Miyako Ishiuchi
{{short description|Japanese photographer (born 1947)}}
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{{nihongo|Miyako Ishiuchi|石内 都|Ishiuchi Miyako|born March 27, 1947}}, is a Japanese photographer.{{in lang|ja}} Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. {{nihongo|328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers|『日本写真家事典』|Nihon shashinka jiten}}. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. {{ISBN|4-473-01750-8}}
In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale.{{Cite web|title=Ishiuchi Miyako|url=https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/ishiuchi-miyako/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery|language=en-US}} In March 2014, she became the third Japanese photographer, following Hiroshi Hamaya and Hiroshi Sugimoto, to receive the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/wp/en/|title=Hasselblad Foundation | en|accessdate=Apr 11, 2019}}
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,{{Cite web|title=Ishiuchi, Miyako|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Miyako_Ishiuchi/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=SFMOMA|language=en-US}} and the Art Institute of Chicago.{{Cite web|title=Miyako Ishiuchi|url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/111364/miyako-ishiuchi|access-date=2021-03-10|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web|date=2021-09-24|title=Ishiuchi Miyako: Photography as Psychological Event|url=https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/ishiuchi-miyako/|access-date=2021-09-24|website=ocula.com|language=en}}
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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20051211001324/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2005%2F06%2F04%2Fbavenice104.xml#5 Ten hot Biennale artists] Published in the Daily Telegraph, UK, June 4, 2005. Accessed April 19, 2008. 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."[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DF143AF93AA25756C0A9669C8B63 Photography Review; Moments of Ravaging Time]", New York Times, May 19, 2000. Accessed 6 August 2008. She began to take close-ups of the bodies of the very old in the early 1990s. 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2016/AA52.en|title=Miyako Ishiuchi "Frida is"|website=Tokyo Art Beat|language=en|access-date=2018-03-07}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Merola |first1=Alex |title=Death and Destruction: Ishiuchi Miyako's Haunting Pictures of Clothes |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/14296/ishiuchi-miyako-photographer-mothers-exhibition-stills-edinburgh |access-date=November 8, 2022 |work=Another Magazine |date=August 10, 2022 |language=en}}
Exhibitions
=Solo exhibitions=
- Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, October 2015 – February 2016. A retrospective.{{Cite web|title = The Getty Museum|url = http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/ishiuchi/|website = Getty Museum|access-date = 2016-01-31}}
- Grain and Shadow, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, December 2017 – March 2018. A retrospective.{{Cite web|url=https://yokohama.art.museum/eng/exhibition/index/20171209-493.html|title=Ishiuchi Miyako: Grain and Image ｜ Current / Upcoming Exhibitions ｜ Exhibitions ｜ YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART|website=yokohama.art.museum|accessdate=Apr 11, 2019}}
- Ishiuchi Miyako, Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2022 – October 2022.{{cite web |title=Ishiuchi Miyako |url=https://stills.org/exhibitions/ishiuchi-miyako/ |website=Stills |access-date=November 8, 2022}}
=Group exhibitions=
- 1994: Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Guggenheim Museum, New York
- 2005: Venice Biennale
- 2016–2017: Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco{{Cite web|title=Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/japanese-photography-postwar-now/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=SFMOMA|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Focus on Japanese Photography|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/publication/focus-japanese-photography/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=SFMOMA|language=en-US}}
Awards
- 1979: Kimura Ihei Award{{Cite web|title=Domon Ken and Ihei Kimura Prize Winners {{!}} japan exposures|url=http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/03/18/domon-ken-and-ihei-kimura-prize-winners/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=www.japanexposures.com}}
- 1999: Higashikawa Prize, Domestic Photographer Prize{{Cite web|title=受賞種別: Domestic Awards – 国内作家賞|url=https://photo-town.jp/en/collection/award/domestic|access-date=2021-03-10|website=Higashikawa International Photo Festival|language=en-US}}
- 1999: Society of Photography Award{{cite book |last1=Maddox |first1=Amanda |title=Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows |date=2015 |publisher=The J. Paul Getty Museum |location=Los Angeles |isbn=978-1-60606-455-9 |page=183-187 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWqmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA183 |access-date=11 June 2024 |language=en}}
- 2006: Photographic Society of Japan
- 2009: Mainichi Art Award{{cn|date=August 2023}}
- 2013: Medal of Honor, Purple Ribbon
- 2014: Hasselblad Award, Hasselblad Foundation
Collections
Ishiuchi's work is held in the following public collections:
- Museum of Modern Art, New York{{Cite web|title=Miyako Ishiuchi {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/8090|access-date=2021-03-10|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}
- J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles{{Cite web|title=Collection (Getty Museum)|url=http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search/?view=grid&query=YToxOntzOjEzOiJwcm92ZW5hbmNlLmlkIjthOjE6e2k6MDtpOjI4NDMyO319|access-date=2021-03-10|website=The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles|language=en}}
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art{{Cite web|title=Works in collection SFMOMA|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Miyako_Ishiuchi/#works|access-date=2021-03-10|website=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}
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Category:Japanese contemporary artists
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