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.
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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 Motion, Kyotographie, 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 Tale, Galore 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 |