ARTWORKS

Shiori Horie was born in France in 1992. Following graduation from Tokyo GakugeiUniversity Senior High School in 2010, Horie entered Tama Art University specializing in Nihonga painting, and graduated in 2014. In the same year, she held her inaugural solo exhibition at Kashima Arts and exhibited her works at ART FAIR TOKYO 2015 in a solo presentation by the gallery. In 2015, Horie was awarded the Gotoh Cultural Award, Fine Arts Division, and was nominated for the 6th Kaii Higashiyama Memorial Award for the Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize. With a grant from the Gotoh Cultural Award, Horie spent one year in Paris in 2016.

Born 1992, in Thailand. Sareena Sattapon is a visual artist who is currently completing a PhD in Global Art Practice, at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Sattapon works with various mediums such as performance, installation and
photography. She gets her artistic inspiration from her experiences and ordinary life. Sattapon’s
currently interest in performative spatial dynamics, related to human’s connection and dis-location.
She has had exhibitions internationally: in Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, China,
Indonesia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Norway, Sweden and Japan.

Solo Exhibitions
2025 Presented by SAC Gallery at Art Ono 2025, Seoul, Korea
2024 In the realm beyond spectrum, at Contemporary art foundation, Tokyo
Solo exhibition presented by SAC Gallery at Tokyo Gendai 2024, Yokohama, Japan

2021 Until we meet again solo exhibition at Shinokubo UGO, Tokyo
Home sweet home solo exhibition in Open studio
2021 Autumn at Super Studio Kitakagaya, Osaka
2018 Performance Art and solo exhibition at Kvitbrakkra, Berlevag, Norway
It’s not love or lust but loneliness solo exhibition at BUoY, Tokyo, Japan
Where are my japanese husbands? solo exhibition at Yuga gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Where are my japanese husbands? solo exhibition at Yuga gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan2024
2016 Performance Art at Undisclosed Territory10 in Solo, Indonesia
2014 Performance Art at solo Exhibition at People Gallery BACC

Group Exhibitions
2025 Collaboration presented with Supermade at Art Ono 2025, Seoul, Korea
Yukite Pyu—- Group exhibition at Sonoaida, Tokyo, Japan

2024 Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition 2024,Tokyo, Japan
Matsudo international science art festival 2024, Chiba, Japan
Meet your are festival 2024, Tokyo, Japan
Kizu slash create at Paichu, Tokyo, Japan
Go for Kogei 2024, Toyama, Japan
Tokyo midtown award 2024 finalists exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Tsubomi Flower bud at Tokyo Gendai 2024, Yokohama, Japan
Geidai Art plaza Art Award 2024, Platform13, Tokyo, Japan
Baan Noorg Biennial 2024, Ratchaburi, Thailand
Re:Factory_2 Wall alternative, Tokyo, Japan
2023 2023 Acquisitions Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, National art gallery, Bangkok
P.O.N.D. 2023 Group exhibition, Shibuya Parco, Tokyo
Multi-Cross-Impact Group exhibition, Treasure hill artist village, Taipei
Not everything is abstract Group exhibition, Numthong art space, Bangkok
Durational space II exhibition, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
Inter-Universities student exhibition SDGs X Geidai, Ueno art gallery, Tokyo
2022 Contemporary Art Foundation Award 2022 exhibition, Tokyo
Shibuya Art awards 2022 exhibition, Tokyo
Geisai 2022 online exhibition by Tokyo University of the Arts
2021 Mokyontüser Toaster group exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts
Color Atami by Atami art grant at Shinkadoya, Atami
UGO Summer exhibition at Shinokubo UGO, Tokyo
2020 EARLY YEARS PROJECT #5 20/20 Fluidity of change Group exhibition at BACC, Thailand
ART FUTURE art fair by Formosa Art Fair 2020 Co., Ltd, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Performance Art in Design Nation 2019 at BACC, MBK Center and One Siam group department stores
Field Trip Project Asia – Thailand group exhibition at BACC, Thailand
2018 Mai pen rai Dai jyuo bu Mei guan xi Group exhibition at PSG Art Gallery, Silpakorn University
Performance Art in It’s personal part III at HardingarT in Utne, Kunsthall 3.14,Kunstgarasjen in Bergen, Norway
Quid Pro Quo pavilion by LIV_ID Collective at Bangrak Bazaar in Bangkok Biennial 2018, Thailand
Performance art in Performance Art Khonkaen 2018, Khonkaen, Thailand
Performance art in Blurborders International performance Art exchange 2018, Thailand
2017 How Thai Group exhibition at PSG art gallery, Nakhonprathom, Thailand
2015 Group exhibition ‘AFFA 2’ at Museum of Contemporary Art, Bangkok
67 richter’ at Art center Silpakorn university
of artists residencies program at Mite-ugro art space Gwangju, Korea
2014 State Of Being : New Videoart From Thailand Exhibition By Opalnest and XXX Gallery Hongkong
2013 Experimental Video Art Exhibition Thai – European By Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur (BMUKK)
Metro-Sapiens : dialogue in the cave Exhibition By Office Of Contemporary Art And Culture, Ministry Of Culture

［Performance］
2018 Collaborative improvisation performance in PAB open session at Festplassen, Bergen,Norway
Performance art in The House of Flowing Reflections by Moom Mong Collective at Eah Seng in Bangkok Biennial 2018, Thailand
2017 Performance Art in It’s personal II: Nothing personal at LongvaandJugendstilsenteret og KUBE Ålesund, Norway
Performance Art in PAErsche Sharing 567h at Gallery Koppelmann, Cologne, Germany
Performance Art in Precise: fine setting°2 at Kunstpavillon, Burgbrohl, Germany
Performance Art at Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
Performance Art in Days of performance in Lviv 2017, Ukraine
Performance Art in Transart communication 2017 at 4D Gallery, Galanta, Slovakia
Collaborate improvisation performance at Nove zamky, Slovakia
Performance Art in Cooking performance event at Monor, Hungary
Performance Art in Fei xu Action at Tainan, Taiwan
Performance Art in Artist in residency program at Extantation, Chiangmai
Performance Art at Silpakorn University, Sanamchandra Palace campus
Performance Art in Timemaker photo exhibition by Zuzanna Kowalska at Thonglor
Art Space, Bangkok
2016 Performance Art in It’s Personal project at Chiangrai, Chiangmai and Bangkok
Performance Art at Undisclosed Territory10 in Solo, Indonesia
Performance Art at Asiatopia Performance conference S.E. Asia 2016, Thailand
Jai Phan Din Phan Din Jai Group Exhibition at BACC
Performance Art at Party Artist 11 at BACC, Bangkok
Group Performance Art (Un-balance) in Equinox – Same Difference at BACC
Art For All: 1+8=9 Group Exhibition at Ton Tann Art Space and Gallery, Khonkaen
Performance Art at Xi’an International Performance art festival 3, China
Performance Art in Anniversary of Prof.Puey Ungphakorn at BACC, Bangkok
2015 Performance Art at Grand closing party, Speedy Grandchild Bangkok
Performance Art at Future Of Imagination 10 in Singapore
Performance Art at Low fat Art Fest at Pridi Institute, Bangkok
Performance Art at ‘Pray for Nepal’ at The Emquartier, Bangkok
Performance Art at Nan art festival 2015
2014 Performance Art at Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival 2014 BACC
Performance Art at Rattanakosin in Memory Festival By The Treasury Department
Performance at the opening day of Exotika 2013 at Silpakorn University
Performance Art at Rattanakosin in Memory Festival 1th By The Treasury Department
Performance Art in Silpa Bhirasri Day 2013 at Silpakorn University
Awards
2024 Nomura Prize 2024 by Nomura Foundation and Tokyo University of the Arts
Selected for Tokyo Midtown award x Sonoaida artist in residency
program, Japan
Runner up prize and Audience award, Tokyo Midtown Award 2024
2023 Excellence award, Tokyo Geidai Art Fes 2023
Selected by Taipei art village for artist in residency program at Treasure hill, Taipei
Selected prize, Art Gallery Home 21 by Charm Care Corporation
2022 Special prize, Shibuya Art awards 2022
Grand prize, Contemporary Art Foundation Award 2022
Outstanding prize and guest jury prize, Geisai 2022 by Tokyo University of the Arts
2021 Atami Art Grant
Selected artist in residency program by Tra-Travel and Chishima foundation, Osaka
2020 Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarships
Finalist of EARLY YEARS PROJECT #5 by Millcon
Special prize of 2020 ART FUTURE PRIZE by Formosa Art Fair Co., Ltd
2018 Selected by Kvitbrakkra for artist in residency program in Berlevag, Norway
Selected by Silpakorn university and Tokyo University of The Arts for exchange
program in Tokyo, Japan
2016 Award Winner, Art Forward Found Award 2nd
2014 Scholarship from General Prem Tinnasulanonda Statesman Foundation
Selected by Silpakorn university and Mite-Ugro art space for artist in residency program in Gwangju, Korea
2013 Selected by SPOT ART for Exhibition in Singapore biennale 2013
2009 Special Award, Yuvabadhana Foundation Award 16th
Special Award, Aniversary of Faculty of Fine and Aplied Arts Mahasarakham University
2008 Second Best, Glorify the King Award by Thaicom Foundation
Special Award, Imagination come to Thai literature Award 2nd By Shin Corporation
Selected by Bundit Pattanasilp Institute for Young Art Award 3th
2007 The Best Price, PTT Art award (the Northeast section) 2nd
Education
2025 : Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts (Ph.D)
2022 : Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts (Research program)
2018 : Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University (MFA)
2015 : Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University (BFA)

Statement

To photograph is to frame what is already unfolding before me — capturing phenomena as they are, through my own perspective, along with their time and weight. There is always a clear angle of consciousness involved, and each slight shift in that angle becomes a distinct work. As I continue to take photographs, these fragments of awareness accumulate like layers of sediment. Over time, they begin to form a shape. And when those layers grow vast and deep, my own figure begins to emerge from within them.

A single point becomes a line, the line becomes a surface, and the surface eventually rises up to reveal a presence. I follow this process intuitively, as though tracing a single thread of light, embedding every step into each photograph—one image at a time, in a continuous act of introspection.

What I aim to express in each photo is not only the image itself, but the immense, layered consciousness that lies beneath it.

The work is never fully visible from the beginning. In fact, I always hope it will surpass my limited imagination. This is why I value continuity: to keep making, and never stop. Sometimes, in the midst of this ongoing process, a work begins to take on its own energy—surpassing me, reaching others. Watching it find its way into the hands of someone else feels, perhaps, a bit like raising a child and sending them out into the world.

I believe that every photograph I take reflects myself at a particular moment in life. Everything that appears in the image is, in essence, a part of me.

To photograph is to lay myself bare. Living and creating are inseparably linked. Through the act of creation, the once-separated layers of my awareness and my physical body come together—I feel the certainty of my existence. To question what kind of work I want to create is same as asking what kind of person I want to become.

I believe that what I create will inevitably resonate with a point within someone else—somewhere deep inside. That point of connection gives me strength. It becomes the next thread of light I follow.

——

COMPOSITION =混成 (Konsei / Blending)
To me, composition signifies the blending of time and gaze—of the one who sees, and the one who is seen. In that moment of convergence, “you” and “I” become one. Through photography, I search for a way of being, a way of existing in this world.

The “rawness” I continuously capture in my daily life accumulates slowly, layer by layer, like sediment. And when those layers become vast enough, the mass that emerges is—inevitably, undeniably—feminine, and animalistic.

