Miyako Ishiuchi

Miyako Ishiuchi (石内 都, Ishiuchi Miyako, born March 27, 1947), is a Japanese photographer.[1]

Miyako Ishiuchi
Born
Nitta District, Gunma
NationalityJapanese
Known forphotographer

In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale.[2] In March 2014, she became the third Japanese photographer, following Hiroshi Hamaya and Hiroshi Sugimoto, to receive the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.[3]

Ishiuchi's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,[4] and the Art Institute of Chicago.[5]

Life and work

Ishiuchi was born March 27, 1947, in Nitta District, Gunma, Japan, and raised in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. She graduated from Yokosuka City Public High school and was admitted to the design department at Tama Art University, where she specialized in textile dying and weaving. She left the department in her second year.

Ishiuchi grew up in Kiryu and Yokosuka, home to the largest naval base in the East. There, she remained until she was 19. "The scars of adolescence that I sustained there had a big effect on me, and you could say that Yokosuka was the starting point for my photography," the artist tells Ocula Magazine in 2021.[6]

Ishiuchi began photographing with one of the most renowned generations in Japanese photography, which included such photographers as Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu. These photographers were dealing with postwar trauma while also exploring new directions in photography for the new, postwar era.

Ishiuchi has produced full collections of photography since the late 1970s. Her first photo series was a study of Yokosuka, Yokosuka Stories (1976–1977), documenting the city where she grew up.[7] While working with them, Ishiuchi organized the all-women photography exhibition Hyakka Ryoran at the Shimizu Gallery in 1976. In 1979, she won the Kimura Ihei Award for her photoalbum APARTMENT and her photography exhibition Apaato.

Her work favors the oversize grainy prints and gritty subject matter that characterize the pictures of many photographers in the late 1960s and 1970s who preferred the are-bure, or grainy-blurry.[8] She began to take close-ups of the bodies of the very old in the early 1990s.[8] More recently, her photographs have addressed themes of skin, clothing, and time. In Hiroshima (2008), she photographed the clothes of victims from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In Frida: Love and Pain (2012), she was invited by the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City to photograph Frida Kahlo's personal artifacts, including corsets, clothing, shoes, rings, combs and other accessories, makeup, and medicines.[9] In 2022, she held her first show in Scotland at Edinburgh's Stills studio. The exhibition showed selected photographs from her previous series Mother's, Hiroshima and Frida.[10]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, October 2015 – February 2016. A retrospective.[11]
  • Grain and Shadow, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, December 2017 – March 2018. A retrospective.[12]
  • Ishiuchi Miyako, Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2022 – October 2022.[13]

Group exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Ishiuchi's work is held in the following public collections:

References
  1. (in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
  2. "Ishiuchi Miyako". Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  3. "Hasselblad Foundation | en". Retrieved Apr 11, 2019.
  4. "Ishiuchi, Miyako". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  5. "Miyako Ishiuchi". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  6. "Ishiuchi Miyako: Photography as Psychological Event". ocula.com. 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  7. Ten hot Biennale artists Published in the Daily Telegraph, UK, June 4, 2005. Accessed April 19, 2008.
  8. "Photography Review; Moments of Ravaging Time", New York Times, May 19, 2000. Accessed 6 August 2008.
  9. "Miyako Ishiuchi "Frida is"". Tokyo Art Beat. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  10. Merola, Alex (August 10, 2022). "Death and Destruction: Ishiuchi Miyako's Haunting Pictures of Clothes". Another Magazine. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  11. "The Getty Museum". Getty Museum. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  12. "Ishiuchi Miyako: Grain and Image ｜ Current / Upcoming Exhibitions ｜ Exhibitions ｜ YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART". yokohama.art.museum. Retrieved Apr 11, 2019.
  13. "Ishiuchi Miyako". Stills. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  14. "Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  15. "Focus on Japanese Photography". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  16. "Domon Ken and Ihei Kimura Prize Winners | japan exposures". www.japanexposures.com. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  17. "受賞種別: Domestic Awards – 国内作家賞". Higashikawa International Photo Festival. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  18. "Miyako Ishiuchi | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  19. "Collection (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  20. "Works in collection SFMOMA". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
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