Tsugumi Tanaka

田中つぐみ

- A girl standing quietly in a beautiful scenery of Japan, such as cherry blossom trees dyed in pink, snow-covered shrine, old-fashioned candy shop. The little child blends into the scenery, as if it were a part of nature. ー
A freelance photographer based in Niigata, Japan. Capturing eternal moments in daily life, she continues to photograph her daughterʼs growth. Niigata, her hometown, faces the Sea of Japan and is blessed with great nature. Focuses on the beauty and the transience of changing seasons, the colors that only appear at the time, and the daughter is fixed together inside the screen. Received praise from an Italian art magazine as such a wonderful unique composition, just like "Alice in Niigata”
〈Photo with gentle eyes〉that is different from skill-centered principle that is advancing in parallel with Japanese camera industry. The nostalgic original landscape of Japan asks again what Japan is and what photography is. 

2014- Started working as a photographer

1986  Born in Niigata, Japan

 

 

 

【EXHIBITION】

 

2025 Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam ( 2024,2023,2022,2017,2016 Netherlands)

2025 Knokke Art Fair (Belgium)

2025 Affordable Art Fair Vienna (Austria)

2025 Affordable Art Fair Brussels (2024,2023 Belgium)

2024 Arte Padova (Italy)

2024 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg (Germany)

2023 Art Market Budapest ( ,2022, 2019 Hungary)

2023 Affordable Art Fair Stockholm (,2017 Sweden)

2023 MIA Photo Fair (Milan, Italy)

2022 “NEJA-ism” exhibition  Hyogo prefectural museum of art (Japan)

2022 Kobe Art Marche ( ,2016 Japan)

2022 Solo Exhibition “Manazashi”  Niigata City Art Museum (Japan)

2021 “NEJA-ism” Exhibition  Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan)

2019 Affordable Art Fair Battersea (London,UK)

2019 SYSTEMA ART EXPO 2019 SYSTEMA GALLERY (Osaka, Japan)

2018 SYSTEMA BIENNALE 2018  Museo casa natale di Michelangelo Buonarroti

(Caprese Michelangelo, Italy)

2018 “Photo Now”  SYSTEMA GALLERY (, 2016 Osaka, Japan)

2016 SYSTEMA BIENNALE 2016  Montese Museum (Italy)

2016 Art Nagoya (Japan)

2015 “Hanayagi” Exhibition  SYSTEMA GALLERY (Osaka, Japan)

 

2014 Art International Zurich (Switzerland)

フリーランスフォトグラファー

 

 

さりげない日常を捉えることを、テーマに活動。

 

主たるテーマは自分の子供の成長を記録として捉える作業を、テーマとして、、平凡の中の永遠の瞬間を凝固させ

 

ることに主眼をおいている。それは、また、普遍的な一つの写真の在り方そのものであり、原点的なもので、、対

 

象にたいする目線が優しい。

2014 ART ZURICH

 

2015 HANAYAGI exhibition(SYSTEMA GALLERY osaka)

 

2016 KOBE art marche,kobe

2016 PHOTO NOW 2016 ,osaka systema gallery

2016 ART NAGOYA,nagoya,japan

2016 SYSTEMA BIENNARE,montese ,italy museum

2016 affordable artfair amsterdam

 

2017 affordable art fair stockholm

2017 affordable art fair amsterdam

 

2018  PHOTO NOW  systema gallery osaka

2018  SYSTEMA BIENNALE 2018,miquelangesco museum,ITALY

 

2019  ART EXPO 2019   osaka,systema gallery,spazzio 3

2019  art market budapest,hungary

2019  affordable art fair battersea ,london,england