Yumiko IZU 井津 由美子
Yumiko Izu (井津 由美子 b. 1968, Osaka, Japan. New York-based) studied at the Visual Arts School in her hometown of Osaka, Japan and later moved to the United States, where she obtained her B.A. from the Brooks Institute of Photography in California. In 1998 she relocated to Manhattan, New York and worked in commercial and editorial photography before launching her fine-art career in 2003, using 8x10 and 11x14 large-format cameras and the platinum/palladium printing process. Since 2008 Izu has been producing large-scale pigment prints. She is a recipient of the 2007 Photographers’Fellowship from the Center for Photography at Woodstock and has held numerous exhibitions in the United States and Japan. Her recent series include Secret Garden and Faraway, published by Serindia in the monograph Resonance, and Icarus, to be debuted in Paris and Bangkok in 2018. Izu resides in Rhinebeck, New York.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Secret Garden, 1839 Contemporary Gallery, Taipei, TAIWAN
2017 Resonance, 1839 Contemporary Gallery, Taipei, TAIWAN
2017 Icarus, Gallery Bauhaus, Tokyo, JAPAN
2014 Secret Garden, Gallery Bauhaus, Tokyo, JAPAN
2013 Faraway, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, JAPAN
2008 Secret Garden, Jennifer Jane Gallery, New Haven, CT USA
2008 Secret Garden, Galerie BMG, Woodstock, NY USA
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Yumiko Izu & Kenro Izu, Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd, Santa Fe, NM USA2018 Yumiko Izu & Kenro Izu, In Camera Galerie, Paris, FRANCE
2018 Yumiko Izu & Kenro Izu, Serindia Gallery, Bangkok, THAILAND
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 25th Art Taipei 2018, Taipei, TAIWAN
2017 The Beauty of Contact Print, Taiwan Photo Fair 2018, Taipei, TAIWAN
2017 LIFE, Gallery Bauhaus, Tokyo, JAPAN
2017 Gelatin Silver Session PORTRAIT, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2016 La Bal, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, JAPAN
2016 Songs of Lao, Serindia Gallery Annex, Bangkok, THAILAND
2016 Gelatin Silver Session, Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography, Nara, JAPAN
2015 Songs of Lao, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, TX USA
2015 Music in the Wood, The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY USA
2015 Gelatin Silver Session, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2014 Home Grown, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY USA
2014 Songs of Lao, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY USA
2014 DEARDORF, Gallery Bauhaus, Tokyo, JAPAN
2013 Hommage to Shoji Ueda, Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography, Tottori, JAPAN
2013 Gelatin Silver Session, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2009 Fifth Anniversary Celebration, Galerie BMG, Woodstock, NY USA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, USA
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, USA
Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe, USA
In Camera Galerie, Paris, France
Gallery Bauhaus, Tokyo, Japan
Serindia Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1839 Contemporary Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
AWARD
2007 Photographers’ Fellowship, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY /Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY