Rinko Kawauchi

1972
Born in Shiga

 

1993
Graduated Seian Women’s College (current Seian University of Art and Design)

 

Lives in Chiba

• 2023

• “Rinko Kawauchi: M/E ―On this sphere Endlessly interlinking” Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga

• 2022

• “Rinko Kawauchi – A Retrospective” Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich

  “Rinko Kawauchi: M/E ―On this sphere Endlessly interlinking” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga

• 2021

• “Under the same sky” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo

  “as it is” Gallery Trax, Yamanashi

  “M/E” MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo

  “A DROP” TEATON, Ishikawa

• 2020

• “as it is” POST, Tokyo / Gallery&Antique R AURAUJI, Osaka

• 2019

• “When I was seven.” AGNÈS B. GALERIE BOUTIQUE, Tokyo

  “Yamanami” HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO (GALLERY 9.5), Kyoto / gallery TUTUMU, Shiga

• 2018

• “Halo” foto-forum, Bolzano, Italy

  “A New Day” POST, Tokyo / Daidai Bookshop, Kumamoto

  “Someday for Sure” gallery TUTUMU, Shiga

• 2017

• “Halo” POST, Tokyo / Morioka Shoten, Tokyo

  “Rinko Kawauchi – Moment” Galeria Fotografii pf, Poznan, Poland

  “Halo” Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich

• 2016

• “The river embraced me” Meessen De Clercq, Brussels

  “Till The Day” NOMA t.d. store, Tokyo

  “The rain of blessing” Gallery 916, Tokyo

  “Someday for sure” Daidai Bookshop, Kumamoto / Gallery Trax, Yamanashi

  “The river embraced me” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto

• 2015

• “Let’s sing a song our bodies know” Gucci, Tokyo

  “Rinko Kawauchi - Illuminance” KUNST HAUS WIEN, Vienna

• 2014

• “Light and Shadow” rizm, Hyogo

  “Ametsuchi” Lesley University College of Art and Design Main Gallery, Boston

  “Rinko Kawauchi” FOMU- Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp

  “New Pictures 9: Rinko Kawauchi” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis

• 2013

• “Ametsuchi” Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne

  “Ametsuchi” Aperture Gallery, New York

  “Light and Shadow” K AGIYA Building 4F Gallery, Shizuoka

  “Light and Shadow” msc Gallery, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto

  “Ametsuchi” ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica

  “Illuminance” Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich

  “Light and Shadow” Silencio, Paris

• 2012

• “Light and Shadow” TRAUMARIS, Tokyo

  “KAWAUCHI Rinko: Illuminance, Ametsuchi, Seeing Shadow” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

• 2011

• “Illuminance” Ilan Gallery, Paris

  “Illuminance” FOIL GALLERY, Tokyo

  “A Glimmer in Silence” FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria

  “Illuminance” Gallery at Hermès, New York

  “murmuration” ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica

• 2010

• “the eyes, the ears,” Kunstverein Augsburg e.V., Augsburg, Germany

  “A Glimmer in Silence” Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne

  “AILA” Seian University of Art and Design, Shiga

  “Rinko Kawauchi: Transient Wonders, Everyday Bliss – Photography, Video & Slides
  2001–2009” ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels

  “Iridescence” Meessen De Clercq, Brussels

• 2009

• “Condensation” Mountain Fold Gallery, New York

  “a pause” Gallery Trax, Yamanashi

• 2008

• “Cui Cui” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka

  “UTATANE” Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid

  “Semear” FOIL GALLERY, Tokyo

  “Rinko Kawauchi” 77 rue des Archives 75003, Paris

• 2007

• “RINKO KAWAUCHI” Cohan and Leslie, New York

  “Semear” Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo

  “AILA + the eyes, the ears,” Fotografins Hus, Stockholm / Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden

• 2006

• “AILA + the eyes, the ears,” FOTOGRAFISK CENTER, Copenhagen

  “AILA + the eyes, the ears,” Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne

  “AILA + Cui Cui + the eyes, the ears,” Galeria Carla Sozzani, Milan

  “Rinko Kawauchi” The Photographers’ Gallery, London

• 2005

• “Cui Cui” QUARTER, Florence

  “AILA and the eyes, the ears,” Cohan and Leslie, New York

  “AILA” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui

  “AILA + Cui Cui + the eyes, the ears,” Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

• 2004

• “AILA” UCR/California Museum of Photography, California

  “AILA” Little More Gallery, Tokyo

  “UTATANE” Cohan and Leslie, New York

• 2003

• “HANABI” white cube, Kyoto

  “Blue” Gallery Rocket, Tokyo

  “Rinko Kawauchi” 4F gallery, Los Angels

  “Wacoal photo exhibition” SPIRAL GARDEN, Tokyo

  “UTATANE” vonrot gallery, Berlin

• 2002

• “HANABI” Little More Gallery, Tokyo

  “HANABI” Colette, Paris

• 2001

• “UTATANE” Parco Museum, Tokyo

  “HANABI” Gray, Tokyo

  “HANAKO” Little More Gallery, Tokyo

  “HIBI” Aki-Ex Gallery, Tokyo

• 1999

• “HITOIKI” Light Works, Kanagawa

• 1998

• “UTATANE” Guardian Garden, Tokyo

• 2022

• “Wabi Sabi” Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, Netherlands

  “I have not loved (enough or worked)” The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Australia

  “Des Oiseaux” Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France

  “Rinko Kawauchi and Yamanami Kobo” evam eva Yamanashi, Yamanashi

  “Art & New Ecology” THE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

  “Nobuyoshi Araki y Rinko Kawauchi” Fundación Texo, Asuncion, Paraguay

  “How the Bitter Orange Bore Fruit” Rainy Day Bookstore & Café, Tokyo / Bookshop Title, Tokyo / Daidai Bookshop, Kumamoto

  “Flower of Life” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka

  “HOMO FABER 2020 ‘The Ateliers of Wonders’” Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

  “Yamanami” umi no schole, Shiga

  “Rinko Kawauchi and Yamanami Kobo” Higashi Osaka City Art Center, Osaka

• 2021

• “Thailand Biennale Korat 2021” Korat, Thailand

  “Prix Pictet 2021: Fire” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (Touring more than 12 other spaces)

  “WAYS OF TELLING” Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Tokyo

  “CHIBA FOTO” Chiba Chuo Community Center, Matsunami, Chiba

  “Triennale Milano ‘Les Citoyens: Uno sguardo di Guillermo Kuitca sulla collezione della Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’” Milano

  “Past and Present, Positions of Japanese Photography” Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany

• 2020

• “Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival 2020 ‘Insights into a Time: Japanese Photography Now’” Jimei, China

  “Our Duty is to Experiment - 20 years Galerie PRISK A PASQUER” Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne

  “Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present” The National Art Center, Tokyo

  “The Sense of Wonder into another garden” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka

• 2019

• “The 15th Lianzhou Foto Festival” Lianzhou, China

  “Land_Scope” Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich

  “TOP Collection, Reading Images: The Time of Photography” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

  “Miffy’s Field of Flowers: The World of Dick Bruna Picture Books” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka

  “CAMK Collection Exhibition” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto

• 2018

• “TAYLOR WESSING PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE 2018” National Portrait Gallery, London

  “The 6th SIPF 2018 Festival ‘Incognito: The Eye in Search’” Singapore

  “25th Anniversary in Gallery Trax vol.I” Gallery Trax, Yamanashi

  “Asama International Photo Festival” Nagano

  “A Beautiful Moment” Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

  “A Matter of Light” PALAZZO REALE, Milan

  “2018 Seoul Photo Festival” Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

  “Forever (and again)” IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka

• 2017

• “Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970” Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

  “Prix Pictet 2017: Space” V&A Museum, London (Touring 11 other places)

  “Seize the Uncertain Day” Chinretsukan Gallery, THE UNIVERSITY ART
  MUSEUM, Tokyo

  “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled ~ seeking the future together” URANO, Tokyo

• 2016

• “Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

  “In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11” Japan Society, New York / Asia Society Texas Center, Huston

  “Genius loci – The Higashikawa Awards –” Towada Art Center, Aomori

• 2015

• “NOW AND THEN” Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne

  “The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography” The Getty Center, Los Angeles

  “In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston

• 2014

• “INAUGURAL EXHIBITION” SHERRICK & PAUL, Nashville, USA

  “Paraty em Foco en festa” Paraty, Brazil

  “BIWAKO BIENNALE 2014” Shiga

  “Landskrona Fotofestival 2014” Landskrona, Sweden

  “Photography will be” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi

  “VIVID MEMORIES” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

  “Gift” IMA gallery, Tokyo

  “Rinko Kawauchi × NOMA t.d.” Gallery Trax, Yamanashi / TRAUMARIS, Tokyo / colissimo, Hyogo

  “Toledo Contemporánea” Toledo, Spain

• 2013

• “Exhibition of the 29th Higashikawa Award Winners” Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido

  “The Aesthetics of Photography - Five Elements Collection Exhibition 2013” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

  “Fotografia Europea” Reggio Emilia, Italy

• 2012

• “Aperture Remix” Aperture Gallery, New York

  “Daegu Photo Biennale 2012” Daegu, Korea

  “Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012” The Photographers’ Gallery, London

  “To Wander a Garden” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka

  “Visible / Invisible” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

• 2011

• “FotoGrafia - Festival Internazionale di Roma” Roma

  “Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg” Mannheim, Germany

  “Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal” Montreal

  “Han Nefkens: 10 years of patronage” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

  “Colloquy and Soliloquy” Mountain Fold Gallery, New York

  “Photographs of Children” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

  “Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art” Japan Society, New York

• 2010

• “The 6th Lianzhou Photography Festival” Lianzhou, China

  “Brighton Photo Biennial 2010 ‘New Documents’” Brighton, UK

  “Summer Loves” Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

  “KASSEL FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL 2010” Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany

• 2009

• “Touch the World” Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga

  “Photography Now China, Japan, Korea” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

  “Parrworld” Jeu de Paume, Paris / BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

  “FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internationale di Roma” Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

  “Verdure! New Acquisitions and Related Works of the Collection” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

• 2008

• “Blooming: Brazil-Japan Where You Are” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

  “Urban Future #2” Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

  “Parrworld” Haus der Kunst, Munich

• 2007

• “Las partes y el todo: Colección H + F [The Parts and the Whole: H + F Collection]” Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona

  “Curator’s Choice ’07: Museum Dialogues” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

• 2006

• “A to Z by Yoshitomo Nara + graf” Yoshii Brick House, Aomori

  “PHotoESPAÑA 2006” Madrid

  “Collection of the Foundation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

  “Whisper not!” Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

• 2004

• “Les Recontres d’Arles” Arles, France

  “Lonely Planet” Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

• 2003

• “The 41st Okayama City Arts Festival Program LOVE PLANET” Okayama

  “HOPE” Laforet Museum, Tokyo

  “FOIL” Litte More Gallery, Tokyo

• 2002

• “Kimura Ihei Photography Award Winners Exhibition” Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo

• 2000

• “Hinata Kanata” Landmark Tower Gallery, Kanagawa

2023
Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award 2023
　
2013
The 29th Higashikawa Award, Domestic Photographer Award
The 63rd Art Encourage Prize for New Artist from the Ministry of Education

 

2012
The Royal Photographic Society: Honorary Fellowship

 

2009
ICP 25th Annual Infinity Award, Art Category

 

2002
The Photographic Society of Japan, the Rookie of the Year Award
The 27th Kimura Ihei Photography Award

 

1997
Grand Prix Prize, The Guardian Garden’s 9th Hitotsubo Award

• 2022

• Rinko Kawauchi: M/E On this sphere Endlessly interlinking(torch press)

• 2021

• Illuminance: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, 2021 (Aperture, NY)

  Des oiseaux（On birds）(Editions Xavier Barral, Paris)

• 2020

• as it is (Chose Commune, Marseille)

• 2019

• When I was seven. (HeHe)

• 2018

• A New Day (Kyuryudo)

• 2017

• Halo (Aperture, NY / HeHe, Tokyo / Editions Xavier Barral, Paris)

• 2016

• The river embraced me (torch press)

• 2014

• kirakira (with Leiko Ikemura, NOHARA)

  Gift (with Terri Wifenback, IMA Photobooks)

• 2013

• SHEETS (kominek)

  Ametsuchi (Aperture, NY / Seigensha, Tokyo)

• 2012

• Light and Shadow (Rinko Kawauchi Office, Tokyo)

  Illuminance, Ametsuchi, Seeing Shadow (Seigensha, Tokyo)

• 2011

• Illuminance (Aperture, NY / kehrer verlag, Germany / Editions Xavier Barral, Paris / POSTCART, Italy/ FOIL, Tokyo)

• 2010

• Murmuration (Photoworks, UK)

• 2007

• Semear (FOIL, Tokyo)

  Majun (FOIL, Tokyo)

• 2006

• Rinko Diary Ⅱ (FOIL, Tokyo)

  Rinko Diary (FOIL, Tokyo)

• 2005

• Cui Cui (FOIL + Foundation Cartier pour l’art Contemporaim + Actes Sud)

  the eyes, the ears, (FOIL, Tokyo)

• 2004

• AILA (FOIL, Tokyo)

• 2003

• blue (Petit Grand Publishing, Tokyo)

• 2001

• UTATANE (Little More, Tokyo)

  HANABI (Little More, Tokyo)

  HANAKO (Little More, Tokyo)

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto
Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka