Tomoko Kikuchi, 1973
Educational background
1996 B.A Department of Scenography & Display, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 38th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award Show
Konica Minolta plaza Gallery, Tokyo Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Exit from paradise Somerset House London U.K
2018 Prix Pictet Japan award Exhibition Hillside Forum Tokyo Japan
2017 TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 2
‘’Communication and Solitude’’
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Sequenza Sismica ,Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena, Italy
2016 Seven Japanese Rooms Japanese Contemporary Photography
Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
2015-2016 Medium of Desire An International Anthology of photography and video, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, U.S.A
2015 Kimura Ihei commemorative Award 40 years exhibition, Kawasaki City museum, Kanagawa, Japan
2014-15 Go-Betweens The world seen through children, Mori Art museum Tokyo, Nagoya city museum, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum,
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Tokyo Nagoya, Okinawa Kochi, Japan
2013 Mujo-kan- Japanese contemporary photography,
Galerie Da-end, Paris, France
2012-13 Somewhere between me and this world - Japanese contemporary photography, Tokyo Photographic museum, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Parallel Visions: Japan and Korea Contemporary photography exhibition, Hong Kong Art center, Hong Kong
Award and Grants
2016 Terumo Art and Craft Fund Category: Contemporary Art (Japan)
Terumo Corporation Japan
2015 First Prix Pictet Japan Award, Banque Pictet et Cie, Switzerland
2014 Abigail Cohen fellowship in documentary photography / China file
Magnum foundation and Asia society New York
2013 38th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award, Asahi News Paper, Japan
2013 Magnum emergency fund, Magnum foundation, U.S.A
Project program
2014 Funeral performers in China Magnum foundation and Asia Society China
2013 The River Magnum foundation China
Publication
2015 “I and I” ( L’artiere Bologna Italy)
Public collection
Tokyo Photographic museum Tokyo Japan
Mori art museum Tokyo Japan
Kawasaki City museum Kanagawa Japan
Fondazione Modena Arti Visive Modena Italy
