BIOGRAPHY
岩根愛 写真家
東京都出身。1991年単身渡米、ペトロリアハイスクールに留学し、オフグリッド、自給自足の暮らしの中で学ぶ。帰国後、1996年より写真家として活動を始める。2006年よりハワイ移民を通じたハワイと福島の関わりをテーマに制作を続け、福島県三春町にも拠点を構える。2018 年、『KIPUKA』（青幻舎）を上梓、第44回木村伊兵衛写真賞、第44回伊奈信男賞受賞。ドキュメンタリー映画『盆唄』（中江裕司監督作品、2018年テレコムスタッフ）を企画、アソシエイト・プロデューサーを務める。
2020年、「あしたのひかり-日本の新進作家Vol.17」（東京都写真美術館）に『あたらしい川』を出展、作品集『A NEW RIVER』(bookshop M)上梓。2021年、第37回写真の町東川賞新人作家賞受賞。
著作に『キプカへの旅』（太田出版）『ハワイ島のボンダンス』(福音館書店)。
PHOTOGRAPHER AI IWANE
From Tokyo, Japan, Ai Iwane is a photographer who studied in the United States at Petrolia High School (1991), an alternative school located in Northern California, where she led an off-grid and self-sufficient life while studying. She began her career as a photographer in 1996. While focusing on assignments for magazines and various music-related work, her focus has been in observing and documenting niche communities around the world.
In 2006 she shifted the focus of her attention to the culture of Japanese people in Hawaii. Since 2013, she has been partly based in Miharu, Fukushima, her work in recent years is mainly themed on the connection between Hawaii and Fukushima as embodied by immigrants.
Her first monograph “KIPUKA” was published by Seigensha Art Publishing in 2018. The book and the exhibitions were awarded the 44th Kimura Ihei Photography Award (2019) and the 44th Ina Nobuo Award (2019). Her work has been shown at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo; Fukushima Museum, Fukushima; Dali International Photography Exhibition, China; Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Hawaii; Setouchi International Photo Festival.
The latest work “A NEW RIVER”, a narrative based around her travel to North Japan, in search of cherry blossoms photographed in the spring 2020 amid the Covid-19 crisis, was recently exhibited and collected in full by the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. The book “A NEW RIVER” was published by bookshop M. She receipt the 37th Higashikawa New Photographer Award (2021).
Iwane is currently based out of Tokyo.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
– FUKUSHIMA ONDO, tette Gallery, Fukushima
– KIPUKA, Komaki Manabi Sozokan, Aichi
– The 44th Ina Nobuo Award Exhibition, Nikon Plaza Osaka THE GALLERY, Osaka
2019
– The 44th Ina Nobuo Award Exhibition, Nikon Plaza Shinjuku,Tokyo
– ARMS, KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo
– KIPUKA, Foto Space Reago, Okinawa
– KIPUKA The 44th Kimura Ihei Photography Award Exhibition, Nikon Plaza Shinjuku,Tokyo; Nikon Plaza Osaka THE GALLERY
– FUKUSHIMA ONDO, KAGIYA Gallery, Shizuoka
2018
– KIPUKA—Island in My Mind, KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo
– FUKUSHIMA ONDO, Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo
– KIPUKA, Nikon Salon, Tokyo; Osaka
– I'm home, Kanemasu Shuzo Gallery, Niigata
– Niigata, Fukushima, Hawaii, the 150 years, BOOKS f3, Niigata
– Island in My Mind, Fukushima, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Hawaii, USA
2016
– I Want to Laugh even for an Instant, Photo Gallery Ito, Fukushima
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
– Fukushima, Tohoku, Fukushima Museum
2022
– Prix Pictet Japan Award “Fire & Water”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
– Fukushima Biennial in Shirakawa 2022, Shirakawa, Fukushima
– Forever Was Never Till Now, KALA Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
– KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022, Kyoto
– Hawaii Triennial 2022, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2021
– Immigration Museum Tokyo “Seeing Us: Living in Japan with Roots Overseas”, BUoY, Tokyo
– Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses: From the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism, 21 st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
– Festival FUKUSHIMA! 2021: The Will to Cross Borders, Shiki no Sato, Fukushima
– Reborn Art Festival 2021-2022: Altruism and Fluidity, Ishonomaki City, Miyagi
– The 37th Higashikawa Award Winners' Photo Exhibition, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido
– Art Book Library 2021: Asia Decades, The Reference, South Korea
– Decades 2000 _20, KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo
2020
– Fukushima Biennale 2020, Fukushima
– Twilight Daylight, Contemporary Japanese Photographer Vol.17, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2019
– Dali International Photography Exhibition, Dali, China
– The Lost Rose Garden, Gallery Off Grid, Fukushima
– Artists Anthropocene: iBienale MMXIX, Y Center for Visual Arts, Hawaii, USA
2018
– Seizan Iizaka Onsen Art Festival 2018, Ryokan Seizan, Fukushima
– Biocracy, Hajimari Art Center, Fukushima
2017
– SETO PHOTO International Photo Festival 2017, Kagawa
– FUKUSHIMA : KYOTO Katari Gataki Mononi Furete, Yuhisai Koudoukan, Kyoto
– FUKUSHIMA NOW AND FUTURE in BEPPU, platform05, Oita
– WARAKOH think and feel TOHOKU vol.3, Warakou Museum, Kochi
– FUKUSHIMA, NOW AND FUTURE in Koriyama, Koriyama Women’s College, Fukushima
– Chouyou-Nihonmatsu Art Festival 2017, Fukushima
– FUKUSHIMA, NOW AND FUTURE, Fukushima Museum
– FUKUSHIMA, NOW AND FUTURE, Tsunagi Museum, Kumamoto
– Transit Republic : Pan-Pacific Collective Project, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2016
– Fukushima Photo Musuem+ Shibata, Kanemasu Shuzo Gallery, Niigata
– Fukushima Biennale 2016, Fukushima
– Iitate by Three Photographers, Gallery Off Grid, Fukushima
– FUKUSHIMA SPEAKS, Nagaoka Institute of Design Gallery, Niigata
– FUKUSHIMA, NOW AND FUTURE, Kamoe Art Center, Shizuoka
2005
– Bunkamura Art Show 2005 The Artficial Paradise, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
Public collections
2022 21 st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2021 Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Higashikawa, Hokkaido
2020 Tokyo Photography Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Nikon Imaging Japan
Publications
2020 Decades No1.2000_20 Issue, AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc.
A New River, bookshop M
2019 Kipuka He No Tabi - A Journey Towards KIPUKA, Ohta Publishing Company
2018 KIPUKA, Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc.,
2016 HAWAII SHIMA NO BON DANCE –Bon Dance in the Big Island, Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc.
Awards
2022 Prix Pictet Japan Award 2022
2021 The 37th Higashikawa New Photographer Award
2019 The 44th Kimura Ihei Photography Award
The 44th Ina Nobuo Award
Grants
2022 Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship grant, Nomura Foundation
2018 POLA Art Foundation, Nomura Foundation, The Asahi Shimbun Foundation
2016 GB Fund, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts
Residencies
2022 Media Arts Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2020 Goto Artist in Residence 2020, Nagasaki
2019 Artist Residency, LATITUDE CHICAGO, Illinois, USA
2014 In-resident Artist, University of Hawaii Hilo
Curatorial Projects
2020- Decades (magazine, published by AKAAKA Art Publishing)
Other Activities
2020 Film KIPUKA -New Beginnings- / Director /Documentary, 20 min. / Production: Telecom Staff. Inc
Hawaii International Film Festival 2021 official selection
2018 Film BON-UTA, A Song from Home / Associate producer
Documentary, 134 min. Directed by Yuji Nakae / Production: Telecom Staff. Inc
TOKYO FILMEX 2018 official selection 2022