Profile
Profile
Biography
Born in 1978 in Saitama, Japan, Ayako Sakuragi started out as a designer for Comme des Garçons in Tokyo where she worked for eleven years. In 2011, the event of the great earthquake of East Japan was a turning point in Sakuragi’s life, her perception changed, space and time became a center point for her creative pursuit. Through her own observation of daily life, she aims to capture invisible moments and reveal the passage of time in the form of photography, film and installation art. Ayako Sakuragi graduated from The Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022 (DNSAP), she continues to work and experiment in Paris to express her vision of time unfathomable scale in our life.
Awards
2024 Awarded the Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts visuels pour jeunes talents
2024 Selected by Alternative Processes and Constanza Isaza Martínez of the London Alternative Photography Collective for the event “Darkroom Experimentation Women History Month”
2023 Selected by Jousse Entreprise gallery for the “A première vue” event, in collaboration with the Comité des galeries, the Beaux-Arts jury and the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2019 ATAKA Prize, Tokyo University of the Arts
2019 Grobal Art Practice Unit Prize, Tokyo University of the Arts
Exhibitions solos / collectives, Publication and Jury
2024 Group show “Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour les Jeunes Talents”,
LUMA Arles, Rencontres d'Arles
2024 Group show “TERRITOIRE”, with Luc Pommet, Espace Culturel Séraphine Louis,
Clermont de l'Oise
2023 Group show “et ce serait un jardin”, with Luc Pommet, le 17 studiolo, Paris 17
2023 Group show “STACKS - Photo Saint Germain”, with Luc Pommet, Galley John Ferrère, Paris 6
2023 “Contre Espace” Jury for the exhibition in Beaux-Arts de Paris, Photo Saint Germain,
Paris 6, France
2023 Group show “Aire Fresco en el Verano del Amor”, galerie Campeche, organized by Abraham Cruzvillegaz, Mexico city, Mexique
2023 Exhibition “À Première Vue”, Jousse Entreprise, Paris 6, France
2023 “hundred and eight days”
Solo show at The Fridge, New York, USA
2022 “Travioles Tome 2”
Publication and group show at L'ahah, Paris, France
2022 Photo Saint Germain
“Poltergeists : esprits frappeurs, esprits frappés”
“I WANT TO BE SURROUNDED WITH”
Group show at Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2022 “infra-monde”
Diplôme show at Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2021 “Garden”
Graduation show at the University Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2021 “There but not here”
Trio Exhibition at Hagi Art, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Au-delà du monde”
Solo exhibition at Atelier Dove Allouche, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2019 “KIWAMARI NO AIDA”
Trio exhibition, Onchi, Yanaka, Tokyo
2019 “Here but not there”
Duo exhibition, White Gallery, Yanaka, Tokyo
2019 “Warmth of Stone (and) Trace of Breath”
Exhibition duo deux at Yukobo, Tokyo