Hiroyo Kaneko is a photographer currently based in San Francisco, CA. She
was born in Aomori, Japan, received
her MFA from the San Francisco
Art Institute
and a BA in French Literature from
Maiji Gakuin University, Tokyo.
Her work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Japan
at spaces including the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery,
Rayko Photo Center, the Nagasaki City Library and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
Kaneko is a recipient of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography 2009. Her work is
in
the permanent collections of
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Rayko Photo Center.
