Maya AKASHIKA
赤鹿摩耶
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1985, Her 2011 work Eating Wind won the 34th Canon New Cosmos of Photography Grand Prize. Based in Osaka, she has been showing work in solo and group exhibitions in various locations including overseas. Akashika weaves a unique narrative world in which reality and fantasy intermingle, while tuning in to sympathetic vibrations among various kinds of imagery including verbal accounts of dreams, photographs, pictures and sounds.
Chronology
1985 - Born is Osaka
2008 - Graduated from Kansai University, Department of Chinese Linguistics and Literature, East Asian Film and Media Studies
2010 - Graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka, Night Program, Department of Photography
2011 - Awarded Grand Prix, Cannon New Cosmos of Photography
2012 - Awarded Grand Prix, Visual Photo Award 2012
2008 - Graduated from Kansai University, Department of Chinese Linguistics and Literature, East Asian Film and Media Studies
2010 - Graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka, Night Program, Department of Photography
2011 - Awarded Grand Prix, Cannon New Cosmos of Photography
2012 - Awarded Grand Prix, Visual Photo Award 2012
Publications
2012 - “Eating Wind” AKAAKA Art Publishing
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 - "Let's try!" - digmeoutART＆DINER, Osaka, Japan
2012 - New Cosmos of Photography2012 Tokyo Exhibition "Lightning” - ,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012 - "Eating wind" - Visual Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu, Japan
2015 - “Pyon-Pyon Project vol.1 “Did you sleep well?”” - at vacant land in Osaka, Japan/ at a public bath in Tokyo, Japan
2016 - "Maya Akashika Open Studio "-Visual Arts gallery,Osaka,Japan
2017 - "Large but light, small but heavy"-KANZAN Gallery,Tokyo,Japan
2017 - "Be my landscape"-ChocoChoco Gallery,Hualien,Taiwan（Artist in residence）
2019 - ”Sweet Rainy City”-cafe sugar mama,Frankfurt am Main,Germany
2020 - ”Maya Akashika Open Studio vol.2”--Visual Arts gallery,Osaka,Japan
2012 - New Cosmos of Photography2012 Tokyo Exhibition "Lightning” - ,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012 - "Eating wind" - Visual Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu, Japan
2015 - “Pyon-Pyon Project vol.1 “Did you sleep well?”” - at vacant land in Osaka, Japan/ at a public bath in Tokyo, Japan
2016 - "Maya Akashika Open Studio "-Visual Arts gallery,Osaka,Japan
2017 - "Large but light, small but heavy"-KANZAN Gallery,Tokyo,Japan
2017 - "Be my landscape"-ChocoChoco Gallery,Hualien,Taiwan（Artist in residence）
2019 - ”Sweet Rainy City”-cafe sugar mama,Frankfurt am Main,Germany
2020 - ”Maya Akashika Open Studio vol.2”--Visual Arts gallery,Osaka,Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 - ”New Cosmos of Photography 2011 Tokyo Exhibition” - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012 - "４PHOTOGRAPHERS EXHIBITION" - Bloom Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2013 - "SPACE CADET Actual Exhibition #2" - TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 - "LUMIX MEETS / TOKYO 2020 by Japanese Photographer" - 1RUERICHELIEU, Paris, France/HILLSIDE TERRACE, Tokyo, Japan
2014 - "Apartment WAN-WAN-WAN" - Naniwa-Bashi Art Area B1, Osaka, Japan
2014 - "阪神手帖 exhibition" - HERBIS HALL OSAKA, Osaka, Japan
2014 - "Elements of light Part III" - Nippon Photography Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2015 - "STEP OUT! New Japanese Photographers" - IMA CONCEPT STORE, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - "Daegu Photo Biennale 2016 "-Daegu Culture & Arts Center, Bongsan Cultural Center,Korea
2018 - “festive photography PLENER 2018 PROVOKE2.0 ”-Museum Ognia ,Zory,Poland
2018 - “CHIHEI”-CASE Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan
2019 - ”Etang Chen/Maya Akashika”-LVDB BOOKS,Osaka,Japan
2019 - ”Neo taiwan”-Shibuya HIKARIE MADO,Tokyo,Japan
2020 - ”Twilight Dayligh Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.17”-Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,Tokyo,Japan
2021 - ”Doki Doki telepathy”-gallery 9.5 HOTEL ANTEROOM,Kyoto/canon gallary,Tokyo,Japan
2022 - ”Osaka Directory 1 Maya Akashika”- The Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka ,Japan
2012 - "４PHOTOGRAPHERS EXHIBITION" - Bloom Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2013 - "SPACE CADET Actual Exhibition #2" - TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 - "LUMIX MEETS / TOKYO 2020 by Japanese Photographer" - 1RUERICHELIEU, Paris, France/HILLSIDE TERRACE, Tokyo, Japan
2014 - "Apartment WAN-WAN-WAN" - Naniwa-Bashi Art Area B1, Osaka, Japan
2014 - "阪神手帖 exhibition" - HERBIS HALL OSAKA, Osaka, Japan
2014 - "Elements of light Part III" - Nippon Photography Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2015 - "STEP OUT! New Japanese Photographers" - IMA CONCEPT STORE, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - "Daegu Photo Biennale 2016 "-Daegu Culture & Arts Center, Bongsan Cultural Center,Korea
2018 - “festive photography PLENER 2018 PROVOKE2.0 ”-Museum Ognia ,Zory,Poland
2018 - “CHIHEI”-CASE Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan
2019 - ”Etang Chen/Maya Akashika”-LVDB BOOKS,Osaka,Japan
2019 - ”Neo taiwan”-Shibuya HIKARIE MADO,Tokyo,Japan
2020 - ”Twilight Dayligh Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.17”-Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,Tokyo,Japan
2021 - ”Doki Doki telepathy”-gallery 9.5 HOTEL ANTEROOM,Kyoto/canon gallary,Tokyo,Japan
2022 - ”Osaka Directory 1 Maya Akashika”- The Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka ,Japan
Awards
2011 - Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2011, Grand Prize selected by Noi Sawaragi
2012 - Visual Arts Photo Award 2012, Grand Prize
2012 - Visual Arts Photo Award 2012, Grand Prize
