Michiko Matsumoto


Michiko Matsumoto is a Japanese photographer known for her images of ūman ribu activities.
WWW matsumotomichiko.com

Biography

Michiko Matsumoto was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1950. In the early 1970s, she attended women's liberation gatherings and published the photographs she took there. In 1978, she published a collection of photographs of the feminist movement titled のびやかな女たち/ Women Come Alive.
In 1974 Matsumoto graduated from Hosei University.
In the later 1970s, she travelled to locations including New York and Paris to photograph prominent feminists, artists and dancers. Michiko's work aimed to counter the presentation of women's bodies in mass media and to show community.
She has published 13 books of photography. Her works are in the collections of a number of museums internationally. She is currently based in Tokyo.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 1974 "Yoko Ono in New York" 3points, Tokyo
  • 1978 "Women Come Alive" Pepe, Tokyo
  • 1978 "In South East Asia" Hankyu Art Gallery, Osaka
  • 1981 "Niki de Saint Phalle" Space Niki, Tokyo
  • 1983 "Portraits of New York Women" Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Sapporo
  • 1986 "Niki de Saint Phalle" Parco SR6, Tokyo
  • 1988 "Portraits ~ Women Artists" Soho Photo Gallery, New York U.S.A
  • 1989 "Portraits of Dancers 1" Gallery Selare, Tokyo
  • 1990 "Portraits of Women Artists" Keihan Art Gallery, Osaka
  • 1990–1998 "Portraits of Dancers 2–5" Gallery Selare, Tokyo
  • 1998 "Dancers" Dentsu Kosan Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1999 "Nicolas Le Rishe in Paris" Gallery Selare, Tokyo
  • 2000 "White on White" Heart & Color, Tokyo
  • 2001 "Ruzimatov in St. Petersburg" Egg Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2002 "Homage to Niki de Saint Phalle" Gallery Colorium,Tokyo, Prinz, Kyoto
  • 2004 "Meditative Body, Awaked City" Gallery 21, Tokyo
  • 2004 "Sessions" Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
  • 2005 "Rose Passion" Gallery Colorium, Tokyo
  • 2007 "Cloths with Soul" Gallery le bain, Tokyo
  • 2007 "Meditative Body — from St. Petersburg" Gallery Tosei, Tokyo
  • 2009 "The Name of Roses" Junkudo, Tokyo
  • 2010 "The Witches Tea Party" Tokinowasuremono, Tokyo
  • 2013 "Les Femmes Artistes" LIBRAIRIE 6
  • 2016 "Portraits " The Museum of Contemporary Art Karuizawa, Nagano

Selected group exhibitions

  • 1987 "Contemporary Japanese Photography" Toured Europe
  • 1988 "Faces of 20th Century by Distinguished Photographers" Asahi Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1990 "Women Photographers" Nikon Salon, New York,
  • 1995 "Objects, faces and Anti-Narratives" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  • 1998-2000 "Women Photographers from Japan" Toured U.S.A.
  • 2003 "Mon Paris" Gallery 21, Tokyo
  • 2006 "Photographs of Kazuo Oono" Fukushima Photo Museum
  • 2007 "Works from the Photographic Art in Japan" Shanghai Art Museum, China
  • 2008 "Visions des Artistes Feminines" Gallery 21, Tokyo
  • 2008 "Esprit de Paris" Gallery 21, Tokyo
  • 2008 "Vision of America III" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  • 2010 "Onna Tachidomaranai Jyoseitachi "
  • 2010 "Human Images of 20th Century ~All photographs are portraits~"

Publications

Nobiyaka onna-tachi ) / Women Come Alive. Tokyo: Hanashi no Tokushū-sha, 1978. Portraits of womenMichiko Matsumoto Ballet: 5 September 1981. Singapore: National Theatre Trust, 1981. Shōzō Nyūyōku no onna-tachi / Portraits of New York women. Tokyo: Tōjusha, 1983. Ochiai Keiko, Matsumoto Michiko no heya / Série Chambre 4. Tokyo: Ōbunsha, 1985.. With Keiko Ochiai.Niki do Sanfāru / Portrait of Niki de Saint Phalle. Tokyo: Parco, 1986.. About Niki de Saint Phalle.Portraits: Josei ātisto no shōjō / Portraits: Women Artists. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1995.. Dancers: Erosu no shōjō. Kodansha, 1998. Portraits of dancers.Portraits: 54-nin no josei ātisto-tachi. Kyoto: Kyōto Shoin, 1999.. Portraits of 54 women artists.Haretara bara hiyori / Rose Passion. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2005.. Tamashii no nuno: Monsūn-Ajia 12-jin no josei-sakka-tachi. Tankōsha, 2007.. Portraits of 12 women artists of "monsoon Asia".Yōroppa bara no namae o meguru tabi / The Seven Roses Story. Tokyo: Media Factory, 2009..
  • "Nippon no Bara", Tankosha,2012
  • "Tokyo Sakura 100 ka ", Tankosha,2015
  • "Sarasa", Tankosha,2016

Public collections