Now and Then, Japanese Photography and Art
Dec 5, 2015 – Jan 23, 2016
Mika Ninagawa (*1972)
Mika Ninagawa ist eine der bekanntesten und produktivsten Künstlerinnen ihrer Generation. Seit 1997 hat Mika Ninagawa 35 Fotobücher publiziert, Fernsehwerbung, CD-Cover und ein Musikvideo produziert und 2006 den abendfüllenden Spielfilm “Sakuran” (Wilde Kirschblüte) realisiert, der im Sonderprogramm der Berliner Berlinale 2007 zu sehen war. In Tokyo wurde gerade eine Retrospektive der Künstlerin gezeigt, die bis 2010 in verschiedenen japanischen Museen zu sehen sein wird.
Ihre Karriere begann Mika Ninagawa Mitte der 1990er Jahre als “Girly Photographer”. So wurde eine neue Generation von jungen Fotografinnen bezeichnet, die gerade 18-20 jährig die Kamera als Mittel benutzten, um über ihr eigenes Leben und das ihrer Generation zu erzählen. Doch schon nach kurzer Zeit wandte sich Mika Ninagawa anderen Themen außerhalb ihres direkten Lebensumfeldes zu und entwickelte ihre eigene Bildsprache.
Themen von Mika Ninagawa sind Blumen, Goldfische, Reisen und Portraits von Stars der japanischen Unterhaltungskultur.
Ihre Fotografie zeichnet sich besonders durch die Verwendung von intensiven und überbordenden Farben, wie Kobaltblau, Pink und Blutrot aus, mit denen sie sowohl die Motive als auch die Hintergründe gestaltet.
Mika Ninagawa verwendet in ihrer Fotografie Elemente der japanischen und der westlichen Popkultur, sei es in der Ausstattung ihrer Motive, als auch in der ausschweifenden Farbigkeit ihrer Fotografien. So inszeniert sie zum Beispiel die Schauspielerin Chiaki Kuriyama – im Westen bekannt als “Gogo Yubari” aus dem Film “Kill Bill: Vol. I” – als sanft lächelnde junge Frau mit roter Haarschleife in einem satingrünen Kleid vor grünem Hintergrund, die umgeben von roten Schmetterlingen ein Reh auf dem Arm hält. Diese Aufnahme scheint direkt von Disney Filmen inspiriert zu sein.
In der Serie “Liquid Dreams” (2004) hingegen widmet sich Ninagawa mit der Fotografie von Goldfischen einem traditionell japanischen Sujet. Die Fische tauchen in der Serie als groteske Einzelwesen auf, als eine schimmernde Masse, oder auch als elegant schwebende ätherische Wesen.
Mit ihren Arbeiten könnte Mika Ninagawa auf den ersten Blick zu den Künstlern des japanischen Neopop gezählt werden, eine Richtung die vor allem durch Takashi Murakami international bekannt geworden ist.
Auch wenn Künstler wie Murakami eigene Produkte wie T-Shirts oder Uhren für den Massenmarkt produzieren, so geschieht dies vor allem auf der Grundlage des Diskurses über Kunst und (japanische) Popkultur, und die bildnerische Arbeit dieser Künstler wird per se als Kunst für den Kunst- und Ausstellungsmarkt produziert.
Im Unterschied dazu erreicht Mika Ninagawa mit ihren Publikationen unmittelbar ein breiteres Publikum, wobei sie sich nicht scheut die Grenzen zum Kitsch zu überschreiten. Ihre Bücher sind mittlerweile in einer Gesamtauflage von über 200.000 Exemplaren erschienen.
Anders jedoch als bei den Künstlern der Neopop scheint Mika Ninagawa’s Arbeit keinen Subtext zu beinhalten, der besagt: ‘Ich verwende Elemente der Popkultur, aber ich mache Kunst nicht Pop!’
Mika Ninagawa’s Arbeit ist Pop, die nicht behauptet mehr zu sein, und sie ist Kunst weil sie doch über die einfache Konsumierbarkeit und eine simple und direkte Befriedigung der Sinne und der Emotionen hinaus geht: die Goldfische sind Goldfische, zugleich sind sie groteske überzüchtete Wesen, Mutanten in einer von der Popkultur dominierten Bildwelt und die Blumen, sind wie der Titel des Buches “Acid Bloom” schon besagt, vergiftet in ihrer überwältigenden Präsenz und Farbigkeit.
Mika Ninagawa, 1972 geboren hat 1997 an der Tama Art University, Tokyo ihren Abschluss gemacht. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Tokyo.
Studium
1972 Born in Tokyo
1997 B.F.A. in Graphic design, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Lives and works in Tokyo
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: The days were beautiful” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” SUNDAY, Tokyo
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” THREE SHADOW PHOTOGRAPHY ART CENTRE, Xiamen, China
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “Light of” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “LIGHT OF” THE PARK・ING GINZA, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “IN MY ROOM” PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Japan
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Self-image” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “Portraits & Flowers” SUNDAY/ CAPSULE, Tokyo
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “TOKYO INNOCENCE” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “ETRO × MIKA” ETRO Boutique, London
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Gekkan MEN Exhibition” Sapporo PARCO, Hokkaido, Japan
[touring Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Hokkaido/ TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo/
Tennoji MIO, Osaka] (2013-2014)
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “NINAGAWA MEN and WOMEN” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “LUCKY STAR NINAGAWA MEN ＆ WOMEN” Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Hawaii Paradise by Mika Ninagawa” DFS Galleria Waikiki, 1 Floor Gallery, Honolulu
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” Fukuoka Camera Museum, Toyama, Japan
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Sakura” Roppongi Hills A/D GALLERY, Tokyo
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “PLANT A TREE” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Helter Skelter” PARCO Museum, Tokyo
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Gekkan MEN Osamu Mukai Exhibition” BLD GALLERY, Tokyo
[touring Nagoya PARCO, Aichi/ Sapporo PARCO, Hokkaido/ Daimaru Kobe, Hyogo/
Matsumoto PARCO, Nagano/ Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Hokkaido] (2011-2012)
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Mika Ninagawa x Ashin｜HEAVEN｜Photo-book Exhibition” STAYREAL Café, Taipei
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “TOKYO UNDERWORLD” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” CANON Gallery S, Tokyo
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Flower & Goldfish” MOT/ ARTS, Taipei
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “noir & SAKURAN” Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Daido Moriyama × Mika Ninagawa” Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto/ Koyama Tomio Gallery Kyoto
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “VOGUE x Mika Ninagawa 2010 FLOWER POWER” Taipei International Flora Exposition, Taipei
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “NINAGAWA BAROQUE/ EXTREME” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “FLOWER ADDICT” Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “UMEZZ HOUSE” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa for International Rome Film Festival” Auditorium Arte, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “Exhibition in conjunction with the RIZZOLI publication ‘MIKA NINAGAWA'” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo
2009 Mika Ninagawa, “Liquid Dreams” GALERIE PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne
2009 Mika Ninagawa, “FLOWER ADDICT” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
[touring Iwate Museum of Art/ Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima/
Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo/ The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan] (2008-2009)
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa GIFT Goods and Prints @NADiff” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika’s daydreaming theater” PARCO Factory, Tokyo/ PARCO Sapporo, Hokkaido/ PARCO Nagoya, Aichi/
PARCO Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Secret Flowers” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “mika ninagawa” Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa x GLAMOROUS Charity Nude: photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon”
Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo/ HERBIS PLAZA ENT, Osaka
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “EROTIC TEACHER xxx YUKA” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa Exhibition” Arndt & Partner Berlin, Berlin
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa Photo Exhibition” Colette, Paris
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “girls’ holiday!” LAPNET SHIP, Tokyo/ PARCO Shizuoka, Japan
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “CELINE meets Mika Ninagawa” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “Everlasting Flowers” Galleria MICIA, Kagawa, Japan
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “NINAGAWA WOMAN” Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
2006 Mika Ninagawa, “Everlasting Flowers 1” Tokyo Wonder Site Sibuya
2006 Mika Ninagawa, “Everlasting Flowers 2” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2005 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA PHOTO EXHIBITION IN LONDON 2005” gallery Eclectic, London
2005 Mika Ninagawa, “floating yesterday” GALLERY SPEAK FOR, Tokyo
2004 Mika Ninagawa, “mika over the rainbow” [touring Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo/ HEP HALL, Osaka/
Hiroshima Parco/ Nagoya Takashimaya, Aichi/ ART GALLERY ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan]
2004 Mika Ninagawa, “photographs 2001-2004” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2004 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA” TKGY at lammfromm, Tokyo
2003 Mika Ninagawa, “Liquid Dreams” PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo/ Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan (2003-2004)
2003 Mika Ninagawa, “Acid Bloom” NADiff, Tokyo/ ROCKET, Tokyo
2002 Mika Ninagawa, “Ever Holding My Ocean” NADiff, Tokyo
2002 Mika Ninagawa, “like a peach” SPIRAL, Tokyo/ Laforet Museum, Ehime, Japan
2002 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA at ISSEY MIYAKE AOYAMA” Issei Miyake Store, Aoyama, Tokyo
2001 Mika Ninagawa, “Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki” Parco Gallery, Tokyo/ Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2000 Mika Ninagawa, “Sugar and Spice” Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo/ Tank Gallery, Osaka (2000-2001)
2000 Mika Ninagawa, “Pink Rose Suite” ROCKET, Tokyo
1999 Mika Ninagawa, “Baby Blue Sky” Shinjuku Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1999 Mika Ninagawa, “Christmas at Isla Mujeres” NADiff, Tokyo
1999 Mika Ninagawa, “French kiss” ROCKET, Tokyo
1997 Mika Ninagawa, “Walk3” Guardian Garden, Tokyo
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2017 “Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970” Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
2017 “Roppongi Art Night 2017” Roppongi Hills Arena and several other locations in Roppongi, Tokyo
2017 “Yohji Yamamoto×Mika Ninagawa [BLACKLIGHTS]” Yohji Yamamoto AOYAMA Main Store, Tokyo
2017 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mindfulness 2017” Yamagata Art Museum, Yamagata, Japan
2017 “TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3 Synchronicity” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan
2016 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
2016 “Why does everyone love flowers?” Matsudai Nohbutai Gallery, Niigata, Japan
2016 Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
2016 Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, Japan
2015 “NOW AND THEN” PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne
2015 “Tokyo Art Meeting Vl: TOKYO -Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis”
2015 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015 “COSMOS/ INTIME La collection Takahashi” Maison de la Culture du Japon a Paris, Paris
2015 “Daisuke Fukunaga, Toru Kuwakubo, Mika Ninagawa, Satoshi Ohno” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2015 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron” Tokyo Opera City Gallery
2014 “Ohara Contemporary at Musabi” Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo
2014 “Takahashi Collection 2014 Mindfulness!” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2014 “DOMMUNE University of the Arts -Tokyo Arts Circulation-” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2014 “What is Japanese Photography?” Exhibition Part 1, Tokyo Photo
2014 “VENT NOUVEAU × 15 Photographers” MIHONCHO HONTEN (Takeo showroom), Tokyo
2013 “Shibuparuten” PARCO Museum, Tokyo
2013 “Ohara Contemporary” Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
2013 “Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary Exhibition: flowers”
2013 Towada Art Center, around Central Shopping etc, Aomori, Japan
2013 “LIVING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
2013 “Collection” Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore
2013 “Solo Exhibition Kiyoshiro Imawano-no-sekai” Miyazaki ART Center, Miyazaki, Japan
2013 “Ginza Mitsukoshi × Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection” Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo
2013 “Why not live for Art? II -9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2013 “Cho-Kyoto 2013, Contemporary Art @ Today’s Machiya in Kyoto”
2013 Today’s Machiya in Kyoto, Model House Exhibition Place KYOMO, Kyoto
2013 “Ausstellung Daido Moriyama/ Mika Ninagawa” Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel
2012 “REVALUE NIPPON PROJECT” Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Japan/ Mizukoshi Ginza, Tokyo
2012 “FLOWER” Takashimaya Nihonbashi exhibition hall
2012 “Beauty -Flowers in Contemporary Photography” Tokyo Art Museum
2011 “Mika & Hiroko Ninagawa: photographs and patchwork・kilt-collaboration between mother and daughter”
2011 Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo [touring Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Ishikawa/ HEP HALL, Osaka/
2011 Mitsubishi-jisho Artium, Fukuoka/ Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan] (2011-2013)
2011 “Future Pass -From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition:
2011 la Biennale di Venezia” Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venezia/
2011 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2011-2012)
2011 “Art in an Office” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2011 “Daido Moriyama × Mika Ninagawa” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto
2011 “I, Tominaga” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo
2011 “10 Years” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2011 “Umekowa!! Kazuo Umezu Exhibit” Shibuya PARCO Parco Factory, Tokyo
2011 “JAPANCONGO” Le Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
2011 “CAFE in Mito 2011: Relationships in Color” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2010 “Onna” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
[touring Dong Gang Museum of Photography, South Korea/ GRANSHIP, Shizuoka, Japan] (2010-2012)
2010 “In aller Munde” The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
2010 “TOKYO VISUALIST” National Art Gallery Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
2010 “Summer Loves” Huis Marseille -Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
2010 “Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan 2010” Taipei 101, Taipei
2010 “Hana: Contemporary Art Biennare of Fukushima 2010” Fukushima Prefectural Culture Center, Japan
2009 “FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPE Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Ohmaki, Mika Ninagawa,
and Satoko Nachi” The Contemporary Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
2009 “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2008 “The Masked Portrait” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2008 “JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPER CULTURE” The Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer, Wasington D.C.
2008 “Faithful Documents: Japanese Contemporary Photography” AKI GALLERY, Taipei
2008 “JAPAN NOW” Inter Alia Art Company, Seoul
2008 “Review/ Preview -Japanese Photographs” Gallerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
2008 “ZOOM ON IN OUT JAPAN” Wave Photogallery, Brescia, Italy
2008 “Gelatin Silver Session 08: SAVE THE FILM” Axis Gallery, Tokyo/
2008 Arts & Design Center, Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi, Japan
2007 “Tokyo Design Premio -Tokyo Designer’s Week in Milan 2007” Superstudio Piu, Milano
2007 “HITOTUBO scholarship recipient exhibition” Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2007 “Gelatin Silver Session 07” Axis Gallery, Tokyo/ art project room ARTZONE, Kyoto
2007 “SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2007 “200 Professional Photographers Exhibition” PHOTO IS, FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo
2006 “VOCA 2006” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2006 “Idols” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2006 “Fish and our Lives” The Museum of Art Ehime, Japan
2005 “My Precious: Photos and Words Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers”
2005 Yokohama Civic Art Galley Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan
2005 “Artists’ Gardens -Botanical Recollections” Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
2004 “HARAJUKU COLLABO: APARTMENT 2004” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
2004 “TAKARAZUKA: The Land of Dreams” Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/
2004 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery/ Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2003 “HITOTSUBOTEN 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002” Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2003 “HOPE: do hope for the futre” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
2003 “On Happiness: Contemporary Japanese Photographery” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2003 “Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo” Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo
2003 “KEEP IN TOUCH: Positions in Japanese Photography” Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2003 “take art collection 2003” Spiral Garden, Tokyo
2003 “Okayama City Arts Festival 2003 -LOVE PLANET” former Izushi Elementary School, Okayama, Japan
2002 “The Doraemon” [touring Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa/
2002 Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art/ Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi/ Oita Art Museum/
2002 Shimane Art Museum/ Akita Senshu Museum of Art/ Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama/
2002 Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa/ Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan] (2002-2006)
2002 “VERSUS EXHIBITION 02 -UK vs JAPAN-” Nakameguro DEPOT, Tokyo/ PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo/
Nagoya PARCO Gallery, Aichi, Japan (2002-2003)
2002 “Futuring Power -Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary”
2002 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography/ Contemporary Art Space Osaka
2002 “Pingyao International Photo Festival” Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, China
2001 “Three Rooms” Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo
2001 “The 26th Kimura Ihei Photograyphy Award Exhibition”
2001 Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo/ Minolta Photo Space Osaka, etc.
1999 “Mito Annual ’99 PRIVATE ROOM ll -Photography by a New Generation of Women in Japan”
1999 Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
1997 “Naked Eyes” Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1997 “Japanese New Generation Photographer” Colette, Paris
Auszeichnungen
2011 “film: Helter Skelter” awarded the Kaneto Shindo Award 2012
2007 “film: SAKURAN” presented at the 57th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
2007 the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival
2006 Ohara Museum of Art Prize, The 13th VOCA 2006 Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2001 The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award
1998 Encouragement Award, The 9th Konica Photo Award
1996 Grand Prize, The 7th Shashin Hitotsuboten
1996 The Excellence Prize, The 13th Canon New Cosmos of Photography
Sammlung
amana photo collection
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
ETRO COLLECTION
Huis Marseille, France
The JAPIGOZZI Collection
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
SURUGA BANK
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
TERUMO CORPORATION
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Shadai Gallery
Toyota Art Collection
UBS Art Collection
Mika Ninagawa (*1972)
Mika Ninagawa is one of her generation’s most renowned and productive artists. Since 1997 Mika Ninagawa has published more than 40 photo books and produced two movies, music videos, television advertisements and CD covers.
Mika Ninagawa began her career in the mid-1990s as a ‘girly photographer’, a term given to a whole generation of young female photographers between the tender ages of 18 and 20 who used the camera as a means of documenting their own lives and that of their generation. But after just a short time, Mika Ninagawa decided to focus on other topics outside of her direct environment and developed her own visual language.
Mika Ninagawa’s topics include flowers, goldfish, travel and portraits of stars from Japanese entertainment culture. Her photography is characterised above all by the use of intense and exuberant colours, such as cobalt blue, pink and blood red which she uses to depict both the motifs and the backgrounds.
In her photography, Mika Ninagawa uses elements of Japanese and western pop culture, whether in the design of her motifs or in the extravagant colours of her photographs. For instance, she presents the actress Chiaki Kuriyama – known in the West as ‘Gogo Yubari’ from the film ‘Kill Bill: Vol. I’ – as a softly smiling young woman with a red hair slide and a satin green dress against a green background, surrounded by red butterflies and holding a deer – a shot that seems to owe a considerable debt to Disney films.
By contrast, in her ‘Liquid Dreams’ series (2004), Ninagawa devotes her photography to goldfish, a traditionally Japanese subject. The fish in the series are portrayed as grotesque individuals, as a shimmering mass or as elegantly floating aesthetic beings.
At first glance, Mika Ninagawa’s work places her in the ranks of Japanese neopop artists, a genre that has gained particular prominence thanks to Takashi Murakami.
Even if artists such as Murakami create products such as T-shirts or watches for the mass market, this mainly occurs within the discourse on art and (Japanese) pop culture and the images of these artists are produced as art for the art and exhibition market.
In contrast to this, Mika Ninagawa’s publications connect with a wider audience, although she is not afraid to cross the line and embrace kitsch. More than 200,000 copies of her books have been published.
However, Mika Ninagawa’s work differs from that of neopop artists in that there is no subtext in evidence that says ‘I use elements of pop culture, but it’s art, not pop!’
Mika Ninagawa’s work is pop and does not claim to be anything more and it is art because it goes beyond sheer consumability and a simple and direct satisfaction of the senses and emotions: the goldfish are goldfish, but they are also grotesque overbred beings, mutants in a world of images dominated by pop culture – and the flowers are like the title of the book ‘Acid Bloom’ already suggests, intoxicated by their overwhelming presence and colours.
Mika Ninagawa, born 1972, graduated from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 1997. She lives and works in Tokyo.
Education
1972 Born in Tokyo
1997 B.F.A. in Graphic design, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Lives and works in Tokyo
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: The days were beautiful” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” SUNDAY, Tokyo
2017 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” THREE SHADOW PHOTOGRAPHY ART CENTRE, Xiamen, China
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “Light of” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “LIGHT OF” THE PARK・ING GINZA, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “IN MY ROOM” PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo
2016 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Japan
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Self-image” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2015 Mika Ninagawa, “Portraits & Flowers” SUNDAY/ CAPSULE, Tokyo
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “TOKYO INNOCENCE” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “ETRO × MIKA” ETRO Boutique, London
2014 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Gekkan MEN Exhibition” Sapporo PARCO, Hokkaido, Japan
[touring Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Hokkaido/ TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo/
Tennoji MIO, Osaka] (2013-2014)
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “NINAGAWA MEN and WOMEN” Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “LUCKY STAR NINAGAWA MEN ＆ WOMEN” Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Hawaii Paradise by Mika Ninagawa” DFS Galleria Waikiki, 1 Floor Gallery, Honolulu
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
2013 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” Fukuoka Camera Museum, Toyama, Japan
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Sakura” Roppongi Hills A/D GALLERY, Tokyo
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “PLANT A TREE” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Helter Skelter” PARCO Museum, Tokyo
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2012 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Gekkan MEN Osamu Mukai Exhibition” BLD GALLERY, Tokyo
[touring Nagoya PARCO, Aichi/ Sapporo PARCO, Hokkaido/ Daimaru Kobe, Hyogo/
Matsumoto PARCO, Nagano/ Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Hokkaido] (2011-2012)
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Mika Ninagawa x Ashin｜HEAVEN｜Photo-book Exhibition” STAYREAL Café, Taipei
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “TOKYO UNDERWORLD” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” CANON Gallery S, Tokyo
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Flower & Goldfish” MOT/ ARTS, Taipei
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “noir & SAKURAN” Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei
2011 Mika Ninagawa, “Daido Moriyama × Mika Ninagawa” Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto/ Koyama Tomio Gallery Kyoto
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “VOGUE x Mika Ninagawa 2010 FLOWER POWER” Taipei International Flora Exposition, Taipei
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “NINAGAWA BAROQUE/ EXTREME” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “FLOWER ADDICT” Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “UMEZZ HOUSE” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa for International Rome Film Festival” Auditorium Arte, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “noir” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2010 Mika Ninagawa, “Exhibition in conjunction with the RIZZOLI publication ‘MIKA NINAGAWA'” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo
2009 Mika Ninagawa, “Liquid Dreams” GALERIE PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne
2009 Mika Ninagawa, “FLOWER ADDICT” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
[touring Iwate Museum of Art/ Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima/
Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo/ The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan] (2008-2009)
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa GIFT Goods and Prints @NADiff” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika’s daydreaming theater” PARCO Factory, Tokyo/ PARCO Sapporo, Hokkaido/ PARCO Nagoya, Aichi/
PARCO Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Secret Flowers” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa” Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “mika ninagawa” Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa x GLAMOROUS Charity Nude: photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon”
Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo/ HERBIS PLAZA ENT, Osaka
2008 Mika Ninagawa, “EROTIC TEACHER xxx YUKA” Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan, Kyoto Gokurakudo Bookstore, Kyoto
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa Exhibition” Arndt & Partner Berlin, Berlin
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “Mika Ninagawa Photo Exhibition” Colette, Paris
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “girls’ holiday!” LAPNET SHIP, Tokyo/ PARCO Shizuoka, Japan
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “CELINE meets Mika Ninagawa” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “Everlasting Flowers” Galleria MICIA, Kagawa, Japan
2007 Mika Ninagawa, “NINAGAWA WOMAN” Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
2006 Mika Ninagawa, “Everlasting Flowers 1” Tokyo Wonder Site Sibuya
2006 Mika Ninagawa, “Everlasting Flowers 2” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2005 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA PHOTO EXHIBITION IN LONDON 2005” gallery Eclectic, London
2005 Mika Ninagawa, “floating yesterday” GALLERY SPEAK FOR, Tokyo
2004 Mika Ninagawa, “mika over the rainbow” [touring Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo/ HEP HALL, Osaka/
Hiroshima Parco/ Nagoya Takashimaya, Aichi/ ART GALLERY ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan]
2004 Mika Ninagawa, “photographs 2001-2004” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2004 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA” TKGY at lammfromm, Tokyo
2003 Mika Ninagawa, “Liquid Dreams” PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo/ Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan (2003-2004)
2003 Mika Ninagawa, “Acid Bloom” NADiff, Tokyo/ ROCKET, Tokyo
2002 Mika Ninagawa, “Ever Holding My Ocean” NADiff, Tokyo
2002 Mika Ninagawa, “like a peach” SPIRAL, Tokyo/ Laforet Museum, Ehime, Japan
2002 Mika Ninagawa, “MIKA NINAGAWA at ISSEY MIYAKE AOYAMA” Issei Miyake Store, Aoyama, Tokyo
2001 Mika Ninagawa, “Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki” Parco Gallery, Tokyo/ Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2000 Mika Ninagawa, “Sugar and Spice” Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo/ Tank Gallery, Osaka (2000-2001)
2000 Mika Ninagawa, “Pink Rose Suite” ROCKET, Tokyo
1999 Mika Ninagawa, “Baby Blue Sky” Shinjuku Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1999 Mika Ninagawa, “Christmas at Isla Mujeres” NADiff, Tokyo
1999 Mika Ninagawa, “French kiss” ROCKET, Tokyo
1997 Mika Ninagawa, “Walk3” Guardian Garden, Tokyo
Group exhibitions (selection)
2017 “Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970” Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
2017 “Roppongi Art Night 2017” Roppongi Hills Arena and several other locations in Roppongi, Tokyo
2017 “Yohji Yamamoto×Mika Ninagawa [BLACKLIGHTS]” Yohji Yamamoto AOYAMA Main Store, Tokyo
2017 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mindfulness 2017” Yamagata Art Museum, Yamagata, Japan
2017 “TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3 Synchronicity” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan
2016 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
2016 “Why does everyone love flowers?” Matsudai Nohbutai Gallery, Niigata, Japan
2016 Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
2016 Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, Japan
2015 “NOW AND THEN” PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne
2015 “Tokyo Art Meeting Vl: TOKYO -Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis”
2015 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2015 “COSMOS/ INTIME La collection Takahashi” Maison de la Culture du Japon a Paris, Paris
2015 “Daisuke Fukunaga, Toru Kuwakubo, Mika Ninagawa, Satoshi Ohno” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2015 “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron” Tokyo Opera City Gallery
2014 “Ohara Contemporary at Musabi” Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo
2014 “Takahashi Collection 2014 Mindfulness!” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2014 “DOMMUNE University of the Arts -Tokyo Arts Circulation-” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2014 “What is Japanese Photography?” Exhibition Part 1, Tokyo Photo
2014 “VENT NOUVEAU × 15 Photographers” MIHONCHO HONTEN (Takeo showroom), Tokyo
2013 “Shibuparuten” PARCO Museum, Tokyo
2013 “Ohara Contemporary” Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
2013 “Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary Exhibition: flowers”
2013 Towada Art Center, around Central Shopping etc, Aomori, Japan
2013 “LIVING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY” Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
2013 “Collection” Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore
2013 “Solo Exhibition Kiyoshiro Imawano-no-sekai” Miyazaki ART Center, Miyazaki, Japan
2013 “Ginza Mitsukoshi × Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection” Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo
2013 “Why not live for Art? II -9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2013 “Cho-Kyoto 2013, Contemporary Art @ Today’s Machiya in Kyoto”
2013 Today’s Machiya in Kyoto, Model House Exhibition Place KYOMO, Kyoto
2013 “Ausstellung Daido Moriyama/ Mika Ninagawa” Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel
2012 “REVALUE NIPPON PROJECT” Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Japan/ Mizukoshi Ginza, Tokyo
2012 “FLOWER” Takashimaya Nihonbashi exhibition hall
2012 “Beauty -Flowers in Contemporary Photography” Tokyo Art Museum
2011 “Mika & Hiroko Ninagawa: photographs and patchwork・kilt-collaboration between mother and daughter”
2011 Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo [touring Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Ishikawa/ HEP HALL, Osaka/
2011 Mitsubishi-jisho Artium, Fukuoka/ Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan] (2011-2013)
2011 “Future Pass -From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition:
2011 la Biennale di Venezia” Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venezia/
2011 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2011-2012)
2011 “Art in an Office” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2011 “Daido Moriyama × Mika Ninagawa” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto
2011 “I, Tominaga” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo
2011 “10 Years” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2011 “Umekowa!! Kazuo Umezu Exhibit” Shibuya PARCO Parco Factory, Tokyo
2011 “JAPANCONGO” Le Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
2011 “CAFE in Mito 2011: Relationships in Color” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2010 “Onna” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
[touring Dong Gang Museum of Photography, South Korea/ GRANSHIP, Shizuoka, Japan] (2010-2012)
2010 “In aller Munde” The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
2010 “TOKYO VISUALIST” National Art Gallery Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
2010 “Summer Loves” Huis Marseille -Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
2010 “Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan 2010” Taipei 101, Taipei
2010 “Hana: Contemporary Art Biennare of Fukushima 2010” Fukushima Prefectural Culture Center, Japan
2009 “FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPE Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Ohmaki, Mika Ninagawa,
and Satoko Nachi” The Contemporary Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
2009 “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2008 “The Masked Portrait” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2008 “JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPER CULTURE” The Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer, Wasington D.C.
