Mao Ishikawa

Born in Ogimi Village, Government of the Ryukyu Islands (now Okinawa Prefecture) in 1953.She began taking photographs in the 1970s and studied photography at the Tomatsu Shomei Class of the WORKSHOP Photography School in 1974. She continues to create works based in Okinawa, producing works that closely relate to people, focusing on those who are connected to Okinawa.In 2011, she won the Sagamihara Photography Award for "FENCES, OKINAWA," and in 2019 he won the Photographic Society of Japan Award for Artistic Artist.In 2024, she will receive the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, the Domon Ken Award, and the Higashikawa Award, and will exhibit at the Busan Biennale. In 2025, she will hold a solo exhibition at the Warwick Arts Centre and participate in the Sao Paulo Biennale. Her photographs have been widely exhibited both in Japan and overseas, and are included in many public collections, including the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Yokohama Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA).

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