Tomoko Sawada

♀ *1977 / Japan

Works

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Solo exhibitions

To Be Bewitched by a Fox

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
2 Mar 2021 – 9 May 2021
KAGEBŌSHI

MEM, Tokyo (JP)
1 Dec 2018 – 28 Dec 2018
School Days

The MART Gallery, Dublin (IE)
12 Jan 2017 – 24 Feb 2017
Facial Signature

ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
20 Feb 2016 – 9 Apr 2016
Facial Signature

MEM, Tokyo (JP)
14 Mar 2015 – 19 Apr 2015
My Faces

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
26 Feb 2015 – 18 Apr 2015
Sign and Skin

ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
26 Sep 2013 – 16 Nov 2013
Sign

MEM, Tôkyô (JP)
2 Mar 2013 – 31 Mar 2013
Reflection

ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
9 Jul 2011 – 17 Sep 2011
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Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm (SE)
4 Nov 2010 – 30 Jan 2011
Mirrors

Zabriskie Gallery, New York (US)
21 May 2010 – 9 Jul 2010
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Colette, Paris (FR)
3 Nov 2008 – 29 Nov 2008
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Zabriskie Gallery, New York (US)
13 May 2008 – 27 Jun 2008
Schoolgirls: School Days and cover/Face

Zabriskie Gallery, New York (US)
14 Mar 2006 – 29 Apr 2006
Schoolgirls—School Days + cover/Face

MEM, Ôsaka (JP)
8 Dec 2005 – 24 Dec 2005
Desire to Mimic

MAK - Museum Wien, Wien (AT)
27 Oct 2004 – 6 Feb 2005
Costume

Zabriskie Gallery, New York (US)
5 Oct 2004 – 13 Nov 2004
ID400

The Third Gallery Aya, Ôsaka (JP)
14 Jun 2004 – 8 Jul 2004
Costume

The Third Gallery Aya, Ôsaka (JP)
1 Dec 2003 – 20 Dec 2003
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Zabriskie Gallery, New York (US)
21 Jul 2003 – 6 Sep 2003

Group

I’m So Happy You Are Here

Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
15 Oct 2026 – 11 Jan 2027

with Aya Fujioka, Mikiko Hara, Hiromix, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Mari Katayama, Rinko Kawauchi, Hiroko Komatsu, Michiko Kon, Yurie Nagashima , Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa …
The Space Between Us. / L'Espace entre nous

A Journey into the Masterpieces of the Michael G. Wilson Collection

LE BAL, Paris (FR)
19 Jun 2026 – 3 Jan 2027

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Bill Brandt, Josef Breitenbach, Horace Bristol, Esther Bubley, Elinor Carucci, Mark Cohen, John Coplans, Gregory Crewdson, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson …
I’m So Happy You Are Here

Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
24 Jun 2026 – 27 Sep 2026

with Mikiko Hara, Hiromix, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Mari Katayama, Rinko Kawauchi, Hiroko Komatsu, Michiko Kon, Yurie Nagashima , Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Tamiko Nishimura …
Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (US)
19 Feb 2026 – 10 May 2026

with Hakeem Adewumi, Azra Aksamija, Claude Cahun, Sophie Calle, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jamie Diamond, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugdale, CAO Fei, Samuel Fosso, Lina Geoushy, Kahn & Selesnick …
I’m So Happy You Are Here

Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
24 May 2025 – 7 Sep 2025

with Mikiko Hara, Hiromix, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Mari Katayama, Rinko Kawauchi, Hiroko Komatsu, Michiko Kon, Yurie Nagashima , Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Tamiko Nishimura …
Continuity and Change

TOP 30th Anniversary TOP Collection

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
5 Apr 2025 – 22 Jun 2025

with Ryoji Akiyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Felice Beato, Tsuneo Enari, Akasegawa Genpei, Tadahiko Hayashi, Lewis Hine, Yusuke Hishida, Miyako Ishiuchi, Mari Katayama, Hiroh Kikai, Dorothea Lange …
I’m So Happy You Are Here

Japanese Women Photographers

Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag (NL)
18 Jan 2025 – 5 May 2025

with Mikiko Hara, Hiromix, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Mari Katayama, Rinko Kawauchi, Hiroko Komatsu, Michiko Kon, Yurie Nagashima , Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Tamiko Nishimura …
I’m So Happy You Are Here

Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
1 Jul 2024 – 22 Sep 2024

with Mikiko Hara, Hiromix, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Mari Katayama, Rinko Kawauchi, Hiroko Komatsu, Michiko Kon, Yurie Nagashima , Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Tamiko Nishimura …
20 Jahre SAMMLUNG VERBUND

Albertina, Wien (AT)
29 Feb 2024 – 5 May 2024

with Renate Bertlmann, Barbara Bloom, Marcella Campagnano, Renate Eisenegger, Valie Export, Simon Fujiwara, Simryn Gill, Nan Goldin, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Birgit Juergenssen, Kirsten Justesen, Lebohang Kganye …
Hito

Tezukayama Gallery+1 art, Osaka (JP)
25 Mar 2022 – 23 Apr 2022

with Nat Finkelstein, Eikoh Hosoe, Christopher Makos
All This Happened: Twenty Nine Years of ROSEGALLERY

ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
15 Sep 2021 – 28 Nov 2021

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Virginia Beahan, Jo Ann Callis, John Chiara, Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, Elger Esser, Huger Foote, Tania Franco Klein, Masahisa Fukase …
School Photos and Their Afterlives

Hood Museum of Art - Dartmouth College, Hanover (US)
8 Jan 2020 – 12 Apr 2020

with Marcelo Brodsky, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Diane Meyer, Vik Muniz, Lorie Novak, Sandra Ramos, Carrie Mae Weems, David Wojnarowicz
Vigilance, Struggle, Pride: Through Her Eyes

Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
4 May 2018 – 17 May 2018

with Laia Abril, Nina Berman, April Gertler, Amak Mahmoodian, Zanele Muholi, Lua Ribeira, Ahlam Shibli, Hannah Starkey, Sandra Vitaljic
TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3

20 Year Anniversary - Synchronicity

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
23 Sep 2017 – 26 Nov 2017

with Yoko Asakai, Mikiko Hara, Maiko Haruki, Osamu Kanemura, Rinko Kawauchi, Ken Kitano, Mika Ninagawa, Rika Noguchi, Ryudai Takano, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Tomoko Yoneda
HE / SHE / THEY

ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
1 Oct 2016 – 12 Nov 2016

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Nancy Burson, Antonio Caballero, Jo Ann Callis, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Graciela Iturbide, Wayne Lawrence, Nikki S. Lee, Yasumasa Morimura, Katsumi Watanabe
The Younger Generation

Contemporary Japanese Photography

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
6 Oct 2015 – 21 Feb 2016

with Rinko Kawauchi, Yuki Onodera, Chino Otsuka, Lieko Shiga
Material Self: Performing the Other Within

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2014

MOCA Contemporary Art, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2014 – 1 Jun 2014

with David Favrod, Charles Freger, Hendrik Kerstens, Namsa Leuba, Meryl McMaster, Dominique Rey, Mary Sibande
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2014

CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2014 – 31 May 2014

with Martina Bacigalupo, Rebecca Belmore, Bill Burke, Sophie Calle, Dana Claxton, Stan Douglas, David Favrod, Charles Freger, General Idea, Rafael Goldchain, Rodney Graham, Rob Hornstra …
Drone - the automated image

THE 13th EDITION OF LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO À MONTRÉAL

MOMENTA, Montréal (CA)
5 Sep 2013 – 6 Oct 2013

with Elina Brotherus, Michel Campeau, Raphael Dallaporta, Max Dean, Veronique Ducharme, Pascal Dufaux, ExpVisLab, Mona Hatoum, Mishka Henner, Craig Kalpakjian, Suzy Lake, Trevor Paglen …
About Face

Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco (US)
15 May 2012 – 30 Apr 2013

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lee Friedlander, Jim Goldberg, Richard Learoyd, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gillian Wearing
Charlotte Rampling. Album segreti

Auditorium Arte - Parco della Musica, Roma (IT)
13 Dec 2012 – 27 Jan 2013

with David Bailey, Jean Baudrillard, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Jacques Bosser, Martial Cherrier, Larry Clark, Marie Laure De Decker, Alain Fleischer, Martine Franck, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson …
Foto-Automaten-Kunst

Die Ästhetik hinter dem Vorhang

Kunst Haus Wien, Wien (AT)
10 Oct 2012 – 13 Jan 2013

with Alain Baczynsky, Andre Breton, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Franco Vaccari, Andy Warhol, Jan Wenzel
Charlotte Rampling - Albums secrets

Maison de la Photographie , Lille (FR)
20 Sep 2012 – 16 Nov 2012

with David Bailey, Jean Baudrillard, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Jacques Bosser, Martial Cherrier, Larry Clark, Marie Laure De Decker, Alain Fleischer, Martine Franck, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson …
Creating with Light - The Manipulated Photograph

Museum of Photography, Tôkyô (JP)
12 May 2012 – 8 Jul 2012

with Andre Kertesz, Man Ray , Iwata Nakayama, Lieko Shiga
Nostalgia-East Asia Contemportary Art

MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (CN)
18 Feb 2012 – 1 May 2012

with Qiu Anxiong, HAI Bo, Yeondoo JUNG, Won Seoung Won
Index 1.0

Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp (BE)
27 Mar 2010 – 22 May 2010

with Roger Ballen, Axel Huette, Malerie Marder, J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Kerry Skarbakka, Hiromi Tsuchida, Michael Wolf
Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
12 Sep 2009 – 20 Dec 2009

with Seung Woo Back, LUO Dan, Naoya Hatakeyama, ZHANG Huan, Bohnchang Koo, LI Lang, Sze Tsung LEONG, LIU Lijie, Yasumasa Morimura, CHEN Nong, LIU Zheng
Funny Fotos

Zabriskie Gallery, New York (US)
6 Jul 2009 – 4 Sep 2009

with Ilse Bing, Brassai, Joan Fontcuberta, Ruth Orkin, Tod Papageorge, Weegee, Dan Wynn
On your body

Museum of Photography, Tôkyô (JP)
18 Oct 2008 – 7 Dec 2008

with Lieko Shiga, Shizuka Yokomizo
2nd Daegu Photo Biennale - Then & Now: Memories of the Future

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
31 Oct 2008 – 16 Nov 2008

with Mario Ambrosius, Seung Woo Back, Jongheon Bae, Byung-Sang BANG, Margaret Bourke-White, Chao-Tang Chang, Jae-Kyoo Chong, Charlie Crane, Youngsoo Han, Yeondoo JUNG, Oksun Kim, Eunyoung Kim …
2nd Daegu Photo Biennale - Memories of the Future

Koren - Chinese - Japanese Contemporary Photographs

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
31 Oct 2008 – 16 Nov 2008

with Adou, Sekwon Ahn, Emi Anrakuji, Seung Woo Back, Byung-Sang BANG, Bin-Wen Chao, Chin-Pao Chen, I-Chien Chiu, JoongWon Choi, ZHANG Haier, Debbie Han, Yeondoo JUNG …
Female Trouble

Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen

Pinakothek der Moderne, München (DE)
18 Jul 2008 – 26 Oct 2008

with Diane Arbus, Gertrud Arndt, Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Monica Bonvicini, Claude Cahun, Sophie Calle, Julia Margaret Cameron, Contessa di Castiglione, Valie Export, Nan Goldin, Hannah Hoech, Lady Clementina Hawarden …
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
16 May 2008 – 7 Sep 2008

with Makoto Aida, Naoya Hatakeyama, Naoki Kajitani, Hiroh Kikai, Midori Komatsubara, Yukio Nakagawa, Asako Narahashi, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Risaku Suzuki, Miwa Yanagi, Kenji Yanobe, Masayuki Yoshinaga
Self / Other

Nat. Museum Modern Art, Tôkyô (JP)
18 Jan 2008 – 9 Mar 2008

with Walker Evans, Takashi Murakami, Paul Strand, Shoji Ueda
Girl Parade

Australian Centre Photo, Sydney (AU)
16 Nov 2007 – 23 Dec 2007

with Anoush Abrar, Bianca Barling, Anthea Behm, Kelli Connell, Karina Grundy, Aimée Hoving, E.J. Major, Belinda Mason, Pilar Mata Dupont & Tarryn Gill, Tatjana Plitt, Narinda Reeders, The Brown Council …
Showcase

Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag (NL)
20 Jan 2007 – 21 Feb 2007

with Jasper de Beijer, Charles Freger, Jean-Marc Spaans
Fuera de lo ordinario / extraordinario: fotografía japonesa centemporánea

Centro de la Imagen, México (MX)
16 Dec 2006 – 1 Feb 2007

with Yo Mi Chin, Shunsaku Hishikari, Miyako Ishiuchi, Keizo Motoda, Hiroko Okada, Yuki Onodera, Kunie Sugiura, Ryudai Takano, Shizuka Yokomizo, Tomoko Yoneda
Present Portrait - You Are Here

Six Young Japanese Photographers

Parthenon Tama, Tôkyô (JP)
21 Nov 2005 – 22 Jan 2006

with Takuya Fujisawa, Mami Kiyoshi, Masumi Kura, Yurie Nagashima , Ochiai Sachiko
Out of the ordinary / extraordinary

Zeitgenössische japanische Fotografie

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin (DE)
3 Jun 2005 – 14 Aug 2005

with Invisible garden, Miyako Ishiuchi, Hiroko Okada
Recent Acquisitions 2005 : Some Versions of the Portrait

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
11 Mar 2005 – 5 Jun 2005

with Robert Capa, Katy Grannan, John Isaacs, Susan Meiselas, Irving Penn
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary : Japanese contemporary photography

FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma

Istituto Giapponese di Cultura (The Japa, Roma (IT)
15 Apr 2005 – 11 May 2005

with Yo Mi Chin, Shunsaku Hishikari, Miyako Ishiuchi, Keizo Motoda, Hiroko Okada, Yuki Onodera, Kunie Sugiura, Ryudai Takano, Shizuka Yokomizo, Tomoko Yoneda
MOT annual - life actually

Museum of Cont. Art Tokyo, Tôkyô (JP)
15 Jan 2005 – 21 Mar 2005

with Mako Idemitsu, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yuki Onodera
Out of the ordinary/extraordinary

la photographie contemporaine japonaise

Centre Culturel de Liege, Liège (BE)
4 Feb 2005 – 13 Mar 2005

with Miyako Ishiuchi, Hiroko Okada, Ryudai Takano
Manufactured Self

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
10 Jan 2005 – 3 Mar 2005

with Philip Kwame Apagya, Tina Barney, Walead Beshty, Shannon Ebner, Yeondoo JUNG, Nikki S. Lee, Alex MacLean, Peter Menzel, Martin Parr, Oriz Sima-Tov, Brian Ulrich
About Face portrait - Photography and the Death of the Portrait

Hayward Gallery, London (GB)
24 Jun 2004 – 5 Sep 2004

with Yuri A, Bill Armstrong, Aziz + Cucher, Roger Ballen, Philippe Bazin, Valerie Belin, Elina Brotherus, Daniele Buetti, Nancy Burson, Maurizio Cattelan, XING Danwen, Jiri David …
Upright female

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston (US)
30 Jun 2004 – 13 Aug 2004

with Laura McPhee, Nicholas Nixon, August Sander, Sage Sohier
Out of the Ordinary - Extraordinary Japanese Contemporary Photography

Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Köln (DE)
7 May 2004 – 30 Jul 2004

with Yo Mi Chin, Shunsaku Hishikari, Miyako Ishiuchi, Keizo Motoda, Hiroko Okada, Yuki Onodera, Kunie Sugiura, Ryudai Takano, Shizuka Yokomizo, Tomoko Yoneda
Mediarena: contemporary art from Japan

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (NZ)
13 Mar 2004 – 7 Jun 2004

with Makoto Aida, Kyoko Ebata, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tomoko Kaneko, Meiro Koizumi, Yayoi Kusama, Hiroyuki Matsukage, Motohiko Odani, Saki Satom, Kyoko Sawanobori, Masato Wakabayashi, Miwa Yanagi
Making Faces: The Death of the Portrait // Je t’envisage: La disparition du portrait

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
4 Feb 2004 – 23 May 2004

with Yuri A, Bill Armstrong, Aziz + Cucher, Roger Ballen, Philippe Bazin, Valerie Belin, Elina Brotherus, Daniele Buetti, Maurizio Cattelan, XING Danwen, Anne Deleporte, Laurence Demaison …
Identity

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
31 Jan 2004 – 20 Mar 2004

with Sunil Gupta, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Positionen japanischer Fotografie

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
4 Oct 2003 – 2 Nov 2003

with Mao Ishikawa, Keizo Kitajima, Kisei Kobayashi, Mika Ninagawa, Sakiko Nomura, Risaku Suzuki, Kyoichi Tsuzuki
How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
28 Feb 2003 – 8 Jun 2003

with Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Helen Chadwick, Catherine Chalmers, Hans Danuser, Janieta Eyre, Michael Flomen, Robert Flynt, Joan Fontcuberta, Anthony Goicolea, Mark Kessell, Tianyuan Li …

Events

T3 Photo Asia

City as Garden

Tokyo Institut of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
4 Oct 2025 – 27 Oct 2025

with Hiromix, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Mari Katayama, Rinko Kawauchi, Hiroko Komatsu, Michiko Kon, Hara Mikiko, Yurie Nagashima , Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Tamiko Nishimura …
Singapore International Photography Festival 2018

Singapore Int. Photo Festival, Singapore (SG)
6 Sep 2018 – 9 Dec 2018

with Jun Ahn, Nobuyoshi Araki, Viriya Chotpanyavisut, Jennifer Crane, Gerwyn Davies, Kevin Fee, JIANG Jian, Rinko Kawauchi, Katrin Koenning, Milja Laurila, Alexandra Lethbridge, Laura Letinsky …
ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales

PHILLIPS London, London (GB)
10 May 2018 – 18 May 2018

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Peter Beard, James Casebere, Elger Esser, Miyako Ishiuchi, Nadav Kander, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Mika Ninagawa, Tamiko Nishimura, Irving Penn …
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2017

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Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
10 Feb 2017 – 26 Feb 2017

with Halil Altindere, Pierre Coulibeuf, Antoinette de Jong, Teppei Kaneuji, Robert Knoth, Gabriella & Silvana Mangano, Etienne-Jules Marey, Yasumasa Morimura, Yvonne Rainer, Lucy Raven, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Aki Sasamoto …
Costume

The Third Gallery Aya, Ôsaka (JP)
Identity

sepiaEYE, New York (US)

with Sunil Gupta, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew