Kyoko Hamada
Born in Tokyo, Kyoko Hamada grew up in Chiba, Japan until her father’s job relocated the family to Wheeling, West Virginia when she was fifteen-years-old. Hamada came to New York City studying art history at Manhattanville College, graduating from Pratt Institute studying photography and painting. Her subject matter has often been the ordinary people and objects stylized and staged into subtle quiet moments dealing with self-referentiality and various metaphors. She has participated in two artist residencies in Iceland in 2009 and 2010, and has exhibited her work in the National Portrait Gallery (uk), Randall Scott Gallery, Civilian Art Projects, and Michael Hoppen Gallery (uk), among others. Hamada’s photographs have been featured in PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts, PDN Under 30, American Photography Annuals, NY Photo Festival Award. Her latest series, “I used to be you” recently received the grand prize from the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards, and was also included in the Critical Mass Top 50. She has been working as a commercial photographer for the last 10 years; her clients include Vitra, Uniqlo and Kärcher along with several magazines including The New Yorker, London Telegraph Magazine, Atlantic Magazine, and Wall Street Journal Magazine. She lives and works in New York City.
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1. Japan
2. Lika
3. Plaster 22
4. Sugar Cube
5. Vegetable Bowl
6. Blue Iron Roof
7. Couple
8. Burnt Toast
9. Bows and Flies
10. Migration South
11. Doughnut Notebook
12. Sweets and Fingers
13. Grandma's Memories
14. Canoe
15. Red Baby
16. Clock Cabinet
17. Apple Banana
18. Rollerskates
19. Gizmo Dog
20. Sheets
21. Sufjan Stevens
22. Beach Couple
23. Stacked Shells
24. Reflective Pot
25. Bruce McCall
26. Best Housekeeper 1
27. Best Housekeeper 2
28. Recycle Bin
29. Copy Machine
30. Man Watering Plant
31. Snake Plant Receptionist
32. Two Dogs Backyard Walk
33. Golf Couple
34. Hello Lovely Walls
35. Puddle
36. Adirondacks Kids
37. Emily & Grandmother
38. Sonic Youth
39. Yoko Ono
40. David Hockney
41. Silllife of Stilllife
42. Anton
43. Owl Face
44. Turtles
45. Strawberries
46. Laundry Day
47. Patnap
48. Calendar Nails
49. Mother
50. Snow Horse
51. Blink Again
52. Toast and Coffee
53. Figure
54. Waterfall
55. Clock on Wall
56. Traffic
57. First Snow
58. Baskets Full of Donuts
59. Deer
60. Trees in the Mist
61. Pink Pancake
62. White Sweater
63. Beach Girl
64. Washing Machine Karcher 1
65. Bathtub Karcher 2
66. Karcher 3
67. Karcher 4
68. Karcher 5
69. Karcher 6
70. La Salle Campaign 1
71. La Salle Campaign 2
72. La Salle Campaign 3
73. La Salle Campaign 4
74. Sonet Hammock
75. Sonet Unit
76. Wall
77. Trainers
78. Sofa People 1
79. Sofa People 2
80. Sofa People 3
81. Sofa People 4
82. Sofa People 5