Tamami Iinuma

Tamami Iinuma was born in Tokyo, Japan. Under the theme of “House of Architecture,” Iinuma photographs architecture as accumulations of people’s memories, and cities and landscapes as habitations of architecture. From 2008, Iinuma studied abroad at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig for a year and resided in Leipzig until 2013 (received the Grant for Overseas Study, Pola Art Foundation in 2010). She resided in Cité Internationale des Arts for a year in 2014. She received her Ph.D. at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School in 2018. She founded the publisher “House of Architecture” in 2020. She is currently based in Tokyo.
Her solo exhibitions include “Salut, Mr Bruno Taut” (2026, LAG [LIVE ART GALLERY], Tokyo), “Exploring White Small Architecture” (2023, Okaya Silk Museum / Okaya Art & Archaeological Museum, Nagano, Japan), “The 22nd Miki Jun Award Winner Exhibition ‘JAPAN IN DER DDR—I Found Three Japan Houses in GDR’” (2021, Nikon Plaza Tokyo), “JAPAN IN DER DDR—I Found Three Japan Houses in GDR” (2020, Nikon Salon Osaka; 2019, Nikon Salon Ginza, Tokyo) “Japan in der DDR - Gestohlene Erinnerungen wurden erneut zerstört” (2019, KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo), “Momentary Architecture” (2018, Pola Museum, Kanagawa, Japan), “House of Architecture” (2017, Roppongi Hills Club, Tokyo), “The 3rd Architecture - book, maison and forest” (2016, POST, Tokyo), and “JAPAN IN DER DDR” (2016, Motto Berlin, Germany).
Group exhibitions include “Seen, Remembered, Unmake” (2026, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), “Is the Door Open?—Tracing the 40-year History of MOMAS and Its Collection” (2022, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan), “Von Ferne. Bilder zur DDR” (2019, Museum Villa Stuck Munich, Germany), “Requiem for a Failed State” (2018, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany), “Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox 1989-2017” (2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria), and “3 days exhibition” (2017, Sezon Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan).
Her monographs include “Salut, Mr Bruno Taut” (2026, House of Architecture), “JAPAN IN DER DDR” (2019, self-publishing), “House of Architecture” (2016, limArt), and “Landscape in Modern Architecture” (2013, self-publishing).