Photographer Kanako Sasaki

Born in Sendai, Japan
Education
2006-7	Royal Collage of Art, London UK724
2004	MFA Photo, video and related media School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2001	BA Journalism, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Awards
2008	Selected for the Shiseido Art Egg Award, Tokyo Japan
2007	VOCA Award exhibition, Ueno no mori museum, Tokyo Japan
2006	Selected in PDN's 30"emergency photographer to watch", NY Winner and finalist of Magenta’s Emerging Photographers Book and Exhibition
2005	ITS Four International Talent Support MINI Photo Award Finalist, Trieste, Italy.
2004	The Golden Light Award, Personal Documentary, The Workshop, Maine, USA Selected as one of the top 100 photographers, Personal/Fine Art category, The Workshop, Maine, USA Hitotsubo-ten(3.3mX3.3m) Award, Guardian Garden/Recruit, Japan
2001	Winner of Women in Photography International 20th Anniversary Juried Exhibition
Grant/Residency
2011	Recipient of Pola art foundation, Tokyo Recipient of Shiseido exhibition grant for Singapore Fringe festival
2010	Participant of Tokyo-Paris exchange residency at Le CENTQUATRE, Paris
2009	Recipient of Shiseido exhibition grant for Okinawa ark Participant of MoKS artist residency, Mooste, Estonia
2008	Participant of Baer Residency, Iceland Participant of Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris France
2007	Participant of Woodstock A-I-R, residency for artists of color working in the photographic art, Woodstock, NY
2006-2007	Recipient of Ezoe foundation for artist, Japan Recipient of Japanese Government Study Program for artist for a year, Agency for Cultural Affair Participant of Bundeskanzleramt Kunst, Residency in Vienna, Austria
2005	Participant of the Light Work’s Artist-in-Residency program, Syracuse, NY Recipient of Alumni Scholarship Award (School of Visual Arts)
2001	Recipient of George Krause Scholarship (Univ. of Houston)
2000	Recipient of Philip R. Dougherty Minority journalism Scholarship Recipient of James Pendelton Photography Project Completion
Solo/Selected Exhibitions
2011	Solo show “Okinawa Ark” Singapore FRINGE festival, National museum of Singapore
	Group show, Art Miyagiî The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi Japan
2010	Solo show, “Wanderlust” Dina Mitrani gallery, Miami
	Video Installation “Passage project” at Le CENTQUATRE, Paris
	Group show, Watashi/tachi Suwako Art Festival screening, Nagano, Japan
	Group show ìTokyo Storyî, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2009	Solo show, " Okinawa Ark for the photo month" at Simon I. Patino Cultural center, La Paz Bolivia
	Solo show, "Okinawa Ark" at Broward college central fine arts gallery, Miami USA
	Group show, "Water" at Dina Mitrani gallery, Miami USA
	Solo show, "Drifted" at MA2 gallery, Tokyo Japan
	Solo show, "Okinawa Ark" at Shiseido gallery, Tokyo Japan
	Group show, "War and Art -terror and simulacurum of beauty- " at galerie Aube, Kyoto Art, Kyoto Japan
2008	Group show "Landscape Lululu" at Shizuoka Perfecture museum of Art, Shizuoka Japan
	Solo show, "UKIYO" at Guardian Garden, Tokyo Japan
2006	2006Group show “As if we seek the light in the dark”, Raku gallery at Kyoto Design and Art University, Kyoto, Japan "Passionate Attitudes" Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY "Magenta's Emerging Photographers book & exhibition" @ Lennox Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada. "The living is easy, International contemporary photography" at Flower East gallery, London, UK School of Visual Arts year book exhibition, SVA gallery, NY Photo Plus Expo, PDN Exhibition, Javits Center New York, USA Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China Group show “Artist in Residence 2006” Kunstraum Palais Porcia, Vienna, Austria “Fusentowata and Kanako Sasaki” solo and performance at Coca Cola gallery, Vienna, Austria art_point collaboration and exhibition, Vienna, Austria Group show, "Joint Venture", Richard Nelson Gallery, LA
2005	Solo show, "View from Here," Main Gallery, Light Work, Syracuse, NY Solo show, “Wanderlust,” Art Cocoon gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN Group show, "Femininity." Local Project, NY USA
2004	Hitotsubo-ten, 3.3mX3.3m Exhibition, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan MFA Thesis Show “The Look of Things” at Visual Arts Gallery. Chelsea, NY. Group Exhibition ”Blameless” at Visual Art Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2001	WIPI Juried Exhibition “Images of Women-Images of Tea,” Los Angeles, CA.
Publications
2006	Esora, Cover picture, Kodansha publication 2006 PDN Magazine, march issue “PDN’s 30 emergency photographers to watch 2006. Ryuko Tsushin Magazine, Infas publicaton
2005	2005Contact Sheet Magazine, #133, Kanako Sasaki, Exhibition Catalogue, August, 2005, USA Kyodo Tsushin, "Omusubi Gallery", July, 2005 Seikatsu Design Yofin Magazine, "wanderlustful", July 2005, Tokyo, Japan CMYK MagazineMarch/April, Photography selected.
2004	Photo PHat Magasine, “New Style” Photographer, Jan/Feb, Pier Publications, Tokyo, Print Magazine, Regional Annual Award 2004, Award winning book, NY School of Visual Arts, Yearbooks 2002-2005, New York, NY
Teaching
2004-2007	NYSSA, NYState Media Summer camp, Teaching Photography class                                >>>Kanako Sasaki