1987 Born in Fukui Pref, Japan.
Lives and works in Tokyo.
EDUCATION
2012 Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography
2010 Graduated from Nihon University Collage of Economics
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 HANON, IMA CONCEPT STORE , Tokyo
2016 Rain, webber gallery, London
2016 COLORS - YUSURIKA, aura gallery, Beijing
2016 SAKURA, ibasho gallery, Antwerp
2016 TOKYO PARROTS | COLORS | Paris, ELTTOB TEP ISSEY MIYAKE / GINZA, Tokyo
2015 Tokyo Parrots–Yusurika–Moonlight, Galerie Au Premier, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 YUSURIKA, IMA Gallery , Tokyo
2015 TOKYO PARROTS, aura gallery, Beijing
2015 COLORS / TOKYO PARROTS , IMA Gallery , Tokyo
SELECTED GROUPE EXHIBITIONS
2016 TRES + TRES FOTOGRAFIA, Embajada de Espana, Tokyo
2016 Festival Photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly, France
2015 Map of Daily Life, 7th Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui , China
2015 TOKYO PARROTS, Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography 2015, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2015 SHASHIN! Japanese Photography Then/Now, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 Young Portfolio 2014, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA) , Japan
2014 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2014 exhibition, Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona
2014 Foam Magazine Talent 2014 exhibition, Atelier Neerlandais, Paris / /East Wing Gallery, Dubai
2014 TOKYO2020, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
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AWARDS
2014 LensCulture Emerging Talents Top 50
2014 Foam Talent, Amsterdam
2014 Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Japan
2013 Tokyo Frontline Photo Award 2013 Jury Award (selecting judge : Taisuke Koyama), Tokyo
2013 Japan Photo Award 2013 Jury Award (selecting judge : Ivan Vartanian), Tokyo
2012 Awarded Tokyo Frontline Photo Award 2012, Tokyo
PUBLICATION
2016 HONON, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2015 YUSURIKA, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2015 COLORS , amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2014 Tokyo Parrots, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2014 Taxi Dirty Books, Boabooks, Genève, Switzerland
PUBLIC/PRIVATE COLLECTION
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Yamanashi, Japan
amana collection, Tokyo
Collection de Heus-Zomer, Amsterdam
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Hermès Collection of Contemporary Photographs, Paris
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
IMA gallery, Tokyo, Japan
ibasho gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
aura gallery, Beijing, China
Christophe Guye Galerie,Swiss
Though a longtime Tokyo resident, nature continues to call out to this Japanese photographer. Taking inspiration from yusurika, tiny midges, he transforms his surroundings into something fantastical.
“Sometimes photography without context is enough — sometimes the lack of context gives depth to the picture, a resonance, gives us space to examine the banality of the subject and its inherent beauty.”
Flocks, or companies, of feral parrots have taken over parts of Tokyo by the hundreds.
