Yurie Nagashima

Yurie Nagashima (長島 有里枝, Nagashima Yurie, born 1973) is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist working predominantly in the genres self-portraiture, portraiture, street photography and still life.

Yurie Nagashima
BornOctober 1973 (age 47)
Nagano, Tokyo, Tokyo
NationalityJapanese
Known forPhotography

In 2000, Nagashima was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award. Nagashima is a photography tutor at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.

Biography

Yurie Nagashima rose to national fame in Japan after receiving the second annual Urbanart award hosted by the Parco Gallery in Tokyo in 1993 for a series of photographs depicting herself and her family in the nude.[1] Nagashima was nominated for the award by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's best known photographers. At the time, Nagashima was still a student at Musashino Art University in Tokyo from where she graduated in 1995 with a BA in visual communication design.[2] In 1995, Nagashima had a two-person exhibition with the American photographer Catherine Opie at the Parco Gallery, Tokyo.[2] Following this encounter with Opie, Nagashima embarked on a MFA at the California Institute of the Arts under her tutelage.

Nagashima has published numerous important photography monographs that deal with the family, gender, identity and sexuality. In the West, Nagashima has been compared to American photographer Nan Goldin.[3] In at times provocative photographs, Nagashima has tested public perceptions on obscenity and censorship in Japan.[4] Since 2000 to 2014, Nagashima was represented by the gallery SCAI the Bathhouse in Tokyo, where she had numerous solo and group exhibitions.[2] In addition to her work as a photographer and photography tutor, Nagashima has published (as Senaka no kioku, meaning "Memories of a back") a series of biographical stories from her childhood in 2009.[5]

In August 2014, Nagashima was a Master at the International Summer School of Photography, in Latvia. She led a workshop titled 'Photography as a Subversive Tactic: Being the Other'.[6]

Nagashima is currently represented by MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY in Tokyo where she had the most recent exhibition "about home".

Books
  • Nagashima Yurie Photobook, Fuga, Tokyo, 1995. ISBN 4-89424-059-9.
  • Empty White Room (エンプティホワイトルーム), Little More, Tokyo, 1995. ISBN 4-947648-17-1.
  • Kazoku (家族) / A Family, Korinsha Press, Kyoto, 1998. ISBN 4-7713-0334-7.
  • Pastime Paradise, Madra, Tokyo, 2000. ISBN 4-944079-23-0.
  • not six, Switch, Tokyo, 2004. ISBN 4-88418-014-3.
  • Senaka no Kioku (背中の記憶), Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009. ISBN 978-4-06-215896-1.
  • Swiss, Akaaka, Tokyo, 2010. ISBN 4-903545-59-8.
  • 5 comes after 6, MATCH and Company, Tokyo, 2014.[7]

Solo exhibitions
  • 2015 "5 Comes After 6" UTRECHT, Tokyo
  • 2011 "What I was supposed to see and what Isaw" 1223 GENDAIKAIGA, Tokyo
  • 2010 "SWISS" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, viewing space, Tokyo
  • 2007 "a box named flower" lammfromm, Tokyo
  • 2005 "Her Projects – memories of no one" KIRIN PLAZA OSAKA, Osaka
  • 2004 "Candy Horror" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
  • 2004 "not six" NADiff, Tokyo
  • 2000 "PASTIME PARADISE" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
  • 1999 "I want to be your power" California Institute of the Arts, California
  • 1994 "Nagashima Yurie - A Room of Love-" P-House Gallery, Tokyo

Awards
  • Kodansha Essay Award, Tokyo (2010)
  • The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, Tokyo (2001)
  • PARCO Prize in URBANART #2, Tokyo (1993)

References
  1. Warner Marien, Mary (2006). Photography: A Cultural History. London: Laurence King, p. 464.
  2. "Yurie Nagashima Archived July 4, 2010, at the Wayback Machine", SCAI the Bathhouse.
  3. Friis-Hansen, Dana (2003). Internationalization, Individualism, and the Institutionalization of Photography. In: Tucker, Anne Wilkes (et al.), The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  4. Roscoe, Bruce (2007). Windows on Japan: a walk through place and perception. New York: Algora, p. 278.
  5. Masatsugu Ono, "A Year in Reading", The Millions.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://www.bookshop-m.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=43
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