Born Fujikura Yōko, in 1947 in Nitta District, Gunma and raised in Yokosuka, Miyako Ishiuchi later adopted her Mother's madien name as part of her professional identity. She is amongst one of the most significant Japanese female photographers to emerge from post-war Japan.

Born during America's occupation of Japan in the post World War II era, Miyako Ishiuchi grew up in a country whose culture had been dramatically altered through the presence of the military servicemen living on the nearby and surrounding naval bases. The "Americanization of Japan" had a profound effect on Miyako Ishiuchi as a young child and would later inspire her to create her first body of photographic work Yokosuka Story produced in 1976-1977.

Her grainy, black and white photographs became part of the movement which saw photographers such as Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu use the camera as a means to confront and express their own individual realities of Japan's post war trauma. Gaining recognition for her work Miyako Ishiuchi was awarded the prestigious 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photographic Award in 1979 and that same year was included as the only female photographer in a group exhibtion of 18 men at the International Center of Photography in New York's exhibtion "Japan: A Self Portrait".

She has exhibited widely both locally and internationally; representing Japan at the 2005 Venice Biennale and was the recipient of the 2014 Hasselblad Award.

Notable works include Apartment (1977-1978), Endless Night (1978-1980), 1.9.4.7 (1988-90), Scars (1991-2002), Mother's (2000-20059, ひろしま/ hiroshima (2007-2014) and Frida (2013).

Chronology

1947 - Born in Gunma
1953 - Moves to Yokosuka
1966 - Entries Tama Art University, major in design and textiles
2007 - Starts photography of the “ひろしま/hiroshima” series at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Publications

2014 - "From ひろしま" RYUKYUDO, Japan
2014 - "Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, ひろしま/hiroshima 1945/2007-" PPP Editions, U.S.A
2014 - "Ishiuchi, Miyako Hasselblad Award2014", Kerhrer, Germany
2013 - "sa・bo・ten" DAIWA PRESS, Japan
2013 - "Frida by Ishiuchi" RM, Mexico
2012 - "From Cocoons" Seigensha, Japan
2010 - "Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980" PPP Editions, U.S.A
2010 - "Tokyo Bay Blues," Sokyusha, Japan
2009 - "Infinity∞," Kyuryudo, Japan
2008 - "Hiroshima," Shueisha, Japan
2008 - "Miyako Ishiuchi Photographs 1976-2005," Manfred Heiting, Cinubia Production
2008 - "One Days," Rat Hole Gallery, Japan
2007 - "Club & Courts Yokosuka Yokohama, " Sokyusha, Japan
2007 - "Innocence," Akaakasha, Japan
2006 - "mother’s 2000-2005 traces of the Future, " Tankosha, Japan
2005 - "Scars," Sokyusha, Japan
2005 - "Kizuato," Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan, Japan
2005 - "Le Parfum de la Rose," with Katsuyuki Yomogida, Kyuryudo, Japan
2002 - "Mother's," Sokyusha, Japan
2001 - "Endless Night 2001," Wides Shuppan, Japan
2000 - "Nail," Heibonsha, Japan
1998 - "Yokosuka Again," Sokyusha, Japan
1996 ~ 2000 - "Foto Magazine main No1-No10" main
1995 - "Hiromi:1955," Chikuma Shobo, Japan
1995 - "Choromosome XY," Shinchosha, Japan
1994 - "1906 to the skin," Kawade Shobo Sinsha Publishers, Japan
1993 - "Monochrome," Chikuma Shobo, Japan
1990 - "1・9・4・7" Inter Press Corporation
1981 - "Endless Night," Asahi Sonorama, Japan
1981 - "Tokyo Dental College," Issei Shuppan, Japan
1979 - "Yokosuka Story," Shahin Tsushinsha, Japan
1978 - "Apartment," Shahin Tsushinsha, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 - Naked Rose. SUPER LABO STORE TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
2023 - Ginza was My First Tokyo. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 - Ishiuchi Miyako. Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 - Ishiuchi Miyako. Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022 - Ishiuchi Miyako in Tsudajuku. Tsuda University , Tokyo, Japan
2021 - Seen and Unseen -Tracing Photography. Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
2020 - Sprits Rising-ひろしま/hiroshima. Portland Japanese Garden Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 - Fabric of Memory- From ひろしま/hiroshima. Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography, Nara, Japan
2019 - Ishiuchi Miyako. Fergus McCaffrey, New York, NY
2019 - Ishiuchi Miyako Exhibition-The Story of Two Women: Miyako and Chihiro. Chihiro Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018 - Frida A Photographic portrait. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England
2017 - Art Basel Hong Kong 2017. Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Grain and Image. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2016 - Childhood Garments. Iwami Art Museum, Masuda, Japan
2016 - Frida is. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - Childhood Garments. Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan

2015
"Frida by Ishiuchi Miyako" Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
"Ishiuchi Miyako-Postwar Shadows" The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
"daikanyama photo fair 2015" Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo

2014
"SEMAMORI" Lixil Gallery, Osaka, Tokyo
"For Young Children’s Clothing, " Lixil Gallery,Tokyo
"Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, ひろしま/Hiroshima 1945/2007— "Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
"Ishiuchi Miyak "Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
"Paris Photo 2014"Grand Palais, Paris

2013
"sa・bo・ten", CAPSULE,Tokyo
"sa・bo・ten" Gallery G, Hiroshima
"Ishiuchi Miyako" Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

2012
"SILKEN DREAMS" The Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
"ひろしま hiroshima via Vancouver" Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo

2011
"From [Mother's] to [hiroshima], " 11th Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki
"ひろしま Hiroshima in NAGANO" Naganoken Kenminbunka Kaikan, Nagano
"ひろしま hiroshima by ISHIUCHI MIYAKO" The Audian Gallery of Museum of Anthropology at Brisith Columbia University, Vancouver
"Ishiuchi Miyako” Paris Photo, Paris

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

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

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

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

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

2005
"Mother's," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Innocence," Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"mother's 2000-2005 - traces of the future," The 51st international art exhibition of la Biennale Venezia, Venice
"Timeless encounters in the photography of Miyako Ishiuchi," House of Shiseido, Tokyo

2003
"Mother's," Sepia International, New York
"Mother's," Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama

2002
"Works of Miyako Ishiuchi," Photographers' Gallery, Tokyo  
"Mother's," C Square, Nagoya

2001
"Endless Night 2001," Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo
"Endless Night 2001," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Miyako Ishiuchi Exhibition," Aya Bis, Osaka
"Nail" Galerie deux, Tokyo

2000
"1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face," Gallery RAKU, Kyoto
"1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face," The Third Gallery Aya, amus, Osaka

1999
"Scars," Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"Miyako Ishiuchi : Time Textured in Monochrome," National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo
"Body and Air," Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo

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

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

1996
"Chromosome XY," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

1995
" To the Skin," Ouka Shorin, Nagoya
" Hiromi 1995," Gallery Verita, Tokyo
"Chromosome XY," Zeit- Foto Salon, Tokyo

1994
"To the Skin," Gallery Te, Tokyo
"1·9·4·7," Laurence Miller Gallery, NewYork
"1906 To the Skin," Dickson Foundation Gallery, Charlotte,N,C

1993
" Interior3," Gallery Te, Tokyo

1992
" Interior2," Gallery Te, Tokyo

1991
"Interior, " Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama

1988
"From Yokosuka Third Position," Room 801,Tokyo

1986
"Tokyo Bay Cities in Yokosuka," Saikaya Salon,

1985
"Tokyo Bay Cities," Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
"Endless Night," Space Aupa, Nagoya

1984
"Tokyo Bay Cities," Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo

1982
"Bottled Time / Tokyo Dental College," Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo

1981
"From Yokosuka," Cabaret 2nd New Yokosuka,Yokosuka
"Endless Night," Workshop Observatory, Yokosuka

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 Exhibitions

2023
Square. Gallery 58, Tokyo, Japan
Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art. Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan.
Before/After. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
Views through my window. KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kondaya Genbei Chikuin-no-Ma), Kyoto, Japan
CAMK Collection Vol.7 Memory Storage for The Future. Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Collection: Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan
Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition Collection+: From a Palm to the Universe. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan
“MEMORIES 01” selected by Yoshiaki Inoue. cadan Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
À PARTIR D'ELLE. DES ARTISTES ET LEUR MÈRE. LE BAL, Paris, France

2022
Square-30x30cm. Gallery58, Tokyo, Japan
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Fair. Grand Front Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Shifting the Silence. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,SF
Beautiful Roses: centering on Les Roses by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
MOT Collection. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Mirrors and Windows. Asama International Photo Fesvival, Miyota
MOMAT Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2021
Square-30x30cm. Gallery58, Tokyo, Japan
The Seventieth Anniversary of the Hiroshima Panels. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan
Frida Love and Pain. Chelsea Music Festival, New York, NY.
Decades 2000_2020. Kana Kawanishi Photography, Tokyo, Japan
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985-2015. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Collection3: Between Visible and Invisible. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Mother!. Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark; traveled to Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Dress Code-Are You Playing Fashion? The Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
YAMAZAWA Eiko,OKANOUE Toshiko, ISHIUCHI Miyako 2021. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan; traveled to Capsule, Tokyo, Japan
Reversible Destiny- Australian and Japanese contemporary photography. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ishiuchi Miyako From Distant Future and Jyoshu. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan
Paris Photo 2021. Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, France

2020
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2020 -Landscapes in Our Age: Scarred and Reborn. The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Artists in Kiryu 2020. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan
Memories in Thread from the Collection of Arts Maebashi. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan
Golden Age: Five Masters of Japanese Photography. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China; traveled to Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Amoi, China; Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
Collection. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan
2020-2 Collection Highlight & Special Feature: Portrait of Self and Others. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Dazzling Skins: Life Illuminated From Death. Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga, Japan
Hasselblad Award 40 Years. Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Memories of the Place: Anamnesis. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan

2019
Collection3-Image of something invisible. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The Gaze of Things, Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke. Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain
Body and Memory from Art Collection of Arts Maebashi. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan
CAMK Collection from New Acquisition. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Emancipation of Humanity: Focusing on Works by Female Artists-Primarily from the Museum Collection. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Flash Memories. The Third Gallery Aya; Sai Gallery; Yoshimi Arts; Osaka, Japan
Art Book/Art Goods. BankART1929, Yokohama, Japan
My Body, Your Body, Their Body. Kana Kawanishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Feel The Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisition. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Dress Code:Are You Playing Fashion?. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art and Society-Contemporary Artists, Late period. Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan

2018
Life-The 100th Anniversary of Chihiro Iwasaki’s Birth ひろしま/hiroshima Ishiuchi Miyako. Azumino Chihiro Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
VII Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación ONCE. Fundación ONCE, Madrid, Spain
Around the small sea - Photography from Japan. Goeun Museum, Pusan, Korea
Body Politics: What Defines the Body?. Kana Kawanishi Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art Collection, Showa Portraits: Tracing the People and History of the Showa Era through Photography. Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan
To Travel with Glasses. Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan; traveled to Iwami Art Museum, Masuda, Japan; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan

2017
Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2017. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
MIMOCA’s Collection: Artworks of All Kinds!. Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled. URANO, Tokyo, Japan
Ishiuchi Miyako x A&S x mame. Art & Sceience, Tokyo, Japan
Collection. Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan
The 9th Gelatin Silver Session-Portrait. Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Noroshi-Signal Flare For Our Future. Art Museum & Library, Ota, Ota, Japan
Okinawa where the photographers looked at, 1972-2017. Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha, Japan
2D Printers. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
inframince-the photography as a film. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan
20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection-Scrolling Through Heisei Part 2 Communication and Solitude. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Nihonbashi Art Photo Exhibition 2017-The world of Art Photography. Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
Kumamoto Admirable. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
CROSSROAD 2. ART BASE MOMOJIMA, Onomichi, Japan
Onomichi Art Crossroad. Onomichi, Japan
Aging Pride. Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

2016
ecce homo -The Human Images in Contemporary Art. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Tegami. Kamoe Art Center, Hamamatsu, Japan
Contemporary Photography Asian Perspectives. Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Dubai Photo. Dubai Design District, Dubai
Art in Park Hotel Tokyo 2016. Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Art Beijing. National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
eyes of six women-Miyako Ishiuchi, Yuki Onodera, Kunie Sugiura, Makiko Koie, Masumi Kura, Yuki Urakami. Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Art Osaka 2016. Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Daikanyama photo fair 2016. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan
The Exhibition of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, collection 2016 Part 1. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Unclear nuclear. URANO, Tokyo, Japan
Le Bal − Hommage a` Etsuro ISHIHARA Part 3 – − adagio canta, A Memorial Service for Etsuro Ishihara, Where Artist Friends Will Gather. Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan

2015
"For a New World to Come", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
"The Memory of Time", National Gallery, WashintonDC
"Beyond Hiroshima", Tel Aviv University, Israel
"Morden Blossoming Garden-Oita World Museum", Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita
"Life=Work", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
”The 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War and Peace", Hiroshima Prefectural Art Musem

2014
"Fuji Film", Fuji Film Photo Salon, Osaka, Aichi Prefectual Museum, Itami City Museum of Art, Hosomi Museum, Kyoto
"Art Fair Tokyo 2014” Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Collection", Art Base Momoshima:Hiroshima
"Intractable and Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979,” Museum Ludwig, Koln
"HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair 2014"Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo
"Herland", 60 Wall Gallery, New York
"Cossroad", Art Base Momoshima:Hiroshima
”Wardrobe Memories”, Arts Maebashi, Gunma
"Photography is", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
"VENT NOUVEAU × 15 Photographers", MIHONCHO HONTEN, Tokyo
"Collection Ⅲ", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka

2013
"Art Fair Tokyo 2013” Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Re:Quest" Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
"Memories of A City-Yokosuka in Photographs and Contemporary Art” Yokosuka Museum of Art
"Watashitachiha Koeteiku", Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama
"Art Arch Hiroshima 2013-Peace Meets Art” Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
"Transformed Visions" Tate Modern, London
"Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood And Loss", Foundling Museum:London, Belfast Exposed
"Paris Photo 2013" Grand Palais, Paris

2012
"Art Fair Tokyo 2012” Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"The Allure of Collection- The 35th Anniversary of The National Museum of Art, Osaka,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2011
"Elegance and Grace:Beautiful People in East Asia” Ewha Women University Museum, Soeul
"HAUT,” Kunsthaus Hamburg
" SKIN/ Dans La peau” Claude Verdan Foundation, Switzerland
" Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade,” Photo Ireland Festival, Dublin
" Nostlgia Korea-China-Japan Culture Shuttle 2011” Korea Foundation, Soeul
"Art Fair Tokyo 2011,” Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Collection” The Art Institute of Chicago
"5 Women’s eyes” msc gallery in Doshisha Women’s College

2010
"Art Fair Tokyo 2010,” Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Collection 1,” Yokohama Museum of Art
"Pictures by Women/ A history of Modern Photography,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
"ART OSAKA 2010," Doujima Hotel, Osaka
"Miyako Ishiuchi and Ryoji Ikeda,” Okawa Museum of Art, Gunma
"Skin,” Wellcome Trust, London
"126 Polaroid” Yokohama Museum of Art
"Hommage, Suehiro Tanemura, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Collection/Mother’s,” The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
"The 14th Small Museum” Kamaboko Museum, Ogawara

2009
"Art Fair Tokyo 2009,” Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Aging,” Fondation Claude Verdan, Lausanne
"Dark Side II- Photographic Power, Disease, and Death Photographed,” Fotomuseum Winterhur, Zurish
"Tokyo Photo,” Roopongi Bellesalle, Tokyo
"Dress Codes/ The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,” International Center Of Photography, New York
"Collection 1", Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama

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

2007
"Portraits de L’autre,” Musee d’xelles, Bruxelies
"Vital Signs: Reality of 9 Contemporary Artists, " Yokosuka Museum of Art
"The Body Sings of Life, " Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
"The China International Gallery Exposition 2007, " Exhibition hall China World Trade Centre, Beijing
"Japan Contemporary Art Festival, " Heiri Art Village, Soeul
" The Sense of Collapse" The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
" Beyond Language" Soka Art Center, Beijing, Soka Art Center, Taipei
" Collection-Showa Photography 1945-1989" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
" Japan Caught by Camera," Shanghai Museum
"Exquisite Shadows, " Sage Paris, Paris
"Mother and Daughter,” Art Sonje, Soul
"The 30th Anniversary :Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka


2006
"Case Study, " Beyond the Valley, London
"Sepia at Seven – A Celebration Group Show,” Sepia International, NY
"Food and Contemporary Art Part2: Ishokudogen, " BankART 1929 Yokohama; Bankart Market Oceans Bar Rose House, Yokohama
"MOT Collection: Art since the 1960s, "Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"The Photographic Society in Japan’s Awards Exhibition, " Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
"Berlin- Tokyo: Tokyo- Berlin, " Neue National Galerie, Berlin
"Case Study2, " Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
"Mite!- Okayama, " The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama
"Hajime Sawatari, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yasuhide Kuge: Slide Show at Bookfes 2006, " Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo
"Modern Paradise, " The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Family Scenes in Japanese Modern Art, " The Museum of Modern Art, Mito
"Collection3, "The National Museum of Art, Osaka
"Beyond Lilith: The Sacred Feminine," Scuderie Aldobrandini of Comune di Frascati, Frascati
"The Memory of Me: Nikon Salon 1968-2006 Special Exhibition, " Nikon Plaza Ginza, Toyo
"From the Garden, " The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale2006,” Fukushima City Museum of Photogaraphy
"Gift, The Store, " Spiral, Tokyo
"mas alla de lo ordinario/ extraordinario: fotografia japonesa contemporanea, " Centro de La Imagen, Mexicov

2005
"Toshodaiji , Photography and Haiku Exhibition for Ganjinwajo and Rashanabutsu," Tokyo National Museum
"The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2005-I,” The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
"Old Age: Beauty and Form," Fukushima Museum, Fukushima
"36 photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award "Kawasaki City Museum
"85/05 - 20 Years after the Tsukuba Museum of Photography," Sendai Mediatheque
"Video Installation by Bill Viola and Contemporary Works From the Museum Collection," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Traces & Omens- the 12th Noorderlict Photo Festival ," Dutch Noorderlict Photo Festival Gallery
"The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2005-III,” The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
"Art Fair Tokyo," Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Take Art Collection" Spiral Garden, Tokyo
"My Precious: Photos and Words Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers," Art Forum Azamino, Yokohama

2004
"Landscape and Scalpel," Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori
"out of the ordinary/ extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography" Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln; touring Europe
"Mask of Japan-Japanese Contemporary Photography," Guangtong Museum of Art, Guanzhou
"Yokohama Shashinkan," BankART1929, Yokohama
"Meguro Art Annual 2004," Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
"What’s Art? An Invitation to 20th Century Art: The Collection of National Museum of Art, Osaka," The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama

2003
"The History of Japanese Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston    
"Freedom of Photography, " Prinz , Kyoto
"Beyond The Surface - Japanese Style of Making Things," Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Cultural Center of Philippines, Manila
"Permanent Exhibition: Miyako Ishiuchi, Jun Shiraoka, Hiromi Kakimoto," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Mask of Japan-Japanese Contemporary Photography," Aura Gallery, Shanghai, Kanton Museum
"Collection 3: Miyako Ishiuchi and Osamu Kanemura," Yokohama Museum of Art , Yokohama
"Freedom of Photography," Prinz, Kyoto

2002
"Uncompleted Century Legacies of 20th Century Art, " The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2002-1, "The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
"The World of Polaroid Photography: Beyond Time, " Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo; Sen Space, Osaka
"Photoneshia: Memories of Light; Fruits of Time," Naha Civic Gallery, Okinawa

2001
"Global Visions," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
"Moderns by The Sumida River," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
"Off Triennale,"RyunichiKantonKaikan , Yokohama

2000
"Vestiges," Sepia International , New York
"Main5" 03FOTOS, Tokyo
"Art and Society :Earthquake," Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
“Japanese and Chinese Contemporary,”Sanya Photography Gallery, Shanghai

1999
" Rediscovery of Photography, From the Photography Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Skin Dive," Kyoto Art Festival, Kyoto
"The Tracing Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award 1975-1999,"Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
"Art in the Ruins," Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama
"Higashikawa International Photofestival Award Winning Works Exhibition,"Higashikawa Bunka Gallery
"Premio Michelangelo Antonioni per le Arti 1999," Flash Art Museum, Trevi
"Main" 03Fotos, Tokyo
"Yokohama International Photography Festival’99," Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama

1998
"Main" 03FOTOS, Tokyo
"Art in the Ruins " Gallery Yamaguchi,Tokyo  
"21st Anniversary Zeit-Foto, Artspace Shimoda, organized by Zeit-Foto," Tokyo
"Women Photographer’s eyes 1945-1997: Tokyo Photography Month" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.
"An Incomplete History: Women Photographers from Japan, 1864-1997," Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, Rochester; New York
"Art and the Environment: From an Ecological Point of View" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
"Art in the Ruins " Tokyo Gallery ; Gallery Te, Tokyo

1997
"Flexible Coexistence: Mito Annual '97," Art Tower Mito, Mito
"Lust und Leere Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart" Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
"Surface Exposed: Photography in the 90's Art," Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo
"1997 B semi 30th Anniversary Week in Daikanyama, Hill Side Plaza, Tokyo

1996
"Prospect '96," Schirin Kunstverein, Frankfurt
"Main," 03FOTOS, Tokyo
"Tracing Japanese Contemporary Photography through Kimura Ihei Memorial
Photography Award,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art
"Cityscape Japan, "Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln
"Yokohama International Photo Festival ’96," Yokohama Museum of Art
"Contemporary Art From Galleries '96," Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
"Contemporary Photography since the 1980s," Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
"Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award Exhibition-Japan Contemporary Photography," Kintetsu Art Kan, Osaka
"Main," 03FOTOS, Tokyo

1995
"Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives-Rethinking Modernism," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.
"Alter, Egodocument," Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam   
"20th Anniversary Kimura Ihei Prize," Ginza Canon Salon,Tokyo
"Photography and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Rituals and Transformation," The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
"Contemporary Japanese Photography," Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
"Contemporary Japanese Photography," The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1994
"Japanese Art After 1945," Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama,; Guggenheim Museum Soho, NewYork; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"When The Body Becomes Art," Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
"Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography," The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, N.C The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Kansas City Art Institute

1993
"Changing I dense cities," Shedhalle, Zurich
"Zeitgenossische Japanische Photographie," Kunsthaus , Zurich
"Light and Shadow," Fuji Photo Salon , Tokyo

1992
"Symposion uber Fotografie13, So Oder So Nicht Sein," Forum Stadtpark, Graz  
"Photography 1960-1980," Konica Plaza, Tokyo

1991
"Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portrait of Contemporary Women," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Japanese Photography in The 1970s," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Make-Believe," The Photographers Gallery, London

1990
"Women’s Perspective in German and Japan," Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki

1989
"The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography," Center for Creative Photography, The university of Arizona

1987
"Japanese Women Photographers," Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem,P.A.

1986
"World of Super-Image," Yurakucho Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo

1985
"Paris, New York, Tokyo," The Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Ibaraki; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai

1984
"Dumont’5: Die Japanische Fotographie," Museum Fur kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg

1980
"Photo-Session'80," Konishiroku Gallery, Tokyo

1979
"Nuzyun in Okinawa Yamato," Dainaha, Okinawa
"Japan : A Self-Portrait," International Center of Photography, New York; Venice

1977
"Photography Today'77," Kanagawa Kenmin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

1976
"Hyakka-Ryo-Ran," Gallery Simizu, Tokyo
"Photographic Effect 5," Espouse Saturday, Tokyo

1975
"Photographic Effect 3," Gallery Simizu, Tokyo

Awards

1979 - Awarded the 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award
1999 - Awarded the 11th Shashin-no-kai Award
1999 - Awarded the 15th the Domestic Photographer Prize of the Higashikawa Prize
2003 - Awarded the 15th Shashin-no-kai Award
2005 - Awarded the Photographic Society of Japan's Lifetime Achievement Award
2009 - Awarded the Mainichi Art Award
2013 - Awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon
2014 - Awarded the Hasselblad Award
2016 - Awarded the Avon Awards to Women 2016
2023 - Awarded the Asahi Prize 2022

Collections

Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
Higashikawa Photo Fiesta, Hokkaido
The Japan Foundation
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
Kunsthaus, Zuridh
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Masion Europoenne de la Photographie
International Center of Photography, New York
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Okawa Musuem of Art, Gunma
Okinawa Prefectural Museum &Art Museum
Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa
The Art Institute of Chicago
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Tate Modern, London
MAST, Bologna
National Gallery, WashintonDC
Arts Maebashi, Gunma


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