Mika Ninagawa

Mika Ninagawa is one of Japan's most renowned and prolific photographers. Her subjects include flowers, goldfish and portraits of stars from Japanese pop culture. Her aesthetic is fantastical, colorful and rich in tonality. Ms. Ninagawa's spectacular technicolor photographs have become her international trademark. She presents each of her images with a breath-taking vibrancy. Brilliantly illuminated, they stand out like dazzling jewels. Intense neon colors amplify her usual palette of pink, green, red, blue and orange.
 
Mika Ninagawa has published over 35 photography books, collaborated with the musicians Björk and Alicia Keys and made her directorial debut in 2007 with the feature film "Sakuran.” Her retrospective "Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flower, Heavenly Colors" at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2010 was the highest ever attended photography exhibition held in Japan. Ms. Ninagawa's work is included in numerous museum and private collections.

TRUNK ARCHIVE

TRUNK ARCHIVE is a boutique agency based in New York City that represents the archives of the world's leading fashion, celebrity, still life and landscape photographers. Every artist on their roster is acknowledged as being among the very best in his / her genre. To highlight the impressive diversity of images available at TRUNK ARCHIVE we have selected a group of amazing artists to feature in this launch collection.

Solo Exhibitions

2013	LUCKY STAR NINAGAWA MEN ＆ WOMEN, Space O ; Omotesando Hills B3F, Tokyo, Japan
	Hawaii Paradise by Mika Ninagawa, DFS Galleria Waikiki, 1 Floor Gallery, Hawaii, USA
	Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
2012	Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
	PLANT A TREE, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Mika Ninagawa, 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Japan
2011	CANON Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Flower & Goldfish, MOT / ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
	noir & SAKURAN, TIVAC：Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2010	Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	FLOWER ADDICT Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
	noir, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Conjunction with the RIZZOLI Publication “MIKA NINAGAWA” EYE of GYRE, Omotesando
	GYRE, Tokyo, Japan
2009	Liquid Dreams, GALERIE PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany
	FLOWER ADDICT, Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2008	Mika Ninagawa x GLAMOROUS Charity Nude; photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon, Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo, Japan und HERBIS PLAZA ENT 3rd floor, Osaka, Japan
	Mika’s, Dreaming Theater, PARCO FACTORY, Shibuya Tokyo, Japan, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan and Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai, China
	Toured in Japan: “Mika Ninagawa : Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors”
	Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan
	Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
	Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan
	The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
	Helene Nyborg, Valby, Denmark
	“EROTIC TEACHER X X X YUKA by MIKA “ Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan : Kyoto Gokurakudo 2F, Kyoto, Japan
2007	Mika Ninagawa Exhibition, Arndt & Partner Berlin, Berlin, Germany
	Mika Ninagawa, Colette, Paris, France
	girls’ holiday!, LAPNET SHIP, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
	CELINE meets Mika Ninagawa, Isetan Main Building The Stage, Tokyo, Japan
	Everlasting Flowers, Galleria MICIA, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
	girls’ holiday, PARCO Shizuoka, SQUARE6, Shizuoka, Japan
	NINAGAWA WOMAN, Omotesando Hills Space [O:], Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
2006	Everlasting Flowers 1, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
	Everlasting Flowers 2, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005	MIKA NINAGAWA PHOTO EXHIBITION IN LONDON 2005, eclectic, London, UK
	floating yesterday, Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japan
2004	Toured in Japan: Mika Over the Rainbow
	Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
	HEP HALL, Osaka, Japan
	Hiroshima Parco, Hiroshima, Japan
	Nagoya Takashimaya, Aichi, Japan
	ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
	photographs 2001-2004, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2003	Acid Bloom, NADiff, Tokyo / gallery ROCKET, Tokyo, Japan
	Toured in Japan: "Liquid Dreams"
	Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2002	Ever Holding My Ocean, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
	like a peach, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo / Laroret Museum Harajuku, Tokyo / Laforet Museum, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
	MIKA NINAGAWA at ISSEY MIYAKE AOYAMA, Issei Miyake Store, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
2001	Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2000	Pink Rose Suite, ROCKET'S Tokyo, Japan
	Toured in Japan: Sugar and Spice
	Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Tank Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1999	Baby Blue Sky, Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
	Christmas at Isla Mujeres, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
	French kiss, ROCKET, Tokyo, Japan
1997	Walk3, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2013	Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
	Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary Exhibition: flowers, Towada Art Center, around Central Shopping etc, Aomori, Japan
	Ginza Mitsukoshi × Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection, Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Why not live for Art? II - 9 Collectors Reveal their Treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012	Mika ＆ Hiroko NINAGAWA, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
	Beauty – Flowers in Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2011	Temporary Exhibition : Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
	JAPANCONGO, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
	Future Pass ー From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition ー la Biennale di Venezia, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venice, Italy
	CAFE in Mito 2011, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2010	In aller Munde / On the tip of everyone's tongue, The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
	NINAGAWA BAROQUE / EXTREME, NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo, Japan
	Tokyo Visualist, National Art Gallery Malaysia, Malaysia
	Summer Loves, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, 2010, Very Very Good Something / Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan
2009	FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPE Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Ohmaki, Mika Ninagawa, and Satoko Nachi, The Contemporary Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
	Medicine and Art; Imagining a Future for Life and Love, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Mori Tower, Tokyo, Japan
2008	The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
	JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPER CULTURE, The Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer, Washington DC, USA
	Faithful Documents-Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
	JAPAN NOW, Inter Alia Art Company, Korea
	Art Frankfurt, Galerie Foert
	Review / Preview : Japanese Photographs, Gallerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2007	HITOTUBO, Guardian Garden, Ginza,Tokyo, Japan
	SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Kiyosumi, Tokyo, Japan
2006	Treasure, Yokohama Civil Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
	VOCA 2006, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	IDOL!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
	SAKANA NO SUGATA, The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan
2005	Artists' Gardens - Botanical Recollections, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004	"HARAJUKU COLLABO - APARTMENT 2004" Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
	"TAKARAZUKA: THE LAND OF DREAMS" Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003	Hitotsuboten 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan
	do hope for the future, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
	Topics on Happiness, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
	Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo, Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo, Japan
	KEEP IN TOUCH. POSITIONS IN JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
	take art collection 2003, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
	Okayama City Arts Festival 2003 – LOVE PLANET, Ishii Elementary School, Okayama, Japan
2002	Toured in Japan: The Doraemon
	Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka
	Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama
	Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa
	Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya
	Oita Art Museum, Oita
	Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Shimane
	Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita
	Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, Toyama
	Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu
	Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto
	Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, China
	Futuring Power-Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
	Toured in Japan: VERSUS EXHIBITION 02
	Nakameguro Depot, Tokyo, Japan
	Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2001	Three Rooms, Epson Imaging Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997	Naked Eyes, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	Japanese New Generation Photographer, Colette, Paris, France