Yoko Asakai
Getting close to the subjects, Asakai’s photography captures camera-subject relationships, as well as traces that remind us of stories. Recent works focused on wind and tides received much acclaim as they captured "time" rather than the "moment." sight, a series of photographs started in 2006 received awards such as New Figure Encouragement Prize at Photo City Sagamihara 2008 (Kanagawa, Japan). Published a photography book sight (AKAAKA Art Publishing) in 2011.
Works
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Born in 1974, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
1998 BFA in Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
Selected solo show
- 2021
- “touch”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2018
- “7 Days and Other Pieces”
- Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College,
- Amherst, MA, USA
- 2016
- “Generative Landscape”
- Oyama City Kurumaya Museum,
- Tochigi, Japan
- 2015
- “tangible”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2012
- “Chords”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2011
- “22932/akita”
- Sasao Project Room,
- Akita, Japan
- “Northerly wind”
- NADiff Gallery,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “Conversations”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2008
- “Sight”
- Konica Minolta Plaza,
- Tokyo, Japan
Selected group show
- 2023
- “Hanarart 2023, Exhibition Season 2, curated by Arata Hasegawa”
- Uda-Matsuyama Area,
- Nara, Japan
- 2017
- “Assembridge Nagoya 2017”
- Port of Nagoya and Tsukijiguchi area,
- Aichi, Japan
- “20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3, Synchronicity”
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
- “20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO”
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2015
- “Translation Theme Park”
- Uppsala Konstmuseum,
- Uppsala, Sweden
- 2014
- “We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989”
- Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art,
- Brisbane, Australia
- “TRUE COLORS: Yebisu International Festival of Art & Alternative Visions”
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2013
- “Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT”
- Mori Art Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2011
- “She Has A “PEN” Part2”
- Olympus Gallery Tokyo, Olympus Gallery Osaka,
- Japan
- “‘Re-Modernologio’ phase2: Observation and Notation”
- Aomori Contemporary Art Center,
- Aomori, Japan
- “The Photographs of Children - The child within us”
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
- Tokyo, Japan
Public collection
- Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts,
- Japan
- Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art,
- Australia
- Shanghai Art Museum,
- China
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
- Japan
- Kadist Art Foundation,
- USA
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