| MIWA YANAGI | |||
| 1967 | Born in Kobe City, Japan | ||
| Completed the postgraduate course at Kyoto University of Fine Art | |||
| Miwa Yanagi lives and works in Kyoto, Japan | |||
| SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION) | |||
| 2019 | Myth Machines, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan | ||
| Myth Machines, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan | |||
| Myth Machines, Tamakatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan | |||
| 2018 | Still Waters Run Deep, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan | ||
| The Goddes And The God Separate Under The Peach Tree, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |||
| 2010 | Windswept Women. The Old Girls' Troupe, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany | ||
| My Grandmothers, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany | |||
| Fairy Tales, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden | |||
| Lullaby, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| 2009 | Windswept Women. The Old Girls' Troupe, 53rd Venezia Biennale, Japan Pavilion, Italy | ||
| Po-Po Niang-Niang!, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan | |||
| My Grandmothers, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| My Grandmothers, Instituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma, Rome, Italy | |||
| 2008 | Miwa Yanagi - Deutsche Bank Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA | ||
| 2007 | Miwa Yanagi, Chelsea Art Museum, Deutsche Bank Collection, New York, USA | ||
| 2006 | Madame Comet, Ohara Museum of Art, Yurinso, Japan * | ||
| Suna Onna, Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | |||
| 2005 | Fairy Tales, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany | ||
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| Miwa Yanagi: The Incredible Tale Of The Innocent Old Lady And The Heartless Young Girl, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan * | ||
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| Ohara Museum, Okahama, Japan | ||
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| Miwa Yanagi, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany | ||
| Miwa Yanagi, Kunstverein Mannheim, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Mannheim, Germany | |||
| 2004 | Galerie Leyendecker, Teneriffe, Canary Islands | ||
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| Darkness Of Girlhood And Lightness Of Aging, Mimoca - Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan * | ||
| Miwa Yanagi - Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany | |||
| Miwa Yanagi, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany | |||
| 2003 | My Grandmothers, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany | ||
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| Granddaughters, Eglise Sainte Marie-Madeleine, Lille, France | ||
| Galeria Leyendecker, Teneriffe, Canarie Islands | |||
| 2002 | My Grandmothers, Kirin Plaza Gallery, Osaka, Japan | ||
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| Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | ||
| Granddaughters, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan * | |||
| Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France | |||
| 2001 | Gallery Kodama, Osaka, Japan | ||
| 2000 | Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France | ||
| 1999 | Gallery Kodama, Osaka, Japan | ||
| 1998 | Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany | ||
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| Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan * | ||
| 1997 | Critelium, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan | ||
| 1994 | Looking For The Next Story, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan | ||
| 1993 | The White Casket, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan | ||
| GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION) | |||
| 2010 | Presentiment In Summer Vacation, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan | ||
| 10 Jahre PaK, Palais für Aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt | |||
| Tsubaki Kai Ten 2010 Transfigurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| 2009 | Merry-Go-Round Twinkling And Twilight, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto,, Kumamoto, Japan | ||
| Medicine And Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Golden Agers And Silver Surfers, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland | |||
| Der Schmerz Sitzt Tief, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany | |||
| 2008 | Inszenierte Wirklichkeit – Ursprung Und Gegenwart Der Japanischen Fotografie: Sammlung March Und Miwa Yanagi, Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany | ||
| Still/Motion. Liquid Crystal Painting, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Ein Leben Lang, nGbK, Berlin | |||
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| Tsubaki-Kai, Trans-Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Still/Motion. Liquid Crystal Painting, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan | |||
| ICP, Heavy Light: Recent Photography And Video From Japan, New York, USA | |||
| Great New Wave: Contemporary Art From Japan, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, CANADA | |||
| FotoFest 2008, Houston | |||
| 2007 | Attitude 2007 The House Of Human Beings – Authentically Blessed Jubliance, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan | ||
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| Die Kunst Des Alterns, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria | ||
| Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA | |||
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| Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan | |||
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| Der Kontrakt Des Fotografen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany * | ||
| 2006 | Der Kontrakt Des Fotografen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany * | ||
| La Bienal De Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | |||
| 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Republic of Korea | |||
| Public/Privat, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany | |||
| Chikaku - Perception, Time and Memory of Art, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |||
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| Tokyo Blossoms- Deutsche Bank meets Zaha Hadid, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan | ||
| Selections From The Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma-ken, Japan | |||
| Slowtech, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan | |||
| Der Palast Der Drachenkönigin, Galerie Claudia Delank, Cologne, Germany | |||
| Collection 1, The National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan | |||
| 2005 | Chikaku. Zeit Und Erinnerungen Japan, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria * | ||
| Fashion And Style In Photography, Moscow International Festival 2005, Moscow, Russia | |||
| Wenn Sich Kein Blatt Regt ... Natur Und Träume In Der Aktuellen Japanischen Kunst, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt, Germany * | |||
| 2004 | Takarazuka: The Land Of Dreams, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Mediarena: Contemporary Art From Japan, Govett–Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand | |||
| 2003 | Location Of The Spirit - Japanese Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary | ||
| The American Effect, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA | |||
| The History Of Japanese Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA | |||
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| Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 2002 | Future Plan, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan | ||
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| Girls Vs. Grandmothers, Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain | ||
| The World May Be Fantastic, Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia | |||
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| Chameleon Dreams, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, USA | ||
| 2001 | Neo Tokyo: Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia | ||
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| Senritsumirai - Arte Attuale dal Giappone, Centro per l’Arter Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy | ||
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| Mega-Wave, 1st Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan | ||
| Connivence, 6th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France | |||
| 2000 | Japan Medium Light, Montevideo Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
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| Gendai - Between The Body And Space, Art Centrer Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland | ||
| Elysian Fields, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France | |||
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| Freeze, Espasio Cultural Sergio Port, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| 1999 | A Sense Of Reality, Utsunomiya Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan | ||
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| Fancy Dance–Contemporary Japanese Art After 1990, Art Sonje Museum, Kyongju, Seoul, Korea | ||
| Looking For A Place, Site SantaFe Biennal, Santa Fe, USA | |||
| Signs Of Life, Melbourne Biennial, Melbourne, Australia | |||
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| A Window - Inside and Outside, Kwangj Museum, Korea | ||
| Visions Of The Body, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan | |||
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| Voca, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 1998 | Tastes And Pursuits, National Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi, India | ||
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| Techno Therapy, Nakanoshima, produced by Yasumasa Morimura, Osaka, Japan | ||
| Art Now In Japan And Korea, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan | |||
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| Coat In Art, MaxMara, Tokyo, Japan | ||
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| Women Photographers From Japan, 1864 - 1997 | ||
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| Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | ||
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| Subterranean, Gallery Nikko, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 1997 | Legende, Centre Regional d`Art Contemporain, Sete, France | ||
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| Cities On The Move, Secession, Vienna, Austria | ||
| Moment Ginza, Forgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden | |||
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| Du Construit, Du Paysage, Centre Regional d`Art Contemporain, Sete, France | ||
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| Future Recollections, Kyoto Muncipal Museum of Art, Japan | ||
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| Lust Und Leere - Japanische Fotografie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria | ||
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| Arken Museum of Modern Art Kopenhagen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany | ||
| 1996 | Oh, My Japanese Landscapes?, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukoka, Japan | ||
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| Prospect '96, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany | ||
| 1995 | Contemporary Art Forum Gallerys '95, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan | ||
| 1994 | Art Now 94, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan | ||
| *catalogue | |||
| AWARDS | |||
| 2001 | Kyoto prefectural Artist Prize | ||
| 2000 | Sakuya-Konohana Prize, Osaka City, Japan | ||
| 1999 | Higashigawa Prize, Higashigawa, Hokkaido, Japan | ||
| 1999 | Kyoto City Artist Prize | ||
| 1999 | VOCA prize: The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 1998 | First prize: Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University | ||
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |||
| Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan | |||
| Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |||
| Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denkmark | |||
| Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |||