Mikiko Hara (原 美樹子, Hara Mikiko, born 1967) is a Japanese photographer.

Biography

Hara was born in Toyama in 1967. ^{[1] [2]} She graduated from Keio University in 1990 with a degree in literature, ^[3] and then studied at the Tokyo College of Photography until 1996. ^{[1] [2] [4]}

Photography

Using a medium-format camera, Hara takes photographs of people she encounters outside, in the train, and so forth. She said "My shooting style is so-called snapshot, so I can say all of my photographs were taken by a mere accident, . . . They are the photographs of somewhere yet nowhere." ^[5]

Comparing her photography with that of Rinko Kawauchi, Ferdinand Brueggeman writes

Mikiko Hara's photography is poetic as well, but she has a different topic. She talks about distance and isolation of people in public spaces – especially of women. ^[6]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Is as It. Gallery le Deco ( Shibuya, Tokyo), 1996. ^{[1] [2]}
• Agnus Dei. Ginza Nikon Salon ( Ginza, Tokyo), 1998. ^{[1] [2]}
• Utsuro no seihō (うつろの製法). Shinjuku Konica Plaza ( Shinjuku, Tokyo), 2001. The Third Gallery Aya ( Osaka), 2001. ^{[1] [2] [7]}
• Hatsugo no shūen (発語の周縁). Guardian Garden (Ginza, Tokyo), July 2004. ^{[1] [2] [8]}
• Hysteric Thirteen publication exhibition. Place M (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August–September 2005. ^{[1] [2] [9]}
• Humoresque. Appel (Kyōdō, Tokyo), 2006. ^{[1] [2]}
• Blind Letter. Cohen Amador Gallery (New York), 2007. ^{[2] [10]}
• Kumoma no atosaki (雲間のあとさき). Gallery Tosei ( Nakano, Tokyo), May 2008. ^[11]
• Blind Letter. Third District Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo), June 2010. ^[12]
• In the Blink of an Eye 1996-2009. Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery (New York), September-November 2017. ^[13]
• Kyrie Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, September - October 2019

Other exhibitions

• Puraibētorūmu 2: Shin sekai no shashin hyōgen (プライベートルーム2 新世代の写真表現) = Private Room II: Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito ( Mito, Ibaraki), April–June 1999. ^{[1] [2] [14]}
• Japan: Keramik und Fotografie: Tradition und Gegenwart. Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), January–May 2003. ^[15]
• Pingyao International Photography Festival ( Pingyao, China), 2004. ^{[1] [2]}
• Nichijō kara no tabi (日常からの旅). Shinjuku Epsite (Shinjuku, Tokyo), November–December 2005. (in Japanese) ^{[1] [2] [16]}
• Absolutely Private: Contemporary Photography, vol 4 = 私のいる場所 新進作家展vol.4 ゼロ年代の写真論. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March–April 2006. ^{[1] [2] [17]}
• A Private History. Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), September 2007 – January 2008. ^{[1] [2] [18]}
• Sangyō toshi Kawasaki no ayumi 100-nen (産業都市・カワサキのあゆみ100年). Kawasaki City Museum ( Kawasaki), 2007. ^{[1] [2] [19] [20]}
• Shashin no genzai, kako, mirai: Shōwa kara kyō made (写真の現在・過去・未来 昭和から今日まで). Yokohama Civic Art Gallery ( Yokohama), December 2009. ^{[1] [21]}
• Shibui: Six Japanese Photographers 1920s–2000. Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles), April–June 2009. ^[22]
• In Focus: Tokyo. J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), August–December 2014. ^{[23] [24]}

Collections

• The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL ^[25]
• Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris) ^{[1] [2] [26]}
• Getty Museum ^[1]

Books

• Hysteric Thirteen. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2005.
• These Are Days. Tokyo: Osiris, 2014. ISBN  978-4-905254-04-1. ^{[n 1]}
• Change. New York: Gould Collection, 2016. ISBN  978-0-9973596-0-2. With a short story by Stephen Dixon, "Change." Edition of 500 copies plus 26 copies with a print. ^{[n 2]}

Notes

References

External links

• Mikiko Hara's Zeiss Super Ikonta 531
• Maria Lokke, " Mikiko Hara’s Hysterical Thirteen", New Yorker photo booth, 27 May 2011.