Education
M.A., Studio art, The University of Alabama (2000-2002)
B.A., Studio art, The University of Alabama (1996-1999)
Exhibtions (selected)
2024
Kunstinitiatief De Nieuwe Gang (duo with Maan Limburg)
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Gallery, London (solo)
2023
OMNEFEST festival, book presentation, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
“Tales of Absence,” Refectiehuis, Utrecht (trio, with Nishiko and Maan Limburg)
Africa Foto Fest, Museum MuCAT, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2022
Salon der Künstler, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Fotografia Europea + Skinnerboox Book Award presentation, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jakarta International Photo Festival, Indonesia
2021
"Stateless: war displaced Filipino Japanese" Tokyo
2020
"Nightfall" Museum Arnhem
"Reimagining War" Tokyo, Osaka
2019
PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv
Swiss Photo-Three Award, Lugano, Switzerland
"Dear Japanese," Platform for Humanistic Photography, Ede, Netherlands
"Unyielding Gaze," Kuala Lumpur Photo Award for journalistic portraits
2018
"Pale Red Dot," VOID, Athens Photo Festival
2017
Dear Japanese, Cortona On The Move (Cortona, Italy)
At Dusk, Galerie NUN (Arnhem)
2016
Dear Japanese, Ritsumeikan Peace Museum, Kyoto (solo)
Dear Japanese, Museum Bronbeek (Arnhem)
Feria de Libros de Fotos de Autor (Buenos Aires)
2015
Spine Photobook Fesitival, Dummy Award, Stockholm
Encontros da Imagem book exhibition (Braga, Portugal)
Dear Japanese, Nagasaki Peace Museum,Nagasaki (solo)
Reminders Project Stronghold, Tokyo (Solo)
Book presentaion, Unseen, Amsterdam
Foto Noviembre, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES
2014
Doh Mix Meh Up: Diaspora and Identity in Art,
University of Oxford, Diasporas programme, curated by Sunil Shah
Obscura Festival/Asian Women Photographers Showcase,
Penang, Malaysia
Phantom Reality Reset, TETEM, Enschede, NL
HOE=HET NU, ACEC, Apeldoorn, NL
2013
Delhi Photo Festival 2013, Print Exhibition, Delhi
‘Afterimage,’ solo, web exhibition, Gurdian Garden, Tokyo
‘Passages,’ Velp, NL
2012
‘Disturbia,’ CODA museum, Aperdoorn, NL
'Disturbia,' Kunstenlab, Deventer, NL
'Who’s Afraid of Oriental Girls,' De Mondriaantoren, Amsterdam
MK Award Fundraising show, Rotterdam
'Shadow Performers,' Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam
2011
'Ikoku Tokai,' Coalface Lab, Genk, BE (solo)
'MärklinWorld,' Kunsthal KADE, Amersfoort, NL
2010
'That Shimmering Beast,' The Empty Quarter, Dubai, UAE
'Over schaal en tijd,' Plaatsmaken, Arnhem, NL
'Nightward,' MK galerie, Rotterdam (solo)
Publication
2022
"At Dusk" Skinnerboox, Italy
2021
The Akahata (Japanese newspaper)
2017
"Dear Japanese: children of war" Cortona On The Move, Italy
2015
"Dear Japanese" The Eriskay Connection
"Dear Japanese" Hand made book, Self published
"Land of the Setting Sun" Hand made book, Self published
(short listed: Spine dummy book award, Encontros da Imagem)
2013
2012
Rooms Art magazine
Award
2022
Winner, Fotografia Europe + Skinnerboox BOOK AWARD at FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA, Italy
2019
Swiss Photo Three, Lugano, Winner
2018
Breda International Photo Festival, 2nd Prize Best Portfolio
PHotoESPAÑA Best Photobook, shortlisted
Kunst.nl Photography Award, nomination
2016
Self publish Riga, shortlisted
Photobook Bristol, shortlisted
DOCfield Dummy Award, Barcelona, shortlisted
LUMA Rencontrs Dummy Book Award Arles, shortlisted
***Cortona on the Move Photobook Review, winner, Cortona, Italy
SCAN Tarragota, shortlisted
Randez Vous-Image, Shortlisted (Strasbourg)
2015
Spine dummy book award, shortlisted
Encontros da Imagem "El Books," shortlisted
The Anamorphosis Prize, shortlisted
Le Photobook Fest/Rock Your Dummy, shortlisted
Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award, Madrid, shortlisted
Teaching
2015 "Gaikoteki Shashin Shugo" Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo
2010 Workshop, The Empty Quarter/American University Dubai, Abu Dhabi
Collection
2020
Museum Arnhem
2015
MoMA Library, New York
Franklin Furnace Foundation, New York