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Yoshinori Mizutani 

 

1987   Born in Fukui Pref, Japan.

            Lives and works in Tokyo.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022    Voices of flowers, Chayamachi Applause, Osaka, Japan

2021    L'oiseau bleu, United Nations Genève, Genève

2020    Birds, Christophe Guye Galerie,  Switzerland

2018    HDR_nature, IMA gallery, Tokyo

2018    SAKURA / MOONLIGHT, IMA gallery, Tokyo

2017    Couleurs Tokyoïtes, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris

2016    Yoshinori Mizutani, mc2gallery, Milano, Italy

2016    HANON,  IMA CONCEPT STORE , Tokyo

2016    Rain, webber gallery, London

2016    COLORS - YUSURIKA, aura gallery, Beijing

2016    SAKURA, ibasho gallery, Antwerp

2016    Yoshinori Mizutani 2010-14, Tokyo Art Coordination, Tokyo

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    TOKYO PARROTS / YUSURIKA, Graanmarkt 13, Antwerp   

2015    COLORS / TOKYO PARROTS , IMA Gallery , Tokyo

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023    Breda Photo Festival, Netherlands

2023    Prix Pictet Fire & Water Exhibition, TOP museum, Tokyo

2022    Des oiseaux, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

2022    Photoville festival 2022, Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY

2022    Des oiseaux, Toulouse

2022    Capture photography Festival, Canada

2021    T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO, Tokyo

2021   6STORIES, Higashikawa Bunka gallery, Higashikawa, Hokkaido

2021    Beginnings, Forever, Museum of Photographic Arts(MOPA), San Diego

2020    PEP (Paris Expériences Photos), Paris

2019    Asama International Photo Festival, Miyota, Nagano, Japan

2019    The Photaumnales festival, France

2019    NEKO project, IBASHO gallery,   Antwerp

2018    Kachō-ga. The Poetry of Japanese Nature, Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Netherlands 

2018    NONIO ART WAVE, ZeroBase Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan

2018    Seoul Photo Festival, Seoul

2018    Provoke 2.0, Festiwal Fotografii Plener, Poland

2018    Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2018    Asama International Photo Festival, Miyota, Nagano, Japan

2018    GETXOPHOTO Festival, Getxo, Basque

2018    TSUKA 塚, CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (CCP), Australia

2018    Weather, D museum, Seoul

2017    Urban Wildlife, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany

2017    FESTIVAL FOTOGRAFICO EUROPEO, Milano

2017    the amana collection「new photography」, IMA gallery, Tokyo

2016    Tennoz Canal Autumn Festival, Tennoz Isle, Tokyo

2016    Urban Green, More Than A Gallery, Paris

2016    Seoul Lunar Photo Festival 2016, Seoul

2016    Fake Romanticism, The Grand Summit, Beijing

2016    Tennoz Canal Summer Festival, Tennoz Isle, Tokyo

2016    ASYAAF & Hidden Artists Festival 2016, DDP, Seoul, South Korea

2016    TRES + TRES FOTOGRAFIA, Embajada de Espana, Tokyo

2016    IMA gallery collection, IMA CONCEPT STORE, Tokyo

2016    Festival Photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly, France

2016    Map of Daily Life, TAFA(Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Gallery), Tianjin, China

2016    Near Future Art / DOORS, Istan Shinjuku 7F, Tokyo 

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    Another Room, IMA CONCEPT STORE (IMA gallery), Tokyo

2015    SUMMER EXHIBITION 2015, ibasho gallery, antwerp

2015    SHASHIN! Japanese Photography Then/Now, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong

2015    Young Portfolio 2014, Kiyosato Museum of  Photographic Arts (KMoPA) , Japan

2015    NEW JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY ,DOOMED GALLERY2  , London

2015    LUMIX MEETS BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #2 ,  IMA CONCEPT STORE , Tokyo    

2014    LUMIX MEETS BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #2 , Yellowkorner Gallery Paris Pompidou , Paris    

2014    Foam Magazine Talent 2014 exhibition,East Wing Gallery, Dubai

2014    LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2014 exhibition, Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona   

2014    Foam Magazine Talent 2014 exhibition, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam

2014    Foam Magazine Talent 2014 exhibition, Atelier Neerlandais, Paris  

2014    TOKYO2020, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2014    Light and moment vol.17-spirited photographers- , Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013    TOKYO 2020 By Japanese Photographers 9, 1 Rue Richelieu, Paris / Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan

2011    Those Born From Room, Count Down Gallery Momozonogaro, Tokyo, Japan

2010    THESE DAYS, Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

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

 

 

​PHOTOBOOKS

2023    Tsutaya/Amsterdam, Boabooks, Genève, Switzerland 

2021    SAKURA, the(M) éditions & IBASHO, Paris & Antwerp

2020    Tori to te, PHOTOPAPAER /  Kasseler Fotografie Festival, Germany

2019    Des oiseaux / Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris

2018    HDR_nature, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo

2016    HANON, 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 

 

 

