Sayako Sugawara

Education

2013 M.A Photography, London College of Communication, London
1997 M.A Fine Art Japanese Painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1995 HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands
1994 B.A Fine Art Japanese Painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Exhibitions

2021 PEAKS - Solo show - Argentea Gallery, Birmingham
2020 Imagining an Island - Open Call Exhibition, Online - Curated by Rosalind Blake and developed in collaboration with University of the Highlands and Islands, and Taigh Chearsabhagh.
2020 Beauty in Imperfection - Group Exhibition - Reclaim Photography Festival, Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton
2019 The Light Runner 180 - Group Exhibition - an international competition and exhibition on analog photography - Baoku Art Centre, Shanghai Tower, China
2019 Suche nach Schönheit - Group Exhibition - Fotofestival Lenzburg 2019, Switzerland
2018 sporenland - solo show with counterpart work by Heinrich Schildknecht (1874 - 1959) at fotodiskurs, Augsburg , Germany
2017 Making It Real - a festival exploring how analogue photographic, filmic and audio processes interact with digital technologies - hosted by London Alternative Photography at Ugly Duck, London
2017 Burning with pleasure #3 - artists' book exhibition - curated by archipelago at Seen Fifteen Gallery, London
2017 Hariban Award 2017 - Shortlist
2016 fragments - a darkroom exhibition: artist residency exhibition, Fortismere School photography department, London
2015 Kinokophonography Night - a curated sound cinema event featuring audio works Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2015 The JHB Archive: 23/1961 or 28/1961 - group exhibition curated by Jo Gane BOM (Birmingham Open Media)
2014 Photography as Installation - LCC MA Photography Alumni group exhibition, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London
2014 Repetitions, Retracing, Relapses - Mean Time Collective exhibition and workshop, Double Negative London
2014 ArtWorks Open 2014 - group exhibition of selected works
2013 MA Photography 2013 Final Exhibition, London College of Communication
2013 SEE - self-published newspaper of contemporary photography The Underground Gallery, London
2009 A Retrospect - group exhibition of drawings, Burgh House, London
2005 Signifiers - solo show, Foundry, London
2004 Rafts - solo show, Foundry, London
2000 Sitting on a Branch Wiggling My Toes - solo installation show, Moira Expositieruimte, Utrecht, the Netherlands
1999 Things to Come - group show, Moira Expositieruimte, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Commission and Residencies

2020 FT Weekend - The River - A Photography Special
2017 - 2018 University of Hertfordshire AA2A
2014 - 2016 Fortismere School, London Scholarships and Grants 2016 a-n Professional Development Bursary
1997 Pola Art Foundation (Japan), Artists' Grant
1995 The Netherlands’ Government Scholarship (NUFFIC)

Publications

2018 Sayako Sugawara sporenland - fotodiskurs 11 Exhibition Publication. Edited by Wolfgang Mennel and Christof Rehm
2017 (Copy) The Schwarze Mönch - Dummy Book
2012 SEE - self-published newspaper of contemporary photography, Brighton Photo Fringe Festival