CV

Currently based in Tokyo, Ruriko Taguchi was born on December 8, 1978 and grew up in Nagoya City of Aichi Prefecture.
She took up photography in 2003 through self-study. After winning the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize in the same year, she began working as a photographer.
While working as a photographer in the music and magazine industries, she has consistently produced themed works with women as her subject, regularly showing these with photography exhibitions and publications.
Her key works include: “Keigai Doboku (bare forms)” (2010–), which is a portrait collection of women’s backs; “SCAPE” (2016–), depicting nudes as scenery; “KIYOKO” (2017–),a series of portraits documenting her grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), nude portraits of herself for the first time.
She is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Society.

Solo Exhibitions
2024 – OPEN YOUR EYES, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2023 – OUT OF NOISE, COCO-PHOTO SALON (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – SHOW CASE / OUT OF NOISE, Dohjidai Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
2022 – CUT OFF, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2020 – CUT OFF, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #5, The Conran Shop Shinjuku (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #4, Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Nagoya (Aichi, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – MONO SCAPE, EIZO Galleria Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)

Group Exhibitions
2025 – Art Port Takamatsu (Takamatsu, Japan)
2025 – DAWN, AMS Photo Studio (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2024 – 9 colors, 9 stories, Paper Pool (Tokyo, Japan)
2023 – Being, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTO EXHIBITION II, AXIS GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – Spring of COVID, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – SELF-PORTRAIT, Jam Photo Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – Womania, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2017 – Fad Fair, The Artcomplex Center (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – 8 Portrait Photographers Exhibition, Olympus Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Statement

To photograph is to frame what is already unfolding before me — capturing phenomena as they are, through my own perspective, along with their time and weight. There is always a clear angle of consciousness involved, and each slight shift in that angle becomes a distinct work. As I continue to take photographs, these fragments of awareness accumulate like layers of sediment. Over time, they begin to form a shape. And when those layers grow vast and deep, my own figure begins to emerge from within them.

A single point becomes a line, the line becomes a surface, and the surface eventually rises up to reveal a presence. I follow this process intuitively, as though tracing a single thread of light, embedding every step into each photograph—one image at a time, in a continuous act of introspection.

What I aim to express in each photo is not only the image itself, but the immense, layered consciousness that lies beneath it.

The work is never fully visible from the beginning. In fact, I always hope it will surpass my limited imagination. This is why I value continuity: to keep making, and never stop. Sometimes, in the midst of this ongoing process, a work begins to take on its own energy—surpassing me, reaching others. Watching it find its way into the hands of someone else feels, perhaps, a bit like raising a child and sending them out into the world.

I believe that every photograph I take reflects myself at a particular moment in life. Everything that appears in the image is, in essence, a part of me.

To photograph is to lay myself bare. Living and creating are inseparably linked. Through the act of creation, the once-separated layers of my awareness and my physical body come together—I feel the certainty of my existence. To question what kind of work I want to create is same as asking what kind of person I want to become.

I believe that what I create will inevitably resonate with a point within someone else—somewhere deep inside. That point of connection gives me strength. It becomes the next thread of light I follow.

——

COMPOSITION =混成 (Konsei / Blending)
To me, composition signifies the blending of time and gaze—of the one who sees, and the one who is seen. In that moment of convergence, “you” and “I” become one. Through photography, I search for a way of being, a way of existing in this world.

The “rawness” I continuously capture in my daily life accumulates slowly, layer by layer, like sediment. And when those layers become vast enough, the mass that emerges is—inevitably, undeniably—feminine, and animalistic.

CV

Currently based in Tokyo, Ruriko Taguchi was born on December 8, 1978 and grew up in Nagoya City of Aichi Prefecture.
She took up photography in 2003 through self-study. After winning the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize in the same year, she began working as a photographer.
While working as a photographer in the music and magazine industries, she has consistently produced themed works with women as her subject, regularly showing these with photography exhibitions and publications.
Her key works include: “Keigai Doboku (bare forms)” (2010–), which is a portrait collection of women’s backs; “SCAPE” (2016–), depicting nudes as scenery; “KIYOKO” (2017–),a series of portraits documenting her grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), nude portraits of herself for the first time.
She is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Society.

