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Yukiko Shimizu

 

Photography Exhibition

 

2011

  • Mar.2 - Mar.10 2/20 Gallery "Emerging contemporary artist of Japan" - New York - group
  • Jun.1 - June.12 JRP "Prospective Japan Realism Photography Award" Art Garden Kawasaki - group
  • Sep.4 - Sep.17 galerie H - Tokyo - Solo
  • Sep.17 -Sep.25 AAW in Shanghai 2011 - Shanghai - group
  • Oct. 1 - Nov.1 Hive gallery "Japanese Artist on the cutting edge 2011" - Los Angeles - group
  • Oct.5 - Oct.16 Seizan Gallery - Tokyo - Solo
  • Oct.14 - Oct.16 Eizendo Gallery Tobi Art Fair - Tokyo - Solo

 

2010

  • Jan.8 Live Performance & Photography Bullet's Nishiazabu - Tokyo
  • Mar.5 - Mar.10 "Blue" Shinjyuku Ganka Gallery - Tokyo - Solo
  • May.25 - June.6 "Emerging contemporary artists of Japan" 2/20 Gallery - New York - group
  • June.16-July.7 Espace Japon - Paris - group
  • July.9 - August.25 ISE Cultural Foundation - New York - group
  • Sep.3 - Sep.13 Nikka Association Award The National Art Center, Tokyo - group
  • Oct. 28 - Nov.3 ULTRA003 Spiral Hall Aoyama - Tokyo - Group
  • Nov.1 - Nov.30 "Yukiko Shimizu" Shinjuku Takashimaya HPH - Tokyo - solo
  • Nov .2 - Nov. 27 "6th Annual Juried Alternative processes Competition Award" Soho Photo Gallery - New York - group
  • Nov. 9 - 20 "New Gene" Gallery Kuu - Tokyo - Group

 

2009

  • Apri. 21 - Apr. 25 "My blue sky 2009" Gallery Roonee - Tokyo - group
  • Jun.1- Jun.10 JRP "Prospective Japan Realism Photography Award" Metropolitan Art Museum - Tokyo - group
  • Jun. 19 " Digital Photography & Video" Parsons School for Design - New York - group
  • Aug. 6  "School of Visual Arts Residency Exhibition" Westside Gallery - New york - group
  • Aug.31 - Oct.10  School of Visual Arts featuring artist solo display - New York - solo
  • Sep.2 - Sep.14 Nikka Association Award The National Art Center, Tokyo - group
  • Oct.2 - Oct. 29 Friends Without A Boarder "Smiles of Cambodia" JAICA Yokohama - group
  • Nov- Art Scene Today Woman & Children First Finalist Juried online show - group
  • Dec.17-19 "Optical unconsciousness" Troubadour Gallery - London - solo

 

2008

  • Feb. 3 - Mar. 2 “Yukiko Shimizu photo exhibition” Nos Ebisu  -Tokyo - solo exhibition
  • Mar.6 - April.7 “Spirit of the earth” DWP design works project -Tokyo - solo
  • May.27 - June.27 Horiuchi Color Aoyama service center -Tokyo - solo
  • Sep.2 - Sep.14 “Luminious landscape”  Harajyuku Cafe Sunshine studio - Tokyo - solo
  • Sep.15 - Sep.27 “Past・Present・Future” Office Gaienmae - Tokyo - solo 
  • Sep.29 - Nov.1 Horiuchi Color Aoyama service center - Tokyo - solo

 

Performance

  • 2003 Space Invader 25th anniversary
  • 2004 July Contemporary art from Japan at Hafnarborg museum in Iceland Collaboration with sculptor Nanako Ikeda
  • 2006 March Nou theater Celulean tower Tokyo Nou performance
  • 2007 November Mizuya Shrire(Wakayama prefecture)
  • 2008 March Kagurazakaushigome hall
  • 2008 July Yamaha music hall (Tokyo)
  • 2008 July Suimu Shrine (Gifu prefecture) 
  • 2009 August Reykjavik culture night( Iceland) with Helgi, Siff, Vardi 
  • 2010 January Bullet's Nishiazabu
  • 2011 Janurary Bullet's Nishiazabu
  • 2011 Feburary Ise poni
  • 2011 March Issue Project Room, Bullet's Nishiazabu

 

Awards

    2009 / 2010 / 2011

        34th JRP Japan Realism Perspective Award

        57th Nika Association Award

        Art Scene Today

       58th Nika Association Award

       6th Soho Photo Gallery Annual Juried Alternative processes Competition

       Tokyo Frontline Photo Award 2011

 

Press

        34th JRP award book

        57th Nika Association award book

        Sunshine Studio Art archive book

        Art Sene today 2009

        New York Seikatsu press / No. 302. 304      

        Ovni Paris / No.677

        Zoom Japon / numero 1 juin

 

       Art collector Oct. 2011  

Guest Artist Speach

       The New School Parsons School for Design

        

My work is being displayed at the NOA building Tokyo

Born in Tokyo.  Spent her childhood in Boston and New York. Moved to New York in 1996 to study photography at Parsons School for Design. She moved to California to learn computer music/musicology at UCLA extension then studied song writing at Berklee College Of Music professional certificate program. She attended the residency photography program at School of Visual Arts and further went on to educate herself at New York Tisch School of Arts Interactive Telecommunication Design to acquire skills on interactive live performance.  Studied alternative process photography at International Center of Photography and Alternative photography center in New York.