Mayumi Lake Japanese, b. 1966

Overview
  • Mayumi Lake, Addictive Reckoning #001349, 2014 Addictive Reckoning #001349, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, Hunch #4984, 2014 Hunch #4984, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, It's Alright #141199, 2014 It's Alright #141199, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, Green Unit 3120 (from Ex Post Facto series), 2008 Green Unit 3120 (from Ex Post Facto series), 2008
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Chicago-based Mayumi Lake creates emotionally charged photographic narratives. Lake's work, often revisiting her childhood fantasy, expresses despair, yearning, and hope. She employs herself and others as her models, as well as dolls, toys, weapons, vintage clothes, and altered landscape as her props.

Mayumi Lake studied photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Since 1997, Lake’s work has been exhibited at national and international venues including MIT List Visual Arts Center, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Fotografie Forum International (Frankfurt), Art In General, Asia Society, and Museum of Sex (New York).  Her work is in the permanent collections at various institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Asia Society, and Joy of Giving Something Foundation. Nazraeli Press published two monographs by Lake (Poo-Chi, Ex Post Facto). In 2008, international photography magazine EYEMAZING featured her Ex Post Facto series. She lives and works in Chicago.

Biography
  • Mayumi Lake, Addictive Reckoning #001349, 2014 Addictive Reckoning #001349, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, Hunch #4984, 2014 Hunch #4984, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, It's Alright #141199, 2014 It's Alright #141199, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, Green Unit 3120 (from Ex Post Facto series), 2008 Green Unit 3120 (from Ex Post Facto series), 2008
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Education

1964 Born in Osaka, Japan
1997 BFA in Photography - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Photography Department
2000

MFA in Photography - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 Unison - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Unison - Bolt Project Space, Chicago Artists Collation, Chicago, IL
2014

Latent Heat - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2010

Æther - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2009

Ex Post Facto - Witzenhausen Gallery Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008

Ex Post Facto - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2006

My Idol - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2005

Poo-Chi - Cornelius Pleser Galerie, Munich, Germany
 

Poo-Chi - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Pink Noise: Works by the Stella Collective - The Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Wa-Jin - Japan Information Center, Chicago, IL
 

Seeing Through the Garden - Sensyu-Izutsuyashiki, Higashikagawa, Takamatsu, Japan
2016

Preview 6 : We’ve Met Before - Bolt Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2014

Stella: The Nature of a Collective - Ukraine Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
 

Nocturnal Labyrinth - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY     
2012

Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics - Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011

Till All Is Green - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
 

Staged Photography - Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy 
2009

The Shasin-ka Slide Show,NAKANAKA: Japanese Arts and Culture Series - Drom, New York, NY
 

Womanliness - Galleria PaciArte, Brescia, Italy
2008

Focus: Midwest - Midwest Museum of Contemporary Art, Carmel, IN
2007

Thinking the Multiple - Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
 

PHOTOARTE, Brescia, Italy
  Free Rein/Full Play – New Chicago Photographer - Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  Bangkok International Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand    
2006 A Travel on the Contemporary Photography - Galleria PaciArte, Brescia, Italy (Catalog)
  The Distant Mirror - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
  Festival of Love: Video Series - Asia Society, New York, NY
  Director’s Lounge - Berlin, Germany
2004 She-Snap - Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
  FOTOAMERICA 2004, Santiago, Chile (Catalog)
  Re:Source - Art In General, New York , NY
  Relating to Photography - Fotographie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany                 
2002 No Live Girls - Lance Fung Gallery, New York, New York           
2001 Media Impossible - Ssamzie Space, Soul, Korea (Catalog)
2000 Uncut Special Edition - Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England     

   

Selected Awards and Residencies 

2017 Individual Artist Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Chicago, IL
2017, 2013, 2007 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of The Art institute of Chicago
2016-2017

Bolt Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2014

Catslair Residency, Catwalk Institute, Catskill, NY
2013, 2007

Catwalk Art Residency, Catwalk Institute, Catskill, NY
2009

AIR Artist-in-Residence Krems, Krems, Austria
2005

Roger Brown House Residency, New Buffalo, Michigan, School of The Art institute of Chicago   
2003

Skowhegan Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 
2002

Photo-Eye Awards “Best Figure Study and Nude Book” for monograph Poo-Chi, Nazraeli Press
2001

Artists Fellowship Grant, Illinois Art Council
2000

Bruce Goodman Memorial Fellowship, School of The Art institute of Chicago

 

Publications

2009 Ex Post Facto (hardcover), One Picture Book #55, Nazraeli Press
2002 Poo-Chi (hardcover), essay by Joanna Frueh, Nazraeli Press

 

Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, TX
Museum of Sex, New York, NY
Asia Society, New York, NY
Joy of Giving Something foundation, New York, NY
Video Art World, Barcelona, Spain

Randolfo Rocha Collection, Belo Horizonte, M.G. Brazil     

 

 

 

 

 

Press
Exhibitions
Bibliography
  • Mayumi Lake, Addictive Reckoning #001349, 2014 Addictive Reckoning #001349, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, Hunch #4984, 2014 Hunch #4984, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, It's Alright #141199, 2014 It's Alright #141199, 2014
  • Mayumi Lake, Green Unit 3120 (from Ex Post Facto series), 2008 Green Unit 3120 (from Ex Post Facto series), 2008
View works

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2017   

Jonathan Blaustein, The Best Work I Saw at the Filter Festival: Part 2, project review, aPhotoEditor.com

 

2016

 Mayumi Lake, Noovo Editions, Online Monograph, Noovoeditions.com

 

2014

Jordan G. Teicher, Mayumi Lake:Latent Heat, exhibition Review, Photography Magazine, Nov.issue

Art Out, Musee Magazine, November 13 issue

Dr. Marquard Smith, The Erotic Doll, Yale University Press 

 

2011

Pamela Pianezza, Visa for Elsewhere, MUZE, Oct-Dec 2012 Number 65,

Bayard Editions, France, pg 32-39

 

2010

 Yvette Duran, Mayumi Lake – Æther, exhibition review,Threeminds.com

 

2008   

Clayton Maxwell, Artist interview on Ex Post Facto, Eyemazing, Fall 2008 issue

2007    Jill Conner, Anime and Role-Play: Bubble gum Crisis, Whitewall issue6 (Summer)

 

2006

R.C. Baker, Best in Show, exhibition review, the Village Voice, June 7-13, p.83

Sex in the First Person, the Village Voice, February 8-14 issue, p.126-127   

2005    Dr. Katrien Jacobs, Libi_Doc:Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art, Masca

Jessica Kraft, exhibition review, Contemporary Magazine, issue 75, p.67

Reiko Tomii, exhibition review, Art Asia and Pacific, Fall issue, p.84

 

2003

Poo-Chi, with an essay by Joanna Frueh, European Photography, issue 73/74, p.44-49

Joanna Frueh, Passion Pink and Heroes, Rhizomes.net, issue #7

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