Yuki Onodera Explained

Yuki Onodera
Birth Date:	1962
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Awards:	Kimura Ihei Award
Known For:	Photography

is a Japanese photographer. She graduated from the Kuwazawa Design School in Tokyo. She lives in Paris, France.

Biography

Onodera works with large images (some reaching 8 meters) and wants her work to be "tangible".^[1] In her series "Portrait of Second-Hand Clothes" Onodera used the clothes from "Christian Boltanski's installation 'Dispersion,' a large pile of used garments meant to evoke death and loss."^[2] She has worked in Paris since 1993, and she has had solo exhibits around the world.^[3] Institutions that hold her work include: The Getty Museum,^[4] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,^[5] and The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.^[6]

Awards

• 2001, New Photographer Higashikawa Prize
• 2002, Kimura Ihei Award^[7]
• 2006, Prix Niépce

Publications

• How to Make a Pearl, Nazraeli Press, 2002^[8]
• Transvest, Nazraeli Press, 2004, ^[9]

References

1. Web site: Rosés . Mercedes . Yuki Onodera - The Mystery of Photography . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221127191753/https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/yuki-onodera-the-mystery-of-photography . 27 November 2022 . 10 May 2022 . Metal Magazine.
2. News: Rosenberg . Karen . 18 March 2011 . AIPAD Photography Show New York . C31 . The New York Times .
3. Web site: About Yuki Onodera . 10 May 2022 . Lens Culture.
4. Web site: Yuki Onodera . 10 May 2022 . The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection . en.
5. Web site: Yuki Onodera . 10 May 2022 . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . en-US.
6. Web site: 2010 . Onodera Yuki - Into the Labyrinth of Photography . 10 May 2022 . Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography . en.
7. Web site: La clairvoyance du hasard: Li Lang + Yuki Onodera . 2022-05-11 . Photography of China . en-GB.
8. Book: Onodera, Yuki . How to Make a Pearl . 2002 . Nazraeli Press . 978-1-59005-027-9 . Tucson, Ariz. . English . 51636123.
9. Book: Onodera . Yuki . Transvest . Friis-Hansen . Dana . Ishiwata . Maya . Nazraeli Press . 2004 . Nazraeli Press . 978-1-59005-086-6 . English . 57206001.

See also

• Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.