YAMAZAWA Eiko@CADAN Yurakucho
YAMAZAWA Eiko, AKASAKI Mima
Tuesday, January 7－Sunday, January 26, 2025
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What I am doing No.24
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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 15th Baltic Triennial.Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius Sharakusai: Japanese Photo Books from the 1950s to 1970s.Fujifilm Squre Space1, Space2 Mini Gallery, Tokyo |
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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 |
Akasaki Mima
Outline
| 1965 | Born in Kobe |
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| 1988 | Graduated from the Department of industrial Interior, and Craft Design, Musashino Art University |
| 1997 | Bluemale Award |
| 2003 | The 6th ADSP (Art Documents Support Program by SHISEIDO) |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2013 | The Forest of Fig. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
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| 2011 | The Landscape of Light -in Czech Republic. Galerie Ashiya Schule, Ashiya, Japan |
| 2009 | Setkani se svetlem. Informacni turistiche centrum Osek, Osek, Czech Republic Setkani se svetlem. Galarie Jansky Vresek, Praha, Czech Republic |
| 2006 | The Garden of Light. Japanese tea cafe "Hitohi", Kobe, Japan |
| 2004 | The series of Lotus. Gallery LA FENICE ,Osaka, Japan Meet the light. Fuji Photo Gallery, Osaka, Japan The Olive of Winter. Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2001 | Luminous/Flowers. Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan Luminous/Flowers. Gallery LA FENICE, Osaka, Japan |
| 1998 | Gallery LA FENICE, Osaka, Japan |
| 1997 | Tamayura -time&space-. Gallery LA FENICE, Osaka, Japan |
| 1996 | Gallery αm, Tokyo, Japan Gallery LA FENICE, Osaka, Japan |
| 1993 | Brain Center Gallery, Osaka, Japan AKI-EX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1992 | Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan Moris Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1991 | Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan Ban Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1990 | Gallery NW House, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2018 | The Garden of Absence: The Last Chapter. Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan |
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| 2013 | ART OSAKA 2013. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 2010 | DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow. The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Art Fair Tokyo 2007. Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Gift,the store. Spiral, Tokyo, Japan From the Garden. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan What I’m doing. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 2006 | From the Garden. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 2006 | What I’m doing-Eiko Yamazawa and Mima Akasaki. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 2004 | On Flowering Images; Contemporary Japanese Photography. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Take art collection. Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | Tresure of light. Hamada Children's Museum of Art, Hamada, Japan Take art collection. Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Prayer for Love and Peace. People' s Gallery Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 1999 | The Vision of Contemporary Art '99. The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan Prerude. Gallery La Fenice, Osaka Perspectives for Modern Japanese Painting. Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | Techno Therapy. Osaka Central Public Hall, Osaka, Japan Techno Therapy in OAP. Osaka Amenity Park, Osaka, Japan |
| 1997 | The Story in Your Hands. Ashiya City Museum of Art&History, Ashiya, Japan The time of Blue. Gallery La Fenice, Osaka, Japan |
| 1996 | Art Scene 90-96. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan |
| 1995 | Duo-Exhibition. Takashimaya Department Store Contemporary Art Space, Tokyo, Japan Report On. Gallery La Fenice, Osaka, Japan Vessel of Time-On This Horizon. Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1994 | Photography by 3 Women. Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka, Japan Water Front Open Air Play. Rokko Island Marine Park, Kobe, Japan Nine Young Artists From Japan. Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland |
| 1993 | Art from Ashiya Exhibition. Ashiya City Museum of Art&History, Ashiya, Japan Speaking Thru Photographs. Tokyo University of Arts, Tokyo, Japan Hyogo Contemporary Art Exhibition. Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan |
| 1992 | Hyogo Contemporary Art Exhibitions. Hyogo Prefectual Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan Kyoto City Selected Arts Exhibition. Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1991 | The World of the Box. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan Window Gallery / Art Junction 6. Hankyu Department Store, Osaka, Japan |
Public Work
| 1998 | Eleven Doors. Comunity & Art Project for Minami-Ashiyahama Corporative Housing, Ashiya, Japan |
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