs 1976-2005. Amsterdam: Manfred Heiting/Cinubia Production One Days. Tokyo: Rat Hole Gallery |
| 2007 | Club & Courts Yokosuka Yokohama. Tokyo: Sokyusha Innocence. Kyoto: AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc. |
| 2006 | mother’s 2000-2005 traces of the Future. Kyoto: Tankosha |
| 2005 | Scars. Tokyo: Sokyusha Kizuato. Osaka: Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan Yomogida, Katsuyuki and Ishiuchi, Miyako.Le Parfum de la Rose. Tokyo: Kyuryudo |
| 2002 | Mother's. Tokyo: Sokyusha |
| 2001 | Endless Night 2001. Tokyo: Wides Shuppan |
| 2000 | Nail. Tokyo: Heibonsha |
| 1998 | Yokosuka Again. Tokyo: Sokyusha |
| 1996 - 2000 | Ishiuchi, Miyako and Narahashi, Asako. Foto Magazine "main". |
| 1995 | Ito, Hiromi and Ishiuchi, Miyako. Hiromi: 1955. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo Chromosome XY. Tokyo: Shinchosha |
| 1994 | 1906 to the skin. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers |
| 1993 | Monochrome. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo |
| 1990 | 1・9・4・7. Tokyo: Inter Press Corporation |
| 1981 | Endless Night. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama Tokyo Dental College. Tokyo: Issei Shuppan |
| 1979 | Yokosuka Story. Tokyo: Shashin Tsushinsha |
| 1978 | Apartment. Tokyo: Shashin Tsushinsha |
Public Collections
| Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Higashikawa Photo Fiesta, Higashikawa, Japan The Japan Foundation Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France International Center of Photography, New York, NY Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan Okawa Musuem of Art, Kiryu, Japan Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha, Japan Sakima Art Museum, Ginowan, Japan The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Tate Modern, London, England MAST, Bologna, Italy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO MKG, Hamburg, Germany Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden Le Bal, Paris, France New York Public Library, New York, NY Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Shisen, China Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain Chihiro Art Museum, Azumino and Tokyo, Japan Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan |
Yamazawa Eiko
Outline
| 1899 | Born in Osaka. |
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| 1918 | Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. |
| 1926 | Went to America to study California School of Fine Arts and became an assistant to the photographer, Consuelo Kanaga. |
| 1929 | Returned to Japan. |
| 1931 | Established Yamazawa Studio at Dojima Building in Osaka. |
| 1935 | Yamazawa’s studio moved to Osaka Sogo Department Store. |
| 1938 | Yamazawa Eiko studio moved to Suo-cho in Osaka. |
| 1945 | Yamazawa’s Studio was burned down by heavy bombing in WWII. |
| 1946 | Worked for P.X.studio of Occupation Forces in Kyoto. |
| 1950 | Established the Yamazawa Institute of Photography in Osaka. |
| 1952 | Established the Yamazawa Studio of Commercial Photography at Osaka Sogo Department Store. |
| 1955 | Studied photography for six months in New York. |
| 1960 | Closed the Yamazawa Studio of Commercial Photography. |
| 1965 | Studied photography for six months in U.S.A and Europe. |
| 1995 | Dies. |
Prize
| 1955 | Osaka Prefecture Art Award |
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| 1977 | Photographic Society of Japan Distinguished Contributions Award |
| 1980 | Kobe City Cultural Prize |
| 1986 | Iue Culture Award Soroptimist Award |
| 1987 | Japan Inter-Design Forum Award |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2020 | What I am doing. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
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| 2019 | Eiko Yamazawa: WHAT I AM DOING. Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan; traveled to Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 2001 | Yamazawa Eiko: Gallery Collection. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 1996 | Form and Rhythm. Verso Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1994 | Eiko Yamazawa Exhibition. Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Japan Eiko Yamazawa Exhibition: Far and Near and What I Am Doing. Brain Center Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1992 | What I Am Doing: Abstraction ’92. Brain Center Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1991 | What I Am Doing: Abstraction ’91. Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka, Japan |
| 1986 | What I Am Doing 3. Asahi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan What I Am Doing 3. Tamako Okazaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan What I Am Doing 3. ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1983 | Photographic Abstractions. Amano Gallery, Osaka, Japan What I Am Doing. Nagase Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan Eiko Yamazawa: Abstract Photographs. Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan |
| 1982 | What I Am Doing 2. Line House, Kobe, Japan What I Am Doing. Central Park Event Court, Nagoya, Japan |
| 1981 | What I Am Doing. Gendai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1979 | What I Am Doing. Masago Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1976 | Abstraction. Rock Paint Floor, Osaka, Japan What I Am Doing. Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1974 | Japanese Folk Crafts. Sky Photo Gallery, Kobe, japan |
| 1972 | Abstraction and Japanese Folk Crafts. Tokyo YWCA Sadohara Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1967 | Eiko Yamazawa Photographic Works. Kobe Daimaru, Kobe, Japan |
| 1965 | Figures and Still Lifes. Takashimaya New York, New York, NY |
| 1963 | Abstraction and Still Lifes. Osaka Sogo, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1956 | In New York. Osaka Sogo, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Ginza Matsuzakaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1951 | Portraits. Hankyu Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1949 | Yasue Yamamoto Costume Photographs. Osaka Asahi Hall Parlor, Osaka, Japan |
| 1935 | Unknown exhibition. Seikosha, Osaka, Japan |
| 1932 | Portraits of Creative Minds, Osaka Asahi Hall, Osaka, Japan |
| 1929 | Unknown exhibition. Osaka YWCA, Osaka, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now.Rencontres-Arles, Arles |
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| 2023 | Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 | Bunshi must have a camera. Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum, Yokohama, Japan Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Opening Exhibition Hello! Super Collection—99 Untold Stories. Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 2021 | The New Woman Behind The Camera. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. YAMAZAWA Eiko,OKANOUE Toshiko, ISHIUCHI Miyako 2021. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Capsule, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | Fujifilm Photo Collection: My Single Photo – A Collection of Single Photographs from Doyens of Japanese Photographic History. Fuji Film Square, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to other venues in Japan |
| 2012 | The Pencil of Nature: Technique and Style. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Timeless – Yamazawa Eiko, Okanoue Toshiko and Ishiuchi Miyako. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan Five Women’s Eyes. MSC Gallery, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2008 | Photo+Graph. Joshibi University of Art and Design Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to other venues in Japan |
| 2006 | What I’m Doing: Yamazawa Eiko and Akasaki Mima. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 2001 | Japanese Women Artists Before and after World War II, 1930s–1950s. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan |
| 2000 | Verso Collection 4. Verso Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Joshibi: A Centenary Exhibition. Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo, Japan Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Collection 2000. ATC Museum, Osaka, Japan |
| 1998 | An Incomplete History: Women Photographers from Japan 1864–1997. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; traveled to other venues in US Corridor of the Gaze: The Lonely Maquette, Still Life Arrangement as Constructed Landscape. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1995 | Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives— Rethinking Modernism, Part 1: Objects. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1987 | Eiko Yamazawa Exhibition Produced by Yoshio Hata. Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka, Japan Japanese Women Photographers. Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA. |
| 1986 | Five Contemporary Artists with Eiko Yamazawa. Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan |
| 1982 | The 3rd Kakū Tsūshin Tent Museum Exhibition. Shukugawa Park, Nishinomiya, Japan |
| 1981 | The 2nd Kakū Tsūshin Tent Museum Exhibition. Shukugawa Park, Nishinomiya, Japan |
| 1980 | The 1st Kakū Tsūshin Tent Museum Exhibition. Shukugawa Park, Nishinomiya, Japan |
| 1979 | Kakū Tsūshin Exhibition. Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1970 | Kazuko Hamachi and Eiko Yamazawa: Abstraction and Still Lifes. Osaka Daimaru, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Germany |
| 1961 | Yamazawa Photography Study Group Works. Fuji Photo Gallery Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 1936 | The 10th Japan Photographic Art Exhibition. Osaka Matsuzakaya, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Nagoya, Shizuoka, and Tokyo, Japan |
| 1929 | The Third International Photographic Salon of Japan. Tokyo Asahi Newspaper Company, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Osaka |
Art Fair
| 2022 | Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Fair. Grand Front Osaka, Osaka, Japan Hibiya Okuroji Photo Fair. Hibiya Okuroji, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 2021 | Paris Photo 2021</em. Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, France |
| 2012 | Paris Photo 2012. Grand Palais, Paris, France |
Publications
| 2019 | What I Am Doing. Akaaka |
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| 1994 | Yamazawa Eiko Ten (Eiko Yamazawa Exhibition). Itami: Itami City Museum of Art |
| 1986 | Abstract Photographs. Tokyo: Tamako Okazaki Gallery |
| 1983 | Watashi wa Joryū Shashinka (I Am a Woman Photographer). Osaka: Brain Center |
| 1982 | What I’m Doing: Positions and Directions. Miraisha |
| 1976 | Abstract Photographs. Yamazawa Photography Laboratory |
| 1962 | Far and Near. Miraisha |
| 1953 | Tankyū (Quest). Yamazawa Commercial Photography Studio |
| 1921 | Eiko Gashū (Collected Paintings of Eiko). Hoshi Publishing. |
Public Collections
| Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Chuo Historical Museum/ Planetarium, Tokyo, Japan Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Japan Nirasaki Omura Art Museum, Nirasaki Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, New York, NY |
Okanoue Toshiko
Outline
| 1928 | Born in Kochi Prefecture |
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| 1945 | Graduates from Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin |
| 1948 | Graduates from Keisen High School |
| 1949 | Graduates from Ogawa Fashion Insititute |
| 1952 | Graduates from Design Department of Bunka Gakuin College |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | The Call. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan A New Season. Isetan Salone Art Wall, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 2019 | Toshiko Okanoue, Photo Collage: The Miracle of Silence. Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Okanoue Toshiko, Photo Collages-A Long Journey. Books f3, Niigata, Japan Okanoue Toshiko. Keibunsha Ichijoji, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2018 | Okanoue Toshiko Retrospective Exhibition-A Long Journey. The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan |
| 2015 | A Long Journey. Librairie6, Tokyo, Japan A Long Journey. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 2014 | A Long Journey. Kitahama gallery Maru R, Takamatsu, Japan A Long Journey. Rokujigen, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Visit in Night. Librairie6, Tokyo, Japan Toshiko Okanoue: Drop of Dreams. Charles A.Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR |
| 2008 | Metamorphoses. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 2002 | Droplets of Dreams. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan Okanoue Toshiko: Collages. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2000 | Okanoue Toshiko Photo-Collage: Droplets of Dreams curated by Ryuichi Kaneko. The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance, Co. South Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1956 | Okanoue Toshiko Collage Exhibition. Gallery Takemiya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1953 | Okanoue Toshiko Collage Exhibition. Gallery Takemiya, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now.Rencontres-Arles, Arles |
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| 2022 | MOMAT Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Fujino Kazutomo and Okanoue Toshiko. Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2021 | Surrealism Beyond Borders. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to Tate Modern, London, England The New Woman Behind The Camera. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. YAMAZAWA Eiko,OKANOUE Toshiko, ISHIUCHI Miyako 2021. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Capsule, Tokyo, Japan MOMAT Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | 9-year Exhibition Librairie 6. Librairie 6, Tokyo, Japan A Pleasure of Collecting Art. Art House Oyabe, Oyabe, Japan Surrealist Painting-Influence and lterations in Japan. Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan |
| 2018 | A Beautiful Moment. Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherland |
| 2017 | Japanese Surrealist Photography. Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Nihombashi Art Photo Exhibition 2017-The world of Fine Art Photography. Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | Exhibition from permanent collection of the Museum of Art, Kochi Part Ⅰ. The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan taguchi fine art + The Third Gallery Aya in Nakanoshima hosted by Kumi Okumura. Nakanoshima Banks de sign de, Osaka, Japan 70th Anniversary of the End of WWII: Alternative Stories in 1940’s Art-From the Tragic War to Reconstruction and Rebirth What did Japanese Artists’ Works During that Priod Represent ?. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan |
| 2013 | Jeux Surréalisme. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan; traveled to Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Alison Goldfrapp: Performer as Curator. The Lowry, Manchester, England Art of Kochi-A La Carte-Six Themes. The Museum of Art, Kochi |
| 2012 | Utopia/ Dystopia : Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage. The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston, TX Creating with Light-The Manipulated Photograph. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Amateurisum. Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany Tokyo 1955-1970:A New Avant-Garde. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 2011 | Femmes Surréalistes. Librairie6, Tokyo, Japan Surrealism and Collages from the collection. The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan |
| 2010 | Pictures by Women/ A History of Modern Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 2009 | Collage-Creation by Severance and Reconstruction. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Surrealism and Photography- BEAUTY CONVULSED. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Curator's Choice. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Collage and Photomontage. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Drifting Objects of Dreams: The Collection of Shuzo Takiguchi. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Toyama, Japan Shuzo Takiguchi and Gallery Takemiya organized by Satani Gallery. Ochanomizu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Collection. The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan |
| 2003 | The History of Japanese Photography. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2001 | Japanese Women Artists before and after World WarⅡ 1930s-1950s. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan |
| 1996 | Shedding Light on Art in Japan 1953. Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1953 | Abstraction and Surrealism: How to Understand Them?. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
Art Fair
| 2017 | Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2017. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 2016 | Art Osaka 2016. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2016. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | Art Osaka 2015. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 2014 | Art Fair Tokyo 2014. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Art Osaka 2014. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan Hillside Terrace Photo Fair. Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 | Art Fair Tokyo 2013. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Art Osaka 2013. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 2012 | Art Fair Tokyo 2012. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Art Osaka 2012. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan Paris Photo 2012. Grand Palais, Paris, France |
| 2011 | Art Fair Tokyo 2011. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Art Fair Tokyo 2010. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | Art Fair Tokyo 2009. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Art Fair Tokyo 2008. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Paris Photo. Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris, France |
| 2007 | Photo Miami. Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL |
Publication
| 2022 | The World of Okanoue Toshiko and Fujino Kazutomo. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha |
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| 2020 | A Long Journey New Edition. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha |
| 2019 | The Miracle of Silence. Kyoto: Seigensha A Beautiful Moment. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha |
| 2018 | Okanoue Toshiko Complete works</em. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha Okanoue Toshiko Special Edition. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha |
| 2015 | A Long Journey. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha |
| 2007 | The Miracle of Silence. Paso Robles: Nazraeli Press |
| 2002 | Drop Of Dreams. Paso Robles: Nazraeli Press |
Public Collections
| The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, NY M+, Hong Kong Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |