Hiroyo Kaneko

www.hiroyokaneko.com

Education:

MFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 2005

BA French Literature, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, 1987

Professional Experience:

1997– Freelance Photographer and Writer

Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Nagasaki Dialog, Nagasaki City Library, Nagasaki, Japan

2009 Nature/Nurture, Two persons show with Betsy Weis, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco

2009 Sentimental Education, MIAD Perspective Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee

2008 Each Sun, Two persons show with Chris McCaw, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco

2006 The Three Cornered World, Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco

2004 fountains, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco

2002 Nagasaki Dialog, Photographers's Gallery, Tokyo

2001 Bushes and Palace, Gallery La Camera, Tokyo

2001 Bushes and Palace, The Foreign Correspondent Club Of Japan, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions (Selected):

2011 Fukushima - Opening Doors with Compassion, Lutherkirche, Cologne, Germany

2011 LOST WORLDS > < MAKING WORLDS, Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany

2010 THINGS ARE EXPANDING, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA.

2009 Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

2008 EIGHTEEN MONTHS:TAKING THE PULSE OF BAY AREA PHOTOGRAPHY, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco

2007 Elusive Subjects ; James Welling, Sanna Kannisto, Jun Shiraoka, Hiroyo Kaneko, curated by Hiroyo Kaneko, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco

2007 Small Ambitions ; A Perspective, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco

2007 Close Calls 2007, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco

2005 Conversation With The Wall, Root Division Artists Space, San Francisco

2005 Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, Herbst Pavillion, Fort Mason, San Francisco

2005 MFA (Maestras of Foto Art) Exhibit, Focus Gallery, San Francisco

2004 image, object, back, forth, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute,

2002 PHTOGRAPHY TODAY 2 – [sait] site / sight, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1999 Corps, Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo

Awards:

2009 People/Places/Things: an International Photo Competition Celebrating En Foco's 35th Anniversary, 2009 (Honorable Mention)

2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography

2009 Asahi Shinbun Foundation Art Grant

2005 Paul Sack Photo Award

2004 MFA Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute

Lectures:
2010              Visiting Artist Series, Photo Department, San Francisco City College
2010              Guest Lecture at "Beginning and Advance Photography" instructed by Catherine Wagner, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
2009              Guest Talk at Marebito School with Mika Kobayashi, Yokohama, Japan
2009-             Mentor at the First Exposures, Photography mentoring program for youth, SF CameraWork
2009              Guest Lecture at "Art and Commerce: Pathways" instructed by Linda Connor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

2007 Introductory presentation at 3rd Annual Pacific Rim Lecture Series, PhotoAlliance, San Francisco

2005 Guest Lecture at "Advance Photography" instructed by James Welling, UCLA, Los Angeles

2002 Artist Talk at "Photography Today 2 – [sait] site / sight", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2001 Guest Lecture at Senior Seminar instructed by Miyabi Taniguchi, Tokyo College of Photography, Tokyo

Catalogues:

2010 “3x3x3”, a collaborative project with Mayumi Hamanaka and Satoshi Nakashima for THINGS ARE EXPANDING, Swarm Gallery

2002 "Photography Today 2 – [sait] site / sight"

2001 "Bushes and Palace"

1999 "Along Leaves"

Reviews:

“Double Dare at Swarm Gallery ” for THINGS ARE EXPANDING, DeWitt Cheng, January, 2011, East Bay Express
"Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography", Jeanne Storck, July 2008, Flavorpill

"site / sight", Atsushi Sugita, BT, August 2002, Bijutsu Techou

"Nagasaki dialog" Koutarou Iizawa, Asahi Camera, June 2002, Asahi Shinbunsha

"Bushes and Palace" Miyabi Taniguch, Nihon Camera, June 2001, Nihon Camera sha

Publications (selected):
Sentimental Education and interview with Hiroyo Kaneko, ZHIJP, China, July, 2011
Appearance by Hiroyo Kaneko, Asahi Camera, February, 2011
Sentimental Education by Hiroyo Kaneko, Phat Photo, April/May, 2010

A Conversation with Hiroyo Kaneko, NYMPHOTO a collective of women photographers, 2009
Photographer Profile, Interview with Hiroyo Kaneko, Japan Exposures, 2009

Lay Flat 01, Remain in Light, 2009
Reportage on "heads" by Philip Lorca DiCorcia and the American Street Photography, Asahi Camera, 2007, May/June
Interview Article of Eric Carl, Moe, 2007, Janury
Interview Article of Ursula K. Le Guin, Moe, 2006, September

Monthly Reviews of Photography Exhibitions, Nihon Camera, 2000, January – 2001, December

Reportage of Contemporary German Photography, Asahi Camera, 2000, June

Reportage of the Workshop by Magnum Photographers, Abbas, Chris Steel-Perkins and Susan Meiselas in Tokyo, Asahi Camera, 2000, March

Interview Article of Thomas Struth, Esquire Japan, 1999, May

Interview Article of Beat Streuli, Asahi Camera, Tokyo-Jin, 1999, March