Tomoko YONEDA
米田知子
Lives and works in London, Japan and Helsinki
Chronology
1991 - Royal College of Art, MA in Photography, London
1989 - The University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA in Photography with Faculty Award, Chicago
1989 - The University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA in Photography with Faculty Award, Chicago
Publications
2012
Tomoko Yoneda: The Multiple Lives Of Images by Andrew Maerkle And Natsuko Odate, Art it magazine
2011
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, text David Elliott, Yale University Press
Adrian Favell: text, Bye Bye Little Boy, Art in America, April 2011 p.90.
2010
Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? The Creative Potential of a New Japan, Mori Art Museum, , exh. cat., Tokyo
New Photography: Pavilion Commissions: text, Mami Kataoka,, pp.18-20, exh. cat., Pavilion
2008
Void of Memory, Platform in KIMUSA, exh. cat., Seoul
Remembrance of Things Past, Helen Sumpter: text, Deutsche Bank Art Mag 51, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
Feeling the Heat, An End Is a Beginning Deutsche Bank Supports the Tomoko Yoneda Show at the Hara Museum: text,
Achim Drucks, db artmag, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
Interview with Tomoko Yoneda: text, Enoch Cheng, Aian Art Archive, Hong Kong
2007
Robert Storr: introduction, Anna Mecugni: text, Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, vol. I, pp.16-17
(introduction), p.382 (text), La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition, exh. cat., Venice
Tomoko Yoneda: text, Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War, p.88, The 10th
International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, exh. cat., Istanbul
Margot Knijn: Profile, Massimiliano Foscati: Text, “Postface: Waiting For Work,” Work [Changing Faces], IPRN
Commissions Year, No.2, pp.118-121, Veenman Publishers, Amsterdam
Mami Kataoka: contribution, Meiko Sano: translation, Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan,
p. 133, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Mariko Takeuchi: text, Fascination, exh. cat., Takashimaya, Tokyo
Christopher Pinney: text, “Scene: Atrocity’s Double-time”, p.30, Portfolio No.46, Edinburgh
2006
Horacio Fernandez: text, pp.34-35 (English translation p.229), Javier Chavarría: text, p.214 (English
translation p.263), Naturaleza: PHotoEspaña 2006, La Fábrica Editorial, Madrid
Angela Schneider: text, “Flaneurs Tokyo and Berlin through the Eyes of Photographers,” Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin,
p.270, English booklet p.48, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2005
Taro Amano: text, Yokohama 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus – Jumping from the Ordinary,
exh. cat., p.192, The Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
Guy Moreton: text, “Terror Unscene: Meditations on Tomoko Yoneda’s Photography,” Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice
Owen: text and edit, Art in the Age of Terrorism, pp.207-210, Paul Holberton Publishing, London
2004
Iizawa Kotaro: Me Kara Me He: Shashintenwo Aruku 2001-2003, pp.152-155, Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo
Michiko Kasahara: text, out of the ordinary / extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography, exh. cat., p.8,
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Taro Amano: text, Non-Sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III, exh. cat., p.176, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Pier Luigi Tazzi: text, Spread in Prato, exh. cat., p.42, Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2002
Michiko Kasahara: Shashin, Jidai Ni Kosurumono, pp.77-80, Seikyusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo
2003
Shiseido Gallery: gallery talk, “－Beyond Memory and Uncertainty” March 6 2003, 17:00-18:00, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Dana Friis-Hansen: text, History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, p.276, The Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University
Press, Houston
2002
Marta Gili: interview, Fragilités- Printemps de Septembre 2002, exh. cat., p.88, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
2001
Tomoko Yoneda: text, Kiss in the Dark, Contemporary Japanese photography, p.130, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo
Frits Giersberg: text, Surface, exh. cat., pp.14-15, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
2000
Yuri Mitsuta: text, “Topographical Analogy”, Counter-photography – Japan's artists today, exh. cat., p.56, The Japan
Foundation
1999
Michiko Kasahara: text, Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates, The Vision of Contemporary Art ’99, exh. cat., pp.82,
The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Hiromi Nakamura: text, Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, exh. cat., p.37, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Tomoko Yoneda: The Multiple Lives Of Images by Andrew Maerkle And Natsuko Odate, Art it magazine
2011
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, text David Elliott, Yale University Press
Adrian Favell: text, Bye Bye Little Boy, Art in America, April 2011 p.90.
2010
Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? The Creative Potential of a New Japan, Mori Art Museum, , exh. cat., Tokyo
New Photography: Pavilion Commissions: text, Mami Kataoka,, pp.18-20, exh. cat., Pavilion
2008
Void of Memory, Platform in KIMUSA, exh. cat., Seoul
Remembrance of Things Past, Helen Sumpter: text, Deutsche Bank Art Mag 51, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
Feeling the Heat, An End Is a Beginning Deutsche Bank Supports the Tomoko Yoneda Show at the Hara Museum: text,
Achim Drucks, db artmag, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
Interview with Tomoko Yoneda: text, Enoch Cheng, Aian Art Archive, Hong Kong
2007
Robert Storr: introduction, Anna Mecugni: text, Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, vol. I, pp.16-17
(introduction), p.382 (text), La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition, exh. cat., Venice
Tomoko Yoneda: text, Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War, p.88, The 10th
International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, exh. cat., Istanbul
Margot Knijn: Profile, Massimiliano Foscati: Text, “Postface: Waiting For Work,” Work [Changing Faces], IPRN
Commissions Year, No.2, pp.118-121, Veenman Publishers, Amsterdam
Mami Kataoka: contribution, Meiko Sano: translation, Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan,
p. 133, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Mariko Takeuchi: text, Fascination, exh. cat., Takashimaya, Tokyo
Christopher Pinney: text, “Scene: Atrocity’s Double-time”, p.30, Portfolio No.46, Edinburgh
2006
Horacio Fernandez: text, pp.34-35 (English translation p.229), Javier Chavarría: text, p.214 (English
translation p.263), Naturaleza: PHotoEspaña 2006, La Fábrica Editorial, Madrid
Angela Schneider: text, “Flaneurs Tokyo and Berlin through the Eyes of Photographers,” Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin,
p.270, English booklet p.48, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2005
Taro Amano: text, Yokohama 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus – Jumping from the Ordinary,
exh. cat., p.192, The Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
Guy Moreton: text, “Terror Unscene: Meditations on Tomoko Yoneda’s Photography,” Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice
Owen: text and edit, Art in the Age of Terrorism, pp.207-210, Paul Holberton Publishing, London
2004
Iizawa Kotaro: Me Kara Me He: Shashintenwo Aruku 2001-2003, pp.152-155, Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo
Michiko Kasahara: text, out of the ordinary / extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography, exh. cat., p.8,
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Taro Amano: text, Non-Sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III, exh. cat., p.176, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Pier Luigi Tazzi: text, Spread in Prato, exh. cat., p.42, Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2002
Michiko Kasahara: Shashin, Jidai Ni Kosurumono, pp.77-80, Seikyusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo
2003
Shiseido Gallery: gallery talk, “－Beyond Memory and Uncertainty” March 6 2003, 17:00-18:00, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Dana Friis-Hansen: text, History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, p.276, The Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University
Press, Houston
2002
Marta Gili: interview, Fragilités- Printemps de Septembre 2002, exh. cat., p.88, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
2001
Tomoko Yoneda: text, Kiss in the Dark, Contemporary Japanese photography, p.130, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo
Frits Giersberg: text, Surface, exh. cat., pp.14-15, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
2000
Yuri Mitsuta: text, “Topographical Analogy”, Counter-photography – Japan's artists today, exh. cat., p.56, The Japan
Foundation
1999
Michiko Kasahara: text, Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates, The Vision of Contemporary Art ’99, exh. cat., pp.82,
The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Hiromi Nakamura: text, Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, exh. cat., p.37, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 - Crystals, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2022 - EchoesーCrashing waves, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2020 - Tomoko Yoneda, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
2019 - Dialogue with A.C., ShugoArts, Tokyo
2018 -Dialogue avec Albert Camus, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France
201 5-Beyong Memory, Grimaldi Gavin, London
2013-14 - We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness, The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan; Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
2011 - Japanese House, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2009 - Rivers Become Oceans, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2009 - Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Sage Paris, Paris
2008 - An End is a Beginning, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2006 - Monochrome Works 1996-2003, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2005 - A Decade After, Ashiya City Museum of art and History, Ashiya
2005 - After Amnesia: Scenes of Conflict That Have Forgotten Their Past, Daiwa Foundation, London
2005 - After the Thaw, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2003 - Scene - Collective Forgetting, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
2003 - Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2000 - Tomoko Yoneda, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
2000 - Between Visible and Invisible, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1999 - Luminary, Room, Gentilly, France
1997 - Topographical Analogy, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
2022 - EchoesーCrashing waves, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2020 - Tomoko Yoneda, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
2019 - Dialogue with A.C., ShugoArts, Tokyo
2018 -Dialogue avec Albert Camus, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France
201 5-Beyong Memory, Grimaldi Gavin, London
2013-14 - We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness, The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan; Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
2011 - Japanese House, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2009 - Rivers Become Oceans, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2009 - Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Sage Paris, Paris
2008 - An End is a Beginning, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2006 - Monochrome Works 1996-2003, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2005 - A Decade After, Ashiya City Museum of art and History, Ashiya
2005 - After Amnesia: Scenes of Conflict That Have Forgotten Their Past, Daiwa Foundation, London
2005 - After the Thaw, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2003 - Scene - Collective Forgetting, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
2003 - Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2000 - Tomoko Yoneda, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
2000 - Between Visible and Invisible, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1999 - Luminary, Room, Gentilly, France
1997 - Topographical Analogy, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Forms of the Shadow, Curated by Sunjung Kim, Secession Vienna, Austria
Floating Worlds: From Japonisme to Contemporary Art, Les Franciscaines (Deauville, France)
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture: Life Is Architecture M+ Hong Kong
A Woman You Thought You Knew, Kadist San Francisco, USA
Remembrance beyond images, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2023
Recovery, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
At the Zoo — From the Tokyo Metropolitan Collection and Other Collections, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Dora Observatory, Camp Greaves, Imjingak: Pyeonghoa-Nuri, Paju
Life Actually: The Work of Contemporary Japanese Women, Tokyo Gendai, Pacifico Yokohama
Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Tokyo
2022
If you Wish for Peace, Musée National de la Résistance et des Droits Humain at Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2021-22
Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2021
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985-2015, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2020
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2019
Japan Unlimited, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space / MuseumsQuartier Wien, Wien
TOP Collection Reading Images: The Time of Photography, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Boundaries, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
30th Anniversary of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Meet the Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2018
12th Shanghai Biennale 2018, Shanghai
Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo the Amana collection Exhibit 02, IMA Gallery, Tokyo
A gaze into architecture -Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture-, ARCHI- DEPOT MUSEUM, Tokyo
Collection Show at Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo
Group Show at Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
Foujita in the 1940s: Tributes, The University Art Museum Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Art, Tokyo
Tell me a Story: Locality and Narrative, Torino, Italy
Travellers: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2017
Native revisions, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3 “Synchronicity”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2016
Discordant Harmony, Traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Tell me a Story: Locality and Narrative, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, China
2016
Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflection on the Imagination of Asia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Tell Me A Story: Locality and Narrative, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015- 17
In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, 17 Boston; Japan Society, New York; Asia Society, Huston, USA
2015
Nissan Art Award 2015 Exhibition of New Works by Seven Finalists, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
Variations Corbusier, Centre international D’Art Contemporain Alpes-Maritimes, France
2015
No Museum, No Life? ―Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo
Variations Corbusier, Centre International DʼArt Contemporain Alpes-Maritimes, France
Wabi Sabi Shima: from the Aesthetic of Perfection and Chaos in the Japanese Archipelago, Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
The National Museum of Art 2015 Collection 1, The National Museum of Art, Osaka Nissan Art Award 2015: New Works by Seven Finalists, BankART studio NYK Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
ShugoArts: Weekend Gallery in Mishuku, ShugoArts Weekend Gallery, Tokyo
2014
SeMA Biennale, Mediacity Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
20 years since Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
2013
Awakening―Where are we standing?: Earth, Memory and Resurrection, Aichi Triennale 2013, Aichi, Japan
