Profile

  • 1973

    Born in Tokyo

  • 1995

    Bachelor’s degree at Musashino Art University, Tokyo

  • 1999

    Master’s degree at California Institute of the Arts, California

  • 2015

    Masterʼs degree in Sociology at Musashi University, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2023

    School of Care” Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING, Aichi, Japan

  • 2020

    B&W” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

  • 2019

    The flower named in an unknown word The landscape not in my memory
    The book that can not be read by my fingers” Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Japan

  • 2018

    Creating, Raising Children..as a Mother, as an Artist” Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo

  • 2017

    And a Pinch of Irony with a Hint of Love” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan

  • 2016

    Slopes, Stairs and the Sea” 784 JUNCTION CAFE, Kobe, Japan
    To sew, to wear, to talk” KIITO design and creative center KOBE, Hyogo, Japan
    about home” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo

  • 2015

    5 Comes After 6” UTRECHT, Tokyo

  • 2011

    What I was supposed to see and what Isaw” 1223 GENDAIKAIGA, Tokyo

  • 2010

    “SWISS+” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, viewing space, Tokyo

  • 2007

    a box named flower” lammfromm, Tokyo

  • 2005

    Her Projects – memories of no one”, KIRIN PLAZA OSAKA, Osaka

  • 2004

    “Candy Horror” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

  • 2004

    not six” NADiff, Tokyo

  • 2000

    “Pastime Paradise” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

  • 1999

    “Dousei Seikatsu (Living together) ” California Institute of the Arts, California

  • 1994

    “Nagashima Yurie – A Room of Love- ” P-House Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2022

    DOMANI plus Where the gaze resides” Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING, Aichi
    group show with Zon Ito and Yuko Kanamori, Mtk Contemporary Art, Kyoto

  • 2021

    Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses: From the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
    The 36th Town of Photography – Higashikawa Award Donated Works Exhibition”
    Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido

  • 2020

    ENCOUNTERS” ANB Tokyo, Tokyo

  • 2019

    Japan Now North” Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
    Yurie Nagashima x kei Takemura Now ⇆ Then” The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

  • 2018

    Forever (and again)” IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Izu, Japan

  • 2017

    Somewhere I Have Never Travelled” URANO, Tokyo
    Forever is Composed of Nows” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo

  • 2015

    Cho Tamatama13” Koganei Art Spot, Tokyo
    COSMIC WONDER & Kogei Punks Sha < Kaminohikarinoawa MIzukai >”
    Center for COSMIC WONDER, Tokyo

  • 2014

    You reach out – right now – for something: Questioning the concept of Fashion”
    The Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower, Mito, Ibaraki / Marugemme Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa

  • 2012

    To Wander a Garden” Vangi Sculpture Garden museum, Shizuoka
    Missing You” Shibuya Hikarie 8F 8/CUBE 1,2,3, Tokyo

  • 2011

    Modernity Stripped Bare: Undressing the Nude in Contemporary Japanese
    Photography” , The Art Gallery / University of Maryland, Maryland, U.S.A

    CAFÉ in Mito 2011 Relationships in color”, The Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibarak

  • 2009

    SHOOT:Photography of the Moment” , PARCO FACTORY, Tokyo
    AM Kurashiki (Artist Meets Kurashiki) vol.4 Krash japan−Kurashiki Photograph”Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama

  • 2008

    ZOOM ON IN OUT JAPAN” WAVE photogallery, Brescia, Italy 
    THE FURIOUS GAZE” El Centro Cultural Montehermoso,Vitoria, Spain

  • 2005

    National Treasures of Toshodaiji Temple—Ganjinwajo and Vairocana Buddha” Tokyo National Museum
    36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award”, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
    My Precious:Photos and Words”, Art Forum Azamino, Kanagawa
    Portraits –You are here- , Parthenon Tama, Tokyo

  • 2003

    “Japan -Contemporary Ceramics and Photography,”Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
    “The History of Japanese Photography, 1854 – 2000,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
    “HOPE”, LAFORET Museum Harajyuku, Tokyo

  • 2002

    “JAM: Tokyo—London,” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
    “The Self” Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
    “35 Artistes Contemporaines a Luxembourg” Musee d’histoire de la ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • 2001

    “Rush,” Little More Gallery, Tokyo
    “JAM: Tokyo—London,” Barbican Art Gallery, London
    “Illusion,” Rinksutsallninggar, Stockholm / Traveled Scandinavian Countries
    “Three Rooms,” EPSON Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo

  • 2000

    “Complicity” Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, Australia
    “Immodest Gazes” Fundacio “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain

  • 1999

    “Mito Annual ’99 Private Room II” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
    ” TOKYO 60/90: 17 Contemporary Japanese Photographers ”
    Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
    “Art Sweet Home” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima

  • 1998

    “An Incomplete History : Women photographers from Japan 1964-1997”
    The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY / Houston Center for Photography,Texas / University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Massachusetts 1998—2000)
    “Anwander,” Koln, Germany

  • 1997

    “Japanese Families after the World War 2nd – 1996″Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
    “SHASHIN-TEN” Kobe Fashion Museum, Hyogo, Japan

  • 1996

    “NowHere” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 1995

    “New Tokyo Photographers” Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo
    “Ginzabout” Shiseido Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
    “Family” (With Catharine Opie) Parco Gallery, Tokyo

  • 1994

    “Street Style” Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Awards

  • 2020

    The Domestic Photographer Award in The 36th Higashikawa Award, Hokkaido

  • 2010

    Kodansha Essay Award, Tokyo

  • 2001

    The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, Tokyo

  • 1993

    PARCO Prize in URBANART #2, Tokyo

Publications

  • 2023

    Kyonen no Kyo, Kodansha, Tokyo

  • 2023

    Konna Otona ni Narimashita, Shueisha, Tokyo

  • 2020

    Self-Portraits, Dashwood Books, NY
    Against ‘Bokura’(male subject plural in Japanese)’s ‘Onnanoko-shashin’, it’s OUR Girly Photo movement Daifukushorin, Tokyo

  • 2014

    5 Comes After 6, MATCH and Company, Tokyo

  • 2010

    SWISS, AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc, Tokyo

  • 2009

    Senaka no Kioku, Kodansha Publishing, Tokyo

  • 2004

    not six, Switch Publishing, Tokyo

  • 2000

    PASTIME PARADISE, Madra Publishing Inc., Tokyo

  • 1988

    A Family, Korinsha Press, Kyoto

  • 1995

    Empty White Room, Little More publication, Tokyo
    Nagashima Yurie Photobook, Fuga publications, Tokyo

Public Collection

  • Amana photo collection, Tokyo, Japan
    Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
    Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan