Tomoko Sawada
TOMOKO SAWADA (b. 1977 Kobe, Japan) studied at the Seian University of Art and Design. She has been a recipient of the Grand Prize at the Canon New Cosmos of Photography, the ICP Infinity Hyogo Arts Award and the prestigious Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award. Her work is held by internationally renowned collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the International Center of Photography, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Essl Collection, Klosternerberg, Austria, the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Brooklyn Museum. Monographs of Tomoko Sawada’s work include: ID400, Seigensha Art Publishing, 2004; School Days, Seigensha Art Publishing, 2006; Masquerade, Akaaka Art Publishing, 2006. In 2015, Sawada was featured at the Getty in the exhibition The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography, and her series Facial Signature was on view at ROSGALLERY in February 2016.
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All This Happened: Twenty Nine Years of ROSEGALLERY
September 14 - October 30, 2021'All This Happened: Twenty Nine Years of ROSEGALLERY' will be on view from 14 September - 30 October 2021. The group exhibition features works by Jo Ann Callis, Kennedi Carter, John Chiara, Lieko Shiga, Dorothea Lange, William Eggleston, Rinko Kawauchi, Lise Sarfati, Robbert Flick, Tania Franco Klein, Steve Galloway, Graciela Iturbide, Shaun McCracken, Manfred Müller, Elger Esser, Huger Foote, Bruce Davidson, Tomoko Sawada, Megan Cotts, Shaun McCracken, Diana Markosian, and more.Read more -
Facial Signature
February 20 - April 9, 2016ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present Facial Signature by renowned Japanese artist, Tomoko Sawada. This exhibition will be on view from 20 February 2016 through 9 April 2016.Read more
As one of the leading contemporary artists in conceptual photography, Tomoko Sawada’s work explores cultural identification and gendered societal norms through self-created portraiture. -
SIGN/SKIN
September 26 - November 16, 2013This work, produced during a residency with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is both a startling departure from the past and an innovative use of her iconic style honed over the past decade. In 2012 she was invited by the museum to work with a local business and produce a new body of work based on the unique materials, history and processes associated with the host institution, which in this case, was Heinz, a brand synonymous with the city’s legacy. Sawada, who is acclaimed for her humorous and extensive self-portraits, collaborated with Heinz to investigate branding as a form of portraiture.Read more -
Reflection
July 9 - September 17, 2011ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present REFLECTION our second exhibition of photographs by renowned Japanese artist, Tomoko Sawada. In her series, Mirrors, Sawada once again tackles the issue of identity by questioning the boundary between one’s own appearance and the self-image reflected in a mirror. The dual images in each photograph are presented like twins and while they bear a striking resemblance to one another, a closer inspection reveals how different they truly are.Read more -
Bride
June 7 - August 23, 2008ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present Tomoko Sawada’s newest work, BRIDE, a meditation on the dichotomies of old and new, east and west, tradition and fashion, and the instability of one’s identity when confronted with these divisions. This will mark the first exhibition of this work, and Sawada’s first exhibition on the west coast.Read more
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Souvenirs
Gloria Katz, Tomoko Sawada Gloria Katz, 2017Hardcover, 16 pagesRead more
Publisher: Nazraeli Press -
FACE
Tomoko Sawada Tomoko Sawada, 2017Hardcover, 16 pagesRead more
Publisher: Nazraeli Press -
Facial Signature
Tomoko Sawada Tomoko Sawada, 2015Unsigned, 176 pagesRead more
Publisher: Seigensha -
To be Bewitched by a Fox, Limited Edition Book
Tomoko Sawada Tomoko Sawada, 2021Hardcover, with limited edition print, 1552 pagesRead more
Publisher: SEIGENSHA Art Publishing, Inc.
Dimensions: 105mm(w) x148mm(D) x105mm(H)