Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi
Born 1972
Shiga, Japan
Occupation Photographer
Known for Fine arts photography

Rinko Kawauchi Hon FRPS (川内 倫子, Kawauchi Rinko, born 1972) is a Japanese photographer.[1][2][3] Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life.[4][5]

Life and work

Kawauchi became interested in photography while studying graphic design and photography at Seian University of Art and Design where she graduated in 1993.[6] She first worked in commercial photography[6] and advertising for several years before embarking on a career as a fine art photographer.

In 2001 three of her photo books were published: Hanako (a Japanese girl's name), Utatane ("catnap"), and Hanabi ("fireworks"). In the following years she won prizes for two of the books in Japan.[7] In 2004 Kawauchi published Aila; in 2010, Murmuration, and in 2011 Illuminance; in 2009, she also received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography.[6]

Kawauchi's art is rooted in Shinto, the ethnic religion of the people of Japan.[7] According to Shinto, all things on earth have a spirit, hence no subject is too small or mundane for Kawauchi's work; she also photographs "small events glimpsed in passing,"[8] conveying a sense of the transient. Kawauchi sees her images as parts of series that allow the viewer to juxtapose images in the imagination, thereby making the photograph a work of art[9] and allowing a whole to emerge at the end; she likes working in photo books because they allow the viewer to engage intimately with her images.[6] Her photographs are mostly in 6×6 format.[10] However, upon being invited to the Brighton Photo Biennial in 2010, Kawauchi first photographed digitally and began taking photos that were not square.[6] Kawauchi also composes Haiku poems.

Awards

She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2012.[11]

Publications

  • Hanako. 2002.
  • Utatane. 2002.
  • Hanabi (花火, Fireworks). Tokyo: Little More, 2002. ISBN 4-89815-053-5.
  • Aila. 2004.
  • The eyes, the ears. 2005.
  • Cui cui. 2005.
  • Semear. 2007.
  • Murmuration. Brighton: Photoworks, 2010. ISBN 978-1-903796-41-2.
  • One Day - 10 Photographers, Heidelberg/Berlin: Kehrer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86828-173-6, edited by Harvey Benge.[n 1]
  • Illuminance. New York: Aperture, 2011. ISBN 978-1597111447.
  • Approaching Whiteness. Tokyo: Goliga, 2012.
  • Ametsuchi. New York: Aperture, 2013. ISBN 978-1597112161.
  • Light and Shadow. Kanagawa, Japan : Super Labo, 2014[12]
  • Halo. New York: Aperture, 2017. ISBN 1597114111.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2011: Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, curated by David Elliott, Japan Society, New York. With Kawauchi and Makoto Aida (会田誠), Manabu Ikeda (池田学), Tomoko Kashiki (樫木知子), Haruka Kojin (荒神明香), Kumi Machida (町田久美), Yoshitomo Nara (奈良美智), Kohei Nawa (名和晃平), Motohiko Odani (小谷元彦), Hiraki Sawa (さわひらき), Chiharu Shiota (塩田千春), Tomoko Shioyasu (塩保朋子), Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚), Yamaguchi Akira (山口晃), Miwa Yanagi (やなぎみわ) and Tomoko Yoneda (米田知子).
  • 2015: In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 5 April – 12 July 2015.[28]

Notes

  1. ↑ The publisher's description of this set: "One Day - Kehrer Verlag". Kehrer Verlag. Retrieved 2018-04-05.

References

  1. ↑ Shearer, Benjamin F.; Shearer, Barbara Smith (1996). Notable women in the life sciences : a biographical dictionary (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. p. 440. ISBN 0313293023.
  2. ↑ "Celebrated Japanese photographers come to London". British Journal of Photography. 2009-05-12. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Interview: RINKO KAWAUCHI - 川内倫子 - Photographer" (in Japanese). www.public-image.org]. 2008-04-22. Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  4. ↑ Sooke, Alastair (2006-06-06). "Joyless, creepy - and sublime". The Daily Telegraph. Her intimate imagery is worlds apart from that of her co-exhibitors: a newborn with umbilical cord still attached; a green shoot sprouting from a bulb; and, most startling, a cracked egg containing a fluffy hatchling. You come away from her gentle show refreshed.
  5. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (2006-05-07). "Sublime to meticulousJapan's young master finds magic in bugs, clouds and trees". The Guardian. Rinko Kawauchi's subject is the everyday sublime
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Florian Heine & Brad Finger. Rinko Kawauchi. 50 Contemporary Photographers You Should Know. Munich: Prestel 2016.
  7. 1 2 Boris Friedewald. Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman. Munich - London - New York 2014, S. 108, ISBN 978-3-7913-4814-8
  8. ↑ Ian Jeffrey. Rinko Kawauchi: Murmuration.Photoworks, 15(Autumn-Winter, 2010), 26-35 https://photoworks.org.uk/project-news/photoworks-issue-15/
  9. ↑ Yumi Goto, "Rinko Kawauchi's Illuminance". Time, April 11, 2011.
  10. ↑ "10 questions to Rinko Kawauchi about photography". pingmag.jp. 2006-08-11. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  11. ↑ "Honorary Fellowships (HonFRPS)". Royal Photographic Society. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  12. ↑ Kawauchi, Rinko (2014). Light and shadow. ISBN 9784905052678.
  13. ↑ "The Lapis Press". www.lapispress.com.
  14. ↑ "London Town".
  15. ↑ "Rinko Kawauchi, 5 May - 9 July 2006, The Photographers' Gallery"
  16. ↑ Rinko Kawauchi, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo 20 jul-23 set 2007 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
  17. ↑ Strange & Familiar: Three Views of Brighton, Brighton Photo Biennial 2010, Oct 2nd - Nov 14th 2010 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  18. ↑ "Illuminance".
  19. ↑ "TRAUMARIS - SPACE - Photo Gallery". traumaris.tumblr.com.
  20. ↑ "Rinko Kawauchi".
  21. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-27. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
  22. ↑ "RINKO KAWAUCHI, Ametsuchi – PRISKA PASQUER". 6 December 2013.
  23. ↑ "The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) on art-report - de". www.art-report.com. 8 December 2015.
  24. ↑ "College of Art & Design - Lesley University". www.lesley.edu.
  25. ↑
  26. ↑ "Home Page – Kunst Haus Wien. Museum Hundertwasser". www.kunsthauswien.com.
  27. ↑ "Halo".
  28. ↑ "In the Wake". 21 January 2015.
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