Unattained Landscape, The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice
Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art Since the 1970s, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012
The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Arsenale 2012: The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Tokyo Story 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo
Sky over My Head, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Tokyo Experimental Festival “John cage: sonatas and interludes”, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2011
On the Agenda of the Arts 2011 ‘Where do we go from here?’, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya
Collection Exhibition 2011−2 To Build, To Depart, Hiroshima Imagined, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art
Art in an Office, Toyota city Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York
2010
The 20th Festival of Le Printemps de Septembre, Musée Henri-Martin, Cahors
Kuandu Biennale “Plus:10+10-Memories and Beyond”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
The Definition of Self, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo
Roppongi Crossing 2010 Can There Be Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Plastic Memories, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
New Photography: Pavilion Commissions 2009, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2009
Rememory, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
Art Tells the Times, Works by Women Artists : Shiseido Gallery 90th Anniversary Exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Platform 2009, KIMUSA, Seoul
“What a Place Tells Us” Exhibition by Tomoko Yoneda and Yoshihiro Suda(The 13th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh 2008
Traveling Exhibition), 100Tonson Gallery, Bangkok
2008
The 13th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh 2008, “What a Place Tells Us” Exhibition by Tomoko Yoneda and Yoshihiro Suda,
Osmani Memorial Hall, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh National Museum, Bangladesh
MOGI Kenichiro, hana, KAKUTA Mitsuyo, ARAKI Nobuyoshi: Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art,
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2007
The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Not only possible, but also necessary: Optimism in the age of global war,
Istanbul
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, B.T.A.P, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the
Present Tense, Venice
FASCINATION, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo
Paradise is for the blessed, Four Corners, London
Changing Faces/Work, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal in Scheltema, Leiden, touring in Europe, Museu Valencià de la
Il.lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM), Valencià, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
Dom Fotografie, Liptovský Mikuláš
Japan Caught by Camera - Works from the Photographic Art in Japan, Shanghai Art Museum
2006
Temporary Art Museum, SOI SABAI, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Naturaleza, PHotoEspaña 2006, Madrid, touring in Tenerife (Exhibition title: The Rising Sun)
85/05:The Photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
YOSHITOMO NARA + graf A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki
2005
YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus - Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama
From East and West, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
2004
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography, Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne (The Japan
Foundation), touring in Europe and USA
Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art
Spread in Prato, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2003
History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
My Room Somehow Somewhere, Graf Media GM, Osaka
The Year of New Work: Contemporary Asian Photography, The Japan Society, New York
Mask of Japan: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aura Gallery, Shanghai,
2002
Fragilités – Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse and Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure
2001
BetweenVisible and Invisible, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago; Sanya
Photography Gallery, Shanghai
Artists’ debut, Rice gallery by G2, Tokyo
Summer Show – Three Contemporary Photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Kiss In the Dark – Contemporary Japanese Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Kagawa
Painterly Photography, Blains Fine Art, London
Surface, Nederlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam
2000
Counter-Photography – Japan’s Artists Today, Moscow Arts Centre, Moscow; touring in Russia, Scandinavia, Europe,
and Asia
1999
The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Japan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin, also toured 3 other museums in Germany
1998
21st Anniversary ZEIT-FOTO, Artspace Shimoda, Tokyo
1996
Future Vision, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
1993
The Daily Planet, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1992
The Big Apple, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
1991
Treading a Fine Line – 8 Contemporary women photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Forms of the Shadow, Curated by Sunjung Kim, Secession Vienna, Austria
Floating Worlds: From Japonisme to Contemporary Art, Les Franciscaines (Deauville, France)
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture: Life Is Architecture M+ Hong Kong
A Woman You Thought You Knew, Kadist San Francisco, USA
Remembrance beyond images, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2023
Recovery, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
At the Zoo — From the Tokyo Metropolitan Collection and Other Collections, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Dora Observatory, Camp Greaves, Imjingak: Pyeonghoa-Nuri, Paju
Life Actually: The Work of Contemporary Japanese Women, Tokyo Gendai, Pacifico Yokohama
Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Tokyo
2022
If you Wish for Peace, Musée National de la Résistance et des Droits Humain at Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2021-22
Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2021
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985-2015, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2020
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2019
Japan Unlimited, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space / MuseumsQuartier Wien, Wien
TOP Collection Reading Images: The Time of Photography, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Boundaries, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
30th Anniversary of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Meet the Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2018
12th Shanghai Biennale 2018, Shanghai
Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo the Amana collection Exhibit 02, IMA Gallery, Tokyo
A gaze into architecture -Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture-, ARCHI- DEPOT MUSEUM, Tokyo
Collection Show at Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo
Group Show at Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
Foujita in the 1940s: Tributes, The University Art Museum Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Art, Tokyo
Tell me a Story: Locality and Narrative, Torino, Italy
Travellers: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2017
Native revisions, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3 “Synchronicity”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2016
Discordant Harmony, Traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Tell me a Story: Locality and Narrative, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, China
2016
Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflection on the Imagination of Asia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Tell Me A Story: Locality and Narrative, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015- 17
In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, 17 Boston; Japan Society, New York; Asia Society, Huston, USA
2015
Nissan Art Award 2015 Exhibition of New Works by Seven Finalists, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
Variations Corbusier, Centre international D’Art Contemporain Alpes-Maritimes, France
2015
No Museum, No Life? ―Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo
Variations Corbusier, Centre International DʼArt Contemporain Alpes-Maritimes, France
Wabi Sabi Shima: from the Aesthetic of Perfection and Chaos in the Japanese Archipelago, Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
The National Museum of Art 2015 Collection 1, The National Museum of Art, Osaka Nissan Art Award 2015: New Works by Seven Finalists, BankART studio NYK Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
ShugoArts: Weekend Gallery in Mishuku, ShugoArts Weekend Gallery, Tokyo
2014
SeMA Biennale, Mediacity Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
20 years since Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
2013
Awakening―Where are we standing?: Earth, Memory and Resurrection, Aichi Triennale 2013, Aichi, Japan
Unattained Landscape, The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice
Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art Since the 1970s, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012
The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Arsenale 2012: The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Tokyo Story 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo
Sky over My Head, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Tokyo Experimental Festival “John cage: sonatas and interludes”, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2011
On the Agenda of the Arts 2011 ‘Where do we go from here?’, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya
Collection Exhibition 2011−2 To Build, To Depart, Hiroshima Imagined, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art
Art in an Office, Toyota city Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York
2010
The 20th Festival of Le Printemps de Septembre, Musée Henri-Martin, Cahors
Kuandu Biennale “Plus:10+10-Memories and Beyond”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
The Definition of Self, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo
Roppongi Crossing 2010 Can There Be Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Plastic Memories, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
New Photography: Pavilion Commissions 2009, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2009
Rememory, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
Art Tells the Times, Works by Women Artists : Shiseido Gallery 90th Anniversary Exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Platform 2009, KIMUSA, Seoul
“What a Place Tells Us” Exhibition by Tomoko Yoneda and Yoshihiro Suda(The 13th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh 2008
Traveling Exhibition), 100Tonson Gallery, Bangkok
2008
The 13th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh 2008, “What a Place Tells Us” Exhibition by Tomoko Yoneda and Yoshihiro Suda,
Osmani Memorial Hall, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh National Museum, Bangladesh
MOGI Kenichiro, hana, KAKUTA Mitsuyo, ARAKI Nobuyoshi: Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art,
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2007
The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Not only possible, but also necessary: Optimism in the age of global war,
Istanbul
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, B.T.A.P, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the
Present Tense, Venice
FASCINATION, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo
Paradise is for the blessed, Four Corners, London
Changing Faces/Work, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal in Scheltema, Leiden, touring in Europe, Museu Valencià de la
Il.lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM), Valencià, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
Dom Fotografie, Liptovský Mikuláš
Japan Caught by Camera - Works from the Photographic Art in Japan, Shanghai Art Museum
2006
Temporary Art Museum, SOI SABAI, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Naturaleza, PHotoEspaña 2006, Madrid, touring in Tenerife (Exhibition title: The Rising Sun)
85/05:The Photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
YOSHITOMO NARA + graf A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki
2005
YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus - Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama
From East and West, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
2004
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography, Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne (The Japan
Foundation), touring in Europe and USA
Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art
Spread in Prato, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2003
History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
My Room Somehow Somewhere, Graf Media GM, Osaka
The Year of New Work: Contemporary Asian Photography, The Japan Society, New York
Mask of Japan: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aura Gallery, Shanghai,
2002
Fragilités – Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse and Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure
2001
BetweenVisible and Invisible, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago; Sanya
Photography Gallery, Shanghai
Artists’ debut, Rice gallery by G2, Tokyo
Summer Show – Three Contemporary Photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Kiss In the Dark – Contemporary Japanese Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Kagawa
Painterly Photography, Blains Fine Art, London
Surface, Nederlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam
2000
Counter-Photography – Japan’s Artists Today, Moscow Arts Centre, Moscow; touring in Russia, Scandinavia, Europe,
and Asia
1999
The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Japan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin, also toured 3 other museums in Germany
1998
21st Anniversary ZEIT-FOTO, Artspace Shimoda, Tokyo
1996
Future Vision, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
1993
The Daily Planet, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1992
The Big Apple, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
1991
Treading a Fine Line – 8 Contemporary women photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Awards
2015 - Nissan Art Award Finalist, Japan
2014 - The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologyʼs Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, Japan
2011 - Creator-in-Residence, Local Creator Residency Program 2011, TWS Aoyama, Japan
2009 - New Photography: Pavilion Commissions 2009, Leeds, UK
2006 - Changing Faces Commission, IPRN EU Culture 2000, EU
1996 - Second Prize, Future Vision The Photographersʼ Gallery, London, UK
1995 - Third Prize, The Observer David Hodge Memorial Award, London, UK
2014 - The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologyʼs Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, Japan
2011 - Creator-in-Residence, Local Creator Residency Program 2011, TWS Aoyama, Japan
2009 - New Photography: Pavilion Commissions 2009, Leeds, UK
2006 - Changing Faces Commission, IPRN EU Culture 2000, EU
1996 - Second Prize, Future Vision The Photographersʼ Gallery, London, UK
1995 - Third Prize, The Observer David Hodge Memorial Award, London, UK
Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum Of Art, Aichi, Japan
Amana holdings inc., Tokyo, Japan
The British Council, London, UK
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA
Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York, USA
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, USA
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Nissan Motor Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
NLI Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Japan
Tanizaki Junichiro Memorial Museum of Literature, Ashiya, Japan
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota, Japan
UBS Bank Art Collection, London, UK
The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Art, Tokyo, Japan
The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Amana holdings inc., Tokyo, Japan
The British Council, London, UK
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA
Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York, USA
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, USA
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Nissan Motor Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
NLI Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Japan
Tanizaki Junichiro Memorial Museum of Literature, Ashiya, Japan
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota, Japan
UBS Bank Art Collection, London, UK
The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Art, Tokyo, Japan
The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