2008 “Faithful Documents: Japanese Contemporary Photography” AKI GALLERY, Taipei
2008 “JAPAN NOW” Inter Alia Art Company, Seoul
2008 “Review/ Preview -Japanese Photographs” Gallerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
2008 “ZOOM ON IN OUT JAPAN” Wave Photogallery, Brescia, Italy
2008 “Gelatin Silver Session 08: SAVE THE FILM” Axis Gallery, Tokyo/
2008 Arts & Design Center, Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi, Japan
2007 “Tokyo Design Premio -Tokyo Designer’s Week in Milan 2007” Superstudio Piu, Milano
2007 “HITOTUBO scholarship recipient exhibition” Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2007 “Gelatin Silver Session 07” Axis Gallery, Tokyo/ art project room ARTZONE, Kyoto
2007 “SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2007 “200 Professional Photographers Exhibition” PHOTO IS, FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo
2006 “VOCA 2006” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2006 “Idols” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2006 “Fish and our Lives” The Museum of Art Ehime, Japan
2005 “My Precious: Photos and Words Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers”
2005 Yokohama Civic Art Galley Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan
2005 “Artists’ Gardens -Botanical Recollections” Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
2004 “HARAJUKU COLLABO: APARTMENT 2004” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
2004 “TAKARAZUKA: The Land of Dreams” Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/
2004 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery/ Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2003 “HITOTSUBOTEN 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002” Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2003 “HOPE: do hope for the futre” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
2003 “On Happiness: Contemporary Japanese Photographery” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2003 “Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo” Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo
2003 “KEEP IN TOUCH: Positions in Japanese Photography” Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2003 “take art collection 2003” Spiral Garden, Tokyo
2003 “Okayama City Arts Festival 2003 -LOVE PLANET” former Izushi Elementary School, Okayama, Japan
2002 “The Doraemon” [touring Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa/
2002 Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art/ Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi/ Oita Art Museum/
2002 Shimane Art Museum/ Akita Senshu Museum of Art/ Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama/
2002 Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa/ Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan] (2002-2006)
2002 “VERSUS EXHIBITION 02 -UK vs JAPAN-” Nakameguro DEPOT, Tokyo/ PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo/
Nagoya PARCO Gallery, Aichi, Japan (2002-2003)
2002 “Futuring Power -Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary”
2002 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography/ Contemporary Art Space Osaka
2002 “Pingyao International Photo Festival” Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, China
2001 “Three Rooms” Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo
2001 “The 26th Kimura Ihei Photograyphy Award Exhibition”
2001 Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo/ Minolta Photo Space Osaka, etc.
1999 “Mito Annual ’99 PRIVATE ROOM ll -Photography by a New Generation of Women in Japan”
1999 Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
1997 “Naked Eyes” Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1997 “Japanese New Generation Photographer” Colette, Paris
Awards
2011 “film: Helter Skelter” awarded the Kaneto Shindo Award 2012
2007 “film: SAKURAN” presented at the 57th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
2007 the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival
2006 Ohara Museum of Art Prize, The 13th VOCA 2006 Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2001 The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award
1998 Encouragement Award, The 9th Konica Photo Award
1996 Grand Prize, The 7th Shashin Hitotsuboten
1996 The Excellence Prize, The 13th Canon New Cosmos of Photography
Collections
amana photo collection
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
ETRO COLLECTION
Huis Marseille, France
The JAPIGOZZI Collection
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
SURUGA BANK
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
TERUMO CORPORATION
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Shadai Gallery
Toyota Art Collection
UBS Art Collection
Daido Moriyama / Mika Ninagawa, Kasseler Kunstverein
Oct 25 – Nov 6, 2013
MIKA NINAGAWA, Liquid Dreams
Jan 24 – Mar 4, 2009
