1962 Born in Tokyo, Japan
Now Lives and works in Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Galerie RX , Paris, France
2008 Centre d’art Nei Licht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Beijing Keumsan Gallery, Beijing
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2007 L’été Photographique de Lectoure, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, France
Keumsan Gallery, Heyri Art Valley, Korea
Gallery K, Seoul, Korea
2006 Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Prix Niépce, Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Médiathèque, Nantes, France
Images du pôle, Orléans, France
Galerie RX , Paris, France
Chambre avec Vues, Paris, France
2005 National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Galerie RX , Paris, France
Van Zoetendaal Collections, Amsterdam
2004 Quicksilver, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Galerie RX , Paris, France
AFAA(Ministère des Affaires Etrangères), Paris, France
Zeit-Foto Salon , Tokyo, Japan
Galerie il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Transvest, C-Square, Nagoya, Japan
2002 How to make a pearl, Look out the window, Galerie RX , Paris, France
Transvest, Zeit-Foto Salon , Tokyo, Japan
The Bee the Mirror, Galerie il tempo , Tokyo, Japan
2001 How to make a pearl, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Look out the window, Galerie il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Galerie du Théâtre Granit, Belfort, France
1999 The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Galerie il tempo, C.V.N.I. , Tokyo, Japan
Zeit-Foto Salon , P.N.I. , Tokyo, Japan
1998 Galerie il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
Galerie du Théâtre Granit, Belfort, France
1996 Portrait of Second-hand Clothes, L’Université Lumière Lyon ll, Lyon, France
1995 DOWN / Liquid and Glass, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
DOWN / Portrait of Second-hand Clothes, Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan
DOWN / Birds, Aki-Ex Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Portrait of Second-hand Clothes, l’Institut Français de la Mode, Paris, France
1993 White and Sphere, Gallery Hosomi, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Japan Meets China, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Ce qui est à voir est ce que vous voyez, Rencontres d’Arles 2009, Arles, France
Never Late Than Better, Elizabeth Foundation, New York
The Photograph’s Enticements To The Brush, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
Elles, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Photobiennale, Bogota, Colombia
2008 Collection 3/Aspects of Portrait, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Indefinite Beauty, White Factory, Shanghai
Face à Faces, organized by Culturesfrance, la Silom Galleria, Bangkok, Thailand
The history of arts and cities-Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
Chasseurs de beauté, Gallery 21, Tokyo, Japan
7 Views Towards the World, Gallery Touchart, Heyri Art Valley, Korea
2007 Japan Caught by Camera, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Collection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Photographie: Détrônera la Peinture, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
7ème Biennale d’art contemporain, Issy-les-Molineaux, France
Japanese Contemporary Art Festival, Heyri Art Valley, Korea
Die Liebe zum Licht, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Paris du Monde Entier, Artistes étrangers à Paris 1900-2005 / Collection de
Centre Pompidou, The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Figures of Thinking, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Winter, Galerie RX, Paris, France
Fascination, Takashimaya X Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Les Peintres de la Vie Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Die Liebe zum Licht, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle, Germany
Collection four, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Die Liebe zum Licht, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany
Figures of Thinking, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, USA
Seeing the Light, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Face à Faces, organized by AFAA, City Art Centre, Edinburgh,UK
Taille Humaine, Sénat et Orangerie su Luxembourg, Paris, France
Face à Faces, organized by AFAA, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
Quintessence, l’Ecole des Beaux-Art de Nîme, Nîme, France
2005 Life Actually, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Sala de arte y cultura de Caja Canaria de la Laguna, Canaria, Spain
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Centre Culturel Les Chiroux Institut Lambert Lombart, Liège, Belgium
Face à Faces, organized by AFAA, Artcurial, Paris, France
20 Years of Photography from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome, Italy
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Richard E. Peeler Art Centre, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, USA
How Photography Changed People’s Viewpoint, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Quintessence, Galerie RX, Paris, France
36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award 1975-2005, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
2004 Roppongi Crossing-New Visions in Japanese Contemporary Art 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Mask of Japan, Guangtong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne, Germany
Beyond paradise, Galerie Hengevoss-Duerkop, Hambourg , Germany
Apparemment leger, European Image Weeks, Galerie Nei Licht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Casa Asia Headquaters, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Ihei KIMURA Prize , Minolta photo space, Tokyo, Japan
Aura, Galerie RX, Paris, France
