ABOUT

  • TOMOKO YONEDA

    Lives and works in London, Japan and Helsinki

  • EDUCATION:

    1991 Royal College of Art, MA in Photography, London
    1989 The University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA in Photography with Faculty Award, Chicago

  • SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

    2024
    Crystals, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2022
    EchoesーCrashing waves, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2020
    Tomoko Yoneda, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
    2019
    Dialogue with A.C., ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2018
    Dialogue avec Albert Camus, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France
    2015
    Beyong Memory, Grimaldi Gavin, London
    2013-14
    We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness, The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan;
    Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
    2011
    Japanese House, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2009
    Rivers Become Oceans, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Sage Paris, Paris
    2008
    An End is a Beginning, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
    2006
    Monochrome Works 1996-2003, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2005
    A Decade After, Ashiya City Museum of art and History, Ashiya
    After Amnesia: Scenes of Conflict That Have Forgotten Their Past, Daiwa Foundation, London
    After the Thaw, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2003
    Scene - Collective Forgetting, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
    Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
    2000
    Tomoko Yoneda, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
    Between Visible and Invisible, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
    1999
    Luminary, Room, Gentilly, France
    1997
    Topographical Analogy, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo

  • SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

    2024
    Forms of the Shadow, Curated by Sunjung Kim, Secession Vienna, Austria
    Floating Worlds: From Japonisme to Contemporary Art, Les Franciscaines (Deauville, France)
    I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture: Life Is Architecture M+ Hong Kong
    A Woman You Thought You Knew, Kadist San Francisco, USA
    Remembrance beyond images, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
    2023
    Recovery, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
    At the Zoo — From the Tokyo Metropolitan Collection and Other Collections, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
    DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Dora Observatory, Camp Greaves, Imjingak: Pyeonghoa-Nuri, Paju
    Life Actually: The Work of Contemporary Japanese Women, Tokyo Gendai, Pacifico Yokohama
    Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Tokyo
    2022
    If you Wish for Peace, Musée National de la Résistance et des Droits Humain at Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
    2021-22
    Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    2021
    CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985-2015, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
    ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2020
    DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo
    2019
    Japan Unlimited, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space / MuseumsQuartier Wien, Wien
    TOP Collection Reading Images: The Time of Photography, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
    Boundaries, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
    30th Anniversary of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Meet the Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
    2018
    12th Shanghai Biennale 2018, Shanghai
    Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo the Amana collection Exhibit 02, IMA Gallery, Tokyo
    A gaze into architecture -Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture-, ARCHI- DEPOT MUSEUM, Tokyo
    Collection Show at Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo
    Group Show at Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
    Foujita in the 1940s: Tributes, The University Art Museum Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Art, Tokyo
    Tell me a Story: Locality and Narrative, Torino, Italy
    Travellers: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
    ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2017
    Native revisions, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
    20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3 “Synchronicity”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
    2016
    Discordant Harmony, Traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    Tell me a Story: Locality and Narrative, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, China
    2016
    Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflection on the Imagination of Asia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    Tell Me A Story: Locality and Narrative, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    2015- 17
    In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, 17 Boston; Japan Society, New York; Asia Society, Huston, USA
    2015
    Nissan Art Award 2015 Exhibition of New Works by Seven Finalists, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
    Variations Corbusier, Centre international D’Art Contemporain Alpes-Maritimes, France
    2015
    No Museum, No Life? ―Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come 
From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo
    Variations Corbusier, Centre International DʼArt Contemporain Alpes-Maritimes, France
    Wabi Sabi Shima: from the Aesthetic of Perfection and Chaos in the Japanese Archipelago, Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
    The National Museum of Art 2015 Collection 1, The National Museum of Art, Osaka Nissan Art Award 2015: New Works by Seven Finalists, BankART studio NYK Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    ShugoArts: Weekend Gallery in Mishuku, ShugoArts Weekend Gallery, Tokyo
    2014
    SeMA Biennale, Mediacity Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
    The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
    20 years since Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
    2013
    Awakening―Where are we standing?: Earth, Memory and Resurrection, Aichi Triennale 2013, Aichi, Japan
    Unattained Landscape, The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice
    Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art Since the 1970s, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    2012
    The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
    Arsenale 2012: The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
    Tokyo Story 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo
    Sky over My Head, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
    Tokyo Experimental Festival “John cage: sonatas and interludes”, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
    2011
    On the Agenda of the Arts 2011 ‘Where do we go from here?’, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya
    Collection Exhibition 2011−2 To Build, To Depart, Hiroshima Imagined, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art
    Art in an Office, Toyota city Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
    Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York
    2010
    The 20th Festival of Le Printemps de Septembre, Musée Henri-Martin, Cahors
    Kuandu Biennale “Plus:10+10-Memories and Beyond”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
    The Definition of Self, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo
    Roppongi Crossing 2010 Can There Be Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
    Plastic Memories, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
    New Photography: Pavilion Commissions 2009, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
    2009
    Rememory, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
    Art Tells the Times, Works by Women Artists : Shiseido Gallery 90th Anniversary Exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
    Platform 2009, KIMUSA, Seoul
    “What a Place Tells Us” Exhibition by Tomoko Yoneda and Yoshihiro Suda(The 13th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh 2008
    Traveling Exhibition), 100Tonson Gallery, Bangkok
    2008
    The 13th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh 2008, “What a Place Tells Us” Exhibition by Tomoko Yoneda and Yoshihiro Suda,
    Osmani Memorial Hall, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh National Museum, Bangladesh
    MOGI Kenichiro, hana, KAKUTA Mitsuyo, ARAKI Nobuyoshi: Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art,
    Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
    2007
    The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Not only possible, but also necessary: Optimism in the age of global war,
    Istanbul
    Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, B.T.A.P, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
    La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the
    Present Tense, Venice
    FASCINATION, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo
    Paradise is for the blessed, Four Corners, London
    Changing Faces/Work, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal in Scheltema, Leiden, touring in Europe, Museu Valencià de la
    Il.lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM), Valencià, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
    Dom Fotografie, Liptovský Mikuláš
    Japan Caught by Camera - Works from the Photographic Art in Japan, Shanghai Art Museum
    2006
    Temporary Art Museum, SOI SABAI, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
    Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
    Naturaleza, PHotoEspaña 2006, Madrid, touring in Tenerife (Exhibition title: The Rising Sun)
    85/05:The Photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
    YOSHITOMO NARA + graf A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki
    2005
    YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus - Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama
    From East and West, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
    2004
    Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography, Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne (The Japan
    Foundation), touring in Europe and USA
    Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art
    Spread in Prato, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
    2003
    History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
    My Room Somehow Somewhere, Graf Media GM, Osaka
    The Year of New Work: Contemporary Asian Photography, The Japan Society, New York
    Mask of Japan: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aura Gallery, Shanghai,
    2002
    Fragilités – Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse and Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure
    2001
    BetweenVisible and Invisible, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago; Sanya
    Photography Gallery, Shanghai
    Artists’ debut, Rice gallery by G2, Tokyo
    Summer Show – Three Contemporary Photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
    Kiss In the Dark – Contemporary Japanese Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Marugame
    Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Kagawa
    Painterly Photography, Blains Fine Art, London
    Surface, Nederlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam
    2000
    Counter-Photography – Japan’s Artists Today, Moscow Arts Centre, Moscow; touring in Russia, Scandinavia, Europe,
    and Asia
    1999
    The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
    Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Japan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin, also toured 3 other museums in Germany
    1998
    21st Anniversary ZEIT-FOTO, Artspace Shimoda, Tokyo
    1996
    Future Vision, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
    1993
    The Daily Planet, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
    1992
    The Big Apple, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
    1991
    Treading a Fine Line – 8 Contemporary women photographers, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London

  • SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    Aichi Prefectural Museum Of Art, Aichi, Japan
    Amana holdings inc., Tokyo, Japan
    The British Council, London, UK
    Burger Collection, Hong Kong
    Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
    Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
    Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA
    Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
    Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
    Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka
    The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
    Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York, USA
    Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, USA
    Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
    Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
    The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
    Nissan Motor Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
    NLI Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
    Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
    Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
    Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Japan
    Tanizaki Junichiro Memorial Museum of Literature, Ashiya, Japan
    Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota, Japan
    UBS Bank Art Collection, London, UK
    The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Art, Tokyo, Japan
    The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
    The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
    The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
    Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    MONOGRAPHS:
    2022 TOMOKO YONEDA, text by Paul Wombell, Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates, Milan Kundera, Wisława Szymborska, Fundación Mapfre, Spain
    2013-14
    Sou Kurokawa, pp, Satomi Fujimura,pp, Tomoko Yoneda Yoneda: notes to the plates. We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness, Tokyo Metropolitan Photography, Tokyo, Japan;
    Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
    2008
    Toshiro Hara: foreword, Atsuo Yasuda: “Between Visible and Invisible - concerning Tomoko Yoneda”,
    Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates, An End is a Beginning, exh. cat., p.7, pp.9 -11, 96-98, Hara Museum of
    Contemporary Art, Tokyo
    2007
    Roberta Valtorta, Massimiliano Foscati: text, p.4, The City Rises, p.5, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello
    Balsamo, Milano
    2007
    Atsuo Yamamoto: “PHOTOGRAPHING THE NEGATIVE ON THE TOMOKO YONEDA’S NEW WORK,” A Decade After, exh. cat., Ashiya City
    Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Hyogo
    Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates, In-between 9 Tomoko Yoneda: Hungary, Estonia, pp.60-65, EU - Japan Fest Japan
    Committee, Tokyo
    2004
    Mark Haworth-Booth: Introduction, Kotaro Iizawa: “MEMORY / MEMORIAL GLASSES,” Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates,
    Tomoko Yoneda: Between Visible, p.5, pp.7-8, 28-29, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona
    2003
    Keiko Toyoda: introduction, Koji Taki: “GAZING AT HISTORY,” Beyond Memory and Uncertainty, exh. cat., pp.2-3, 6-7,
    Shiseido Gallery, Shiseido Co., Ltd., Tokyo

    SELECTED BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, OTHERS:
    2012
    Tomoko Yoneda: The Multiple Lives Of Images by Andrew Maerkle And Natsuko Odate, Art it magazine
    2011
    Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, text David Elliott, Yale University Press
    Adrian Favell: text, Bye Bye Little Boy, Art in America, April 2011 p.90.
    2010
    Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? The Creative Potential of a New Japan, Mori Art Museum, , exh. cat., Tokyo
    New Photography: Pavilion Commissions: text, Mami Kataoka,, pp.18-20, exh. cat., Pavilion
    2008
    Void of Memory, Platform in KIMUSA, exh. cat., Seoul
    Remembrance of Things Past, Helen Sumpter: text, Deutsche Bank Art Mag 51, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
    Feeling the Heat, An End Is a Beginning Deutsche Bank Supports the Tomoko Yoneda Show at the Hara Museum: text,
    Achim Drucks, db artmag, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
    Interview with Tomoko Yoneda: text, Enoch Cheng, Aian Art Archive, Hong Kong
    2007
    Robert Storr: introduction, Anna Mecugni: text, Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, vol. I, pp.16-17
    (introduction), p.382 (text), La Biennale di Venezia, The 52nd International Art Exhibition, exh. cat., Venice
    Tomoko Yoneda: text, Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War, p.88, The 10th
    International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, exh. cat., Istanbul
    Margot Knijn: Profile, Massimiliano Foscati: Text, “Postface: Waiting For Work,” Work [Changing Faces], IPRN
    Commissions Year, No.2, pp.118-121, Veenman Publishers, Amsterdam
    Mami Kataoka: contribution, Meiko Sano: translation, Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan,
    p. 133, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
    Mariko Takeuchi: text, Fascination, exh. cat., Takashimaya, Tokyo
    Christopher Pinney: text, “Scene: Atrocity’s Double-time”, p.30, Portfolio No.46, Edinburgh
    2006
    Horacio Fernandez: text, pp.34-35 (English translation p.229), Javier Chavarría: text, p.214 (English
    translation p.263), Naturaleza: PHotoEspaña 2006, La Fábrica Editorial, Madrid
    Angela Schneider: text, “Flaneurs Tokyo and Berlin through the Eyes of Photographers,” Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin,
    p.270, English booklet p.48, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
    2005
    Taro Amano: text, Yokohama 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus – Jumping from the Ordinary,
    exh. cat., p.192, The Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
    Guy Moreton: text, “Terror Unscene: Meditations on Tomoko Yoneda’s Photography,” Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice
    Owen: text and edit, Art in the Age of Terrorism, pp.207-210, Paul Holberton Publishing, London
    2004
    Iizawa Kotaro: Me Kara Me He: Shashintenwo Aruku 2001-2003, pp.152-155, Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo
    Michiko Kasahara: text, out of the ordinary / extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography, exh. cat., p.8,
    The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
    Taro Amano: text, Non-Sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III, exh. cat., p.176, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
    Pier Luigi Tazzi: text, Spread in Prato, exh. cat., p.42, Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
    2002
    Michiko Kasahara: Shashin, Jidai Ni Kosurumono, pp.77-80, Seikyusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo
    2003
    Shiseido Gallery: gallery talk, “-Beyond Memory and Uncertainty” March 6 2003, 17:00-18:00, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
    Dana Friis-Hansen: text, History of Japanese Photography 1854-2000, p.276, The Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University
    Press, Houston
    2002
    Marta Gili: interview, Fragilités- Printemps de Septembre 2002, exh. cat., p.88, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
    2001
    Tomoko Yoneda: text, Kiss in the Dark, Contemporary Japanese photography, p.130, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
    Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo
    Frits Giersberg: text, Surface, exh. cat., pp.14-15, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
    2000
    Yuri Mitsuta: text, “Topographical Analogy”, Counter-photography – Japan's artists today, exh. cat., p.56, The Japan
    Foundation
    1999
    Michiko Kasahara: text, Tomoko Yoneda: notes to the plates, The Vision of Contemporary Art ’99, exh. cat., pp.82,
    The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
    Hiromi Nakamura: text, Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Japan, exh. cat., p.37, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin



  • SELECTED AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS:

    2015 Nissan Art Award Finalist, Japan
    2014 The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologyʼs Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, Japan
    2011 Creator-in-Residence, Local Creator Residency Program 2011, TWS Aoyama, Japan
    2009 New Photography: Pavilion Commissions 2009, Leeds, UK
    2006 Changing Faces Commission, IPRN EU Culture 2000, EU
    1996 Second Prize, Future Vision The Photographersʼ Gallery, London, UK
    1995 Third Prize, The Observer David Hodge Memorial Award, London, UK

  • TALKS, LECTURE, SYMPOSIUM, RADIO:

    2024
    Artist Talk: YONEDA Tomoko x Marja PIRILÄ, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
    2022
    Video: Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art, Tomoko Yoneda on Between Visible and Invisible
    Video: Tokyo Art Beat Tomoko Yoneda on Why Art?
    2021
    Jury: IMA Next photography, Tokyo
    Lecture/workshop on Between Visible and Invisible, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
    Online lecture: MA Photography, Falmouth University, England
    Talk: Satomi Fujimura x Tomoko Yoneda, New National Museum, Tokyo
    2019
    Talk: moderator, Yasufumi Nakamori(Tate Modern): Japan Now 2019, the British Library, London
    Talk: Dialogue with A.C, Aomi Okabe x Tomoko Yoneda, ShugoArts, Tokyo
    2018
    Talk: Oliver Todd x Tomoko Yoneda, Dialogue avec Albert Camus, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris
    Speaker: Mori Art Museum x University of Oxford International Symposium “Art in a Time of Catastrophe: What Are Artists and Art Organizations Doing?”, Tokyo
    2015
    Talk: Nissan Art Award 2015 BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
    2016
    Speaker: “Tell Me a Story: Locality and Narrative” Artists' Talk; Rockbund Art Museum · Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou Hotel, Shanghai Artemis Art Center, Shanghai
    Talk: New Directions in Japanese Art & Architecture after 3/11、Japan Society, New York
    Radio Interview: BBC World Service: Photographs inspired by the Japan Earthquake, Work by Japanese photographers in response to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, New York
    Radio Interview: WQXR, New York
    2015
    Radio Interview: Setting Scenes: The Monocle Weekly Episode 317, London
    2014
    Talk: New Photography: Pavilion Commissions、Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK  
    2013
    Talk with Mami Kataoka(Mori Art Museum)x Tomoko Yoneda, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
    Talk with Kazunori Hanto(Author) x Tomoko Yoneda, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
    Talk: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
    2013
    Open Seminars: "Assembly-Hour", Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto
    2012
    Talk: Bye Bye Kitty!!!: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York
    2011
    Talk: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
    2006
    Symposium: Southampton Solent University, UK
    2005
    Symposium: ASIA-EUROPE FORUM FOR YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
    Talk: Counter Photography exhibition: University of Leeds, UK
    Lecture: University of Brighton, UK
    Talk: University of Sunderland