Miyako ISHIUCHI

Born in Gunma, raised in Yokosuka. Major in textiles at university, started shooting photographs from 1975. In the '80s, completed her early series of 3 works "Apartment" (shot apartment houses around Yokosuka, Yokohama area). "Yokosuka Story", and "Endless Night". She took photos of city sights and buildings. In mid '90s,　she released "To the Skin" shooting scars of female bodies and "1・9・4・7", body parts like hands and feet of other women's at her age. She looks straight into the objects, prints the memories onto portraits of them. Awarded the 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award ('79), the 15th the Domestic Photographer Prize of the Higashikawa Prize ('99) and more. She is also so active outside of Japan that was selected as the first female photographer to participate at Japanese pavilion exhibition for Venice Biennal in 2005. Her "Mother's" is highly praised there. 2008, she released a photo book titled "Hiroshima". She shot some portraits out of 19,000 remains of the Hiroshima victims stored at Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Some remains like girl's clothes, shoes and other things were put on a light box when shooting. Her "Hiroshima" is totally new and outstanding among any other photographs that were ever taken with the same theme "Hiroshima". The show is on the road from Hiroshima, Tokyo and to other cities.


1947　 Born in Gunma
1953　 Moves to Yokosuka
1970　 Leaves Tama Art University, major in textiles, without graduating
1979　 Awarded the 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award
1999　 Awarded the 15th the Domestic Photographer Prize of the Higashikawa Prize
2006　 Awarded the Photographic Society in Japan's Prize for 2006
2009　 Awarded the Mainichi Art Award

<Selected Solo Exhibition>

2011　From [Mother's] to [hiroshima], 11th Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki

2010　Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
2010　hiroshima in OKINAWA, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa
2010　Tokyo Bay Blues, Sokyusha, Tokyo
2010　hiroshima six, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

2009　Ishiuchi Miyako Infinity, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
2009　Ishiuchi Miyako on the wind of Zyoshuu 1976/2008, Okawa Museum of Art,
2009　Gunma

2008　Clubs Courts Apartments Ishiuchi Miyako, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
2008　Miyako Ishiuchi,photographs 1976-2003, traveling exhibition
2008　Langhans Gallery, Prague traveling to Foam, Amsterdam
2008　traveling to La Filature,Scene nationale-Mulhouse, France traveling to Michael
2008　Hoppen Gallery, London
2008　HIROSHIMA Strings of Time, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008　Hiroshima
2008　HIROSHIMA is, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo

2007　Mother's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2007　Innocence, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo

2006　Mother's, Aurora arte Contemporanea, Trent
2006　Ishiuchi Miyako mother's,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

2005　Mother's, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2005　Innocence,Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
2005　mother's 2000-2005 - traces of the future,
2005　The 51st international art exhibition of la Biennale Venezia, Venice

2003　Mother's Sepia International, New York

1999　Miyako Ishiuchi: Time Textured in Monochrome, NationalFilm Center, The
1999　National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1999　Scars, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo

1998　Yokosuka Again Gallery Verita, Tokyo; The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

1997　1 ・ 9 ・ 4 ・ 7, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1997　Yokosuka Story,Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama

1996　Chromosome XY,The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

1994　To the Skin,Gallery Te, Tokyo
1994　1 ・ 9 ・ 4 ・ 7, Laurence Miller Gallery, NewYork

1991　Interior, Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama

1980　Endless Night, Ginza Nikon Salon; Shinjyuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo

1978 　Apartment” Ginza Nikon Salon,Tokyo

1977　Yokosuka Story,Ginza Nikon Salon,Tokyo



<Selected Group Exhibition>

2010　"Pictures by Women/ A history of Modern Photography,” Museum of Modern
2010　Art, New York
2010　"Miyako Ishiuchi and Ryoji Ikeda,” Okawa Museum of Art, Gunma
2010　"Skin,” Wellcome Trust, London
2010　"126 Polaroid” Yokohama Museum of Art
2010　"Collection/Mother’s,” The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

2009　"Aging,” Fondation Claude Verdan, Lausanne
2009　"Dark Side II- Photographic Power, Disease, and Death Photographed,”
2009　Fotomuseum Winterhur, Zurish
2009　"Dress Codes/ The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,”
2009　International Center Of Photography, New York

2008　"The Human Images in the Twentieth Century" Gunma Museum of Art,
2008　Tatebayashi
2008　"Collection 1" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2008　"Collection 2" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2008　"The history of art and city -Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai-" sendai
2008　mediatheque
2008　"Collection 2" Yokohama Museum of Art
2008　"Between the Wall and the Ground" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2008　"The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2008" The Tokushima Modern Art Museum

2007　Portraits de L'autre Musee d'xelles, Bruxelies
2008　Vital Signs: Reality of 9 Contemporary Artists, Yokosuka Museum of Art,
2008　Yokosuka
2008　The Body Sings of Life, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of
2008　Contemporary Art
2008　Japan Contemporary Art Festival, Heiri Art Village, Soeul