Hideka Tonomura was born in 1979, in Kobe, Hyogo prefecture. She graduated from Osaka Visual Arts school’s broadcasting and filmmaking department, and started her career as a photographer in 2002. Tonomura’s major solo exhibitions include “Unlucky Family” (Nikon Salon, Tokyo & Osaka, 2004), “Tonomura Hideka Shageki-0305-” (Uplink, Tokyo, 2005), “mama 恋 love” (trunk gallery 82, Seoul, 2011) and “They called me Yukari / mama 恋 love” (Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, 2013). Her main publications are mama 恋 love (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2008), They called me Yukari (Zen Foto Gallery, 2013) and orange elephant (Zen Foto Gallery, 2015). www.hidekatonomura.com



Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 Unlucky Family, Nikon Salon, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan
2005 Tonomura Hideka Shageki -0305-, UPLINK, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Viva Hostess’ s Life, Club Ginko, Tokyo, Japan
2011 mama 恋 love, trunk gallery81, Seoul, Korea
2013 They called me Yukari / mama 恋 love, Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo. Japan
2016 orange elephant, Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo. Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions



2008 THE EXPOSED#3, G/P Gallery. Japan
2009 THE EXPOSED#4. CASO, Osaka. Japan
Editors’ Choice, Ring Cube Ricoh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
8 Photographers Experiment, AKAAKA, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Japan India Global Partner ShipSummit, The Prince Part Tower, Tokyo. Japan
2012 No Found Photo Fair, Paris, France
2013 TOKYO PHOTO, Japan
FOTOFEVER, Paris, France
2014 BINDING IMAGE Amsterdam, Netherlands
La Barbagianna Group Show Firenze, Italy
FOTOFEVER, Paris, France
2015 Cork Photo, Ireland 
 

FOTOFEVER, Paris, France
2016 Shikijo: eroticism in Japanese photography, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong



Publications


mama 恋 love (AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc., 2008)


They called me Yukari (Zen Foto Gallery, 2013)


orange elephant (Zen Foto Gallery, 2015)