CV 日本語
Yoshinori Mizutani
1987 Born in Fukui Pref, Japan.
Lives and works in Tokyo.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Tokyo Whispers, Christophe Guye Galerie, Switzerland
2022 Voices of flowers, Chayamachi Applause, Osaka, Japan
2021 L'oiseau bleu, United Nations Genève, Genève
2020 Birds, Christophe Guye Galerie, Switzerland
2018 HDR_nature, IMA gallery, Tokyo
2018 SAKURA / MOONLIGHT, IMA gallery, Tokyo
2017 Couleurs Tokyoïtes, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris
2016 Yoshinori Mizutani, mc2gallery, Milano, Italy
2016 HANON, IMA CONCEPT STORE , Tokyo
2016 Rain, webber gallery, London
2016 COLORS - YUSURIKA, aura gallery, Beijing
2016 SAKURA, ibasho gallery, Antwerp
2016 Yoshinori Mizutani 2010-14, Tokyo Art Coordination, Tokyo
2016 TOKYO PARROTS | COLORS | Paris, ELTTOB TEP ISSEY MIYAKE / GINZA, Tokyo
2015 Tokyo Parrots–Yusurika–Moonlight, Galerie Au Premier, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 YUSURIKA, IMA Gallery , Tokyo
2015 TOKYO PARROTS, aura gallery, Beijing
2015 TOKYO PARROTS / YUSURIKA, Graanmarkt 13, Antwerp
2015 COLORS / TOKYO PARROTS , IMA Gallery , Tokyo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The 15th Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Gaspésie / Canada
2023 Breda Photo Festival, Netherlands
2023 Prix Pictet Fire & Water Exhibition, TOP museum, Tokyo
2022 Des oiseaux, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Photoville festival 2022, Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY
2022 Des oiseaux, Toulouse
2022 Capture photography Festival, Canada
2021 T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO, Tokyo
2021 ６STORIES, Higashikawa Bunka gallery, Higashikawa, Hokkaido
2021 Beginnings, Forever, Museum of Photographic Arts(MOPA), San Diego
2020 PEP (Paris Expériences Photos), Paris
2019 Asama International Photo Festival, Miyota, Nagano, Japan
2019 The Photaumnales festival, France
2019 NEKO project, IBASHO gallery, Antwerp
2018 Kachō-ga. The Poetry of Japanese Nature, Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Netherlands
2018 NONIO ART WAVE, ZeroBase Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Seoul Photo Festival, Seoul
2018 Provoke 2.0, Festiwal Fotografii Plener, Poland
2018 Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2018 Asama International Photo Festival, Miyota, Nagano, Japan
2018 GETXOPHOTO Festival, Getxo, Basque
2018 TSUKA 塚, CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (CCP), Australia
2018 Weather, D museum, Seoul
2017 Urban Wildlife, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
2017 FESTIVAL FOTOGRAFICO EUROPEO, Milano
2017 the amana collection「new photography」, IMA gallery, Tokyo
2016 Tennoz Canal Autumn Festival, Tennoz Isle, Tokyo
2016 Urban Green, More Than A Gallery, Paris
2016 Seoul Lunar Photo Festival 2016, Seoul
2016 Fake Romanticism, The Grand Summit, Beijing
2016 Tennoz Canal Summer Festival, Tennoz Isle, Tokyo
2016 ASYAAF & Hidden Artists Festival 2016, DDP, Seoul, South Korea
2016 TRES + TRES FOTOGRAFIA, Embajada de Espana, Tokyo
2016 IMA gallery collection, IMA CONCEPT STORE, Tokyo
2016 Festival Photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly, France
2016 Map of Daily Life, TAFA(Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Gallery), Tianjin, China
2016 Near Future Art / DOORS, Istan Shinjuku 7F, Tokyo
2015 Map of Daily Life, 7th Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui , China
2015 TOKYO PARROTS, Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography 2015, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2015 Another Room, IMA CONCEPT STORE (IMA gallery), Tokyo
2015 SUMMER EXHIBITION 2015, ibasho gallery, antwerp
2015 SHASHIN! Japanese Photography Then/Now, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 Young Portfolio 2014, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA) , Japan
2015 NEW JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY ,DOOMED GALLERY2 , London
2015 LUMIX MEETS BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #2 , IMA CONCEPT STORE , Tokyo
2014 LUMIX MEETS BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #2 , Yellowkorner Gallery Paris Pompidou , Paris
2014 Foam Magazine Talent 2014 exhibition,East Wing Gallery, Dubai
2014 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2014 exhibition, Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona
2014 Foam Magazine Talent 2014 exhibition, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam
2014 Foam Magazine Talent 2014 exhibition, Atelier Neerlandais, Paris
2014 TOKYO2020, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Light and moment vol.17-spirited photographers- , Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 TOKYO 2020 By Japanese Photographers 9, 1 Rue Richelieu, Paris / Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Those Born From Room, Count Down Gallery Momozonogaro, Tokyo, Japan
2010 THESE DAYS, Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan
AWARDS
2014 LensCulture Emerging Talents Top 50
2014 Foam Talent, Amsterdam
2014 Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Japan
2013 Tokyo Frontline Photo Award 2013 Jury Award (selecting judge : Taisuke Koyama), Tokyo
2013 Japan Photo Award 2013 Jury Award (selecting judge : Ivan Vartanian), Tokyo
2012 Awarded Tokyo Frontline Photo Award 2012, Tokyo
PHOTOBOOKS
2023 Tsutaya/Amsterdam, Boabooks, Genève, Switzerland
2021 SAKURA, the(M) éditions & IBASHO, Paris & Antwerp
2020 Tori to te, PHOTOPAPAER / Kasseler Fotografie Festival, Germany
2019 Des oiseaux / Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris
2018 HDR_nature, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2016 HANON, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2015 YUSURIKA, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2015 COLORS , amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2014 Tokyo Parrots, amana / IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2014 Taxi Dirty Books, Boabooks, Genève, Switzerland
PRESS
2018 Photography Journal Asahi camera #December 2018, The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo
2018 The British Journal of Photography #7878, England
2018 IMA #25, amana, Tokyo
2018 Shincho 45 #9, Shincyosya, Japan
2018 GENDA magazine #2, Italy and China
2018 ZEIT WISSEN #03, German
2018 BLAD #8, Danmark
2017 Closing Ceremony Magazine, Vol.1, China
2017 fisheye magazine #24, Paris
2017 VOSTOK, SNAP issue 5, South Korea
2017 READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO TAKE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF PLACES. , London
2017 American Chordata Issue 5, US
2017 STUDIO VOICE Vol.410, INFAS publications, Tokyo
2017 MONKEY vol.11, SWITCH publishing, Tokyo
2017 CULTURE TURE Bros. Vol.6, Tokyo News Service, Ltd., Tokyo
2017 The Asahi Shimbun, 2/18, Japan
2017 IL FOTOGRAFO magazine, March 2017, Italy
2017 Financial Times Weekend Magazine, January 7/8, UK
2017 Digital Camera Magazine #185, UK
2016 ALLEGRA magazine #06, December 2016, Germany
2016 Pagina99, 11 November 2016, Italy
2016 REVS magazine #17, Paris
2016 Digital Camera Magazine #182, UK
2016 BUNGAKUKAI November, Bungeishunju Ltd. , Tokyo
2016 Pen No.414, CCC media House, Tokyo
2016 Heavy magazine Volume II, The Heavy Collective, Australia
2016 L'OFFICIEL JAPAN November, SEVEN&i PUBLISHING, Tokyo
2016 Justified Magazine No.4, UK
2016 RollingStone JAPAN, October,POWER TO THE PEOPLE, Tokyo
2016 IMA magazine, Vol.17, amana, Tokyo
2016 M, le magazine du Monde, #23 juillet 2016, Le Monde, France
2016 VQR, #Summer 2016, US
2016 wilderness., Oceans issue, Canada
2016 ZOOM magazine, Under 30 Talent #3 / July, Italy
2016 HARPER'S MAGAZINE / August 2016, Harper's Magazine Foundation, New York, US
2016 CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY / July 2016, China
2016 PHOTOGRAPERS' COMPANION / June 2016, China
2016 THE PLANT magazine issue 9, The Plant Journal, London
2016 IMA English edition Vol.1, amana, Tokyo
2016 SZ magazine#18, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
2016 VICE magazine "THE PHOTO ISSUE" Japan edition, VICE JP, Tokyo
2016 NIPPON CAMERA, #5/2016, Japan
2016 VICE magazine April issue, VICE, US
2016 IMA Magazine vol.15, amana, Tokyo
2015 Photography Journal Asahicamera, Dcember 2015, Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., Tokyo
2015 EYESCREAM "New Shutter Age", December, Tokyo
2015 Libération Newspaper, 01 August, France
2015 Monthly photography Magazine July, South Korea
2015 HOTSHOE #192, London
2015 SHASHIN! Japanese Photography Then/Now Catalogue, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 Volkskrant magazine, The Netherlands
2015 NIPPON CAMERA, #6/2015, Japan
2015 The Hokkaido Newspaper, 22 March, Japan
2014 Libération Newspaper, 10 November, France
2014 TOKYO 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHER #2, IMA photobooks, Tokyo
2014 SPUR, December 2014, JAPAN
2014 Gente di Fotografia #59, Italy
2014 NEON Magazine, #09/2014, Germany
2014 The Observer newspaper, 6 July, UK
2014 NEON Magazine, #01/2014, Germany
2014 Esquire THAI EDITION, WATCH ISSUE, June 2014, Thai
2014 GUP Magazine #42, Open Spaces, August 2014, Amsterdam
2014 Foam Magazine #39, Talent, September 2014, Amsterdam
2013 TOKYO 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERES 9, IMA photobooks, amana, Japan
2013 The art of LUMIX / LUMIX GM, Panasonic, amana, Japan
2013 IMA Magazine Winter Vol.6, "STEP OUT Vol.2", Tokyo, Japan
2013 KRITIKA OUTSIDER, Germany
2012 Gypsé Eyes magazine #4: The Magic Issue, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTION
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Yamanashi, Japan
amana collection, Tokyo
Collection de Heus-Zomer, Amsterdam
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
etc
GALLERY REPRESENTATIONS
IMA gallery, Tokyo, Japan
IBASHO gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Christophe Guye Galerie, Switzerland
EDUCATION
2012 Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography
2010 Graduated from Nihon University Collage of Economics
Born 1987 in Fukui, Mizutani attended the Tokyo College of Photography after graduating from Nihon University College of Economics. In 2014, was selected for the LensCulture Emerging Talents Awards 2014 Top 50 and the Foam Magazine Talent Call 2014. Mizutani has quickly established worldwide recognition and amassed an impressive list of solo exhibitions in numerous countries, including, Tokyo (IMA), Beijing (aura gallery) , Belgium (ibasho gallery), Switzerland (Christophe Guye Galerie), London (Webber gallery) and Milan (mc2 gallery). His has so far published 4 books from IMA photobooks; ‘Tokyo Parrots’(2014), ‘Colors’ (2015), ‘YUSURIKA’(2015) and 'HANON'(2016). He lives and works in Tokyo.