Biography
Atsuko Morita was born in Osaka, Japan and moved to the United States in 2005. In 2010, she earned a BFA from the Academy of Art University. Prior to attending university in San Francisco, she studied traditional gelatin silver printing at the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Japan. Atsuko officially decided to pursue photography upon returning to Japan after a year-long journey through Asia, New Zealand and North America. She had hundreds of rolls of film documenting her travels captured with a plastic point and shot 35mm camera. An instructor at Kyoto University of Art and Design took notice of her travel photographs and encouraged her to attend the photography workshops offered at Kyoto University. He introduced her to pinhole photography and they worked together to build a darkroom for Atsuko to use. Atsuko's determination to progress as an artist lead her to leave Japan to study photography in the United States. She uses traditional film photography and wet darkroom techniques to produce her projects. She finds an elegant preciousness to traditional photography because analog mimics life.
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BORN
1972, Osaka, Japan
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
2010 Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
2008, 2007 Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA Photogravure Workshop
2003 Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan Advanced Gelatin Silver Workshop
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts/Providence, RI/Photography without a Lens/Juried Exhibition
2020-2021 New York Center for Photographic Art, Primary Colors/ Online Juried Exhibition
2020 Nordstrom Gallery and Franson Gallery, Somerville, MA /Somerville Toy Camera Festival/Juried Exhibition
2019-2022 World of Frida/Group Exhibition/TRAVELING SHOW
2019 Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, Carlsbad, NM, Nov. 9, – Jan. 25,
2020 Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, Feb. 22 - April 26,
2020 Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA, May 23 - Aug. 16,
2020 California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, Sept. 19 - Nov. 15,
2020 Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL,Dec. 12 - Feb. 27,
2021 International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, TX, March 27 - Aug. 29,
2021 R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA / PENDING, Sept. 25 - Nov. 21,
2019 The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards/ 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award/Professional section/ Honorable mention
2019 Soho Photo Gallery, New York/NY International Krappy Kamera Competition/Juried Exhibition
2019 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO Contemporary Portraiture /Juried Exhibition
2018 Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA Bay Area Currents/Juried Exhibition
2018 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Silicon Valley Plastic Camera Show/Juried Exhibition
2018 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA The World of Frida/Juried Exhibition/Juror’s award
2018 Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT Water/Juried Exhibition/Director’s Award
2017 Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA Student Show
2017/Juried Exhibition/Fist place Best of Show
2016 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA Toy Camera Festival/Juried Exhibition
2016 The Image flow, Mill Valley, CA Alternative Process Photography/Juried Exhibition
2016 SPACE 236, San Francisco, CA Intersections/Group Exhibition
2015-2016 Photo place Gallery, Middlebury, VT Alternative Camera: Pinholes to Plastic/Juried Exhibition
2014 Sue Tallon Photography Studio, San Francisco, CA Art to Benefit AIDS LIFECYCLE
2013-2014 RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA Crafted at Rayko/Group Exhibition
2013 RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA 4th Annual Juried Pinhole Show/Honorable mention
2013 SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA DIAL COLLECT/Residency Group Exhibition
2012 Nodo Galeria, Tijuana, B.C, Mexico Nueva Alternative/EYE 94 Group Exhibitions
2012 Book & job Gallery, San Francisco, CA Dust Mag #3 Exhibition/Group Exhibition
2012 Make Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA Everything Changes/Duo Exhibition
2011 Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA/ TASTY/Juried exhibition
2011 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA PROOF/Juried exhibition
2011 Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA A Trace of Evidence, EYE94 Group Exhibition
2011 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO Food/International juried exhibition
2011 Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA Open Show #13, Cells Featured presenter
2011 Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA Hope, Group Exhibition Organizer
2011 410 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Cosmos, Solo Exhibition
2010 Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA Grain over Noise, Group Exhibition
2010 SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Roll Call, Group Exhibition
2010 Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA Communication, EYE94 Group Exhibition
2010 Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA Annual Spring Show, Honorable mention, portfolio
2010 RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA 3rd Annual Juried Pinhole Show, Featured Artist
2010 79 New Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, CA Humanics, Group Exhibition
2009 Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, Group Salon Exhibition
2009 Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA Annual Spring Show, 3rd Place, Portraiture
2008 Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA 2nd Annual Juried Pinhole Photography, Group Exhibition
2004 Maronie Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 9th Annual How Are You, PHOTOGRAPHY? Group Exhibition
2002 Ississ Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 7th Annual How Are You, PHOTOGRAPHY? Group Exhibition
PUBLICATIONS 2018
Water/Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2010
Roll Call/SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 2009
Magical Secrets About Chine Colle/Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA, 2009
