Tokuko Ushioda

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Tokuko Ushioda studied under Kiyoji Otsuji at Kuwasawa Design School and graduated in 1963. She taught at Kuwasawa Design School and Tokyo Zokei University from 1966 to 1978. She has worked as a freelance photographer since 1975. In 2018 her Bibliotheca series won the Domon Ken Award, the Photographic Society of Japan’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Higashikawa International Photo Festival’s Domestic Photographer Award. Other representative works include ICE BOX, in which she photographed the contents of various families’ refrigerators. In 2019 she won the Kuwasawa Special Award.

 

[New Book]

My Husband,    torch press (Jan 2022)

 

 

Exhibition at PGI

2022.01.26-03.12 My Husband
2017.03.08-04.28 Bibliotheca

 

 

Related Exhibitions

2024.04.13ー05.12

Ice Box + My Husband, From Our Windows, Supported by KERING’S Women In MotionKyotographie,  Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

2024.02.17ー05.12

Absolute Chairs. TheMuseum of Modern Art, Saitama

2024.02.17ー04.07

Artists Along the Railway Lines: The Odakyu Line, Setagaya Art Museum

2024.02.14ー03.02

A TaleGalore 412

2023.12.06-01.28

Tracing the Lineage of Japanese Straight Photography from the Late 1960s into the 70s, MEM

2023.07.01-07.31

My Husband, totonoel gallery

2023.05.03-2024.03.03

The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal

2023.01.28-02.26

Lifelong Learning, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino

2022.07.20-09.04

Past Winners Exhibition, The Higashikawa Awards, Town of Higashikawa

2022.05.26-06.20

My Husband, book obscura, Tokyo, Japan

2022.05.17-07.29

From Student to Master: Tokuko USHIODA and Her Teachers, Alison Bradley Projects, NY

2022.05.01-05.15

My Husband, Seikosha, Kyoto, Japan

2022.02.23-03.06

My Husband,  blackbird books, Osaka, Japan

2021.01.16-04.18

Anneke HYMMEN & Kumi HIROI, Tokuko USHIODA, Mari KATAYAMA, Maiko HARUKI, Mayumi HOSOKURA, and Your Perspectives,   Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

2019.12.21-02.28 A Bright Home,   Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2018.11.29-12.09

BIBLIOTHECA, Domon Ken Award Exhibition,   Ken Domon Museum of Photography

2018.08.04-08.29

BIBLIOTHECA, Domestic Photographer Award, The 34th Higashikawa Awards,   Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido

2018.06.01-06.07

BIBLIOTHECA, Award Winning Exhibition, Photographer Award, The Photographic Society of Japan Awards,   Fujifilm Photo Salon

2018.04.10-04.16

BIBLIOTHECA, Domon Ken Award Exhibition,   Nikon Plaza Shinjuku The Gallery

2017.03.01-03.18

BIBLIOTHECA,   Galerie412