Acid Bloom
Liquid Dreams
FLOWER ADDICT
Sakura
PLANT A TREE
Light of
noir
earthly flowers, heavenly colors
The days were beautiful
Portraits
Flowers, Shimmering Light
Photographer, Film Director
Mika Ninagawa works mainly in photography, but also in movie, video, and spatial installations. She is also one of the members of the creative team “EiM:Eternity in a Moment”.
Winner of numerous awards including the Kimura Ihei Photography Award, she published her book with Rizzoli N.Y. in 2010. She has directed five feature films including “Sakuran” (2007), “Helter Skelter” (2012) and “Diner Diner” (2019), as well as the Netflix original drama “FOLLOWERS”.The artist released her latest book “Flowers, Shimmering Light”. Her recent solo showcases feature “MIKA NINAGAWA”, (MOCA Taipei, Taiwan, 2016), “MIKA NINAGAWA INTO FICTION / REALITY”, (toured throughout various museums in Japan, 2018-2021),“MIKA NINAGAWA INTO FICTION / REALITY”(Beijing Times Museum, China, 2022), “Mika Ninagawa: Garden of Shimmering Lights” (the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2022) and “Mika Ninagawa Exhibition: Eternity in a Moment” (TOKYO NODE, 2023-2024) and “NINAGAWA Mika with EiM: Where Humanity Meets Nature” (Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, 2024)
For more information on the artist, please see the following URL.
https://mikaninagawa.com
Solo Exhibitions
2024 | Solo Exhibition “NINAGAWA Mika with EiM: Dancing with Shadows in the Light” Nanjo Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan “NINAGAWA Mika with EiM Light in the Ruin” Toyo Co., Ltd. factory site, Hida Furukawa, Gifu, Japan “NINAGAWA Mika with EiM: Where Humanity Meets Nature” Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan “Eternity in a Moment” Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Diamond Towers, Taipei, Taiwan |
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2023 | “Eternity in a Moment” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Eternity in a Moment” TOKYO NODE GALLERY A/B/C, Tokyo, Japan “Exhibition of Mika Ninagawa" Zero Base Jingumae, Tokyo, Japan “Eternity in a Moment” Tomio Koyama Gallery Maebashi, Gunma, Japan “Eternity in a Moment" Canon Gallery Shinagawa, Ginza and Osaka, Japan “Flowers, Shimmering Light" Contemporary Art Gallery, HANKYU MEN'S, Osaka, Japan |
2022 | “Flowers, Shimmering Light” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Mika Ninagawa A Garden of Flickering Lights” Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “MIKA NINAGAWA INTO FICTION / REALITY” Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing “Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design 5th Anniversary Mika Ninagawa” Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan |
2021 | “Florae” Van Cleef & Arpel, Hôtel d’Évreux, Place Vendôme, Paris, France “Flower” OIL GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan “Beauty and Power by Mika Ninagawa” Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, UK “escape” Ff, Tokyo, Japan |
2020 | “Mika Ninagawa Exhibition Profusion of Flowers” Kitamura Camera 6F Space Lucida, Tokyo “東京 TOKYO / MIKA NINAGAWA” PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan “noir” SHIBUYA PARCO ”Meets by NADiff“, Tokyo, Japan PHILLIPS, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | “Mika Ninagawa @ teamLab Borderless” Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan “Mika Ninagawa; Eternal Escape” Taichung World Flora Exposition, Taiwan “Central Blender” COMMON, Tokyo, Japan “Into Fiction/Reality Mika Ninagawa” Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan [travel to Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Aichi/ Oita Art Museum, Oita/ Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima/ Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi/ Okayama City Museum, Okayama/ Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan/ Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan/ Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan/ Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan/ The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan] “Replication” The North Face / Standard Kyoto, Japan “KYOTO DREAMS of KAGAI” Museum「Eki」KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan |
2017 | “IN MY ROOM | TAIPEI” Laugh & Peace Factory, Taipei, Taiwan “GO Journal Launch Exhibition” Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo, Japan “Mika Ninagawa” LAFAYETTE ART & DESIGN CENTER, Shanghai, China “Enchanting Nature” yu-un, Tokyo, Japan “NINAGAWA MIKA INSTANT FILM WORKS - STREET -” URA omotesando, Tokyo, Japan “Yohji Yamamoto×Mika Ninagawa [ BLACKLIGHTS ]” Yohji Yamamoto AOYAMA Main Store, Tokyo, Japan “Mika Ninagawa” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan “Mika Ninagawa: The days were beautiful” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “MIKA NINAGAWA SOLO EXHIBITION” Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China “earthly flowers, heavenly colors” (marunouchi) HOUSE, Tokyo, Japan “Mika Ninagawa” SUNDAY, Tokyo, Japan “Mika Ninagawa” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “Mika Ninagawa” THREE SHADOW PHOTOGRAPHY ART CENTRE, Xiamen, China “trans-kyoto” ISETAN The Japan Store CUBE_1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia “Light of” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “FASHION EXCLUSIVE” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka, Japan “Light of” THE PARK・ING GINZA, Tokyo, Japan “IN MY ROOM” PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan “FASHION EXCLUSIVE” Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan “MIKA NINAGAWA” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan |
2015 | “Mika Ninagawa” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Japan “Mika Ninagawa: Self-image” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “noir” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Portraits & Flowers” SUNDAY/ CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | “Mika Ninagawa” FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan “TOKYO INNOCENCE” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka, Japan “ETRO × MIKA” ETRO Boutique, London, UK “Mika Ninagawa” Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark |
2013 | “Mika Ninagawa: Gekkan MEN Exhibition” Sapporo PARCO, Hokkaido, Japan [traveled to Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Hokkaido/ TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo/ Tennoji MIO, Osaka, Japan] “Mika Ninagawa” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan “Gekkan Seo InGuk” TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan “NINAGAWA MEN and WOMEN” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka, Japan “LUCKY STAR NINAGAWA MEN & WOMEN” Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan “Hawaii Paradise by Mika Ninagawa” DFS Galleria Waikiki, 1 Floor Gallery, Honolulu, HI “Mika Ninagawa“ Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan “noir“ Fukuoka Camera Museum, Toyama, Japan |
2012 | “Mika Ninagawa” Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan “Sakura” Roppongi Hills A/D GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan “PLANT A TREE” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Mika Ninagawa: Helter Skelter” PARCO Museum, Tokyo, Japan “noir” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Mika Ninagawa” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | “Gekkan MEN Osamu Mukai Exhibition” BLD GALLERY, Tokyo [traveled to Nagoya PARCO, Aichi/ Sapporo PARCO, Hokkaido/ Daimaru Kobe, Hyogo/ Matsumoto PARCO, Nagano/ Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan] (2011-2012) “STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Mika Ninagawa x Ashin | HEAVEN | Photo-book Exhibition” STAYREAL Café, Taipei, Taiwan “TOKYO UNDERWORLD” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto, Japan “Mika Ninagawa” CANON Gallery S, Tokyo, Japan “Flower and Goldfish” MOT/ ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan “noir & SAKURAN” Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
2010 | “VOGUE x Mika Ninagawa 2010 FLOWER POWER” Taipei International Flora Exposition, Taipei, Taiwan “Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands “NINAGAWA BAROQUE/ EXTREME” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan “FLOWER ADDICT” Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan “UMEZZ HOUSE” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto, Japan “Mika Ninagawa for International Rome Film Festival” Auditorium Arte, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy “noir” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Exhibition in conjunction with the RIZZOLI publication 'MIKA NINAGAWA'” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | “Liquid Dreams” GALERIE PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany “FLOWER ADDICT” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan |
2008 | “Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [traveled to Iwate Museum of Art/ Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima/ Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo/ The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan (2008-2009)] “Mika Ninagawa GIFT Goods and Prints” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan “Mika’s daydreaming theater” PARCO Factory, Tokyo; PARCO Sapporo, Hokkaido; PARCO Nagoya, Aichi; PARCO Sendai, Miyagi, Japan “Mika Ninagawa” Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan “Secret Flowers” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto, Japan “Mika Ninagawa” Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai, China “mika ninagawa” Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark “Mika Ninagawa x GLAMOROUS Charity Nude: photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon” Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo/ HERBIS PLAZA ENT, Osaka, Japan “EROTIC TEACHER xxx YUKA” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto, Japan |
