Education
Lives and works in Kawasaki, Japan
| 1967 | Born in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan | |||
| 1990 | Graduated from Kei University, Tokyo (studied art history and theory) | |||
| 1996 | Graduated Tokyo College of Photography, Yokohama |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2020 |
The Wind Cannot be Named, Ibasho, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2019 | Kyrie, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York |
| 2017 | In the Blink of an Eye 1996-2009, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York |
| Change, Nikon Salon Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Kimura Ihei Photography Award Winner’s Exhibition | |
| Change, Nikon Salon Osaka, Osaka, Japan, Kimura Ihei Photography Award Winner’s Exhibition |
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| 2015 | These are Days, Jikka, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Blind Letter, Third District Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Kumoma no Atosaki [Here and There Behind the Clouds], Gallery Tosei, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 |
Blind Letter, Cohen Amador Gallery, New York |
| 2006 |
Humoresque, Appel, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Thirteen : Hara Mikiko Photo Exhibition, Place M, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Hatsugo no Mawari [The Fringes of Articulation], Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Utsuro no Seihou [Proceedures for Manufacturing a Void], Konica Plaze East, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Utsuro no Seihou [Proceedures for Manufacturing a Void], The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan |
| 1998 | Agnus Dei, Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1996 |
Is As It ,Galerie Le Déco,Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2019 | FujiFilm Square, Heisei-Tokyo Snap Love, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Lianzhou Foto Festival, Uncontrolled Body, Lianzhou, Guandong, China |
| 2017 | Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Synchronicity: 20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now, San Francisco, CA |
| 2015 | Smith College Museum of Art, Dislocation/Urban Experience: Contemporary Photographs from East Asia, Northampton, MA |
| 2014 | Getty Museum, In Focus: Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2012 | Amador Gallery, Japan Today: Taiji Matsue, Osamu Kanemura and Mikiko Hara, New York |
| 2009 | Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, New Art Exhibition 2009: Photography Now, Past, Future, Yokohama Japan |
| 2007 | Fotografisk Center, A Private History: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photographers, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2006 | Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Absolutely Private: On Photography from 200 to the Present, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Epson Imaging Gallery Ep-site, Obsessive Words, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi, China |
| 2003 | Deichtorhallen, Japan, Contemporary Ceramics and Photography: Tradition and Presence, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2000 | De Pont Foundation of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Photography from Japan, Tilburg, The Netherlands |
| 1999 | Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Private Room II: Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan, Mito, Japan |
| 1998 | Soko Gallery, The Gestures of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 | L'inconscience et les regards, Arles, France |
| 1996 | Guardian Garden, The 8th 3.3m2 Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan |
Publications
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2019 |
Photopaper 44/45 Mikiko Hara: Kyrie, Photopaper |
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2016 |
Change, The Gould Collection Vol. 2, The Gould Collection, New York/Paris/Tokyo |
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Co-authored book, photographs by Mikiko Hara with a short story by Stephen Dixon |
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2014 |
These Are Days, Osiris |
| 2005 | Hysteria Thirteen: Hara Mikiko, Hysteric Glamour, Tokyo |
Collections
Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Hui Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
Awards
2017 The 42nd Kimura Ihei Photography Award