Shizuka Yokomizo

Exhibitions at WAKO:

» 2015.07 (solo)
» 2008.10 (solo)
» 2008.01
» 2007.01 (solo)
» 2005.01
» 2003.11 (solo)
» 2003.03 (solo)
» 1998.12
» 1997.05 (solo)

» Publications List

Born in Tokyo in 1966.
Lives and works in London.

Education

1993-95: MA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
1990-93: BA Fine Arts (Honours) in Sculpture, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK
1989-90: Foundation Course, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Kent, UK
1985-89: BA Philosophy, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Solo Exhibitions

2015: Kurogo, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
2014: Shizuka Yokomizo, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London (UK)
2009: Shizuka Yokomizo, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife (ES)
2008: I CAN FEEL IT (BUT I CAN'T SEE IT), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
2007: PRAYER, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
2005: Shizuka Yokomizo, Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES)
2004: Distance, Site Gallery, Sheffield; Chapter, Cardiff; Spacex Gallery, Exeter (UK), (cat.)
2003: Shizuka Yokomizo, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY (US)
Forever (and again), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES)
Untitled, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
2002: Shizuka Yokomizo, Museo D’arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome (IT)
Shizuka Yokomizo, The Approach, London (UK)
2001: Dear Stranger, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY (US)
2000: Dear Stranger, The Approach, London (UK)
1998: Sleeping, Duncan Cargill, London (UK)
1997: Sleeping, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
Light - Say Something Funny, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

Group Exhibitions

2018: Mapping the Invisible, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2018, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
Forever (and again), IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka (JP), (cat.)
2016: Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now, SF MOMA, San Francisco (US)
2015: STANCE or DISTANCE?, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto(JP)
Artist File 2015　Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea, The National Art Center, Tokyo (JP)
2015-1 When Documents Become Form, Hiroshima MOCA, Hiroshima (JP)
2014: Asuntos Domésticos: VISIONIA, Heroínas de la Cultura, Huesca (ES)
Landscapes in décoletté, Kunst-und Kulturstifung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim (DE)
Five videos, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida (US)
2013: Wako Works of Art Gallery Selection, TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo (JP)
At The Window: The Photographer’s View, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
The Other Portrait (by Jean-Luc Nancy), MART Museum, Rovereto (IT)
Borderline: Collection Exhibition, Kanazawa 21 Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP)
2012: A Window on the World, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano (CH)
Skyscraper, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)
2011: Touch of Image, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Yokohama (JP)
2010: Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London (UK); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US), Fundácion Canal, Madrid (ES), (cat.)
Talent Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (US)
Day & Night : Copenhagen Photo Festival 2010, City of Copenhagen (DK)
2009: 100 Stories about Love - Zone 2, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa (JP)
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka (JP)
2008: On Your Body: Contemporary Japanese Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
Wako Works of Art: 15 Years - Part III, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
to: Night - Contemporary Representations of the Night, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY (US)
Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, The Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, PA (US)
2007: Hidden Narratives, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (UK)
2006: Pardon Me, Saidye Bronfman Arts Centre, Montreal (CA)
Photographer's Contract, Akademie der Künst, Berlin; Museum Moisbroich, Leverkusen (DE)
2005: Focus on: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (US)
Another Story: Selected Works from the Collection, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP), (cat.)
Japanese artists' recent works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
iD, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (UK)
2004: Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS (US)
Britannia Works, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre & Renos Xippas Gallery, Athens (GR)
Uscita Pistoia, SpazioA, Pistoia (IT)
PHotoEspaña 2004, Madrid (ES)
Shutters, Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, NY (US)
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary - Japanese Contemporary Photography, traveling until 2007: Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne (DE); University of Valladolid, Valladolid; Casa Asia, Barcelona; Centro Cultural de la Caja de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES); Institut Supérieur d'Architecture Lambert Lombard, Liège (BE); Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome (IT); Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin (DE); artsdepot, London; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK); George G. Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; New Jersey City University Art Galleries, Jersey City, NJ (US); Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City (MX)
2003: Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
Clandestine, curated by Francesco Bonami, La Biennale de Venezia, Venice (IT), (cat.)
Days Like These - The 2nd Tate Triennial, Tate Museum Britain, London (UK), (cat.)
The Furtive Gaze, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (US)
Drawing with Light - International Photography Festival, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham (UK)
2002: Undertow, (with Année Olofsson) Fusebox, Washington D.C. (US)
Reality Check, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (SI); 14 Wharf Rd, London (UK); House of Artists, Zagreb (HR); Rudolfinum, Prague (CZ); Bunkier Gallery, Krakow (PL); Arsenals, Riga (LV)
Spectator, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg (AT)
WEWANTOUT, Citylights, Melbourne (AU)
2001: The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations: Recent British Art and Photography, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid (ES)
Articulate Voice, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Invitational, Yokohama (JP)
Actual Art from Japan, Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Museo Pecci, Prato (IT)
Small Narratives – Unreal Presence, curated by Samuel-Fuyumi Namioka and Thomas Peutz, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)
Present Future, ARTissima, Turin (IT)
Future Perfect/Senritsu Mirai – Present-Day Art From Japan, Centro Per L’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT)
2000: Sodium Blindness, APT Gallery, London (UK)
From A Distance, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (FR)
Perfidy, Couvent St. Marie de la Tourette, Lyon (FR); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (UK)
Where Did You Find Me?, Incubator, London (UK); James Hockey Gallery, Surrey (UK)
1999: Reflective Surface, Cable Gallery, Helsinki (FI); Fagfabricken, Stockholm (SW); Photo Gallery, Vienna (AT)
1998: Two Person Show with Tomoko Kubo, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
1997: From this moment on…, The Approach, London (UK)
The Bible of Networking, Konstakuten, Stockholm (SW); Sali Gia Gallery, London (UK); P-House Gallery, Tokyo (JP) [traveled until 1999]
1995: Embraceable You, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (UK)
1994: No Vacancies, Hanauer Landstrasse, Frankfurt (DE)
Group Show, Clove Two Gallery, London (UK)
MA Mid-Year Show, Chisenhale Gallery, London (UK)
1993: Western Exposure, Riverside Studios, London (UK)
1992: Flou, Alternative Space, Paris (FR)

Public Collections

Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, UK
Japan Foundation Collections, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
Nottingham Castle Collections, UK
Norton Museum of Art, Maiami, USA
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angels, USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Vangi Museo/The Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, South Korea

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