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Orphée (No.00 core), Silver Gelatin Print, 2014 ©Tokyo Rumando -
Orphée (No.Y3), Silver Gelatin Print, 2014 © Tokyo Rumando -
Orphée (No.E4), Silver Gelatin Print, 2014 ©Tokyo Rumando -
Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~, Silver Gelatin Print, 2012 ©Tokyo Rumando -
Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~, Silver Gelatin Print, 2012 ©Tokyo Rumando -
Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~, Silver Gelatin Print, 2012 ©Tokyo Rumando -
Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~, Silver Gelatin Print, 2012 ©Tokyo Rumando -
S, 2018 © Tokyo Rumando -
S, 2018 © Tokyo Rumando -
S, 2018 © Tokyo Rumando -
S, 2018 © Tokyo Rumando
Tokyo Rumando
Tokyo Rumando was born in 1980 in Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Fashion College and is currently studying art research and oil painting at Musashino Art University. A self-taught photographer, she began taking photographs in 2005 and primarily focuses on self-portraits. Most of her staged photographs feature herself and explore questions of identity. Her practice also encompasses performance and various media, through which she examines her own identity and artistic expression.
Active in Japan and internationally, her series Orphée was included in the group exhibition Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern (London) in 2016. Her solo exhibition The Story of S was held at Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany) in 2020, and her series Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~ was included in the group exhibition Tokyo: Art & Photography at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) in 2021.
Her solo exhibitions include I'm only happy when I'm naked (Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp, 2018; Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris, 2016); S (Zen Foto Gallery, 2018); Orphée (Tokyo Light Room, Place M, and Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, 2014); REST 3000~ STAY 5000~ (Zen Foto Gallery, 2012); and Hotel Life (Place M, Tokyo, 2012).
Her photobooks include Paris Iridescent (2024), S (2018), selfpolaroids (2017), Orphée (2014), and Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~ (2012), all published by Zen Foto Gallery.
Selected Publications
2023 "Visible / Invisible Memory" (Echo 119 Gallery)
2020 "The Story of S" Exhibition Catalogue (Museum Folkwang)
2018 "S" (Zen Foto Gallery)
2017 "selfpolaroids" (Zen Foto Gallery)
2017 "Another Orphee" (Private Edition)
2014 "Orphée" (Zen Foto Gallery)
2012 "REST 3000~ STAY 5000~" (Zen Foto Gallery)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 "She Herself", Tempio del Futuro Perduto, Milano
2024 "I'm only happy when I'm naked", Leeseen Gallery, Busan
2024 "I'm only happy when I'm naked", KP Gallery, Seoul
2021 "S TRIP", Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2020 "The Story of S" 6 1/2 Wochen、Museum Folkwang, Essen
2018 "S", Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2017 "I’m only happy when I’m naked", IBASHO Gallery, Antwerp
2016 "Orphee / Rest 3000- Stay 5000- / Polaroid", Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris
2014 "Experimental Orphée", Tokyo Light Room, Japan
2014 "Orphée", PLACE M, Tokyo
2014 "Orphée", Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2012 "REST3000 -, STAY5000 -", Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2012 "Hotel Life", PLACE M, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 "Tokyo: Art & Photography", Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2021 "The Female Side of the Moon", Galerie Z22, Berlin
2019 "Mirrors - The Reflected Self", Museum Rietberg, Zürich
2019 "Japanese Nude", Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis, Leiden
2018 "Polaroid, Récits de L'intime" Galerie Écho 119, Paris
2018 "Double Method", Daiwa Foundation, Japan House Gallery, London
2018 “Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts Basically. Forever. 2018”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2017 "Female Force From Japan", IBASHO Gallery, Antwerp
2017 "i am an object", Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2016 "YP’15 Young Portfolio Acquisition", Kiyosato Photo Art Museum, Japan
2016 "Shikijo: Eroticism in Japanese photography", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 "Performing for the camera", Tate Modern, London
2015 "fotofever", Paris
2014 "Rosso di Donna", LaBarbagianna Gallery, Italy
2014 "fotofever", Paris
2014 "TOKYO PHOTO”, Japan
2012 "No Found Photo Fair”, Paris
2012 "TOKYO PHOTO", Japan
Collections
The Walther Collection, Germany and New York
Kiyosato Photo Art Museum, Japan
