Tomoko Yoneda

Born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1965. Currently lives and works in London. In her practice, Yoneda incorporates her laborious research in order to deal with the ideologies of the 20th century. The nature of her artmaking has taken her not only to places in Japan where the past wars and earthquakes are still traceable, but also to regions in both Western and Eastern Europe and Asia where peopleʼs memories are still strongly ingrained. Yoneda probes into historical facts that are embedded in specific locations and objects through her photography, which recalls multi-layered memories offering a cornucopia of poetic sensibility behind each scene.

Selected exhibitions

Crystals, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2024

Echoes―Crashing waves, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2022

Tomoko Yoneda, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, 2021

Dialogue with A.C., ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2019

12th Shanghai Biennale 2018, Shanghai, 2018-19

Dialogue with Albert Camus, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, 2018

Discordant Harmony, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015 / Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, 2016

The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2014

Aichi Triennale, Aichi, 2013

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, 2014 / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013

Arsenale 2012: The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2012

Japanese House, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2011

An End is a Beginning, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2008

Venice Biennale, The 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice, 2007

A Decade After, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, 2005

Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2003

Selected public collections

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco