Seen and Unseen -Tracing Photography

ISHIUCHI Miyako

Saturday, April 3–Sunday, July 25, 2021
Venue: OTANI MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM, NISHINOMIYA CITY

《ひろしま #131 donor:Masaki, S.》2020年

Ishiuchi Miyako: Seen and Unseen – Tracing Photography, a solo exhibition by Ishiuchi Miyako is held at Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City.
Over the years, Ishiuchi has consistently set out to express things unseen, such as the sense of touch, signs, memories, and time through photography by dealing with subjects such as landscapes, buildings, the body, and belongings. Having developed a unique worldview, Ishiuchi has been highly acclaimed for her work both in Japan and abroad.
In 2018, Ishiuchi shifted her base of operations from Yokohama to her hometown, Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, and embarked on a new phase in her career. Confronting her own body of work, which has assumed a variety of meanings with the passage of time, Ishiuchi began to reconsider the documentary quality and other aspects of photography, and contemplate the future direction of the medium.
This exhibition includes vintage prints of Endless Night, one of the artist’s earliest works; ひろしま/hiroshima, an important series which depicts the belongings of atomic-bomb victims; and Frida by Ishiuchi and Frida Love and Pain, two series which focus on objects that belonged to the artist Frida Kahlo. In addition, we present a rarely exhibited series depicting roses and cactuses; Moving Away, which is being shown here for the first time in Japan; and a new work, The Drowned, which displays a new side of Ishiuchi’s photography.

Ishiuchi Miyako

Outline

1947 Born in Gunma
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
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
STEP THROUGH TIME, Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
2023 Naked Rose. SUPER LABO STORE TOKYO, Tokyo
Ginza was My First Tokyo. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2022 Ishiuchi Miyako. Each Modern, Taipei
Ishiuchi Miyako. Stills, Edinburgh
Ishiuchi Miyako in Tsudajuku. Tsuda University , Tokyo
2021 Seen and Unseen -Tracing Photography. Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya
2020 Sprits Rising-ひろしま/hiroshima. Portland Japanese Garden Gallery, Portland
2019 Fabric of Memory- From ひろしま/hiroshima. Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography, Nara
Ishiuchi Miyako. Fergus McCaffrey, New York
2018 Frida A Photographic portrait. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
2017 Art Basel Hong Kong 2017. Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Grain and Image. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2016 Childhood Garments. Iwami Art Museum, Masuda
Frida is. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Childhood Garments. Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura
2015 Frida by Ishiuchi Miyako. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Ishiuchi Miyako-Postwar Shadows. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Dikanyama photo fair 2015. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
2014 Semamori-Stitched Amulets on the Back of Children’s Kimono’s. Lixil Gallery, Osaka and Tokyo
For Young Children’s Clothing. Lixil Gallery, Tokyo
Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, ひろしま/Hiroshima 1945/2007— . Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Ishiuchi Miyako -The Fabric of Photography. Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
Paris Photo 2014. Grand Palais, Paris
2013 sa・bo・ten. CAPSULE, Tokyo
sa・bo・ten. Gallery G, Hiroshima
Ishiuchi Miyako. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
2012 SILKEN DREAMS. The Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame
ひろしま/hiroshima via Vancouver. Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo
2011 From [Mother's] to [hiroshima]. 11th Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki, Miyazaki
ひろしま/hiroshima in NAGANO. Naganoken Kenminbunka Kaikan, Nagano
ひろしま/hiroshima by ISHIUCHI MIYAKO. The Audian Gallery of Museum of Anthropology at Brisith Columbia University, Vancouver
Ishiuchi Miyako. Paris Photo, Paris
2010 Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980. Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
ひろしま/hiroshima in OKINAWA. Sakima Art Museum, Ginowan
Tokyo Bay Blues. Sokyusha, Tokyo
ひろしま/hiroshima six, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2009 Ishiuchi Miyako Infinity. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
Ishiuchi Miyako on the wind of Jyoshu 1976/2008. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
2008 Clubs Courts Apartments Ishiuchi Miyako. Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Miyako Ishiuchi photographs 1976-2005. Langhans Galerie, Prague; traveled to Foam, Amsterdam; La Filature, Mulhouse and Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
ひろしま/hiroshima Strings of Time. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Ishiuchi Miyako Hiroshima/Yokosuka. Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
ひろしま/hiroshima is....... Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
2007 Mother's. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Innocence. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
2006 Mother's. Aurora arte Contemporanea, Trent
Ishiuchi Miyako mother's. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2005 Mother's. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
Innocence. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
mother's 2000-2005 - traces of the future. The 51st international art exhibition of la Biennale Venezia, Venice
Timeless encounters in the photography of Miyako Ishiuchi. House of Shiseido, Tokyo
2003 Mother's. Sepia International, New York
Mother's. Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama
2002 Works of Miyako Ishiuchi. Photographers' Gallery, Tokyo 
Mother's. C Square, Nagoya
2001 Endless Night 2001. Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Endless Night 2001. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
Miyako Ishiuchi Exhibition. Aya Bis, Osaka
Nail. Galerie deux, Tokyo
2000 1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face. Gallery RAKU, Kyoto
1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face. The Third Gallery Aya; amus, Osaka
1999 Scars. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Miyako Ishiuchi : Time Textured in Monochrome. National Film Center; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Body and Air. Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
1998 Yokosuka Again. Gallery Verita, Tokyo
Yokosuka Again. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
1997 1·9·4·7. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Yokosuka Story. Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama
1996 Chromosome XY. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
1995 To the Skin. Ouka Shorin, Nagano
Hiromi 1995. Gallery Verita, Tokyo
Chromosome XY. Zeit- Foto Salon, Tokyo
1994 To the Skin. Gallery Te, Tokyo
1·9·4·7. Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
1906 To the Skin. Dickson Foundation Gallery, Charlotte
1993 Interior3. Gallery Te, Tokyo
1992 Interior2. Gallery Te, Tokyo
1991 Interior. Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama
1988 From Yokosuka Third Position. Room 801, Tokyo
1986 Tokyo Bay Cities in Yokosuka. Saikaya Salon, Yokosuka
1985 Tokyo Bay Cities. Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
Endless Night. Space Aupa, Nagoya
1984 Tokyo Bay Cities. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1982 Bottled Time / Tokyo Dental College. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1981 From Yokosuka. Cabaret 2nd New Yokosuka, Yokosuka
Endless Night. Workshop Observatory, Yokosuka
1980 Endless Night. Ginza Nikon Salon; Shinjyuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1979 The 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award Exhibition -in Apartment-. Ginza Nikon Salon; Shinjyuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1978 Apartment. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1977 Yokosuka Story. Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2024 Square. Gallery 58, Tokyo
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
Collection 2024-Ⅱ: Highlight + Relations [Guest Artist: NAKANISHI Sawa]. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
20 Years After the Passing of TANEMURA Suehiro: A Corridor of Fantastical Art. SPAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo
100 Year Story of Photography. Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka
SHYARAKUSAI! Japanese Photo Books of the 1950s—1970s, Fujifilm Photo Salon Tokyo, Tokyo
Collection 1: Portraits of Her. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
2023 Square. Gallery 58, Tokyo
Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art. Art Tower Mito, Mito
Before/After. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Views through my window. KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kondaya Genbei Chikuin-no-Ma), Kyoto
CAMK Collection Vol.7 Memory Storage for The Future. Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto
Collection: Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition Collection+: From a Palm to the Universe. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi
“MEMORIES 01” selected by Yoshiaki Inoue. cadan Yurakucho, Tokyo
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
À PARTIR D'ELLE. DES ARTISTES ET LEUR MÈRE. LE BAL, Paris
Kyuryudo 100th Anniversary Exhibition. Gallery ARUKESTRA, Tokyo
2022 Square-30x30cm. Gallery58, Tokyo
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Fair. Grand Front Osaka, Osaka
Shifting the Silence. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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
Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going,Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
MOMAT Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
2021 Square-30x30cm. Gallery58, Tokyo
The Seventieth Anniversary of the Hiroshima Panels. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
Frida Love and Pain. Chelsea Music Festival, New York
Decades 2000_2020. Kana Kawanishi Photography, Tokyo
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985-2015. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Collection3: Between Visible and Invisible. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
Mother!. Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark; traveled to Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Dress Code-Are You Playing Fashion? The Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
YAMAZAWA Eiko,OKANOUE Toshiko, ISHIUCHI Miyako 2021. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka; traveled to Capsule, Tokyo
Reversible Destiny- Australian and Japanese contemporary photography. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Ishiuchi Miyako From Distant Future and Jyoshu. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
Paris Photo 2021. Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris
2020 DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2020 -Landscapes in Our Age: Scarred and Reborn. The National Art Center, Tokyo
Artists in Kiryu 2020. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
Memories in Thread from the Collection of Arts Maebashi. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi
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
Collection. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
2020-2 Collection Highlight & Special Feature: Portrait of Self and Others. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Dazzling Skins: Life Illuminated From Death. Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga
Hasselblad Award 40 Years. Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
Memories of the Place: Anamnesis. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi
2019 Collection3-Image of something invisible. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
The Gaze of Things, Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke. Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia
Body and Memory from Art Collection of Arts Maebashi. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi
CAMK Collection from New Acquisition. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto
Emancipation of Humanity: Focusing on Works by Female Artists-Primarily from the Museum Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Flash Memories. The Third Gallery Aya; Sai Gallery; Yoshimi Arts; Osaka
Art Book/Art Goods. BankART1929, Yokohama
My Body, Your Body, Their Body. Kana Kawanishi Gallery, Tokyo
Feel The Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisition. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.
Dress Code:Are You Playing Fashion?. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Art and Society-Contemporary Artists, Late period. Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
Miyako and Chihiro: Ishiuchi Miyako Exhibition-The Story of Two Women, Chihiro Art Museum, Tokyo
2018 Life-The 100th Anniversary of Chihiro Iwasaki’s Birth ひろしま/hiroshima Ishiuchi Miyako. Azumino Chihiro Art Museum, Nagano
VII Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación ONCE. Fundación ONCE, Madrid
Around the small sea - Photography from Japan. Goeun Museum, Pusan
Body Politics: What Defines the Body?. Kana Kawanishi Photography, Tokyo
Yokohama Museum of Art Collection, Showa Portraits: Tracing the People and History of the Showa Era through Photography. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi
To Travel with Glasses. Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori; traveled to Iwami Art Museum, Masuda; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
2017 Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2017. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo
MIMOCA’s Collection: Artworks of All Kinds!. Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled. URANO, Tokyo
Ishiuchi Miyako x A&S x mame. Art & Sceience, Tokyo
Collection. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
The 9th Gelatin Silver Session-Portrait. Axis Gallery, Tokyo
Noroshi-Signal Flare For Our Future. Art Museum & Library, Ota, Ota
Okinawa where the photographers looked at, 1972-2017. Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha
2D Printers. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
inframince-the photography as a film. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection-Scrolling Through Heisei Part 2 Communication and Solitude. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Nihonbashi Art Photo Exhibition 2017-The world of Art Photography. Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
Kumamoto Admirable. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto
CROSSROAD 2. ART BASE MOMOJIMA, Onomichi
Aging Pride. Belvedere, Vienna
2016 ecce homo -The Human Images in Contemporary Art. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
Tegami. Kamoe Art Center, Hamamatsu
Contemporary Photography Asian Perspectives. Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Dubai Photo. Dubai Design District, Dubai
Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2016. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo
Art Beijing. National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing
eyes of six women-Miyako Ishiuchi, Yuki Onodera, Kunie Sugiura, Makiko Koie, Masumi Kura, Yuki Urakami. Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Art Osaka 2016. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
Daikanyama photo fair 2016. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
The Exhibition of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, collection 2016 Part 1. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Unclear nuclear. URANO, Tokyo
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
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
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
Mother of Akiyama Yutokutaishi. Gallery58, Tokyo
Camera Atomica. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
The Art of Life. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
Life=Work. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
The 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War and Peace. Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima
Power of Photography. Hotel Granvia(Art Osaka 2015), Osaka
Girls- Beyond Sugar and Spice. Galerie Paris, Yokohama
2014 Fujifilm Photo Collection: My Single Photo-A collection of single photographs from doyens of Japanese photographic history. FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo; traveled to Fuji Film Photo Salon, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; Itami City Museum of Art, Itami; Hosomi Museum, Kyoto
Art Fair Tokyo 2014. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Collection. Art Base Momoshima, Onomichi
Intractable and Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979. Museum Ludwig, Koln
Art Osaka 2014. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair 2014. Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo
Crossroad1. Art Base Momoshima, Onomichi
Wardrobe Memories. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi
Photography is. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Herland. 60 Wall Gallery, New York
Dreams of East Asia.BankArt Studio NYK , Yokohama
VENT NOUVEAU × 15 Photographers. Takeo Mihoncho-honten, Tokyo
Collection Ⅲ. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
2013 Art Fair Tokyo 2013. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Re:Quest. Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
Going beyond. Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka
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
Transformed Visions. Tate Modern, London
Art Osaka 2013. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood And Loss. Foundling Museum, London; traveled to Belfast Exposed, Belfast
Paris Photo 2013. Grand Palais, Paris
2012 Art Fair Tokyo 2012. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Paris Photo 2012, Grand Palais, Paris
The Allure of Collection- The 35th Anniversary of The National Museum of Art, Osaka. The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2011 Elegance and Grace:Beautiful People in East Asia. Ewha Women University Museum, Seoul
Timeless. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
HAUT. Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
SKIN/ Dans La peau. Claude Verdan Foundation, Lausanne
Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade. Photo Ireland Festival, Dublin
Art Fair Tokyo 2011. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Nostlgia Korea-China-Japan Culture Shuttle 2011. Korea Foundation, Seoul
5 Women’s eyes. msc gallery in Doshisha Women’s College, Kyotanabe
Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Yokohama Preview, Shin-minatomura (Shinko pier), Yokohama
2010 Art Fair Tokyo 2010. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Collection 1. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Pictures by Women/ A history of Modern Photography. Museum of Modern Art, New York
ART OSAKA 2010. Doujima Hotel, Osaka
Miyako Ishiuchi and Ryoji Ikeda. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu
Skin. Wellcome Trust, London
126 Polaroid. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Hommage, Suehiro Tanemura. Span Art Gallery, Tokyo
Collection/Mother’s. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
The 14th Small Museum. Kamaboko Museum, Odawara
2009 Art Fair Tokyo 2009. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Aging. Claude Verdan Foundation, Lausanne
Dark Side II- Photographic Power, Disease, and Death Photographed. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Tokyo Photo. Roppongi Bellesalle, Tokyo
Japan meets China/ Our Future reflected in Contemporary Art. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
Dress Codes/ The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. International Center Of Photography, New York
Collection 3. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2008 Art Fair Tokyo 2008. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
The Human Images in the Twentieth Century by the collection of The Tokushima Modern Art Museum. Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
Collection 1. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
Collection 2. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
The history of art and city -Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai-. Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
Collection 2. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Between the Wall and the Ground. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2008. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
PARIS PHOTO 2008. CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE, Paris
2007 Portraits de L’autre. Musee d’xelles, Brussels
Vital Signs: Reality of 9 Contemporary Artists. Yokosuka Museum of Art, Yokosuka
Art Fair Tokyo 2007, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
The Body Sings of Life. Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame
The China International Gallery Exposition 2007. Exhibition hall China World Trade Centre, Beijing
Japan Contemporary Art Festival. Heiri Art Village, Seoul
The Sense of Collapse. The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Beyond Language. Soka Art Center, Beijing, China; traveled to Soka Art Center, Taipei
Collection-Showa Photography 1945-1989. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Japan Caught by Camera. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai
Exquisite Shadows. Sage Paris, Paris
Mother and Daughter. Art Sonje, Seoul
The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
photo Miami 2007, Wynwood Art District, Miami
2006 Case Study. Beyond the Valley, London
Sepia at Seven – A Celebration Group Show. Sepia International, New York
Food and Contemporary Art Part2: Ishokudogen. BankART 1929 Yokohama; Bankart Market Oceans Bar Rose House, Yokohama
MOT Collection: Art since the 1960s. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Photographic Society in Japan’s Awards Exhibition. Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
Berlin- Tokyo: Tokyo- Berlin. Neue National Galerie, Berlin
Case Study2. Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Mite!- Okayama. The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama
Hajime Sawatari, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yasuhide Kuge: Slide Show at Bookfes 2006. Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo
Modern Paradise. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Family Scenes in Japanese Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Mito
Collection3. The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Beyond Lilith: The Sacred Feminine. Scuderie Aldobrandini of Comune di Frascati, Frascati
The Memory of Me: Nikon Salon 1968-2006 Special Exhibition. Nikon Plaza Ginza, Tokyo
From the Garden. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2006. Fukushima City Museum of Photography, Fukushima
Gift, The Store. Spiral, Tokyo
mas alla de lo ordinario/ extraordinario: fotografia japonesa contemporanea. Centro de La Imagen, Mexico City
2005 Toshodaiji , Photography and Haiku Exhibition for Ganjinwajo and Rashanabutsu. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2005-I. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
Old Age: Beauty and Form. Fukushima Museum, Fukushima
36 photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award. Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
85/05 - 20 Years after the Tsukuba Museum of Photography. Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
Video Installation by Bill Viola and Contemporary Works From the Museum Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Traces & Omens- the 12th Noorderlict Photo Festival. Der Aa-Kerk, Groningen
SIPA 2005 Special Exhibition-Japan Photograph Exhibition, Hangaram Art  Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2005-III. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
Art Fair Tokyo. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Take Art Collection. Spiral Garden, Tokyo
My Precious: Photos and Words Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers. Art Forum Azamino, Yokohama
2004 Landscape and Scalpel. Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Hachinohe
out of the ordinary/ extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography. Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln; traveled to other venues in Europe and U.S.A
Mask of Japan-Japanese Contemporary Photography. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Yokohama Shashinkan. BankART 1929, Yokohama
Meguro Art Annual 2004. Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
What’s Art? An Invitation to 20th Century Art: The Collection of National Museum of Art, Osaka. The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama
2003 The History of Japanese Photography. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Freedom of Photography. Prinz, Kyoto
Beyond The Surface - Japanese Style of Making Things. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; traveled to Cultural Center of Philippines, Manila
Permanent Exhibition: Miyako Ishiuchi, Jun Shiraoka, Hiromi Kakimoto. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
Mask of Japan-Japanese Contemporary Photography. Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Collection 3: Miyako Ishiuchi and Osamu Kanemura. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Freedom of Photography. Prinz, Kyoto
2002 Uncompleted Century Legacies of 20th Century Art. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2002-1. The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
The World of Polaroid Photography: Beyond Time. Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo; traveled to Sen Space, Osaka
Photoneshia: Memories of Light; Fruits of Time. Naha Civic Gallery, Naha
2001 Global Visions. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
Moderns by The Sumida River. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Off Triennale. Ryunichi Kanton Kaikan, Yokohama
2000 Vestiges. Sepia International, New York
Main5. 03FOTOS, Tokyo
Art and Society: Earthquake. Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
Japanese and Chinese Contemporary. Sanya Photography Gallery, Shanghai
1999 Rediscovery of Photography, From the Photography Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Skin Dive. Kyoto Art Festival, Kyoto
The Tracing Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award 1975-1999. Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
Art in the Ruins. Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama
Higashikawa International Photofestival Award Winning Works Exhibition. Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Higashikawa
Premio Michelangelo Antonioni per le Arti 1999. Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi
Main. 03Fotos, Tokyo
Yokohama International Photography Festival’99. Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama
1998 Main. 03FOTOS, Tokyo
Art in the Ruins. Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
21st Anniversary Zeit-Foto, Artspace Shimoda, organized by Zeit-Foto. Tokyo
Women Photographer’s eyes 1945-1997: Tokyo Photography Month. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
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
Art in the Ruins. Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
Art in the Ruins Annex. Gallery Te, Tokyo
1997 Flexible Coexistence: Mito Annual '97. Art Tower Mito, Mito
Lust und Leere Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart. Kunsthalle Wien, Wien; traveled to Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
Surface Exposed: Photography in the 90's Art. Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo, Tokyo
1997 B semi 30th Anniversary Week in Daikanyama. Hill Side Plaza, Tokyo
1996 Prospect '96. Schirin Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Main. 03FOTOS, Tokyo
Tracing Japanese Contemporary Photography through Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; traveled to Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Fujikawaguchiko
Cityscape Japan. Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln
Yokohama International Photo Festival ’96. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Contemporary Art From Galleries '96. Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
Contemporary Photography since the 1980s. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award Exhibition-Japan Contemporary Photography. Kintetsu Art Kan, Osaka
Main. 03FOTOS, Tokyo
1995 Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives-Rethinking Modernism. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Tokyo
Alter, Egodocument. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam   
20th Anniversary Kimura Ihei Prize. Ginza Canon Salon, Tokyo
Photography and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Rituals and Transformation. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Contemporary Japanese Photography. Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
Contemporary Japanese Photography. The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994 Japanese Art After 1945. Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
When The Body Becomes Art. Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography. The Light Factory Photo Arts Center, Charlotte; traveled to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
1993 Changing I: dense cities. Shedhalle, Zurich
Zeitgenossische Japanische Photographie. Kunsthaus, Zurich
Light and Shadow. Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
1992 Symposion uber Fotografie13, So Oder So Nicht Sein. Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Photography 1960-1980. Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1991 Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portrait of Contemporary Women. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Japanese Photography in The 1970s. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Make-Believe. The Photographers Gallery, London
1990 Women’s Perspective in German and Japan. Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
1989 The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography. Center for Creative Photography, The university of Arizona, Tucson
1987 Japanese Women Photographers. Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem
1986 World of Super-Image. Yurakucho Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
1985 Paris, New York, Tokyo. The Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Ibaraki; traveled to The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai
1984 Dumont’5: Die Japanische Fotographie. Museum Fur kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg
1980 Photo-Session'80. Konishiroku Gallery, Tokyo
1979 Nuzyun in Okinawa Yamato. Dainaha, Naha
Japan : A Self-Portrait. International Center of Photography, New York, NY; traveled to Venice
1977 Photography Today'77. Kanagawa Kenmin Gallery, Yokohama
1976 Hyakka-Ryo-Ran. Gallery Simizu, Tokyo
Photographic Effect 5. Espouse Saturday, Tokyo
1975 Photographic Effect 3. Gallery Simizu, Tokyo

Publications

2021 Moving Away. Tokyo: Sokyusha
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
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