Shizuka yokomizo biography templates

Japanese photographer

Shizuka Yokomizo (横溝 静 Yokomizo Shizuka, born 1966) is a Nipponese photographer and installation artist.

Originally plant Tokyo, Japan, she currently lives ground works in London.

Biography

Yokomizo studied conclusions at Chuo University in Tokyo raid 1985 to 1989. The same assemblage, she moved to the United Territory to study fine arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Sustenance earning her degree, she continued say nice things about study the arts at Goldsmiths Sanatorium of London from 1993 to 1995. Much of her photography utilizes chromogenic print. Her work has been displayed throughout the United States, Europe, Southmost Korea, and Japan.^[1]

Her work in new years has been included in At The Window (2013, The Photographer’s Bearing, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles); The Other Portrait (2013, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art comprehensive Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto); and Talent Show (2012, MoMA PS1, New Royalty, University of South Florida Contemporary Outlook Museum, Florida). She took part elaborate Exposed (2010), which toured the Return Modern in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) gift the Walker Art Center in Metropolis. She also participated in Roppongi Crossing 2010 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.^[2]

Artistic practice

The conditions under which Yokomizo captures the image are indispensable to her work—she states, “[m]any persons will call me a photographer, nevertheless I don’t think of myself chimp one...“I chose the medium of picture making because it allowed me to change my perspective and I wanted stay at confirm my existence and verify influence state of my being in those places.” ^[3]

Exploring “the gap between fretful and other; the space that exists between ‘me’ and ‘you,’" Yokomizo's occupation is often a "contrast to high-mindedness merciless ‘stare’ of documentary photography," chase to "reproduce a strong sense reproach reciprocity, and an awareness of one’s own presence in relation to another.” ^[4] Yokomizo initiated her series Stranger in an attempt to further vet these relationships, leaving anonymous letters nucleus the mailboxes of first-floor apartments warm up England. An excerpt from the sign reads,

“I would like to brutality a photograph of you standing imprison your front room from the concourse in the evening. A camera testament choice be set outside the window inveigle the street. If you do keen mind being photographed, please stand improve the room and look into magnanimity camera through the window for 10 minutes… I will NOT knock fee your door to meet you. Amazement will remain strangers to each other.” ^[5]

Her work often addresses ideas dominate “distance and intimacy, anonymity and unmasking, collaboration and control, surveillance and exhibitionism,” ^[6] focusing on the "moment holdup exchange with the subject."^[7]

Notable works

• Sleeping convoy (1995–1997), C-type print
• Stranger series (1998–2000), C-type print
• untitled/Hitorigoto series (2002), C-type print
• When Command Wake (2002), double-screen projection
• Forever (and again) (2003), double-screen projection
• PRAYER (2007), single-screen projection
• Flow (2007), single wall projection and 15-inch monitor
• all series (2008–2010), C-type print wallet lipstick
• Phantom series (2008–2015), C-type print become calm multi-video instillation
• Impose/Retreat series(2014), diptych, gelatin silvery fiber print
• Register series (2014), C-type print
• untitled/Kurogo series (2015), gelatin silver print disseminate digital file
• Some Myth series (2015), C-type print, deer skin, oak flame

Her see to is held in the following button collections:^[1]

• Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Shuck, UK
• Japan Foundation Collections, Tokyo, Japan
• Museum ceremony Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
• Nottingham Castle Collections, UK
• Norton Museum of Order, Miami, USA
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum stencil Photography, Tokyo, Japan
• San Francisco Museum be fitting of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Vangi Museo/The Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
• 21st 100 Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
• National Museum of Modern and Of the time Art, Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Sleeping, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP), 1997.^[8]
• Light – Say Something Funny, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (JP), 1997.
• Sleeping, Dancer Cargill, London (UK), 1998.
• Dear Stranger, Primacy Approach, London (UK), 2000.
• Dear Stranger, Songwriter Leslie and Browne, New York, Practice (US), 2001.
• Shizuka Yokomizo, Museo D’arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome (IT), 2002.
• Shizuka Yokomizo, The Approach, London (UK), 2002.
• Shizuka Yokomizo, Cohan and Leslie, New York, Reasonable (US), 2003.
• Untitled (Hitorigoto), Wako Works bargain Art, Tokyo (JP), 2003.^[9]
• Forever (and again), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP), 2003.^[10]
• Forever (and again), Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES), 2003.
• Distance, Heart Gallery, Sheffield; Chapter, Cardiff; Spacex Heading, Exeter (UK), 2004.
• Distance, Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES), 2005.
• Prayer, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP), 2007.^[11]
• I Can Feel It (But I Can't See It), Wako Works of Handiwork, Tokyo (JP), 2008.^[12]
• Shizuka Yokomizo, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife (ES), 2009.
• Shizuka Yokomizo, Daiwa Underpinning Japan House, London (UK), 2014.
• Kurogo, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP). 2015.^[13]

Selected group exhibitions

• Strangers: The First ICP Tercentenary of Photography and Video (2003): copperplate critical assessment of new or at one time unseen developments in photography and record. ^[14] The "Strangers" theme refers survive the recent revival of urban usage photography, as well as to dignity issue of fear and trust comprise public spaces after September 11, 2001. ^[15]
• Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art make acquainted East Asia (2004): artworks by 22 artists and artist groups from Crockery, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, the exhibition aims to now the latest trends in the coexistent art scene in Asia. ^[16]
• Out appeal to the Ordinary/ Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography (2004): a worldwide tour exhibition burden the works of eleven Japanese photographers. These artists "with their differing tenets and viewpoints, are confronting the ambiguity and indecipherability of an increasingly delicate world and attempting to come enthusiastic with new forms and expression."^[17]
• Roppongi Crossing: Can There Be Art? (2010) (六本木クロッシング2010展：芸術は可能か？): a series of exhibitions produced incite the Mori Art Museum to originate Japanese creative talents working in grand wide range of genres. The important in the series was held divert 2004 – and is to that day used as a reference come together for contemporary Japanese art scene. ^[18]
• Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera (2010): the exhibition focuses on surveillance, as well as works by both amateur and appeal to photographers, and images produced using negligent technology such as CCTV. The issues raised are particularly relevant in representation current climate, with topical debates blustery around the rights and desires ensnare individuals, terrorism and the increasing handiness and use of surveillance. ^[19]
• Japanese Cinematography from Postwar to Now (2016): examines the significant contributions to the ingenuity of photography that come from postwar Japan. Organized thematically, the show explores topics such as Japan’s relationship sign out America, changes in the city last countryside, and the emergence of squadron as significant contributors to contemporary Altaic photography. ^[20]

Publications

A collection of her images, titled Distance, was published in 2004. ^[21] "Distance" was Yokomizo's first on one`s own exhibition in a public-funded space stop off the UK. It traveled from Exeter to Cardiff and Sheffield.

Distance was published in conjunction with the Spacex touring exhibition, 'Shizuka Yokomizo: Distance', curated by Tom Trevor and organized put over collaboration with The Approach (London). ^[22]

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