Chronology

1971 - Born in Saitama, Japan
1994 - Graduated from the Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University
1996 - Participated in the fourth artist-in-residence program in Hinode-cho,Tokyo
1998 - Stayed in New York on a fellowship from Asian Cultural Council
1999 - Stayed in Amsterdam as a guest artist at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunstverein (1999/2000)
2004 - Moved to Berlin, Germany and stayed until 2016
2005 - Stayed in East Africa on a fellowship from Pola Art Foundation
Lives and works in Okinawa, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 - Rainbow, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2022 - Small Miracles, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (–2023)
2017 - At the Bottom of the Sea, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2016 - To the Night Planet, Loock Gallery, Berlin
2015 - A Town of the BIrds, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2015 - To the Night Planet, Canon gallery S, Tokyo
2014 - My Father’s Album / Small Miracle, Gallery916, Tokyo
2013 - A Man and Some Birds, Loock Gallery, Berlin (-2014)
2011 - Light Reaching the Future, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka (-2012)
2009 - The Sun, D’Amelio Terras, New York
2007 - Marabu―The Sun, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2007 - The Sun, Mongin Art Center, Seoul
2006 - Color of the Planet, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
2005 - I Dreamt of Flying, D’Amelio Terras, New York
2004 - I Dreamt of Flying: Noguchi Rika, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2004 - Somebodies: Noguchi Rika, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2003 - Noguchi Rika, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria (-2004)
2003 - Rocket Hill, D’Amelio Terras, New York
2002 - Catching Water, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2001 - MIMOCA’S EYE VOL.1: NOGUCHI RIKA a feeling of something happening, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2001 - Did He Reach the Moon?, D’Amelio Terras, New York,
2001 - Noguchi Rika: Did He Reach the Moon?, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1999 - Noguchi Rika, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
1998 - Seeing Birds, Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin
1997 - A Prime, P3 art and environment, Tokyo
1997 - Seeing Birds, Higashikawa Art Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
1996 - Record of Creation, Guardian Garden, Tokyo
1995 - To Dive, Gallery Rafu, Saitama, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 - Perfect Camouflage, Watarium Museum, Tokyo
2023 - New Return to Landscape: Amana Collection Exhibition Vol. 02, Miyota Museum of Photography, Nagano
2022 - Tokaido of Ours—Charms of the Landscapes with Mt. Fuji, Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2022 - Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum 20th Anniversary: Flower of Life, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2021 - RESISTRE/RINASCRE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
2021 - Obayashi Collection 2, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
2021 - How to Disappear, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2021 - Living in Symbiosis with Forest and Water, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
2021 - Semba Art Site Project Vol.01, Semba Excel Building, Osaka, Japan
2021 - 11Stories on Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art from Japan, Japan Foundation (online exhibition)
2021 - My Flower, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
2020 - Twinkling skin, Emission of light by life and death, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi
2020 - Overlapping Circle, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum, Chiba
2020 - Builders: Reconsidering the city based on construction, Art Area B1, Osaka
2019 - Texture of Life, Reborn-Art Festival 2019, Central Ishinomaki, Oshika Peninsula, etc., Miyagi
2019 - Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survived!, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2019 - Collection 3: Image of something invisible, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2019 - Smalls between the star, large against the sky, Manif d’art 9- Quebec City Biennial 2019, Quebec City, Canada
2018 - The 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagerment, Sydney, Australia
Floating World, Ruya Shop, Bagdad, Iraq
2018 - Foever (and again), Izu photo museum, Shizuoka
2018 - Collection Asian Landscapes / Awazu Kiyoshi: Makurihirogeru 5, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2017 - 25th Anniversary Exhibition, MIMOCA’s Collection: Artworks of All Kinds!, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
2016 - Saitama Triennale 2016: Envisioning the Future!, Musashi-Urawa Station area and etc. Saitama, Japan
2014 - The Hara Museum Collection at 35, Hara Museum, Tokyo
2014 - Collection Exhibition Ⅱ, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2014 - Non-Prifit & Profit, Spazio A & Uscita Pistoia, Italy
2014 - Exhibition of the 30th Higashikawa Award Winners, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido
2014 - MOMAT Collection, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2013 - Selection of the works from SAF Art Space, Al Mureijah, Sharjah (U.A.E)
2013 - Re-encounters, Izu photo museum, Shizuoka
2013 - On this planet, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
2013 - Re: Quest-Japanese contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul
2013 - National Universitu, Seoul
2013 - Welcom to the Small World!, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
2012 - Gelatin Silver Session 2012, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo
2012 - The Living Years, Walker Arr Center, Minneapolis, MN,U.S.A.(-2015)
2011 - Drift – an exploration of urban & suburban landscapes、Sharjah Art Foundation (U.A.E.)
2011 - YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011: OUR MAGIC HOUR―How Much of the World Can We Know?―, The Yokohama Museum of Art/NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Yokohama, Japan
2011 - Doumented, Doubted, and Imagined Realities Contemporary Photography from Japan and Taiwan, Yi&C. Contemporary Art, Taipei
2011 - VISIONS OF FUJI: A Portrait of the Japanese People as Seen Through Mt. Fuji, Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka
2011 - Still and Sparkling, Gazelli Art House, London
2010 - Negotiation―Today’s Documents 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2009 - Young Ladies, Old Chaps, and Some Thai Friends, Galleria SpazioA , Pistoia, Italy
2009 - The Light: MATSUMOTO Yoko/NOGUCHI Rika, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2009 - The Camera Show, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
2008 - Asian Dub Photography, Fonddazione Cassa di RIsparmio di Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (-2009)
2008 - 55th Carnegie International: Life on Mars, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. (-2009)
2007 - Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. (-2008)/La Collection Jumex, Mexico City (2008)
2007 - Rising Sun, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de San Benito, Valladolid, Spain/Caja San Fernando, Sevilla, Spain
2007 - Sharjah Biennial 8, Still Life: Art, Ecology & The Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Museum/Expocentre Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2007 - The Door into Summer―The Age of Micropop, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2006 - Les Peinters de la vie Moderne―Donation―Collection Photographique de la Caisse des Dépôts, The Centre National d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (-2007)
2006 - DIC Special Exhibition 2006―COLOR OF 10, DIC Color Square, Tokyo
2006 - PHOTOESPAÑA 2006―Naturaleza: Experiencia, Museo San Roman, Toledo, Spain
2005 - TAKEO PAPER SHOW 2005 [COLOR+S], Spiral Garden & Hall, Tokyo
2005 - Cruising Landscapes, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2004 - Commonscapes: Photography Today, Views of the Everyday, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
2003 - Spread in Prato 2003, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2003 - Time After Time: Asia and Our Moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003 - GOING 1992-2002: Guardian Garden ‘3.3m2 Exhibition’, Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2002 - Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery/The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo (-2003)
2002 - Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (-2003)/Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2003-2004)
2002 -Emotional Site, Shokuryo Building, Tokyo
2002 -New Cosmos of Photography by Canon, 10th Anniversary exhibition―Futuring Power, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2002 -Photography Today 2―[sa´it] site/sight, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2002 -Under Construction/Fantasia, East Modern Art Centre, Beijing
2001 - Facts of Life: Contemporary Japanese Art, Hayward Gallery, London
2001 - The Standard, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (currently Benesse Art Site Naoshima), Kagawa, Japan
2001 - ficçào/fotografias e vídeos na coleçào da caisse des dépôts, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
2000 - Japan Medium Light, Montevideo, Amsterdam
2000 - Sensitive, Printemps de Cahors, Lot, France
1999 - Neuland, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
1999 - Private Room Ⅱ: Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
1998 - GEL, D’Amelio Terras, New York
1998 - Kareidosukopu: 90 Nendai no Joseishashinkatachi [Kaleidoscope: Female Photographers in the 90’s], Shinjuku Park Tower, Tokyo
1998 - Tokyo Fashion Story, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1998 - The Special Exhibition for the 10th Anniversary of the Guardian Garden, Gardian Garden, Tokyo
1997 - Photography Tower, Higashikawa-cho Cultural Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
1997 - The 5th New Cosmos of Photography by Canon, Gallery Raku, Kyoto
1996 - The 5th New Cosmos of Photography by Canon, P3 and environment, Tokyo
1996 - For Your Vision, Morris Gallery, Tokyo
1995 - The 1st Young Portfolio Exhibition, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan
1995 - The 5th 3.3m² Exhibition, Guardian Garden, Tokyo (-1996)

Awards

2014 - The 30th Higashikawa Award, Domestic Photographer Award
2002 - The 52nd Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists
2001 - The 13th Annual Prize of Shashin-no-kai
1996 - The 1996 Grand Prize of New Cosmos of Photography
1995 - The Grand Prize, The 5th 3.3m2 Exhibition

Collections

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
Deutsch Bank, Tokyo
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
Mongin Art Center, Seoul
Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

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