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ABOUT: CV/BIOGRAPHY

TOMOKO YONEDA
Born 1965 in Akashi-city, Japan
Lives and works in London

EDUCATION:
1991 Royal College of Art, MA in Photography, London
1989 The University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA in Photography with Faculty Award, Chicago

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008
Arco 9, Madrid
2006
Monochrome Works 1996-2003, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
2005
A Decade After, Ashiya City Museum of art and History, Ashiya
After Amnesia: Scenes of Conflict That Have Forgotten Their Past, Daiwa Foundation, London
After the Thaw, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
2003
Scene - Collective Forgetting, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2000
Tomoko Yoneda, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Between Visible and Invisible, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1999
Luminary, Room, Gentilly, France
1997
Topographical Analogy, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008
MOGI Kenichiro, hana, KAKUTA Mitsuyo, ARAKI Nobuyoshi: Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2007
The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Not only possible, but also necessary: Optimism in the age of global war, Istanbul
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, B.T.A.P, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice
FASCINATION, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo
Paradise is for the blessed, Four Corners, London
Changing Faces/Work, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal in Scheltema, Leiden, touring in Europe, Museu Valenciŕ de la Il.lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM), Valenciŕ, Dom Fotografie, Liptovský Mikuláš
Japan Caught by Camera - Works from the Photographic Art in Japan, Shanghai Art Museum
2006
Temporary Art Museum, SOI SABAI, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Naturaleza, PHotoEspańa 2006, Madrid, touring in Tenerife (Exhibition title: The Rising Sun)
85/05:The Photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
YOSHITOMO NARA + graf A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki
2005
YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus - Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama
From East and West, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
2004
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography, Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne (The Japan Foundation), touring in Europe and USA
Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art
Spread in Prato, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2003
History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
My Room Somehow Somewhere, Graf Media GM, Osaka
The Year of New Work: Contemporary Asian Photography, The Japan Society, New York
Mask of Japan: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aura Gallery, Shanghai,
2002
Fragilités – Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse and Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure
2001
BetweenVisible and Invisible, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago; Sanya Photography Gallery, Shanghai
Artists’ debut, Rice gallery by G2, Tokyo
Summer Show – Three Contemporary Photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Kiss In the Dark – Contemporary Japanese Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Kagawa
Painterly Photography, Blains Fine Art, London
Surface, Nederlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam
2000
Counter-Photography – Japan’s Artists Today, Moscow Arts Centre, Moscow; touring in Russia, Scandinavia, Europe, and Asia
1999
The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Japan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin, also toured 3 other museums in Germany
1998
21st Anniversary ZEIT-FOTO, Artspace Shimoda, Tokyo
1996
Future Vision, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
1993
The Daily Planet, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1992
The Big Apple, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
1991
Treading a Fine Line – 8 Contemporary women photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

MONOGRAPHS:
2007
Roberta Valtorta, Massimiliano Foscati: text, p.4,
The City Rises, p.5, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano
2007
Atsuo Yamamoto: “PHOTOGRAPHING THE NEGATIVE ON THE TOMOKO YONEDA’S NEW WORK,”
A Decade After, exh. cat., Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Hyogo
Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates,
In-between 9 Tomoko Yoneda: Hungary, Estonia, pp.60-65, EU - Japan Fest Japan Committee, Tokyo
2004
Mark Haworth-Booth: Introduction, Kotaro Iizawa: “MEMORY / MEMORIAL GLASSES,” Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates,
Tomoko Yoneda: Between Visible, p.5, pp.7-8, 28-29, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona
2003
Keiko Toyoda: introduction, Koji Taki: “GAZING AT HISTORY,”
Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, exh. cat., pp.2-3, 6-7, Shiseido Gallery, Shiseido Co., Ltd., Tokyo

BOOKS:
2005
Guy Moreton: text, “Terror Unscene: Meditations on Tomoko Yoneda’s Photography,” Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice Owen: text and edit,
Art in the Age of Terrorism, pp.207-210, Paul Holberton Publishing, London
Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plate, Hiromi Nakamura:
An introduction to the history of photography, 10th Anniversary commemorative exhibition the collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography”-How photography changed people's viewpoint 4. Chaos our time, and our future, p 112, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo
2004
Iizawa Kotaro:
ME KARA ME HE: SHASHINTENWO ARUKU 2001-2003, pp.152-155, Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo
2002
Michiko Kasahara:
SHASHIN, JIDAI NI KOSURUMONO, pp.77-80, Seikyusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES:
2007
Robert Storr: introduction, Anna Mecugni: text,
Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, vol. I, pp.16-17 (introduction), p.382 (text), La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition, exh. cat., Venice
Tomoko Yoneda: text,
Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War, p.88, The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, exh. cat., Istanbul
Margot Knijn: Profile, Massimiliano Foscati: Text, “POSTFACE: WAITING FOR WORK,” Work [Changing Faces],
IPRN Commissions Year, No.2, pp.118-121, Veenman Publishers, Amsterdam
Mami Kataoka: contribution, Meiko Sano: translation,
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, p. 133, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Mariko Takeuchi: text,
FASCINATION, exh. cat., Takashimaya, Tokyo
2006
Horacio Fernandez: text, pp.34-35 (English translation p.229), Javier Chavarría: text, p.214 (English translation p.263),
Naturaleza: PHotoEspańa 2006, La Fábrica Editorial, Madrid
Angela Schneider: text, “Flaneurs Tokyo and Berlin through the Eyes of Photographers,”
Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin, p.270, English booklet p.48, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2005
Taro Amano: text,
YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus – Jumping from the Ordinary, exh. cat., p.192, The Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
2004
Michiko Kasahara: text,
Out of the Ordinary / Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, exh. cat., p.8, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Taro Amano: text,
Non-Sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III, exh. cat., p.176, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Pier Luigi Tazzi: text,
Spread in Prato , exh. cat., p.42, Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2003
Shiseido Gallery: gallery talk, “
-Beyond Memory and Uncertainty” March 6 2003, 17:00-18:00, SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo
Dana Friis-Hansen: text,
History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, p.276, The Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Press, Houston
2002
Marta Gili : interview,
Fragilités- Printemps de Septembre 2002, exh. cat., p.88, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
2001
Tomoko Yoneda: text,
Kiss in the Dark, Contemporary Japanese photography, p.130, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo
Frits Giersberg: text,
Surface, exh. cat., pp.14-15, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
2000
Yuri Mitsuta: text, “Topographical Analogy”,
Counter-photography – Japan's artists today, exh. cat., p.56, The Japan Foundation
1999
Michiko Kasahara: text, Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates,
The Vision of Contemporary Art ’99, exh. cat., pp.82, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Hiromi Nakamura: text,
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, exh. cat., p.37, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPER:
2008
Ko Ito: “Scene,”
HAHA NO TOMO, no.6, pp.52-55, Tokyo
2007
Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates,
YKKY magazine -Water, no. 2, p.13, Stockholm
Christopher Pinney: text, “Scene: Atrocity’s Double-time,”
Portfolio-Contemporary Photography in Britain, no. 46, p.30, Edinburgh
Anna Sansom: text, “Fuck Art Let’s Fight,”
Wonderland, August-September, p.164, London
Michael Kimmelman: text, “That Unruly, Serendipitous Show in Venice,”
The New York Times, June 15, Art & Design, New York
2006
Tomoko Yoneda: text,
EXIT, Imagen & Cultura, no.23, Aug.-Oct., p.106, p.108, Madrid
Mariko Takeuchi
“Key Words 03 CRITICAL LANDSCAPE,” PhotoGRAPHICA, vol.5, pp.82-83, MdN Corporation, Tokyo
2005
Tamaki Harada, “Tomoko Yoneda interview,”
Bijutsu Techo, vol.57, no.862, March, pp.122-129, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha Ltd., Tokyo
Sakiko Nishihara: text, “Voice’s Art Space Tomoko Yoneda, After the Thaw,”
STUDIO VOICE, October, vol.358, p.123, Tokyo
Marta Gili: text, “La Imagen Como Documento, Hablar y callarse,”
Exit Express, no.10, March, pp.8-11, Madrid
Noriko Kawakami: text, “SHIZUKANA FUKEINI MIEKAKURESURU, REKISHIJONO JIJITSU,”
Pen, no.165, December 1, pp.56-57, Tokyo
Hiroyasu Yamauchi: text, “In Between,”
PHaT PHOTO, November-December, pp.15-16, Tokyo
Virginia Khuri: text, “Tomoko Yoneda: Visual Stories,”
London Independent Photography, Spring 2005, no.1, p.4, London
2003
Hubertus von Amelunxen: text,
European Photography, 73 / 74, p.23, Göttingen
Edan Corkill: text, “The lay of the land bears silent witness to history,”
International Herald Tribune / The Asahi Simbun, Arts in sight section, June 20, p.29, Tokyo
Sachiko Matsushita: text, “KIOKUTO FUKAJITSUSANO KANATANI ARUMONO TOHA,”
Esquire Magazine Japan, vol.17, no.7, July, pp. 194-195, Tokyo
Chie Sumiyoshi: text, “MENI MIENAI KIOKUNI HONROSARERU KAIRAKU,”
Ryuko Tsushin, vol.481, August, p.39, Tokyo
Tomoko Yoneda: text, “FUTASHIKANA KIOKUNO KANATANI,”
SHINCHO, October, pp.260-261
Jeff Michael Hammond, “An Eclectic Group Show touches on a variety of Contemporary Issues,”
Metropolis, August 27, New York
Momo Nonaka: interview,text,
Luca, No 2, April, p.85, Tokyo
2002
Le monde 2, September, no.21, p.62, Paris
2001
Ko Ito: interview, “Scene - Tomoko Yoneda,”
Cut, no.123, September, pp.114-115, Tokyo
2000
Richard Pinsent: text,
The Art Newspaper, vol. XI, no.100, February, p.67, London

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Ashiya City Tanizaki Junichiro Memorial Museum, Ashiya
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa
Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
British Council, London
Princeton University, New Jersey
Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
UBS Investment Bank, London
NLI Research Institute, Tokyo
Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
The University of Chicago, Chicago

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