RURIKO TAGUCHI
b. 1978, JapanCurrently based in Tokyo, Ruriko Taguchi was born in 1978, in Nagoya of Aichi Prefecture. Taguchi took up photography in 2003 through self-study and, after winning the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize in the very same year, began her career as a professional photographer.
Whilst working as a photographer for the music and magazine industry, she has consistently produced works that focused on female subjects, frequently exhibiting her photographs in various exhibitions and publications.
Key works include “Keigai Doboku” (Bare Forms) (2010–), a portrait series of women’s backs, “SCAPE” (2016–), a series of nudes reminiscent of landscapes, “KIYOKO” (2017–), portraits documenting her grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), the artist’s inaugural series of nude self-portraits.
Taguchi is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Society.
Text courtesy √K Contemporary.
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