Mask of Japan, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Mon Paris, Galerie 21, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Illusion, Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Photography in Japanese Contemporary Art, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Lettonie
l’Inauguration de la Galerie RX , Galerie RX, Paris, France
Paroles de Fringue, Bourgoin-Jallieu Museum, France
The Built and the Living, European Image Weeks, Galerie Nei Licht, Dudelange, uxembourg
Illusion, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Prize of Photographic Society of Japan, Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan
The New Cosmos of Photography, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Illusion, Culture Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
Higashikawa Photo Fiesta, Culture Centre, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
2000 Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle, Germany
An Incomplete History, University Art Gallery University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mois de l’Image, Centre d’Art s Plastiques Albert Chanot, Clamart, France
Contemporary Photographers of Japan, Shanghai Sanya Photograph Gallery, Shanghai
1999 Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, Germany
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, NBK ( Neüer Berliner Kunstverein ), Berlin, Germany
An Incomplete History, Houston Centre for Photography, Houston, Texas, USA
About Leaving Home, Centre d’art Contemporain, Saint-Priést, France
1998 Between Water, Air and Earth, Galerie Vrais Rêves, Lyon, France
Photobiennale’98, Art Media Centre-TV Gallery, Moscow
Medialogue, Photography in Japanese Contemporary Art ‘98, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
21st Anniversary Zeit-Foto, Artspace Shimoda, Tokyo, Japan
Jeux de genres, Espace Electra, Paris, France
An Incomplete History / Women Photographers from Japan, 1864-1997, Visual Studies
Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA
Le donné, le fictif, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
Narrative Art from the Collection, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
1997 Floating Images of Women in Art History, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
The 2nd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale/Nomination Section, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Sosie, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan
6ème Festival International de la Photographie de Mode, Centre Bellevue, Biarritz, France
21st Kodak Prize of Critical Photography, Galerie Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Premier Salon des Artistes Naturalistes, Le Mois de la Photo, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Oiseaux, Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Pierre Brullé, Paris, France
1993 Avant-Garde Photographers of Japan, Space for Cultures Seihin, Taipei, Taiwan
1992 The 1st New Cosmos of Photography, P-3 Art and Environment Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Now Lives and works in Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Galerie RX , Paris, France
2008 Centre d’art Nei Licht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Beijing Keumsan Gallery, Beijing
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2007 L’été Photographique de Lectoure, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, France
Keumsan Gallery, Heyri Art Valley, Korea
Gallery K, Seoul, Korea
2006 Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Prix Niépce, Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Médiathèque, Nantes, France
Images du pôle, Orléans, France
Galerie RX , Paris, France
Chambre avec Vues, Paris, France
2005 National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Galerie RX , Paris, France
Van Zoetendaal Collections, Amsterdam
2004 Quicksilver, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Galerie RX , Paris, France
AFAA(Ministère des Affaires Etrangères), Paris, France
Zeit-Foto Salon , Tokyo, Japan
Galerie il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Transvest, C-Square, Nagoya, Japan
2002 How to make a pearl, Look out the window, Galerie RX , Paris, France
Transvest, Zeit-Foto Salon , Tokyo, Japan
The Bee the Mirror, Galerie il tempo , Tokyo, Japan
2001 How to make a pearl, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Look out the window, Galerie il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Galerie du Théâtre Granit, Belfort, France
1999 The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Galerie il tempo, C.V.N.I. , Tokyo, Japan
Zeit-Foto Salon , P.N.I. , Tokyo, Japan
1998 Galerie il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
Galerie du Théâtre Granit, Belfort, France
1996 Portrait of Second-hand Clothes, L’Université Lumière Lyon ll, Lyon, France
1995 DOWN / Liquid and Glass, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
DOWN / Portrait of Second-hand Clothes, Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan
DOWN / Birds, Aki-Ex Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Portrait of Second-hand Clothes, l’Institut Français de la Mode, Paris, France
1993 White and Sphere, Gallery Hosomi, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Japan Meets China, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Ce qui est à voir est ce que vous voyez, Rencontres d’Arles 2009, Arles, France
Never Late Than Better, Elizabeth Foundation, New York
The Photograph’s Enticements To The Brush, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
Elles, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Photobiennale, Bogota, Colombia
2008 Collection 3/Aspects of Portrait, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Indefinite Beauty, White Factory, Shanghai
Face à Faces, organized by Culturesfrance, la Silom Galleria, Bangkok, Thailand
The history of arts and cities-Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
Chasseurs de beauté, Gallery 21, Tokyo, Japan
7 Views Towards the World, Gallery Touchart, Heyri Art Valley, Korea
