French-Japanese visual artist, born 1976, based in Vienna, Austria.
After a decade in the advertising and movie industry, she decided to turn exclusively to the visual art.
She studied at the academy of fine arts Vienna (Peter Kogler and Matthias Herrmann classes) and has worked since 2009 as a visual artist, photographer and curator.
In Summer 2020 she started her art space feministic project SPACE2O.

Her works are very divers, oscillating between art photography and commercial work, portraits and landscapes. What all of them share is a clean aesthetic and minimalistic composition (..). Asked about her intriguing portraits, the artist says she tries to capture the very moment, where a person reveals her or himself. Her photographs grasp the essence of her subjects, showing their strength and fragility at the same time. 

Sophie Haslinger, curator  

BOOKS

2023

MY NAME IS NOT KAWASAKI

16 x 22 cm

72 pages

2020

ANALOGE AUGENBLICKE

a photographic diary 2009-2019

14 x 20 cm

360 pages

EXHIBITIONS

2024

KRIE(K)G by Inna Shevchenko . Elsa Okazaki / Espace des femmes . Antoinette Fouque, Paris, France

BELL-Y / the smallest gallery, Graz, Austria

collective of NONE / PARALLEL, Vienna, Austria

野生へ / Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo, Japan

2023

BELL-Y / Copa gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Gmuden.photo / Stadtgarten Gmunden, Gmunden, Austria

My name is not Kawasaki / Dominikanerbastei 10, Vienna, Austria

My name is not Kawasaki / Red Carpet Showroom Schottentor, Vienna, Austria

WEST in/between, Augasse 2-6, Vienna, Austria

2022

Blood Gas / Red Carpet Showroom Schottentor, Vienna, Austria

L(ost).A. / Moisturride, Wild im West, Vienna, Austria

Into the wild / AFA Off space / FOTO WIEN, Vienna, Austria

2021

W part 1 / Red Carpet Showroom Schottentor, Vienna, Austria

Wild perceptions / Galerie Chardon, Paris, France

2020

SHOW OFF / MAK, Vienna, Austria

2019

Parallel Wien / Vienna, Austria

Look at this vulva ! / Galerie ‘Die Schöne’, Vienna, Austria

shittytrack / Take festival, Vienna, Austria

serie(s) / AFA Off space / FOTO WIEN, Vienna, Austria

feMale gaze / syncoop.at, Vienna, Austria

2017

selected / Vizualizator, Belgrade, Serbia

Restructured / Take Festival, Vienna, Austria
2016
Winter fur plays the white album / PhiloMedia, Vienna, Austria
Looklike / Take Festival, Vienna, Austria
Nu Nudes / So Weit, die Zukunft / eyes on - Monat der Fotografie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2015
VIP Program PARIS PHOTO Los Angeles / Fitzpatrick Leland House, Los Angeles, U.S.
Pyramid / Locomot, Vienna, Austria
2014
E M A / quai26, Lille, France
Bild Stoff / So Weit, die Zukunft, Vienna, Austria
02 / AFA Vienna, Vienna, Austria
NO US NU - collaboration with Hatschepsut Huss / Locomot, Vienna, Austria
2013
fashion!! - what a coincidence / fotoK Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2012
Too Far West / Comerc / 12 festival for fashion and photography, Vienna, Austria
01 / Schneiderei.Home.Studio.Gallery / eyes on - Monat der Fotografie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2011
Moving stills / Perfectprops / 11 festival for fashion and photography, Vienna, Austria
Edition photo, Vienna, Austria
2010
DeGeneration / Jennyfair, Vienna, Austria
Big society / Space Station Sixty-Five, London, UK
Five directions of photography through photography / HilgerBrotKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2009
Asian Village / Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
Personae / Atelier Operngasse, Vienna, Austria
Oberflächlich und tief / Grundsteingasse 5, Vienna, Austria
Thriller / Jennyfair, Vienna, Austria
2008
Vienna Biennale / Contemporary Gallery am Hundsturm, Vienna, Austria