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Yukiko Shimizu

- Yukiko Shimizu -

Artist statement : 

    From an early age, my grandfather, who was also a photographer exposed me to photography and I become fascinated how photography can remain the memory of lost time and how it can weave fiction and reality to challenge the way we feel and sense images.
    While I was studying at Parsons school for design in 1998, after my grandfathers sudden death I started to take pictures of landscapes. It was as if to follow his spirit. Studying the natural world, which brings me so much awe, helped me to understand that the world is constantly changing and that nothing stays the same. My works "Spirit of the Earth, Luminouslandscape, Past • Present • Future was to explore the changing world and finding a way to resolve personal histories and photographic explorations through landscapes. 
    In February 2009, I took pictures of people in a tuberculosis hospital in Cambodia. The people in these photographs have helped me appreciate the way life continues under difficult and intense circumstances.  I went to Cambodia as an volunteer member of an organization called, Friends Without A Border.  I was inspired by the care shown by the people running the organization and the good it does for the Cambodians. 
     After returning to New York, I was faced with some dark, complex fears around the ambiguity and  intensities of human nature. I am being forced to explore parts of myself and my identity. I have decided to do a series to express the suffering we face in this society through self-portaits. By doing this body of work, I hope to touch on the beauty of life and the pleasure of our divine spirits. By exploring these dark fears, I was able to touch the fragile state of ones inner-self. As an artist I always wish to stay true to my work and appreciate my family and friends who have been supportive of my life.

Photography Exhibition

2008

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

 

 2009

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

 

2010

  • Jan.8 Live Performance & Photography display Bullet's Nishiazabu - Tokyo
  • Mar.5 - Mar.10 Shinjyuku Ganka Gallery - Tokyo - Solo
  • May.25 - June.6 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 winners award exbhibition The National Art Center, Tokyo - group

 

My Pictures are displayed at the NOA building IIKURA Entrance Hall.

 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

 

Awards

    2009 / 2010

        34th JRP Japan Realism Perspective Award

        57th Nika Association Award

        Art Scene Today

       58th Nika Association Award

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