2007 Japan Caught by Camera, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Collection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Photographie: Détrônera la Peinture, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
7ème Biennale d’art contemporain, Issy-les-Molineaux, France
Japanese Contemporary Art Festival, Heyri Art Valley, Korea
Die Liebe zum Licht, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Paris du Monde Entier, Artistes étrangers à Paris 1900-2005 / Collection de
Centre Pompidou, The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Figures of Thinking, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Winter, Galerie RX, Paris, France
Fascination, Takashimaya X Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Les Peintres de la Vie Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Die Liebe zum Licht, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle, Germany
Collection four, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Die Liebe zum Licht, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany
Figures of Thinking, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, USA
Seeing the Light, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Face à Faces, organized by AFAA, City Art Centre, Edinburgh,UK
Taille Humaine, Sénat et Orangerie su Luxembourg, Paris, France
Face à Faces, organized by AFAA, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
Quintessence, l’Ecole des Beaux-Art de Nîme, Nîme, France
2005 Life Actually, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Sala de arte y cultura de Caja Canaria de la Laguna, Canaria, Spain
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Centre Culturel Les Chiroux Institut Lambert Lombart, Liège, Belgium
Face à Faces, organized by AFAA, Artcurial, Paris, France
20 Years of Photography from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome, Italy
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Richard E. Peeler Art Centre, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, USA
How Photography Changed People’s Viewpoint, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Quintessence, Galerie RX, Paris, France
36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award 1975-2005, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
2004 Roppongi Crossing-New Visions in Japanese Contemporary Art 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Mask of Japan, Guangtong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne, Germany
Beyond paradise, Galerie Hengevoss-Duerkop, Hambourg , Germany
Apparemment leger, European Image Weeks, Galerie Nei Licht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Out of Ordinary / Extraordinary, Casa Asia Headquaters, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Ihei KIMURA Prize , Minolta photo space, Tokyo, Japan
Aura, Galerie RX, Paris, France
Mask of Japan, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Mon Paris, Galerie 21, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Illusion, Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Photography in Japanese Contemporary Art, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Lettonie
l’Inauguration de la Galerie RX , Galerie RX, Paris, France
Paroles de Fringue, Bourgoin-Jallieu Museum, France
The Built and the Living, European Image Weeks, Galerie Nei Licht, Dudelange, uxembourg
Illusion, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Prize of Photographic Society of Japan, Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan
The New Cosmos of Photography, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Illusion, Culture Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
Higashikawa Photo Fiesta, Culture Centre, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
2000 Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle, Germany
An Incomplete History, University Art Gallery University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mois de l’Image, Centre d’Art s Plastiques Albert Chanot, Clamart, France
Contemporary Photographers of Japan, Shanghai Sanya Photograph Gallery, Shanghai
1999 Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, Germany
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, NBK ( Neüer Berliner Kunstverein ), Berlin, Germany
An Incomplete History, Houston Centre for Photography, Houston, Texas, USA
About Leaving Home, Centre d’art Contemporain, Saint-Priést, France
1998 Between Water, Air and Earth, Galerie Vrais Rêves, Lyon, France
Photobiennale’98, Art Media Centre-TV Gallery, Moscow
Medialogue, Photography in Japanese Contemporary Art ‘98, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
21st Anniversary Zeit-Foto, Artspace Shimoda, Tokyo, Japan
Jeux de genres, Espace Electra, Paris, France
An Incomplete History / Women Photographers from Japan, 1864-1997, Visual Studies
Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA
Le donné, le fictif, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
Narrative Art from the Collection, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
1997 Floating Images of Women in Art History, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
The 2nd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale/Nomination Section, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Sosie, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan
6ème Festival International de la Photographie de Mode, Centre Bellevue, Biarritz, France
21st Kodak Prize of Critical Photography, Galerie Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Premier Salon des Artistes Naturalistes, Le Mois de la Photo, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Oiseaux, Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Pierre Brullé, Paris, France
1993 Avant-Garde Photographers of Japan, Space for Cultures Seihin, Taipei, Taiwan
1992 The 1st New Cosmos of Photography, P-3 Art and Environment Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
