Shoko Maeda
born 1976 in Kobe, Japan, Lives and works in London, UK

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Shoko Maeda’s work examines how people understand their own position in terms of location or dislocation. She is interested in the moments where the absorption of a space dominates the subjects’ perception and emotion. Her work involves the viewers’ imagination, memory, experience, fantasy, or desires by inviting them to project themselves in the position of the anonymous person in the photograph.

education

2003-04 MA in FIne Art, Goldsmiths College, London

2002-03 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London

1995-99 BA in Art History, Keio University, Tokyo

selected exhibitions

2007

3Things, RUN gallery, London

TURTLE, Woburn Studios, Slade School of Fine Art UCL, London

TURTLE, nüans, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006

D21:SALON, D21, Leipzig, Germany

Deptford X Showcase, APT Gallery, London

Distance & Proximity, The Trafalgar, London

Art Below, Euston London, Underground Station

2005

New Art Birmingham, The Kettle Works, Birmingham

2004

Small Is Beautiful XXII, Flowers Central, London

2003

Souvenir, Transition, London

2002

Gallery Q, Tokyo, Solo Exhibition

2000

Asagaya Greenhouse Gallery, Tokyo, Solo Exhibition

Movement, Le Deco Gallery, Tokyo

Colour, Le Deco Gallery, Tokyo

1999

Change, Nolita Street Apartment, Tokyo

bibliography

2006

fold06, Chelsea College of Art and Design

ArtSEEN journal, Summer 06

2005

London Independent Photography, Summer/Autumn No.2

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