ARTISTS
NEWS
- 2014/04/12 Night&Day 2014
EXHIBITIONS
Eiji INA: TWINS- Similarities between the Cities and the Nature -
April 13 - May 25,2019
Venue: gallery ART UNLIMITED (Nogizaka, Tokyo)
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20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO
November 22, 2016 — January 29, 2017
Venue: TOKYO PHOTOFRAPHIC ART MUSEUM (Ebisu, Tokyo）
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NO PHOTO, NO LIFE
30 November - 26 December, 2016
Venue: gallery ART UNLIMITED (Nogizaka, Tokyo)
SELECTED WORKS
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BIOGRAPHY
| 1957 | Born in Nagoya, Japan |
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| 1977 | Left Chubu Institute of Technology (Chubu University) Department of Industrial Physics |
| 1984 | Graduated from the graduate school of Tokyo College of Photography |
| 2012- | Director of Tokyo College of Photography |
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[Awards] |
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| 1988 | New Artist Prize, the 4th Higashikawa International Photography Festival |
| 1998 | 2nd Place, Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards, The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University |
| 2009 | Grand Prize, Professional Section, Photo City Sagamihara 2009 |
| 2009 | Kassel Photobook Award 2008-09 |
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[Selected One-Man Exhibitions] |
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| 1981 | Portrait of City, Photo Gallery OWL, Tokyo |
| 1984 | In Tokyo, Zeit-Photo Salon , Tokyo |
| 1987 | ZONE, Zeit-Photo Salon, Tokyo |
| 1989 | Artificial Paradise, INAX Gallery, Osaka Artificial Paradise, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo |
| 1990 | Works 1984-1990, Photo Interform, Osaka Artificial Paradise, Interform Atelier, Osaka EIJI INA, FABRIC Photo forum, Hamburg |
| 1991 | In Tokyo, ZONE, Artificial Paradise, INAX Space, Sapporo MATERIAL EVOLUTION, Parco Gallery, Tokyo Artificial Paradise, Irving Photographic Art Gallery, Malmö |
| 1993 | SCRAP, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1995 | WASTE, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1997 | WASTING-AWAY, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1999 | WASTING-AGAIN, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2002 | WATCH, art & river bank, Tokyo |
| 2003 | Private Watch, Namba Gallery, Tokyo Rainbow, Namba Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2005 | COVER, art & river bank, Tokyo |
| 2007 | Eiji Ina 1981–2006, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2008 | EMPERORS, Zeit-Photo Salon, Tokyo IN TOKYO + EMPEROR OF JAPAN, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2009 | Contacts＋EMPEROR OF JAPAN, gallery ART UNLIMITED Tokyo |
| 2013 | In Tokyo [in MOMAT collection], The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
| 2016 | INA EIJI COVER Exhibition, 1839 Contemporary Gallery, Taipei Palmyra which is lost, art & riverbank, Tokyo |
| 2019 | TWINS-Similarities between city and nature, gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo |
| 2020 | Crystal of Debris, Canon Gallery S, Tokyo |
| 2021 | Japanese emperor’s mausoleum, JCII Photo Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2023 | Yasukuni Pacifying the country, JCII Photo Gallery, Tokyo |
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[Selected Group Exhibitions] |
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| 1982 | Joint Exhibition "House-Floating-Merrily", Gallery Eye Heart, Tokyo |
| 1983 | Photographic Showing Tokyo Open – Graph, Gallery Tamaya, Tokyo |
| 1985 | Paris-New York-Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85, Tsukuba |
| 1986 | Fotografia Japonesa Contemporánea, Casa Elizalde, Barcelona and other cities in Spain |
| 1987 | Photography, Yurakucho Asahi gallery, Tokyo |
| 1988 | New Primitive Photographie, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo |
| 1989 | 20 Promising Photographers, Parco Gallery, Tokyo Paintings and Photography of Orientalism, White Museum, [as a part of the International Design Expo in Nagoya] ,Nagoya |
| 1990 | Force of Eye 2: Polyphony of Photography, Talk Gallery, Tokyo Tokyo–TOKYO, Yurakucho Art Forum, Tokyo TAMA VIVANT '90, Shibuya Seed Hall, Tokyo |
| 1992 | Fundamental Concepts of Contemporary Photography 3, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki FLOWERS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, Seibu the Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1993 | Über die Größe Städte / About the big city, NGBK, Berlin |
| 1994 | Kawasaki Monument, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki Photographie Contemporaine, LA MATIÈRE L'OMBRE LA FICTION, Bibliotèque Nationale de la France, Galerie Colbert, Paris |
| 1996 | Japanese Photography - Form In/Out Part 3 : Contemporary Scenery;1980 – 95, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Typology in Photography: Its Appearance and Development, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki The 32nd 'Artists Today' Exhibition: NEW JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY IN 1990's THE RESONANCE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama |
| 1998 | Medialogue: Photography in Japanese Contemporary Art '98, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Contemporary Color Photography from Asia, The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston |
| 1999 | Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan / Contemporary Photography Art from Japan, NBK, Berlin The Month of Photography, Tokyo '99, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo FUKUI BIENNALE 8 'Human Body and Memory, Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui |
| 2001 | Now in real time, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia |
| 2002 | thinking about dog's death, art & riverbank ,Tokyo |
| 2003 | thinking about dog's death #2, art & riverbank, Tokyo Art in Flux Ⅷ. Inside Out: Mechanism of Cityscapes: Photographs by INA Eiji and KANEMURA Osamu, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka |
| 2006 | Casual Meeting Soh Gallery, Tokyo thinking about dog's death #5, art & riverbank, Tokyo Photography Today 3 Resolution / Dissolution, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, |
| 2007 | Japan Caught by Camera, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2008 | Nagoya-Das Werden der Japanischen Großstadt, Wien Museum, Wien The history of arts and cities - Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, Sendai Mediatheque ,Sendai |
| 2009 | Winning works Exhibition of Photo City Sagamihara 2009, Sagamihara Citizen Gallery, Sagamihara |
| 2010 | COLLECTION UNLIMITED ,gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo Photo City Sagamihara 2009 Professional Division: Winning Works Shinjuku Nikon Salon,Tokyo LIAISON (Enishi), gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2011 | Monochrome or Monotone, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo LIAISON 2011, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2013 | Night & Day〈partⅡ〉 New Landscape photographers in Japan, gallery ART UNLIMITED Tokyo Collection Unlimited "As you like it", gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2014 | Night&Day2014, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2015 | Taiwan Photo fair 2015, Taipei ECHGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNALE 2015, Niigata |
| 2016 | 20th Anniversary of General Opening TOP Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography, Tokyo SMALL THINGS CONSIDERED II, Laurence Miller gallery, New York. |
| 2019 | A look at Bauhaus－EXPERIMENTS, Tokyo College of Photography gallery, Yokohama |
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[Public Collections] |
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Bibliothèque National de France
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[Publications] |
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| 1995 | WASTE, Eiji Ina Studio |
| 1998 | WASTE, Nazraeli Press |
| 2008 | Emperor of Japan, Nazraeli Press |
| 2010 | Wacht, Nazerali Press |
| 2011 | The Door into North Helsinki, Petit Grand Publishing, Inc. |
| 2015 | YASUKUNI, Far East Publishing |
| 2025 | ZONE, Far East Publishing |
