Eriko Kaniwa
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→ GLOBAL ART VIRTUOSO: ELITE ARTISTIC CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
→ PERSONA ART AWARD
→ PX3 / THE PRIX DE LA PHOTOHGRAPHIE PARIS, 1st.
→ The Luxembourg Art Prize,
→ IPA / INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, Official Selection,
→ LONDON INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION, FINALIST - Official Selection in Create (art)
→ THE PHOTOGRAPHY GALA AWARDS / 13th POLLUX AWARDS, OVERALL WINNER
→ ROYAL ARTS PRIZE V EDITION, Shortlisted and WINNER
→ SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, COMMENDED PHOTOGRAPHER
→ NEUTRAL DENSITY PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, ND Discovery of The Year, Fine Art Discovery of The Year
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→ IDENTITY, Seoul Korea, MUSA INTERNATIONAL, 2025
→ Terra Incognita (Unknown Land) , Al-Tiba9 Gallery, 2025
→ Woman's Essence, London UK, MUSA INTERNATIOMAL, 2025
→ Al-Tiba9 Gallery Opening Exhibition 2023 Nov. Balcerona, Spain
→ Al-Tiba9 Online Exhibition "Future is Today" vol.2 2021 - Group
→ PHOTOGRAPHIC GALA AWARDS 2019 WINNERS SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 - Group, FOTONOSTRUM Gallery, Barcelona SPAIN→ ROYAL ARTS PRIZE at LA GALLERIA London, UK
2018 - Group→ Recital Contest of Fine art Photography - Summer
Art Gallery M84 Tokyo 2017 - Group→ Fotografia Sensuel
Kudanshita Terrace Tokyo 2009 - Solo→ Visual Shock
TOKYO HIPSTERS CLUB 2008 -Group→ Artistic Portrait
Horiuchi Color Gallery Tokyo 2006 - SoloArt Fair
→ Art Expo New York 2024
→ Art San Diego 2023, / World Wide Art
→ MUSA INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S ESSENCE SHOW 2022, 59th Biennale di Venezia.
→ Art Expo New York 2021
→ FOTOFEVER Paris / Collectors Apartment 2019
→ SHIBUYA Station Exhibition during the TOKYO ART FAIR 2019 March.
→ FOTOFEVER Paris / Collectors Apartment 2018
→ Barcelona Foto Biennale 2018 : 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography
→ CP+ Camera & Photo Imaging Show 2018, Tokyo Japan - collaborated with EPSON
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→ GLOBAL ART VIRTUOSO: ELITE ARTISTIC CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
→ PERSONA ART AWARD by Contemporary Art Station
→ PX3 / THE PRIX DE LA PHOTOHGRAPHIE PARIS, 1st.
→ The Luxembourg Art Prize,
→ IPA / INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, Official Selection,
→ LONDON INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION, FINALIST
- Official Selection in Create (art)→ THE PHOTOGRAPHY GALA AWARDS / 13th POLLUX AWARDS, OVERALL WINNER
→ ROYAL ARTS PRIZE V EDITION, Shortlisted and WINNER
→ SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, COMMENDED PHOTOGRAPHER
→ NEUTRAL DENSITY PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, ND Discovery of The Year, Fine Art Discovery of The Year
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→Main https://sensegraphia.jp
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@sensegraphia→Al-Tiba9 Gallery:
https://www.altiba9.gallery/eriko-kaniwa→ATLIER VGI:
https://ateliervgi.com/eriko-kaniwa-1→Artsy:
https://www.artsy.net/artist/eriko-kaniwa→Circle Foundation For the Arts :
https://circle-arts.com/member/eriko-kaniwa/→Contemporary Art Collectors:
https://www.contemporary-art-collectors.com/art-insights/eriko-kaniwa-review
Eriko Kaniwa is a Tokyo-based digital artist who creates digital artworks based on her unique philosophy.
After a period of TV program production and social venture innovation, Kaniwa founded Sensegraphia in 2014, aiming to advocate a philosophy and creative practice that reconstructs the essential unity of people and nature through fine art. Also in 2014, she began developing a workshop program to apply the potential of photography and digital imagery to aesthetics education, presenting the program at domestic graduate schools, foreign companies, international conferences and think-tank business schools, where it received high acclaim.
She also spent two years exploring Japanese symbols of nature worship, represented by the so-called 'eight million gods' of Shintoism, examining how ancient Japanese perceived the natural environment and symbolized it as an object of prayer. She travelled to more than 20 locations throughout Japan, photographing torii gates built into the water, sacred married rocks, World Heritage Sites and other spiritual landscapes, and these images, along with her text, are included in her book "JOKEI - Symbols of Nature Worship, Sacred places in Japan".
After the difficulties of the global pandemic of the last few years, Kaniwa is currently working on a new theme. She is further learning and experimenting with the ways in which beings inhabit invisible dimensions that are continuous with visible reality, how they represent microscopic microbiological forms, and how these images bring a sense of oneness with nature to our perception.
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) / GRADUATE SCHOOL of ART AND DESIGN STUDIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ARTS
Beyond sight Aesthetic insight
Just as there are infinite gradations between the light and shadow that make up the essence of photography, are there not also infinite forms that exist between living and non-living (organic and inorganic) The more I photograph nature, the more I wonder, how can we, today, perceive these in-between forms.
Even today, many landscapes exist in Japan that symbolize nature worship. Extending from north to south in a long, thin constellation of islands, the Japanese archipelago is blessed with four distinct seasons and an abundance of fresh water, mountains, and sea. Here, appreciating the beauty of nature is a cultural tradition. I am affectionately proud of the values that have flourished within this natural context: the wabi-sabi aesthetic of imperfection and impermanence; the pursuit of subtle grace; the awareness that humans are a part of nature and are deeply entwined with its dynamics, both consciously and unconsciously. I wonder if this philosophical culture, characterized by empathy with nature, evolved not first and foremost from the natural landscape itself, but rather from the contemplation and perspectives of those who viewed it.
The continuous world of living and inanimate, three-dimensional and four-dimensional, visible and invisible, the reality in which we now live, allows for transcendental analogies between the macro and the micro. And this is where I believe the essence of 'abstraction' resides, and it is my job to represent it.
