HIROMIX
“ SEVENTEEN GIRL DAYS ”
1995Grand Prize
ARTIST STATEMENT
SEVENTEEN GIRL DAYS
The daily life of a 17-year-old high school student is full of danger. Radical days. Passing days. A sadly pitiful world. Why is love painful. ROCK IS MY LIFE. I’m scared that I’m getting closer to becoming an adult. I live, reflecting upon myself.
Selecting judge: Nobuyoshi Araki
Girls tend to hold nothing back, and don’t think too much. Without thinking too much, they let their feelings rule their actions. Her feelings that she wants to create and try anything, as well as her flexibility are apparent. Guys think too much. I think teens are going to be interesting.
Selecting judge: Fumio Nanjo
This kitschy presentation, editing, this is it. This shows the precocious mysteriousness of late teens, kind of like the pain, the anger, the fragileness. The cover is also enveloped in a mysterious glamour.
PROFILE
HIROMIX
Photographer and artist
| 1976 | Born in Tokyo |
| 1995 | Received an Excellence Award at the 11th New Cosmos of Photography (selected by Nobuyoshi Araki) and won the Grand Prize at the 4th New Cosmos of Photography Exhibition |
| 1996 | Released the photo collection Girls Blue, which sold 30,000 copies, which was a rare event in the art photography world |
| 1997 | Released the photobooks Light and Japanese Beauty simultaneously |
| 1997 | In conjunction with the release of Light and Japanese Beauty, held concurrent photo exhibits at the Parco Gallery in Tokyo and in Paris, France containing elements from both books |
| 1999 | Released the photo collection HIROMIX in 32 countries Received the Kodak Photo Prize in the same year |
| 1999 | Released the music CD HIROMIX ’99 from Trattoria |
| 1999 | Held a solo exhibition in London, England |
| 2001 | Released the photo collection HIROMIX WORKS Won the 26th Kimura Ihei Award in the same year |
| 2003 | Selected as one of the “World’s 50 Leading Women Creators” in a special issue of the French magazine Liberation |
| 2005 | Selected as one of the “100 World-Renowned Japanese” in the Japanese edition of Newsweek |
| 2012-2013 Served as a judge in the Photography category at the East-West Art Award Competition in the UK | |
| 2011-2015 Served as a judge for Canon’s New Cosmos of Photography contest | |
Selected solo exhibitions
| 1996 | Deep Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1997 | Parco Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1997 | Paris, France |
| 1999 | London, England |
| 2002 | Nagoya |
| 2009 | Start of Spring, Radiance of the Heart, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2010 | St. Valentin Special | Room of Love (installations, photographs, paintings, video works), Eye of Gyre, Tokyo |
| 2015 | The Wonder of Love and Time (drawings and photographs), Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo |
Selected group exhibitions
| 1999 | Superflat Exhibition, Tokyo |
| 2000 | Italy |
| 2005 | Gazes that Define the Era: 30 Years of the Kimura Ihei Award, 1975 – 2005, Kawasaki City Museum, Tokyo |
| 2009 | Shoot (Rizzoli, U.S.), Parco Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2009 | A Room in Which To Contemplate Love (installations, photographs, video works), No Man’s Land (former French Embassy), Tokyo |
| 2010 | Travelled with the same Group exhibition to Lyon, France, and other cities |
| 2015 | 40 Years of the Kimura Ihei Award, 1975 – 2015, Kawasaki City Museum, Tokyo |
| 2015 | New York, U.S. |
| 2016 | Takashi Murakami Collection, Tokyo and other cities |
Curation
| 2010 | Magnifique!, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo |
Selected music CDs
| 1998 | I Love Jazz + Bossa, a collection of selected jazz and bossa nova songs |
| 1999 | HIROMIX ’99, Trattoria |
Selected video works
| 2005 | “Honeymoon Song” (two minutes) Moving Fashion, SHOWStudio.com, London, England |
| 2009 | “How Splendid You Are,” (20 minutes), honeyee.com, Tokyo |
1995Grand Prize