PROFILE

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RURIKO TAGUCHI

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.

Awards
<2003> Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize <2004> Nika Exhibition winner

Past Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
<2020>
"CUT OFF" Fugensha (Tokyo)
<2018>
"SCAPE #5" The Conran Shop Shinjuku (Tokyo)
"SCAPE #4" Imperial Hotel Plaza (Tokyo)
<2017>
"rhythm" Nikon Plaza Nagoya (Aichi)
"rhythm" Nikon Plaza Ginza (Tokyo)
"MONO SCAPE" EIZO Galleria Ginza (Tokyo)

Group Exhibitions
<2020>
"Corona no Haru (Spring of COVID)" Fugensha (Tokyo)
"SELF-PORTRAIT" Jam Photo Gallery (Tokyo)
<2018>
"Womania" Fugensha (Tokyo)
<2017>
"fotofever" Carrousel du Louvre (Paris)
"Fad Fair" Artcomplex Center of Tokyo (Tokyo)
"Portrait Shashinka 8-nin Ten (Exhibition of 8 portrait photographers)" Olympus Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo)