B. 1978, Hiroshima, Japan.
Lives and works in Tokyo
Founding member of the “photographers’ gallery”, a group of photographers that runs a gallery, organizes exhibitions and photography courses, publishes in-house magazines and photo collections, and engages in various other activities that involve the medium of photography. Has been exhibiting her creations in solo and group shows in Japan and abroad since 2001, when she presented her first work in public. Has been focusing on the “interior” and “exterior” of the historical city of Hiroshima since leaving the town where she grew up. This experience is reflected in many of her works, which keep fascinating viewers through the unique mixture of power and coolness they represent. Is reputed among fans and critics as a promising artist from the next generation of photographers.
EDUCATION
2002 Bachelor of Photography Major, Department of Design, Tokyo Zokei University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“PARK CITY”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2021
“The World After”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“On the Beach” Composed by Masashi Kohara, Omotesando gallery + MUSÉE F, Tokyo
2020
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2019
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“Anglers in Landscapes”, Nikon Plaza photo promenade, Tokyo, Osaka
“PARK CITY”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2018
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2017
“PARK CITY”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2016
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2015
“Shoreline”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“Keiko Sasaoka: Tanesashi-ninoshima”, Hachinohe City museum of Art, Aomori
2014
“Century of the Shore”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
The 23th Tadahiko Hayashi Award Commemorative Exhibition “Keiko Sasaoka: Remembrance”, FUJIFILM Photo Salon, Tokyo / Shunan City Museum of Art & History, Yamaguchi / Higashikawa Culture Gallery, Hokkaido
“Jomon and contemporary vol.2: Seascape: FISHING”, Kyoto of Art and Design Art Museum, Kyoto
2013
“Difference 3.11”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“Fishing”, KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo
“SHORE”, Visual Arts Gallery Osaka, Osaka
2012
“Difference 3.11”, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo / Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka / Hiroshima Jogakuin University, Hiroshima
“True view of Kuma”, photographers’ gallery & KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo
“VOLCANO”, photographers’ gallery & KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo
2011
“FULL MOON”, Place M, Tokyo
2010
“PARK CITY”, gallery G, Hiroshima
“EQUIVALENT”, RAT HOLE GALLERY VIEWING ROOM, Tokyo
“CAPE”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
2009
“PARK CITY”, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi
2008
“waters”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
“SASAOKA Keiko 2001-2007”, Tamada project corporation, Tokyo
“PARK CITY”, GINZA Nikon Salon, Tokyo/ Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
2001
“studies: landscape”, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
“The 38th Higashikawa award winners’ photo exhibition”, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido
“NUJUN 2022” in Okinawa” The art gallery in Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum
2020
“Photographed Hiroshima: Everyday Light Image”, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
2019
“The amana collection 03”, IMA gallery, Tokyo
2018
“Prix Pictet Japan Award 2015 – 2017”, Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo
2017
“New Artists Today Exhibition 2017: Compilations of Memories and Records”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
2016
“Standing on the Earth, Looking up into the Sky”, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma
“Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
2014
“Air”, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima
2013
“ART ARCH HIROSHIMA 2013: Peace Meets Art! ”, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima
“TANESASHI: Remembrance of the Shore”, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
2012
“somewhere between me and this world: Japanese contemporary photography”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
“Parallel Visions: Japan and Korea Contemporary Photography Exhibition”, Hong Kong Arts Centre
2011
“Contemporary Figurative Art: Life & Art, Vital Water: Art Meets Agriculture”, Higashihiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima
“Hiroshima Art Document 2011”, The former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima Branch, Hiroshima
2010
