Tokyo Rumando "S"

Dates: March 2 (Fri) — March 31 (Sat), 2018

Location: Tokyo

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Zen Foto Gallery is pleased to present “S”, a solo exhibition of new work by Tokyo Rumando from March 2nd to 31st, 2018. This is Tokyo Rumando’s third solo exhibition with Zen Foto Gallery and her previous solo exhibition at the gallery was presented almost 4 years ago. Tokyo Rumando’s body of new work “S” incorporates theatrical elements, which transforms her self-portraits from a story into a play, performed at her own stage theatre, leading the viewer into another time and space. A photobook, under the same title, will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.


S is Story
She=S
S=Sexualviolet
S is es
S is Sandglass
Sayonara S

ーTokyo Rumando

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Artist Profile

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.

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