2007 | “Mika Ninagawa Exhibition” Arndt & Partner Berlin, Berlin, Germany “Mika Ninagawa Photo Exhibition” Colette, Paris, France “girls' holiday!” LAPNET SHIP, Tokyo/ PARCO Shizuoka, Japan “CELINE meets Mika Ninagawa” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan “Everlasting Flowers” Galleria MICIA, Kagawa, Japan “NINAGAWA WOMAN” Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 | “Everlasting Flowers 1” Tokyo Wonder Site Sibuya, Tokyo, Japan “Everlasting Flowers 2” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | “MIKA NINAGAWA PHOTO EXHIBITION IN LONDON 2005” gallery Eclectic, London, UK “floating yesterday” GALLERY SPEAK FOR, Tokyo, Japan |
2004 | “mika over the rainbow” [traveled to Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo/ HEP HALL, Osaka/ Hiroshima Parco/ Nagoya Takashimaya, Aichi/ ART GALLERY ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan] “photographs 2001-2004” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “MIKA NINAGAWA” TKGY at lammfromm, Tokyo, Japan |
2003 | “Liquid Dreams” PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo/ Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan “Acid Bloom” NADiff, Tokyo/ ROCKET, Tokyo, Japan |
2002 | “Ever Holding My Ocean” NADiff, Tokyo, Japan “like a peach” SPIRAL, Tokyo/ Laforet Museum, Ehime, Japan “MIKA NINAGAWA at ISSEY MIYAKE AOYAMA” Issei Miyake Store, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan |
2001 | “Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki” Parco Gallery, Tokyo/ Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan |
2000 | “Sugar and Spice” Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo/ Tank Gallery, Osaka, Japan “Pink Rose Suite” ROCKET, Tokyo, Japan |
1999 | “Baby Blue Sky” Shinjuku Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan “Christmas at Isla Mujeres” NADiff, Tokyo, Japan “French kiss” ROCKET, Tokyo, Japan |
1997 | “Walk3” Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
2024 | “Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-skies Country” 12 municipalities in Okayama Prefecture (the cities of Tsuyama, Takahashi, Niimi, Maniwa, and Mimasaka; the towns of Kagamino, Shoo, Nagi, Kumenan, and Misaki; and the villages of Shinjo and Nishiawakura), Japan “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “I'M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE” Palais de l'Archevêché, Arles, France [traveled to Fotomuseum Den Haag, Hague, Netherlands] “Textimoov !” Tripostal, Lille, France “Eternity in a Moment” Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Diamond Towers, Taipei, Taiwan “Exteriors - Annie Ernaux & Photography” MEP, Paris, France “When Two Collections Meet: Co-curated by the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan |
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2023 | “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, [traveled to Seattle Art Museum, D.C. / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, MO] “I Remember You” Salon Corderie, Paris, France “New Horizon: Vision of the Future” Arts Maebashi and various facilities around downtown Maebashi, Gunma, Japan “In flower enthusiasts” Art Gallery, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F, Tokyo, Japan “FREUDE by BMW - CONNECTED THROUGH TIME” Yodobashi J6 Building, Harajuku, Tokyo “Doraemon Exhibition Nagasaki 2023," Huis Ten Bosch Museum of Art, Nagasaki, Japan “Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion" Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia ‘New Cosmos of Photography, The 30th Anniversary Book Publication Commemorative Exhibition” Hall Keiryu, Kyoto, Japan |
2022 | “The 30th Anniversary of the New Cosmos of Photography - What Photography Can Do; What Has Been Done by Photography” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “DOGO ONSENART 2022” Courtyard at the Dogo Onsen Annex “Asuka-no-Yu”, Ehime, Japan “Asama International Photo Festival 2022 PHOTO ALT (Virtual Photo Festival)” amana virtual museum |
2021 | “TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY” Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK “MOT Collection: Journals Special exhibit: Mark Manders, Storage and Display” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Collection Gallery, Japan “Mika Ninagawa and Hiroko Ninagawa – The world of richly colored pictures and quilts” Okayama City Museum, Japan |
2019 | “Wanderlust” PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Japan “Mika Ninagawa and Hiroko Ninagawa two person exhibition” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION” Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata, Japan “INTERPRETATIONS, TOKYO” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “VOCA!” Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | “181 pieces of Memories -Footsteps of the Takamatsu Art Museum’s Special Exhibition-” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan “Opening Memorial Exhibiton” FUJIFILM Imaging Plaza, Tokyo, Japan “ZINE House” marunouchi HOUSE, Tokyo, Japan “My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection Part II” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | “The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection Resonance or Repellence?” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan “The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo 2017” Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Gallery Artist Exhibition” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970” Centre Pompidou-Metz, France “Dōgo Onsenart 2018” Dōgo Onsen Honkan, Ehime, Japan “Roppongi Art Night 2017” Roppongi Hills Arena and several other locations in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan “TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3 Synchronicity” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan "CONTEMPORARY ART, NOW From Yayoi Kusama to Hiraki Sawa” Onomichi City Museum of Art, Onomichi, Hiroshima “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mindfulness 2017” Yamagata Art Museum, Yamagata, Japan “Sensible Garden” GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS T-GALLERIA, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan “Why does everyone love flowers?” Matsudai Nohbutai Gallery, Niigata, Japan Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, Nara, Japan |
2015 | “NOW AND THEN” PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany “Tokyo Art Meeting Vl: TOKYO -Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “COSMOS/ INTIME La collection Takahashi” Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Frence “Daisuke Fukunaga, Toru Kuwakubo, Mika Ninagawa, Satoshi Ohno” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron” Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Japan |
2014 | “Ohara Contemporary at Musabi” Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Takahashi Collection 2014 Mindfulness!” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan “DOMMUNE University of the Arts -Tokyo Arts Circulation-” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan “What is Japanese Photography?” Exhibition Part 1, Tokyo Photo, Tokyo, Japan “VENT NOUVEAU × 15 Photographers” MIHONCHO HONTEN (Takeo showroom), Tokyo, Japan [traveled to Central Art Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, 2015] |
2013 | “Shibuparuten” PARCO Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Ohara Contemporary” Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan “Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary Exhibition: flowers” Towada Art Center, around Central Shopping etc, Aomori, Japan “LIVING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan “Collection” Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore “Solo Exhibition Kiyoshiro Imawano-no-sekai” Miyazaki ART Center, Miyazaki, Japan “Ginza Mitsukoshi × Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection” Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Why not live for Art? II -9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Cho-Kyoto 2013, Contemporary Art @ Today's Machiya in Kyoto” Today's Machiya in Kyoto, Model House Exhibition Place KYOMO, Kyoto, Japan “Ausstellung Daido Moriyama/ Mika Ninagawa” Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany |
2012 | “REVALUE NIPPON PROJECT” Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum/ Mizukoshi Ginza, Tokyo, Japan “FLOWER” Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan “Beauty -Flowers in Contemporary Photography” Tokyo Art Museum, Japan |
2011 | “Mika & Hiroko Ninagawa: photographs and patchwork・kilt-collaboration between mother and daughter” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo [traveled to Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Ishikawa/ HEP HALL, Osaka/ Mitsubishi-jisho Artium, Fukuoka/ Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan (2011-2013)] “Future Pass -From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition: la Biennale di Venezia” Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venezia, Italy/ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2011-2012) “Art in an Office” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan “Daido Moriyama × Mika Ninagawa” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan “I, Tominaga” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo, Japan “10 Years” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Umekowa!! Kazuo Umezu Exhibit” Shibuya PARCO Parco Factory, Tokyo, Japan “JAPANCONGO” Le Magasin-Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France “CAFE in Mito 2011: Relationships in Color” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan |
2010 | “Onna” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan [traveled to Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Korea/ GRANSHIP, Shizuoka, Japan (2010-2012)] “In aller Munde” The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany “TOKYO VISUALIST” National Art Gallery Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia “Summer Loves” Huis Marseille -Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan 2010” Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan “Hana: Contemporary Art Biennare of Fukushima 2010” Fukushima Prefectural Culture Center, Japan |
