Exhibition 3 “Hiroshima”

Ishiuchi Miyako (photographer) [Profile]

Ishiuchi Miyako

Born in 1947 in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture and raised in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Ishiuchi received the 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Award for Apartment in 1979. In 2005, she represented Japan at the 51st Venice Biennale with Mother’s—a series of photographs of her mother’s belongings. Hiroshima, a series of photographs of atomic bomb victims’ belongings that has continued since 2007, has also received international acclaim. For this work, she was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2013 and the Hasselblad International Photography Award, which is known as the Nobel Prize of the photography world, in 2014. She received the Asahi Prize in 2022.
-Recent major exhibitions and publications:
Solo exhibition “Postwar Shadows” at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. In 2016, Frida: Love and Pain published by Iwanami Shoten; in 2017, solo exhibition “Grain and Image” at Yokohama Museum of Art; in 2019, “Miyako and Chihiro: The Story of Two Women” at Chihiro Art Museum, Tokyo; in 2021, solo exhibition “Seen and Unseen: Tracing Photography” at Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City; in 2021, Moving Away published by Sokyusha; in 2022, solo exhibition “Ishiuchi Miyako” at Each Modern, Taiwan and at Stills, Edinburgh. She participated in the “Before/After” reopening of the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in March 2023, among others. She is scheduled to have a solo exhibition at the Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu in July 2024.

　Her works are in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Tate Modern.

Ishiuchi Miyako is a world-renowned photographer who considers skin and clothing as vessels of time and continues to take photographs to capture the invisible.
At the exhibition, some of her works from “Hiroshima,” a collection of photographs of the belongings left behind by atomic bomb victims, are on display.
Women’s and children’s clothing, including fashionable dresses and polka-dot blouses, convey the daily life that was taken from them in an instant on the morning of August 6, 1945, and the unspeakable pain that followed.