Asako Narahashi was born in Tokyo. She graduated in Fine Arts from Waseda University’s School of Letters, Art, and Science. In 1989, she held her first solo exhibition Dawn in Spring. The following year, she opened the gallery 03FOTOS (1990–2001) as a place to present her own work. In 1997, she published her debut photobook NU E and in 2003 the book Funiculi Funicula, consisting of color snapshots. Around the year 2000, Narahashi began to take photographs of water. She later published them in the book half awake and half asleep in the water (2007) and continued to develop the theme in her series Ever After and Coming Closer and Getting Further Away. Following the huge critical success of half awake and half asleep in the water, Narahashi has continued to produce numerous photobooks and exhibited her work throughout the world in solo shows and themed exhibitions. Her awards include the Newcomer’s Award of the Photographic Society of Japan in 1998, the Society of Photography Award in 2004, and the Higashikawa Awards for Domestic Photographer Award in 2008.
PGI Exhibitions
| 2025.05.08－07.02 | 1961 They Were Standing There |
| 2023.02.01－03.18 | Dawn in Spring |
Related Exhibitions
| 2025.05.13－05.31 | Drifting but Never Sinking 02, IG Photo Gallery |
| 2025.01.18－05.05 |
I’m So Happy You Are Here, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Haag |
| 2024.07.01－09.29 | I’m So Happy You Are Here, Palais De L’archevêché, Arles, France |
| 2023.09.22－11.05 | The Ongoing Power of Photography, Daegu Arts Center Gallery, 9th Daegu Photo Biennale, Korea |
| 2021.08.21－09.12 |
Sea Side line, (Chiba Foto), The Historical “Yukari no ie” House in Inage |
| 2021.05.11－06.26 | Drifting but never sinking, IG Photo Gallery |
| 2020.11.25－02.23 | Sleeping: Life with Art – From Goya and Rubens to Shiota Chiharu, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
| 2020.07.02－08.01 | Our Duty is to Experiment: 20 Years Galerie Priska Pasquer, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Germany |
| 2018.10.19－10.28 | HERNO / ASAKO NARAHASHI at HERNO, (DESIGNART TOKYO 2018) Herno Aoyama |
| 2017.09.07－10.15 | a retrospective – asako narahashi, Ibasho, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2017.03.18－04.05 | Seize the Uncertain Day, Chinretsukan Gallery (The University Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts) |
| 2017.01.28－02.18 | NU・E：New Selections from 1992-1997 Exhibitions @03FOTOS, The Third Gallery Aya |
| 2016.06.21－07.03 | Coming Closer and Getting Further Away: 1985/2015 Case of Vietnam, photographers’ gallery |