2009 | “FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPE Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Ohmaki, Mika Ninagawa, and Satoko Nachi” The Contemporary Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | “The Masked Portrait” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY “JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPER CULTURE” The Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer, Wasington D.C. “Faithful Documents: Japanese Contemporary Photography” AKI GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan “JAPAN NOW” Inter Alia Art Company, Seoul, South Korea “Review/ Preview -Japanese Photographs” Gallerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany “ZOOM ON IN OUT JAPAN” Wave Photogallery, Brescia, Italy “Gelatin Silver Session 08: SAVE THE FILM” Axis Gallery, Tokyo/ Arts & Design Center, Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi, Japan |
2007 | “Tokyo Design Premio -Tokyo Designer’s Week in Milan 2007” Superstudio Piu, Milano, Italy “HITOTUBO scholarship recipient exhibition” Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan “Gelatin Silver Session 07” Axis Gallery, Tokyo/ art project room ARTZONE, Kyoto, Japan “SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan “200 Professional Photographers Exhibition” PHOTO IS, FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 | “VOCA 2006” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Idols” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan “Fish and our Lives” The Museum of Art Ehime, Japan |
2005 | “My Precious: Photos and Words Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers” Yokohama Civic Art Galley Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan “Artists' Gardens -Botanical Recollections” Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Japan |
2004 | “HARAJUKU COLLABO: APARTMENT 2004” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan “TAKARAZUKA: The Land of Dreams” Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery/ Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
2003 | “HITOTSUBOTEN 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002” Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan “HOPE: do hope for the futre” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan “On Happiness: Contemporary Japanese Photographery” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan “Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo” Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo, Japan “KEEP IN TOUCH: Positions in Japanese Photography” Kunsthaus Graz, Austria “take art collection 2003” Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan “Okayama City Arts Festival 2003 -LOVE PLANET” former Izushi Elementary School, Okayama, Japan |
2002 | “The Doraemon” [traveled to Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa/ Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido/ Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi/ Oita Art Museum/ Shimane Art Museum, Shimane/ Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita/ Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama/ Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa/ Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan] (2002-2006) “VERSUS EXHIBITION 02 -UK vs JAPAN-” Nakameguro DEPOT, Tokyo [traveled to PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo/ Nagoya PARCO Gallery, Aichi, Japan (2002-2003)] “Futuring Power -Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography/ Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Japan “Pingyao International Photo Festival” Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, China |
2001 | “Three Rooms” Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo, Japan “The 26th Kimura Ihei Photograyphy Award Exhibition” Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo/ Minolta Photo Space Osaka, Japan |
1999 | “Mito Annual '99 PRIVATE ROOM ll -Photography by a New Generation of Women in Japan” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan |
1997 | “Naked Eyes” Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Japanese New Generation Photographer” Colette, Paris, France |
Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
amana photo collection
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
ETRO COLLECTION
Hara Museum
Huis Marseille, France
The JAPIGOZZI Collection
Kawasaki City Museum
MORI ART MUSEUM
Nanjo Art Museum
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
Oita City Art Museum
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection
SURUGA BANK
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
TERUMO CORPORATION
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Shadai Gallery Toyota Art Collection
Toyota Art Collection
UBS Art Collection
Awards
2012 | “film: Helter Skelter” awarded the Kaneto Shindo Award 2012 |
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2007 | “film: SAKURAN” presented at the 57th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin and the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival |
2006 | Ohara Museum of Art Prize, The 13th VOCA 2006 Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo |
2001 | The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award |
1998 | Encouragement Award, The 9th Konica Photo Award |
1996 | Grand Prize, The 7th Shashin Hitotsuboten The Excellence Prize, The 13th Canon New Cosmos of Photography |