PRESS 

2018    Photography Journal Asahi camera #December 2018, The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo

2018    The British Journal of Photography #7878, England

2018    IMA #25, amana, Tokyo

2018    Shincho 45 #9, Shincyosya, Japan

2018    GENDA magazine #2, Italy and China

2018    ZEIT WISSEN #03, German

2018    BLAD #8, Danmark

2017    Closing Ceremony Magazine, Vol.1, China 

2017    fisheye magazine #24, Paris

2017    VOSTOK, SNAP issue 5, South Korea

2017    READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO TAKE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF PLACES. , London

2017    American Chordata Issue 5, US

2017    STUDIO VOICE Vol.410, INFAS publications, Tokyo

2017    MONKEY vol.11, SWITCH publishing, Tokyo

2017    CULTURE TURE Bros. Vol.6, Tokyo News Service, Ltd., Tokyo

2017    The Asahi Shimbun, 2/18, Japan

2017    IL FOTOGRAFO magazine, March 2017, Italy

2017    Financial Times Weekend Magazine, January 7/8, UK

2017    Digital Camera Magazine #185, UK 

2016    ALLEGRA magazine #06, December 2016, Germany

2016    Pagina99, 11 November 2016, Italy

2016    REVS magazine #17, Paris

2016    Digital Camera Magazine #182, UK 

2016    BUNGAKUKAI November, Bungeishunju Ltd. , Tokyo

2016    Pen No.414, CCC media House, Tokyo

2016    Heavy magazine Volume II, The Heavy Collective, Australia

2016    L'OFFICIEL  JAPAN November, SEVEN&i PUBLISHING, Tokyo

2016    Justified Magazine No.4,  UK

2016    RollingStone  JAPAN, October,POWER TO THE PEOPLE, Tokyo

2016    IMA magazine, Vol.17, amana, Tokyo

2016    M, le magazine du Monde, #23 juillet 2016, Le Monde, France

2016    VQR, #Summer 2016, US

2016    wilderness., Oceans issue, Canada

2016    ZOOM magazine, Under 30 Talent #3 /  July, Italy

2016    HARPER'S MAGAZINE / August 2016, Harper's Magazine Foundation, New York, US

2016    CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY / July 2016, China

2016    PHOTOGRAPERS' COMPANION / June 2016, China

2016    THE PLANT magazine issue 9, The Plant Journal, London

2016    IMA English edition Vol.1, amana, Tokyo

2016    SZ magazine#18, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany 

2016    VICE magazine "THE PHOTO ISSUE" Japan edition, VICE JP, Tokyo

2016    NIPPON CAMERA, #5/2016, Japan

2016    VICE magazine April issue, VICE, US

2016    IMA Magazine vol.15, amana, Tokyo

2015    Photography Journal Asahicamera, Dcember 2015, Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., Tokyo

2015    EYESCREAM  "New Shutter Age", December, Tokyo

2015    Libération Newspaper, 01 August, France

2015    Monthly photography Magazine July, South Korea

2015    HOTSHOE #192, London

2015    SHASHIN! Japanese Photography Then/Now Catalogue, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong

2015    Volkskrant magazine, The Netherlands

2015    NIPPON CAMERA, #6/2015, Japan

2015    The Hokkaido Newspaper, 22 March, Japan

2014    Libération Newspaper, 10 November, France

2014    TOKYO 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHER #2, IMA photobooks, Tokyo

2014    SPUR, December 2014, JAPAN

2014    Gente di Fotografia #59, Italy

2014    NEON Magazine, #09/2014, Germany

2014    The Observer newspaper, 6 July, UK

2014    NEON Magazine, #01/2014, Germany

2014    Esquire THAI EDITION, WATCH ISSUE,  June 2014, Thai

2014    GUP Magazine #42, Open Spaces, August 2014, Amsterdam

2014    Foam Magazine #39, Talent, September 2014, Amsterdam

2013    TOKYO 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERES 9, IMA photobooks, amana, Japan

2013    The art of LUMIX / LUMIX GM, Panasonic, amana, Japan

2013    IMA Magazine Winter Vol.6, "STEP OUT Vol.2", Tokyo, Japan

2013    KRITIKA OUTSIDER, Germany

2012    Gypsé Eyes magazine #4: The Magic Issue, NY

 

PUBLIC COLLECTION

Kiyosato Museum of  Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Yamanashi, Japan

amana collection, Tokyo

Collection de Heus-Zomer, Amsterdam

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

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GALLERY REPRESENTATIONS

IMA gallery, Tokyo, Japan

IBASHO gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Christophe Guye Galerie,  Switzerland

 

EDUCATION

2012    Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography

2010    Graduated from Nihon University Collage of Economics

 

 

Born 1987 in Fukui, Mizutani attended the Tokyo College of Photography after graduating from Nihon University College of Economics. In 2014, was selected for the LensCulture Emerging Talents Awards 2014 Top 50 and the Foam Magazine Talent Call 2014. Mizutani has quickly established worldwide recognition and amassed an impressive list of solo exhibitions in numerous countries, including, Tokyo (IMA), Beijing (aura gallery) , Belgium (ibasho gallery), Switzerland (Christophe Guye Galerie),  London (Webber gallery) and  Milan (mc2 gallery). His has so far published 4 books from IMA photobooks; ‘Tokyo Parrots’(2014), ‘Colors’ (2015),  ‘YUSURIKA’(2015) and 'HANON'(2016). He lives and works in Tokyo.

http://www.yoshinori-mizutani.com

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