1973
Born in Tokyo
1995
BFA at Musashino Art University, Tokyo
1999
MFA at California Institute of the Arts, California
2015
Masters degree in arts and science at Musashi University, Tokyo

Awards

2010
Kodansha Essay Award, Tokyo
2001
The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, Tokyo
1993
PARCO Prize in URBANART #2, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016
"To wear, to saw, to talk about" Kiito, Kobe
"About HOME" Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
2015
"5 Comes After 6" UTRECHT, Tokyo
2011
"What I was supposed to see and what Isaw" 1223 GENDAIKAIGA, Tokyo
2010
"SWISS+" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, viewing space, Tokyo
2007-08
"a box named flower" lammfromm, Tokyo
2005
"Her Projects ‒ memories of no one" KIRIN PLAZA OSAKA, Osaka
2004-05
"Candy Horror" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2004
"not six" NADiff, Tokyo
2000
"PASTIME PARADISE" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
1999
"I want to be your power" California Institute of the Arts, California
1994
"Nagashima Yurie - A Room of Love- " P-House Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016
"Cho Tamatama14" Koganei Art Spot, Tokyo
2015
"Cho Tamatama13" Koganei Art Spot, Tokyo
"Kami no hikari no awa MIzukai" Center for COSMIC WONDER, Tokyo
2014
"You reach out ‒ right now ‒ for something: Questioning the concept of Fashion"
The Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower, Mito, Ibaraki
Marugemme Genichiro- Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
2012
"To Wander a Garden" Vangi Sculpture Garden museum, Shizuoka
"Missing You" Shibuya Hikarie 8F 8/CUBE 1,2,3, Tokyo
2011
"Modernity Stripped Bare: Undressing the Nude in Contemporary Japanese Photography" The Art Gallery / University of Maryland, Maryland, U.S.A
"CAFÉ in Mito 2011 Relationships in color" The Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
2009
"SHOOT:Photography of the Moment" PARCO FACTORY, Tokyo
"AM Kurashiki (Artist Meets Kurashiki) vol.4 Krash japan-Kurashiki Photograph" Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
2008
"ZOOM ON IN OUT JAPAN" WAVE photogallery, Brescia, Italy
"THE FURIOUS GAZE" El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
2005
"National Treasures of Toshodaiji Temple̶Ganjinwajo and Vairocana Buddha" Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
"36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award" Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa "My Precious:Photos and Words" Art Forum Azamino, Kanagawa
"Portraits ‒You are here-" Parthenon Tama, Tokyo
2003
"Japan -Contemporary Ceramics and Photography" Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"The History of Japanese Photography, 1854 - 2000" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
"HOPE" LAFORET Museum Harajyuku, Tokyo
2002
"JAM: Tokyo̶London" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"The Self" Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
"35 Artistes Contemporaines a Luxembourg" Musee d'histoire de la ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2001
"Rush" Little More Gallery, Tokyo
"JAM: Tokyo̶London" Barbican Art Gallery, London
"Illusion" Rinksutsallninggar, Stockholm / Traveled Scandinavian Countries
"Three Rooms" EPSON Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo
2000
"Complicity" Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, Australia
"Immodest Gazes" Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain
1999
"Mito Annual '99 Private Room II" Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
"TOKYO 60/90: 17 Contemporary Japanese Photographers" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Art Sweet Home" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
1998
"An Incomplete History : Women photographers from Japan 1964-1997" The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY / Houston Center for Photography, Texas / University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Massachusetts(1998̶2000)
"Anwander" Koln, Germany
1997
"Japanese Families after the World War 2nd - 1996" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"SHASHIN-TEN" Kobe Fashion Museum, Hyogo, Japan
1996
"NowHere" Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995
"New Tokyo Photographers" Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo
"Ginzabout" Shiseido Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
"Family" (With Catharine Opie) Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1994
"Street Style" Victoria and Albert Museum, London