Born in Tokyo, Japan / Lives in Berlin, Germany.
Yuko Nakajima graduated from Nihon University College of art department of photography (B.F.A.). She then apprenticed under Eiichiro Sakata (one of the top photographers in Japan). In 2017, she moved to Berlin, Germany.In Tokyo, she created A chest (2015), a work on the theme of her great grandmother’s chest and its memory, and The Blue of SAYONARA (2014-2016), a work on the theme Blue which was inspired by the words of Eve Klein.After moving to Germany, she currently focuses on the Berlin Wall which put huge cracks physically and mentally in people that still remains and on the various distances between people that lurk under the surface.
【Education】
2007-2011 Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography / Tokyo, Japan
【Exhibitions】
2020
Auckland festival of photography / Auckland, New Zealand
2019
Your past and your future / THE ART OF SEPTEMBER・Amsterdam, Netherlands
HIGASHIKAWA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL / Hokkaido, Japan
SHADOWS International Group Exhibition / MILLEPIANI EXIHIBITION SACE ROME • Rome, Italy
2018
the ISSP 2018 Final exhibition "Infinite Sauvage" / Kuldīgas Mākslas nams • Kuldīga, Latvia
Madonna in Deutschland / Lesescafe Karatas • Berlin, Germany
~ 2014
2014 some kind of wonderful / Gallery Annex · Tokyo • Tokyo, Japan
2013 APA award / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum • Tokyo, Japan
2013 photogenic drawing / TOTEM POLE PHOTO GALLERY • Tokyo, Japan
2011 U-22 photo compe new wave loves photo / The Art complex Center of Tokyo • Tokyo, Japan
2011 Nihon University College of Art Department of Photography Student Selected Exhibition / Canon gallery • Tokyo, Japan
【Prize】
2017 ipa international photo awards
2016 PX3
2015 ipa international photo awards
2014 mifa moscowfotoawards Gold
2014 ND awards
2013 ipa international photo awards
2013 APA Award
【Art in Residency 】
2018 ISSP INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY -special Higashikawa town scholarship • Latvia
