Ruriko Taguchi (田口 るり子)

Currently based in Tokyo, Ruriko Taguchi was born in 1978, in Nagoya of Aichi Prefecture.

Taguchi took up photography in 2003 through self-study and, after winning the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize in the very same year, began her career as a professional photographer.

Whilst working as a photographer for the music and magazine industry, she has consistently produced works that focused on female subjects, frequently exhibiting her photographs in various exhibitions and publications.

Key works include “Keigai Doboku” (Bare Forms) (2010–), a portrait series of women’s backs, “SCAPE” (2016–), a series of nudes reminiscent of landscapes, “KIYOKO” (2017–), portraits documenting her grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), the artist’s inaugural series of nude self-portraits.

Taguchi is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Society.

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［Solo Exhibitions］

2022　CUT OFF, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto)
2022　CUT OFF, Fugensha (Tokyo)
2018　SCAPE # 5, The Conran Shop Shinjuku (Tokyo)
2018　SCAPE # 4, Imperial Hotel Plaza (Tokyo)
2017　rhythm, Nikon Plaza Nagoya (Aichi)
2017　rhythm, Nikon Plaza Ginza (Tokyo)
2017　MONO SCAPE, EIZO Galleria Ginza (Tokyo)

［Group Exhibitions］

2023　Being -Mom is a Woman-, √K Contemporary (Tokyo)
2022　icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTO EXHIBITION Ⅱ, AXIS GALLERY (Tokyo)
2020　Corona no Haru (Spring of COVID), Fugensha (Tokyo)
2020　SELF-PORTRAIT, Jam Photo Gallery (Tokyo)
2018　Womania, Fugensha (Tokyo)
2017　fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris)
2017　Fad Fair, Artcomplex Center of Tokyo (Tokyo)
2017　Portrait Shashinka 8-nin Ten (8 Portrait Photographer Exhibition), Olympus Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo)
 

Awards

2004　Nika Exhibition Winner
2003　Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize