蜷川実花
日本
Photographer, Film Director, Artist
Although primarily a photographer, Mika Ninagawa is a multidisciplinary artist who also works extensively in film, video and spatial installations. She is also a member of the creative team EiM.
She is the recipient of numerous photography awards, including the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award. A book of her photographs was published by Rizzoli New York in 2010.
She has directed five feature films, including Helter-Skelter (2012) and Diner (2019), and the Netflix original drama FOLLOWERS (2020).
She has published more than 120 books of photographs, held or participated in over 150 solo exhibitions and 130 group exhibitions, and continues to present her work enthusiastically in Japan and abroad.
Her solo exhibition Mika Ninagawa: Eternity in a Moment (TOKYO NODE, Dec. 2023–Feb. 2024) attracted over 250,000 visitors.
From 11 January 2025 to 30 March 2025, the exhibition NINAGAWA Mika with EiM：Lights of the beyond, Shadows of this world was held at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art.
The three volumes of her latest photo collection series, Eternity in a Moment, were published in October 2024, from Akio Nagasawa Publishing & Case Publishing.
Selected exhibitions
Group exhibition ‘I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE’, Palais de l’Archevêché, 2024.
Group exhibition ‘Tokyo: Art & Photography’, Musée d’Ashemolean, 2021-2022.
MIKA NINAGAWA INTO FICTION / REALITY, Beijing Times Museum, 2022.
‘MIKA NINAGAWA’, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei), 2016.
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