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Education:
MFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 2005
BA French Literature, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, 1987
Professional Experience:
2024- Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Art and Social Science, College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
2022-23 Adjunct Lecturer, Art and Art History, Santa Clara University, CA
2017- Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
2016 Visiting Lecturer, Art Studio, University of California, Davis, CA
1997- Freelance Photographer and Writer
Awards/Grant:
2024 Creative Work Fund, Fruit Tree Portrait Project in Planting Justice
2022 The 32nd Society of Photography Japan Award
2022 Uemachi-Daichi Contemporary Art Grant, Arts Support Kansai, Osaka, Japan
2022 Tadahiko Hayashi Photo Award Finalist, Yamaguchi, Japan
2021 ReEntry Through the Arts Teaching Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute x Planting Justice, Berkeley, CA
2017 1st place in PCNW 21st Juried Photography Exhibition (Juror: Sandra Phillips)
2012 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Photography Portfolio Competition (Jurors: Peter Barberie, Andrea Modica, Vince Aletti)
2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography (Juror: Charlotte Cotton)
2009 People/Places/Things: an International Photo Competition Celebrating En Foco’s 35th Anniversary (Honorable Mention)
2009 Asahi Shinbun Foundation Art Grant
2005 Paul Sack Photo Award
2003 MFA Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Appearance, Poetic Scape, Tokyo
2020 Appearance, Poetic Scape, Tokyo
2020 Appearance, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2019 Garden Project, Social Art Lab, Kyushu University, Fukuoka
2019 Garden Project, Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo
2018 Appearance, KU REN BOH, Chohouin Buddhist Temple Gallery, Tokyo
2017 Appearance, Nikon Salon Gallery, Tokyo and Osaka
2013 Comes to the Light, Gallery Ishi, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Steam & Ice, Red Poppy Art Center, San Francisco
2012 Unfolding Lives In Tohoku, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
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’ Gallery, Tokyo
2001 Bushes and Palace, Gallery La Camera, Tokyo
2001 Bushes and Palace, The Foreign Correspondent Club Of Japan, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Recovery, MIMOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2023 Renewing the Modern, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Alternative Roman, Sakaguchi-ro, Osaka, Japan
2021 Paris Photo, Grand Palais Ephemere, Paris
2018 – 2021 Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography curated by Susan Bright, author of Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, and Denise Wolff, Senior Editor at Aperture Foundation, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, FOAM, C/O Berlin, The Photographers’ Gallery, The Polygon Gallery, and Hasselblad Foundation
2019 Ancestral Journeys, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
2017 THERE IS NO ALAS WHERE I LIVE, Curated by Ann Jastrab, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 21st Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2016 Zones of Representation, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2015 Voices, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley
2015 Heat, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
2015 3@6×6, face/people/action, curated by Hiroyo Kaneko, PHOTO, Oakland
2014 Local Treasures: Bay Area Photography, curated by Anne Veh, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
2013 Nature as Muse, Murray Circle at Cavallo Point, Sausalito
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
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 PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY 2 – [sait] site/sight, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Monographs:
Appearance, with essays by Lisa Sutcliffe and Ann Jastrab, Seigen-sha, 2020
Collections:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Catalogs:
2014 “Local Treasures: Bay Area Photography”, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
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”