Solo Exhibitions
2024 – OPEN YOUR EYES, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2023 – OUT OF NOISE, COCO-PHOTO SALON (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – SHOW CASE / OUT OF NOISE, Dohjidai Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
2022 – CUT OFF, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2020 – CUT OFF, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #5, The Conran Shop Shinjuku (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #4, Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Nagoya (Aichi, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – MONO SCAPE, EIZO Galleria Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)

Group Exhibitions
2025 – Art Port Takamatsu (Takamatsu, Japan)
2025 – DAWN, AMS Photo Studio (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2024 – 9 colors, 9 stories, Paper Pool (Tokyo, Japan)
2023 – Being, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTO EXHIBITION II, AXIS GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – Spring of COVID, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – SELF-PORTRAIT, Jam Photo Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – Womania, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2017 – Fad Fair, The Artcomplex Center (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – 8 Portrait Photographers Exhibition, Olympus Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Statement

To photograph is to frame what is already unfolding before me — capturing phenomena as they are, through my own perspective, along with their time and weight. There is always a clear angle of consciousness involved, and each slight shift in that angle becomes a distinct work. As I continue to take photographs, these fragments of awareness accumulate like layers of sediment. Over time, they begin to form a shape. And when those layers grow vast and deep, my own figure begins to emerge from within them.

A single point becomes a line, the line becomes a surface, and the surface eventually rises up to reveal a presence. I follow this process intuitively, as though tracing a single thread of light, embedding every step into each photograph—one image at a time, in a continuous act of introspection.

What I aim to express in each photo is not only the image itself, but the immense, layered consciousness that lies beneath it.

The work is never fully visible from the beginning. In fact, I always hope it will surpass my limited imagination. This is why I value continuity: to keep making, and never stop. Sometimes, in the midst of this ongoing process, a work begins to take on its own energy—surpassing me, reaching others. Watching it find its way into the hands of someone else feels, perhaps, a bit like raising a child and sending them out into the world.

I believe that every photograph I take reflects myself at a particular moment in life. Everything that appears in the image is, in essence, a part of me.

To photograph is to lay myself bare. Living and creating are inseparably linked. Through the act of creation, the once-separated layers of my awareness and my physical body come together—I feel the certainty of my existence. To question what kind of work I want to create is same as asking what kind of person I want to become.

I believe that what I create will inevitably resonate with a point within someone else—somewhere deep inside. That point of connection gives me strength. It becomes the next thread of light I follow.

——

COMPOSITION =混成 (Konsei / Blending)
To me, composition signifies the blending of time and gaze—of the one who sees, and the one who is seen. In that moment of convergence, “you” and “I” become one. Through photography, I search for a way of being, a way of existing in this world.

The “rawness” I continuously capture in my daily life accumulates slowly, layer by layer, like sediment. And when those layers become vast enough, the mass that emerges is—inevitably, undeniably—feminine, and animalistic.

CV

Currently based in Tokyo, Ruriko Taguchi was born on December 8, 1978 and grew up in Nagoya City of Aichi Prefecture.
She took up photography in 2003 through self-study. After winning the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize in the same year, she began working as a photographer.
While working as a photographer in the music and magazine industries, she has consistently produced themed works with women as her subject, regularly showing these with photography exhibitions and publications.
Her key works include: “Keigai Doboku (bare forms)” (2010–), which is a portrait collection of women’s backs; “SCAPE” (2016–), depicting nudes as scenery; “KIYOKO” (2017–),a series of portraits documenting her grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), nude portraits of herself for the first time.
She is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Society.

Solo Exhibitions
2024 – OPEN YOUR EYES, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2023 – OUT OF NOISE, COCO-PHOTO SALON (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – SHOW CASE / OUT OF NOISE, Dohjidai Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
2022 – CUT OFF, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2020 – CUT OFF, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #5, The Conran Shop Shinjuku (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #4, Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Nagoya (Aichi, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – MONO SCAPE, EIZO Galleria Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)

Group Exhibitions
2025 – Art Port Takamatsu (Takamatsu, Japan)
2025 – DAWN, AMS Photo Studio (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2024 – 9 colors, 9 stories, Paper Pool (Tokyo, Japan)
2023 – Being, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTO EXHIBITION II, AXIS GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – Spring of COVID, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – SELF-PORTRAIT, Jam Photo Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – Womania, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2017 – Fad Fair, The Artcomplex Center (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – 8 Portrait Photographers Exhibition, Olympus Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Statement

To photograph is to frame what is already unfolding before me — capturing phenomena as they are, through my own perspective, along with their time and weight. There is always a clear angle of consciousness involved, and each slight shift in that angle becomes a distinct work. As I continue to take photographs, these fragments of awareness accumulate like layers of sediment. Over time, they begin to form a shape. And when those layers grow vast and deep, my own figure begins to emerge from within them.

A single point becomes a line, the line becomes a surface, and the surface eventually rises up to reveal a presence. I follow this process intuitively, as though tracing a single thread of light, embedding every step into each photograph—one image at a time, in a continuous act of introspection.

What I aim to express in each photo is not only the image itself, but the immense, layered consciousness that lies beneath it.

The work is never fully visible from the beginning. In fact, I always hope it will surpass my limited imagination. This is why I value continuity: to keep making, and never stop. Sometimes, in the midst of this ongoing process, a work begins to take on its own energy—surpassing me, reaching others. Watching it find its way into the hands of someone else feels, perhaps, a bit like raising a child and sending them out into the world.

I believe that every photograph I take reflects myself at a particular moment in life. Everything that appears in the image is, in essence, a part of me.

To photograph is to lay myself bare. Living and creating are inseparably linked. Through the act of creation, the once-separated layers of my awareness and my physical body come together—I feel the certainty of my existence. To question what kind of work I want to create is same as asking what kind of person I want to become.

I believe that what I create will inevitably resonate with a point within someone else—somewhere deep inside. That point of connection gives me strength. It becomes the next thread of light I follow.

——

COMPOSITION =混成 (Konsei / Blending)
To me, composition signifies the blending of time and gaze—of the one who sees, and the one who is seen. In that moment of convergence, “you” and “I” become one. Through photography, I search for a way of being, a way of existing in this world.

The “rawness” I continuously capture in my daily life accumulates slowly, layer by layer, like sediment. And when those layers become vast enough, the mass that emerges is—inevitably, undeniably—feminine, and animalistic.

CV

Currently based in Tokyo, Ruriko Taguchi was born on December 8, 1978 and grew up in Nagoya City of Aichi Prefecture.
She took up photography in 2003 through self-study. After winning the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize in the same year, she began working as a photographer.
While working as a photographer in the music and magazine industries, she has consistently produced themed works with women as her subject, regularly showing these with photography exhibitions and publications.
Her key works include: “Keigai Doboku (bare forms)” (2010–), which is a portrait collection of women’s backs; “SCAPE” (2016–), depicting nudes as scenery; “KIYOKO” (2017–),a series of portraits documenting her grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), nude portraits of herself for the first time.
She is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Society.

Solo Exhibitions
2024 – OPEN YOUR EYES, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2023 – OUT OF NOISE, COCO-PHOTO SALON (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – SHOW CASE / OUT OF NOISE, Dohjidai Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
2022 – CUT OFF, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2020 – CUT OFF, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #5, The Conran Shop Shinjuku (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #4, Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Nagoya (Aichi, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – MONO SCAPE, EIZO Galleria Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)

Group Exhibitions
2025 – Art Port Takamatsu (Takamatsu, Japan)
2025 – DAWN, AMS Photo Studio (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2024 – 9 colors, 9 stories, Paper Pool (Tokyo, Japan)
2023 – Being, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTO EXHIBITION II, AXIS GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – Spring of COVID, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – SELF-PORTRAIT, Jam Photo Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – Womania, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2017 – Fad Fair, The Artcomplex Center (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – 8 Portrait Photographers Exhibition, Olympus Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)