Members
Ruriko Taguchi
Photographer
Born in Nagoya, Aichi; based in Tokyo. Member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Association.
Self-taught, began photographing in 2003 and launched a photographic career after winning that year’s Fuji Photo Salon New Artist Award. Since then, alongside work in music and magazine photography, has consistently made work centred on women, presented in exhibitions and publications.
Major series include “Keigai Doboku” (2010–), portraits made only of women’s backs; “SCAPE” (2016–), which treats the nude as landscape; “KIYOKO” (2017–), a documentary portrait of the photographer’s grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), a first series of self-portrait nudes.
Recent work builds a singular world through collage and sculptural pieces that go beyond the conventional photographic format.
Awards
2003 — Fuji Photo Salon New Artist Award
2004 — Selected, Nika Exhibition
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Biography
- 2024
- “OPEN YOUR EYES”, GALLERY GARAGE (KG+, Kyoto)
- 2023
- “OUT OF NOISE”, CO-CO PHOTO SALON, Tokyo
- 2022
- “CUT OFF / OUT OF NOISE”, Dojidai Gallery, Kyoto
“CUT OFF”, GALLERY GARAGE (KG+, Kyoto)
“CUT OFF”, Fugensha, Tokyo - 2018
- “SCAPE #5”, The Conran Shop Shinjuku, Tokyo
“SCAPE #4”, Imperial Hotel Plaza, Tokyo - 2017
- “rhythm”, Nikon Plaza Nagoya & Nikon Plaza Ginza
“MONO SCAPE”, EIZO Galleria Ginza, Tokyo - Group
- 2025 — KG+ MIX UP, Kyoto
2024 — “9 colors, 9 stories”, Paper Pool, Tokyo
2023 — “Being”, √k Contemporary, Tokyo
2022 — “icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTO EXHIBITION II”, AXIS GALLERY, Tokyo
2020 — “Spring of Corona”, Fugensha; “SELF-PORTRAIT”, Jam Photo Gallery, Tokyo
2018 — “Womania”, Fugensha, Tokyo
2017 — fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris; Fad Fair, Art Complex Center, Tokyo; “Eight Portrait Photographers”, Olympus Plaza Tokyo