| Kanako Sasaki | |
| Born in Sendai, Japan | |
| Education | |
| 2006-7 | Royal Collage of Art, London UK724 |
| 2004 | MFA Photo, video and related media School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
| 2001 | BA Journalism, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY |
| Awards | |
| 2007 | VOCA Award exhibition, Ueno no mori museum, Tokyo Japan |
| 2006 | Selected in PDN's 30"emergency photographer to watch", NY
Winner and finalist of Magenta’s Emerging Photographers Book and Exhibition |
| 2005 | ITS Four International Talent Support MINI Photo Award Finalist, Trieste, Italy. |
| 2004 |
The Golden Light Award, Personal Documentary, The Workshop, Maine, USA Selected as one of the top 100 photographers, Personal/Fine Art category, The Workshop, Maine, USA Hitotsubo-ten(3.3mX3.3m) Award, Guardian Garden/Recruit, Japan |
| 2001 | Winner of Women in Photography International 20th Anniversary Juried Exhibition |
| Grant/Residency | |
| 2007 | Participant of Woodstock A-I-R, residency for artists of color working in the photographic art, Woodstock, NY |
| 2006-2007 | Recipient of Ezoe foundation for artist, Japan Recipient of Japanese Government Study Program for artist for a year, Agency for Cultural Affair Participant of Bundeskanzleramt Kunst, Residency in Vienna, Austria |
| 2005 | Participant of the Light Work’s Artist-in-Residency program, Syracuse, NY
Recipient of Alumni Scholarship Award (School of Visual Arts) |
| 2001 | Recipient of George Krause Scholarship (Univ. of Houston) |
| 2000 | Recipient of Philip R. Dougherty Minority journalism Scholarship Recipient of James Pendelton Photography Project Completion |
| Solo/Selected Exhibitions | |
| 2007 | Solo show, “Walking in the jungle” Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary “Kanako Sasaki and Fay Ku” show Gallery 10G, NY USA Summer Show, Featuring Aubrey Hays, Kanako Sasaki & Kate Pollard, Gallery 1oG, NY “Failure” with Royal Collage of Art, Photography Dept. Krakow Foto Month, Krakow Poland. VOCA (The Vision of Contemporary Art) Award exhibition at Ueno no mori Museum, Tokyo Japan |
| 2006 | 2006Group show “As if we seek the light in the dark”, Raku gallery at Kyoto Design and Art University, Kyoto, Japan "Passionate Attitudes" Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY "Magenta's Emerging Photographers book & exhibition" @ Lennox Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada. "The living is easy, International contemporary photography" at Flower East gallery, London, UK School of Visual Arts year book exhibition, SVA gallery, NY Photo Plus Expo, PDN Exhibition, Javits Center New York, USA Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China Group show “Artist in Residence 2006” Kunstraum Palais Porcia, Vienna, Austria “Fusentowata and Kanako Sasaki” solo and performance at Coca Cola gallery, Vienna, Austria art_point collaboration and exhibition, Vienna, Austria Group show, "Joint Venture", Richard Nelson Gallery, LA |
| 2005 | Solo show, "View from Here," Main Gallery, Light Work, Syracuse, NY Solo show, “Wanderlust,” Art Cocoon gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN Group show, "Femininity." Local Project, NY USA |
| 2004 | Hitotsubo-ten, 3.3mX3.3m Exhibition, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan MFA Thesis Show “The Look of Things” at Visual Arts Gallery. Chelsea, NY. Group Exhibition ”Blameless” at Visual Art Gallery, Chelsea, NY |
| 2001 | WIPI Juried Exhibition “Images of Women-Images of Tea,” Los Angeles, CA. |
| Publications | |
| 2006 | Esora, Cover picture, Kodansha publication 2006 PDN Magazine, march issue “PDN’s 30 emergency photographers to watch 2006. Ryuko Tsushin Magazine, Infas publicaton |
| 2005 | 2005Contact Sheet Magazine, #133, Kanako Sasaki, Exhibition Catalogue, August, 2005, USA Kyodo Tsushin, "Omusubi Gallery", July, 2005 Seikatsu Design Yofin Magazine, "wanderlustful", July 2005, Tokyo, Japan CMYK MagazineMarch/April, Photography selected. |
| 2004 | Photo PHat Magasine, “New Style” Photographer,
Jan/Feb, Pier Publications, Tokyo, Print Magazine, Regional Annual Award 2004, Award winning book, NY School of Visual Arts, Yearbooks 2002-2005, New York, NY |
| Teaching | |
| 2004-2007 | NYSSA, NYState Media Summer camp, Teaching Photography class |