“SO + ZO Exhibition, The Past and Present of Designs that Open the Way to the Future: 1960s”, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
2009
“Kaerinan iza (Let us go back home! Our fields will get desolate, Why not go back home?): Rediscovery of Kuma by Traveler’s Lens”, Kuma Museum of Art, Ehime
2008
“VOCA 2008: The Vision of Contemporary Art 2008”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“The history of arts and cities – Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai–”, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi
2007
“Zero Year of Photographs Okinawa: Integration exhibition”, Naha Civic Gallery, Okinawa
2006
“The Story of Snow,” Moon Shin Museum, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
“ICANOF Media Art Show 2006: TELOMERIC”, Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori
2005
“SITE GRAPHICS: transfiguration of scenery, Matrix of Contemporary Photography 2005”, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
“Karita basho, Karita jikan (on Borrowed Time, in a Borrowed Place): photographers’ gallery Exhibition in Yokohama”, BankART NYK Studio, Kanagawa
2004
“PENTAGON: presented by photographers’ gallery”, Gallery Photography, College of Arts. Chung-Ang University, Gyeonggi, Korea
“HINOKUNI: photographers’ gallery Exhibition”, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art Chibajo Branch, Kumamoto
“Yokohama Shashinkan (Yokohama photograph pavilion)”, BankART1929, Kanagawa
2003
“JAPAN: Contemporary Ceramics and Photography”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
SCREENING
2009
“PARK CITY” (Written and Directed by Masataka Matsuda), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi / Biwako Hall Center for The Performing Arts, Shiga
2005
“HIROSHIMA Peace Film Festival”, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima
2004
“ECTASY+TERROR”, harappa, Aomori
“Photo documan: STILL & MOVE”, Forest Hall Hashimoto, Kanagawa
PHOTO BOOKS and EDITING
2021 Keiko Sasaoka, Remembrance: Sanriku, Fukushima, 2011-2014, Shashinkoenrin
2015-20 Keiko Sasaoka, Shoreline 1-39, KULA
2012-13 Keiko Sasaoka, Remembrance 1-41, KULA
2012 Keiko Sasaoka, FISHING, KULA
2010 Keiko Sasaoka, EQUIVALENT, RAT HOLE GALLERY
2009 Keiko Sasaoka, PARK CITY, INSCRIPT
2005 Keiko Sasaoka, photographers’ gallery File08: PARK CITY, photographers’ gallery
2002-15 Editor in chief, photographers’ gallery press nos. 2-7 and 12
Editor, photographers’ gallery press nos. 1, 8-11 and 13
2004 Keiko Sasaoka, photographers’ gallery File03: PARK CITY, photographers’ gallery
Keiko Sasaoka, photographers’ gallery File04: KANKO, photographers’ gallery
2002 Keiko Sasaoka, HORIZONS, photographers’ gallery
AWARDS and GRANTS
2022 The 38th Higashikawa Photo Award, New Comers Prize
2017 Arts Council Tokyo Grant
2014 The 23th Tadahiko Hayashi Award
2012 The 12th Photo City Sagamihara Award, New Figure Encouragement Prize
2010 Newcomer’s Award, the Photographic Society of Japan
2008 VOCA Encouragement Prize for The Vision of Contemporary Art 2008
COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Japan
Kuma Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan
Shunan City Museum of Art & History, Yamaguchi, Japan
Sagamihara City, Kanagawa, Japan
LECTURE and SPEAKING
2013-21 Part-time Lecturer of photography, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
2016-19 Guest lecturer, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2014-16 Guest lecturer, Meiji University, Tokyo
2021
・(Lecturer and Conversation) with Nobuyuki Kakigi at Hiroshima-Gender-Zainichi Korean serial lectureship, Hiroshima
2017
・(Conversation) with Takuma Higashi and Marina Nishii, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo
・(Conversation) with Shino Kuraishi and Masashi Kohara, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
・(symposium) with Takuma Higashi and Nozomu Semba, “No more Hiroshimas, and Hiroshima is everywhere”, The University of Tokyo
2016
・(Artist Talk) Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma
2015
・(Conversation) with Shino Kuraishi, Takuma Higashi and Satoshi Ukai, Hachinohe City museum of Art, Aomori
2014
・(Artist Talk) Kyoto of Art and Design Art Museum, Kyoto
2013
・(Guest lecturer) Visual Arts Gallery Osaka, Osaka
・(Workshop) Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
2012
・Part-time Lecturer of photography in Yokohama National University, Kanagawa
・(Conversation with Shigeyuki Toshima and Shigemi Takahashi) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2009
・(Conversation with Masataka Matsuda and Shino Kuraishi) Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi
・(Conversation with Masataka Matsuda and Chihiro Minato) Biwako Hall Center for The Performing Arts, Shiga
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