Mika Ninagawa
Mika Ninagawa
b. 1972, Tokyo, Japan
Education:
1997
B.F.A., Graphic Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions:
2020
Mika Ninagawa: Tokyo, Parco Museum Tokyo ,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Mika Ninagawa: Light of, Tomio Koyama Gallery ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Mika Ninagawa, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
Mika Ninagawa: Self-Image, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Noir, 8/Art Gallery, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Portraits and Flowers, Capsule Gallery
Portraits and Flowers, Sunday Cafe
2014
Eden Collection, Etro Boutique, London
2013
Lucky Star Ninagawa Men and Women, Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan
Hawaii Paradise, DFS Galleria Waikiki, Hawaii, USA
Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
2012
Retrospective, Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Plant a Tree, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
8/Art Gallery, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2011
CANON Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Flower & Goldfish, MOT / ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
noir & SAKURAN, TIVAC: Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2010
Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Nederland
FLOWER ADDICT, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
noir, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
conjunction with the RIZZOLI publication MIKA NINAGAWA, EYE of GYRE, Omotesando GYRE, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Liquid Dreams, GALERIE PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany
FLOWER ADDICT, Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors, The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan
Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors, Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan
Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
2008
Mika Ninagawa x GLAMOROUS Charity Nude; photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon, Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo / HERBIS PLAZA ENT, Osaka
Mikas, daydreaming theater, PARCO FACTORY, Shibuya Tokyo / Sapporo Parco, Sapporo / Nagoya Parco, Nagoya / Sendai Parco, Sendai
Mika Ninagawa, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima
Mika Ninagawa, Beijing Art Now Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai
mika ninagawa, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen
Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate
Helene Nyborg, Valby, Denmark
EROTIC TEACHER X X X YUKA by MIKA, Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan: Kyoto Gokurakudo 2F, Kyoto, Japan
2007
Mika Ninagawa Exhibition, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Mika Ninagawa, Colette, Paris
girls holiday!, LAPNET SHIP, Harajuku, Tokyo / Shizuoka Parco, Shizuoka
CELINE meets Mika Ninagawa, Isetan Shinjuku Main Building, Tokyo
Everlasting Flowers, Galleria MICIA, Takamatsu
NINAGAWA WOMAN, Omotesando Hills Space [O:], Tokyo
2006
Everlasting Flowers 1, Tokyo Wonder Site Sibuya, Tokyo
Everlasting Flowers 2, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2005
MIKA NINAGAWA PHOTO EXHIBITION IN LONDON 2005, eclectic, London
floating yesterday, GALLERY SPEAK FOR, Tokyo
2004
mika over the rainbow, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo / HEP HALL, Osaka / Hiroshima Parco, Hiroshima / Nagoya Takashimaya, Nagoya / Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka
photographs 2001-2004, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2003
Acid Bloom #1, gallery ROCKET, Tokyo
Acid Bloom #2, NADiff, Tokyo
Liquid Dreams, Shibuya Parco museum, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya
2002
Ever Holding My Ocean,NADiff, Tokyo
like a peach, Spiral Garden, Tokyo / Laforet Harajuku, Matsuyama
MIKA NINAGAWA at ISSEY MIYAKE AOYAMA, Issey Miyake Aoyama Store, Tokyo
2001
Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo/Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya
2000
Pink Rose Suite, gallery ROCKET, Tokyo
Sugar and Spice, Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo / Tank Gallery, Osaka
1999
Baby Blue Sky, Shinjuku Konica Plaza, Tokyo
Christmas at Isla Mujeres, NADiff, Tokyo
French kiss, gallery ROCKET, Tokyo
1997
Walk 3, Guardian Garden, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions:
2020
Our Duty Is To Experiment: 20 Years Galerie Priska Pasquer, Priska Pasquer ,Cologne, Germany
2019
Summer in the City’19, Galerie Wouter Van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection. Part II, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art ,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2017
20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3: Synchronicity, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2016
The Fantastic Journey, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Gallery Collection, Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo
2015
Daisuke Fukunaga, Toru Kuwakubo, Mika Ninagawa, Satoshi Ohno, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Art Fair Tokyo, Artistic Practices A Pop Rimpa / Rimpa Pop, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
Frieze Art Fair, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Randalls Island, New York
Now and Then: Japanese Photography and Art, Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2014
Ohara Contemporary at Musabi, Musashino Art University Museum, Japan
DOMMUNE University of the Arts -Tokyo Arts Circulation, 3331 Chiyoda Arts Complex, Tokyo
FIAC 2014, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Paris
Artissima, 2014, Oval - Lingotto Fiere, Torino, Tomio Koyama Gallery
2013
Collection, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore
Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary Exhibition: Flowers, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Art Basel Hong Kong, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Hong Kong
Ginza Mitsukoshi x Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection, Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Why Not Live for Art? II-9 Collectors reveal their treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Exhibition in Kassel/Daido Moriyama and Mika Ninagawa, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2012
Mika & Hiroko NINAGAWA, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
G-Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo
Frieze Fair New York, Tomio Koyama, Randalls Island Park, NY
Art HK 12, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Hong Kong
2011
Temporary Exhibition: Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
JAPANCONGO, Le Magasin - Centre National d Art Contemporain, Grenoble; The Garage Center For Contemporary Culture, Moscow; Palazzo Reale, Milan
Nakanoshima Collections: Osaka City Museum of Modern Art & The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Art Gallery X, Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Future Pass: From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition-la Biennale di Venezia Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venice, Italy
CAFE in Mito 2011, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2010
In aller Munde / On the tip of everyones tongue, The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
NINAGAWA BAROQUE / EXTREME, NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Visualist, National Art Gallery Malaysia, Malaysia
Summer Loves, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, 2010, Very Very Good Something / Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan
Contemporary Art Biennale Of Fukushima 2010, Fukushima Prefectural Culture Center, Fukushima, Japan
5th Rome International Film Festival, Fashionable Theater, Romes Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2009
FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPE: Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Omaki, Mika Ninagawa, and Satoko Nachi, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Mori Tower, Tokyo, Japan
2008
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPERCULTURE, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
Faithful Documents: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aki Gallery, Taipei
JAPAN NOW, Inter Alia Art Company, Seoul
Review / Preview: Japanese Photographs, Gallerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
ZOOM ON IN OUT JAPAN, Wave Photo gallery, Brescia, Italy
Gelatin Silver Session 2008: Save The Film, Axis Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya University of Art & Design Center, Kitanagoya / art project room ARTZONE, Kyoto
2007
HITOTUBO, Guardian Garden, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
TOKYO DESIGN PREMIO: Tokyo Designers Week in MILANO, Superstudio Piu, Milan (collaboration with Kengo Kuma)
SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Gelatin Silver Session, Axis Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya University of Arts Art & Design Center, Kitanagoya / art project room ARTZONE, Kyoto
2006
Treasure, Yokohama Civil Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
VOCA 2006, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Idol!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Fish and our lives, The Museum of Art Ehime, Matsuyama
2005
Artists Gardens: Botanical Recollections, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
2004
HARAJUKU COLLABO- APARTMENT 2004, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
TAKARAZUKA: THE LAND OF DREAMS, Suntory Museum, Osaka / Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama
2003
Hitotsuboten 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002, Guardian Garden, Tokyo
do hope for the future, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
Topics on Happiness, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo, Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo
KEEP IN TOUCH. POSITIONS IN JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
take art collection 2003, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
LOVE PLANET, Okayama City Arts Festival 2003, Izushi Elementary School, Okayama
2002
The Doraemon, Suntory Museum, Osaka /Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama /Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa / Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya / Oita Art Museum, Oita / Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, / Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita / Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, / Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, / Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto
Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, China
Futuring Power: Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
VERSUS EXHIBITION 02, Nakameguro Depot, Tokyo / Parco Museum, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya
2001
Three Rooms, epSITE Epson Imaging Gallery, Tokyo
1997
Naked Eyes, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo
Japanese New Generation Photographers, Colette, Paris
Awards:
2007
Directed the film: SAKURAN, presented at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival and the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival
2006
Ohara Museum of Art Award
2001
The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award
1998
The 9th Konica Photo Encouragement Award
1996
Grand prix at The 7th Hitotsubo ten Superior Prize at The 13th Canon New Cosmos of Photography
Collections:
UBS Art CollectionContemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
Ohara Museum of Art
Toyota Contemporary Art Collection
SURUGA BANK
Huis Marseille