Rinko Kawauchi
Born in Shiga, Japan, in 1972, she lives and works in Tokyo. After graduating from Seian University of Art and Design in 1993, she began working freelance in 1997. In 2001, Little More simultaneously published Utatane, Hanabi and Hanako, creating an overnight sensation in Japanese photography. Utatane and Hanabi earned her the twenty-seventh Kimura Ihei Award in 2002. In 2009, she received the ICP Infinity Award in the Art category in New York, establishing her as one of her generation's most distinctive photographers.
Other publications include Aila (FOIL, 2004), The Eyes, The Ears and Cui Cui (FOIL, 2005), and Semear (FOIL, 2007).
Major solo exhibitions include the Fondation Cartier, Paris (2005); The Photographers' Gallery, London (2006); Aila + The Eyes, The Ears at Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (2007); Semear at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2007); and Cui Cui at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum (2008).
Group exhibitions include the Fondation Cartier collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2006) and Blooming: Brazil–Japan Where You Are at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi (2008).
