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Rinko Kawauchi
Profile:
Born in Shiga, Japan, in 1972. Graduated from Seian Junior College of Art and Design in 1993.
She started her career as a photographer on freelance basis in 1997. In 2001 she simultaneously released a series of three photo books - "UTATANE" , "HANABI" and "HANAKO" from Little More, which created an overnight sensation in the photography world in Japan. In 2002, she was awarded the prestigious 27th Annual Kimura Ihei Award for two of the books, "UTATABE" and "HANABI".
Further publications of Rinko Kawauchi, which should be mentioned, are "AILA" (FOIL, 2004), "the eyes, the ears," and "Cui Cui" (FOIL, 2005 /both) and her latest book "Semear" (FOIL, 2007).
Rinko Kawauchi has joined and held many group exhibitions and solo exhibitions both at home and abroad to date. Among others , major latest solo exhibitions are: Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris 2005; The Photographers' Gallery, London 2006; Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan 2006; and FOTOGRAFISK CENTER, Copenhagen 2006; Hasselblad Centre, Goteborg, Sweden, 2007; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 2007 and Cohan and Leslie, New York, 2007. Major group exhibitions she joined are: Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France 2004; "Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain" Museum Contemporary Art, Tokyo 2006; PHotoEspana, Madrid 2006.
Awards:
2002 Winner of the 27th Kimura Ihei Award
2002 The Photographic Society of Japan, the Rookie of the Year award
1997 Grand Prix Prize, The Guardian Garden’s 9th Hitotsubo (1.82 m x 1.82 m large space) Exhibition[/FONT]
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Collections:
Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Of Photography, Tokyo
Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris
Huis Marseille, France
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[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2007[/FONT]
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Cohan and Leslie, NY
"Semear" Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
"AILA + the eyes, the ears," Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
"AILA + the eyes, the ears," Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2006[/FONT]
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"AILA + the eyes, the ears," FOTOGRAFISK CENTER, Copenhagen
Gaerie Priska Pasque, Cologne
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan
The Photographers' Gallery, London[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2005[/FONT]
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"AILA + Cui Cui + the eyes, the ears," Fondation Cartier, Paris
"AILA" Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui
"AILA" Cohan and Leslie, NY
"Cui Cui" QUARTER, Florence [/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2004[/FONT]
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"AILA" California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
"Utatane" Cohan and Leslie, NY
"AILA" Little More Gallery, Tokyo[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2003[/FONT]
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"HANABI" white cube, Kyoto
"HANABI" Little More Gallery,Tokyo
"Blue" Rocket Gallery, Tokyo
"Rinko Kawauchi" 4F gallery, Los Angels
"Wacall photo exhibition" SPIRAL GARDEN, Tokyo
"UTATANE" vonrot gallery, Berlin [/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2002[/FONT]
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"UTATANE" Colette, Paris[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2001[/FONT]
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"Utatane" Parco Gallery, Tokyo
"Hanabi" Gray, Tokyo
"Hanako" Little More Gallery, Tokyo
"Hibi" Aki-Ex Gallery, tokyo [/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]1999[/FONT]
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"Hitoiki" Light Works, Yokohama[/FONT]
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Group exhibitions:[/FONT]
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"Curator's Choice '07: Mueseum Dialogues" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography, Tokyo [/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2006[/FONT]
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YO****OMO NARA + graf A to Z, Aomori
Photo Espana, Madrid
"Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain", [/FONT][FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]
Museum Contemporary Art, Tokyo[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2004[/FONT]
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"AILA & Utatane" Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
"Lonely Planet" Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center, Ibaraki[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2003[/FONT]
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"Love Planet", The 41st Okayama City Arts Festival Program (with Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Jeanne Dunning, Tatsuo Miyajima and Rikrit Tiravanija et al), Okayama
"HOPE" Laforet Museum,Tokyo
"FOIL" Little More Gallery, Tokyo [/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2002[/FONT]
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"Kimura Ihei Award Winnes Exhibition" Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2000[/FONT]
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"Hinata Kanata" Landmark Tower Gallery, Kanagawa[/FONT]
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Publications:[/FONT]
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"Semear" (FOIL)
"Majun" Postcard book (FOIL)[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2006[/FONT]
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"Rinko Diary 2" (FOIL)
"Rinko Diary " (FOIL)[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2005[/FONT]
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"Cui Cui" (FOIL, Fondation Cartier, ACT sud)
"the eyes, the ears," (FOIL)[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2004[/FONT]
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"AILA" (FOIL)
"Every day as a child" from the film “Nobody knows” (Sony Magazines)[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2003[/FONT]
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"blue" (Petit Grand Publishing)[/FONT]
[FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]2001[/FONT]
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"UTATANE" (Little More)
"HANABI" (Little More)
"HANAKO" (Little More) [/FONT]
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Articles (magazines[/FONT][FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]
Lula Magazine, USA 2007
FANZINE 137, Spain, 2007
"Photo Essay" Kid's wear vol.24, Germany 2007
du733-Tokyos altes Herz.,Switzerland 2007
PHOTONET #92, Korea 2007
THEME WINTER, USA 2007
"Details of Nature" NextLevel #10, UK 2006
"STEALING BEAUTY by Drusilla Beyfus" The Dairy Telegraph Magazine, UK 2006
"...dix ans plus tard", cover photo, Movement No.33-34 - March-June,France 2005
"Aila", A MAGAZINE #2 - 2005
"Sublime Debut", cover photo, Aperture - December 1, USA 2004
"Big in Japan", cover photo, The Britishi Journal of Photography - Octber & December, UK 2004
"Touch""Artist's vision", Cartier No.10 - 2004
"PORTFOLIO", Le Monde 2 - July, France 2004
etc...
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Articles (publications[/FONT][FONT=MS ゴシック, Osaka‐等幅]
"The Genius of Photography", Quadrille, UK 2007
"Vitamin Ph" Paidon, UK 2006
"things as they are" WORLD PRESS PHOTO, the Netherlands 2005[/FONT]