Yukari Chikura

Overview
Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015

Yukari Chikura, born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from university of music, she became a music composer, arranger and programmer. She is the Winner of STEIDL BOOK AWARD and her work ZAIDO was published by STEIDL in 2020. (ZAIDO was selected as “Best Photo Book 2020” of Photo-eye, VOGUE, LensCulture, PhotobookStore, 1000 Words, All About Photo.com, Photobook Journal among others). She won LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2016, 2020 IPA International Photography Awards: Book / Other (1st), LUCIE PHOTOBOOK PRIZE, Sony World Photography Awards, Photolucida Critical Mass TOP50 2016 & 2015, Julia Margaret Cameron Award (1st), National Geographic among others. Her works have been collected in The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Griffin Museum and Bibliotheque nationale de France, she has exhibited in numerous shows all over the world. Her work was selected as “FOTOFEST Discoveries of the Meeting Place, “IPA Best of Show photographer 2013” (Lucie Foundation). She was an artist in residence of Rokko International Photography Festival 2015. She gave a lecture at Tokyo Zokei University in 2013, 2016 & 2017. She participated in “RPS Photobook Masterclass”, “Review Santa Fe 2014” and “Eddie Adams Workshop 2014”. She was nominated “Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2021”. Her work was published by NY Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, NOWNESS, Vice Magazine among others.

 
She is one of the participating artists of the exhibition "10/10 Celebrating Japanese Women Photographers" during KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022.
Works
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled, from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Untitled from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
    Untitled from Fluorite Fantasia, 2015
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 9, 2012-2017
    Zaido 9, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 8, 2012-2017
    Zaido 8, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 7, 2012-2017
    Zaido 7, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 6, 2012-2017
    Zaido 6, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 5, 2012-2017
    Zaido 5, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 4, 2012-2017
    Zaido 4, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 33, 2012-2017
    Zaido 33, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 32, 2012-2017
    Zaido 32, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 31, 2012-2017
    Zaido 31, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 30, 2012-2017
    Zaido 30, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 3, 2012-2017
    Zaido 3, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 29, 2012-2017
    Zaido 29, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 28, 2012-2017
    Zaido 28, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 27, 2012-2017
    Zaido 27, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 26, 2012-2017
    Zaido 26, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 25, 2012-2017
    Zaido 25, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 24, 2012-2017
    Zaido 24, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 23, 2012-2017
    Zaido 23, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 22, 2012-2017
    Zaido 22, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 21, 2012-2017
    Zaido 21, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 20, 2012-2017
    Zaido 20, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 2, 2012-2017
    Zaido 2, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 19, 2012-2017
    Zaido 19, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 18, 2012-2017
    Zaido 18, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 17, 2012-2017
    Zaido 17, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 16, 2012-2017
    Zaido 16, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 15, 2012-2017
    Zaido 15, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 14, 2012-2017
    Zaido 14, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 13, 2012-2017
    Zaido 13, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 12, 2012-2017
    Zaido 12, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 11, 2012-2017
    Zaido 11, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 10, 2012-2017
    Zaido 10, 2012-2017
  • Yukari Chikura, Zaido 1, 2012-2017
    Zaido 1, 2012-2017
Exhibitions
Series