AKIRA RACHI
Born in Shizuoka, Japan, 1980
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2010 sites. gallery GEN. Tokyo. produced by KABEGIWA
2009 frames. taro nasu gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 place, gallery 176, Osaka, Japan
2008 laboratory for place, gallery 176, Osaka, Japan
2007 gravity, neunplus
gallery, Berlin, Germany, supported by Japan Foundation
Group Exhibitions
2008 freshfacedandwildeyed 08, the photographers' gallery, London, UK
2007 nexus, La Viande,
London, UK
2007 Degree exhibition, text and works gallery, Poole, UK
2006 New Visions of Japanese
Photography, Refined
Nest Gallery, Shanghai, China [C]
2005 AOP Student Award 2005, AOP Gallery, London, UK
Educations
2007 BA (Hons) Photography, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth,
UK
2003 BA (Hons) Social Science, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Awards / Grants / Residencies
2008 freshfacedandwildeyed 08 Award by the photographers' gallery, London [A]
2007 the Estonian Artists' Association(EEA), Tallinn, Estonia [R]
2007 The Japan Foundation [G]
2005 finalist, AOP Student Award 2005 [A]
Public Collections
2006 Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts
Bibliography
2009 INVISIBLE MAN PAPER vol.2
2008 STUDIO VOICE Octber 2008
2006 STUDIO VOICE July 2006
2006 catalogue "New Visions of Japanese Photography"
2005 IMAGE, 357 June 2005
Book Projects
2008 Terrence Smith(ed.). Impossible Documents. (ed/9)
2006 Marthe Fjellestad(ed.). stakitt. (remitted edtion
40 copies)