Director of Nagano Prefectural Art Museum since 2024. Deputy Director of Artizon Museum (former Bridgestone Museum of Art), Ishibashi Foundation from 2018 to 2024. Chief Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from 2006 to 2018. Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from 1989 to 2002. Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo from 2002 to 2006.
Born in Nagano. B.A. in Sociology, Meiji Gakuin University in 1983. M.A. in Photography, Columbia College, Chicago in 1987.
Selected Books: Essays On Photography from Gender Perspective, 1991 – 2017, Satoyama-sha, 2018, Tokyo, Photography As a Bulwark Against Era, Seikyu-sha, Tokyo, 2002; The Politics Behind the Nude, Chikuma Shobo, Tokyo, 1998
Selected curatorial works: “I know something about love, Asian Contemporary Photography”, 2018, “Dayanita Singh, Museum Bhavan”, 2017, ”somewhere between me and this world – Japanese contemporary photography”, 2012, “Love’s Body – Art in the age of AIDS”, 2010, “Love’s Body — Rethinking the Naked and the Nude in Photography”, 1998, “Gender Beyond Memory, The Works of Contemporary Women Artists”, 1996, “Exploring the Unknown Self — Self-portraits of Contemporary Women”, 1991
“ishiuchi miyako, mother’s 2000 – 2005, traces of the future”, as a commissioner of Japanese pavilion of the 51st Venice biennale,2005.