2007
Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi weaves a narrative of the duality between life and death in her work. Her images simultaneously suggest optimism for an idyllic existence and existential dread for the struggles of everyday life.
Kawauchi graduated from Seian University of Art and Design in 1993. In 2001, she released a trio of photobooks — Utatane, Hanabi and Hanako — that received critical acclaim and launched Kawauchi’s career. Over the next two decades, she produced over 20 photobooks.
Kawauchi is a master narrator capable of telling stories in a minimalist style. Like the haikus she writes to accompany her work, Kawauchi’s photography offers poetry in the stillness of a single frame. Simplicity is a key element in her work, which captures intentional moments and freezes nature in time. Her subjects include fire, fireworks, clouds, lightning, sakura blossoms and waves.
In 2002, Kawauchi won the Rookie of the Year Award from the Photographic Society of Japan. She received the International Center of Photography’s Annual Infinity Award in 2009 and was shortlisted in 2012 for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2013, she won the Domestic Photographer Award at the 29th Higashikawa Awards and the Art Encourage Prize for New Artist from the Ministry of Education.
She has exhibited her work around the world, including at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Photographer’s Gallery in London, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and White Cube in Kyoto.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Rinko Kawauchi’s photography.
Untitled
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed and numbered, verso 10 x 8 inches, sheet 9 x 6 inches, image This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. About the artist: This p...
Archival Pigment
Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture (1241-08)
By Yoko Ikeda
Located in New York, NY
20 x 24 inch type-c print Edition 10. Signed on verso. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...
C Print
Ota Ward, Tokyo (0995-02)
By Yoko Ikeda
Located in New York, NY
20 x 24 inch type-c print Edition 10. Signed on verso. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...
C Print
Price Upon Request
H 20 in W 16 in
ZZYX - Gregory Halpern (Colour Photography)
By Gregory Halpern
Located in London, GB
Gregory Halpern Born 1977 ZZYX Signed on reverse Digital chromogenic print 20 x 16 inches, edition of 5 40 x 32 inches, edition of 3 For the last fi...
C Print
Minato Ward, Tokyo (0978-04)
By Yoko Ikeda
Located in New York, NY
20 x 24 inch type-c print Edition 10. Signed on verso. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...
C Print
Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture (1007-02)
By Yoko Ikeda
Located in New York, NY
20 x 24 inch type-c print Edition 10. Signed on verso. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...
C Print
Untitled (Is As It)
By Mikiko Hara
Located in New York, NY
Chromogenic print Signed, dated, and numbered in black ink, verso This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. About the artist: Mikiko Hara is a Japanese photo...
C Print
$14,502
H 72 in W 48 in
Untitled #54 Chromogenic Print, Heterotopia Series, Edition of 5
By Karine Laval
Located in Brighton, GB
'Untitled #54' from the series Heterotopia is a dazzling Chromogenic Print by Contemporary photographer Karine Laval and is available in this size in an Edition of 5. The vividly c...
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture
By Yoko Ikeda
Located in New York, NY
37 x 45.75 inch type-c print Edition 5. Signed on label verso. This peaceful and harmoniously ordered photograph is representative of Yoko Ikeda's personal way of seeing. She is drawn to humble subjects and surroundings, places free of obvious associations, which lend themselves to poetic transformation when seen through her camera. It's notable that the blue retaining wall that ambles across this picture reads as the most aquatic feature—this despite the fact that The Sea of Japan can be glimpsed in a sliver, just over its right side. This gently playful inversion—a cement wall and the sea trading places...
C Print
Untitled, from the series King, Queen, Knave
By Gregory Halpern
Located in London, GB
Signed, numbered and inscribed with title on label fixed to reverse Digital c-type print 25 x 20 inches Edition of 5
C Print
Untitled, from the series 'Cui Cui'
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Cui Cui', 2005 C–type print 101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in.) Edition of 3; Ed. no. 2/6 Print only Signed by the artist This ph...
C Print
Untitled, from the series 'Utatane'
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Utatane', 2001 C–type print 101,6 x 101,6 cm (40 x 40 in.) Edition of 6 Print only This photograph belongs to the series 'Ut...
C Print
Untitled, from the series 'Cui Cui'
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Cui Cui', 2005 C–type print 30.5 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.) Edition of 6 Print only, Signed by the artist This photograph belon...
C Print
Untitled, from the series 'AILA'
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'AILA', 2004 C–type print Sheet 101.6 × 101.6 cm (40 × 40 in.) Edition of 6 Signed by the artist Kawauchi burst on the intern...
C Print
Untitled, from 'Illuminance' – Rinko Kawauchi
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Illuminance' 2011 Lambda print Sheet 101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in.) Edition of 6 print only, Signed by the Artist Reminiscen...
Lambda
Untitled, from the series 'Ametsuchi'
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Ametsuchi', 2013 Lambda print Medium Sheet 64 × 80 cm (25 1/5 × 31 1/2 in.) Large Sheet 148 x 185 cm (58 1/4 x 72 7/8 in.) Ed...
Lambda
