Eiji Ina
1957 Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1977 Left Chubu Institute of Technology, majoring in engineering physics
1984 Graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography
■ AWARDS
| 1988 | New Photographer Prize, the 4th Higashikawa International Photography Festival, Hokkaido |
| 1998 | 2nd Place, Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards, The Photographic Resource Center at the Boston University, Boston, USA |
| 2009 | Grand Prize, Professional Section, Photo City Sagamihara 2009, Kanagawa |
| 2009 | Kassel Photobook Award 2008-09, Germany |
■ SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 1981 | Portrait of City, Photo Gallery OWL, Tokyo |
| 1984 | In Tokyo, Zeit - Foto Salon, Tokyo |
| 1987 | ZONE, Zeit - Foto Salon, Tokyo |
| 1989 | Artificial Paradise, INAX Gallery Osaka, Osaka / INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo |
| 1990 | Works 1984 - 1990, Photo Interform, Osaka |
| 1991 | Artificial Paradise, Interform Atelier, Osaka EIJI INA, FABRIC Photoforum, Hamburg, Germany In Tokyo, ZONE, Artificial Paradise, INAX Space, Hokkaido MATERIAL EVOLUTION, Parco Gallery, Tokyo Artificial Paradise, Irving Photographic Art Gallery, Malmö, Sweden |
| 1993 | SCRAP, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1995 | WASTE, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1997 | WASTING - AWAY, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1999 | WASTE - AGAIN, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2002 | WATCH, art&river bank, Tokyo |
| 2003 | Private Watch, Nanba Gallery, Tokyo Rainbow, Nanba Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2005 | COVER, art & river bank, Tokyo |
| 2007 | Eiji Ina 1981 - 2006, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2008 | EMPERORS, Zeit - Foto Salon, Tokyo IN TOKYO + EMPEROR OF JAPAN, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
| 2009 | EIJI INA Contacts EMPEROR OF JAPAN, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo |
■ GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 1982 | Joint - Exhibition "House - Floating - Merrily", Gallery Eye Heart, Tokyo |
| 1983 | Photographic Showing Tokyo Open - Graph, Gallery Tamaya, Tokyo |
| 1985 | Paris - New York - Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Ibaraki |
| 1986 | Fotografia Japonesa Contemporánea, Casa Elizalde, Barcelona and other cities, Spain |
| 1987 | Photography, Yurakucho gallery, Tokyo |
| 1988 | New Primitive Photographers, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo |
| 1989 | 20 Promising Photographers, Parco Gallery, Tokyo Paintings and Photography of Orientalism, White Museum [as a part of the International Design Expo in Nagoya], Aichi |
| 1990 | Force of Eye 2 - Polyphony of Photography, Talk Gallery, Tokyo Tokyo - TOKYO, Art Forum in Yurakucho, Tokyo TAMA VIVANT '90, Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo |
| 1992 | Matrix of Photography - 3 : Norio Kobayashi, Eiji Ina, Naoya Hatakeyama, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa FLOWERS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, The contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1993 | About the big city, NGBK Academic - Gallery in Marstall, Berlin, Germany |
| 1994 | Kawasaki Monument, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa Photographie Contemporaine LA MATIÈRE L'OMBRE LA FICTION, Galerie Colbert, Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris, France |
| 1996 | Japanese Photography - Form In/Out Part 3 : Contemporary Scenery; 1980 - 95, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Typology in Photography: Its Appearance and Development, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa The 32nd 'Artists Today' Exhibition: NEW JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY IN 1990's THE RESONANCE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa |
| 1998 | Medialogue: Photography in Japanese Contemporary Art '98, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Contemporary Color Photography from Asia, The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, USA |
| 1999 | Contemporary Photography Art from Japan, NGBK Academic - Gallery in Marstall, Berlin, Germany The Month of Photography, Tokyo '99, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo FUKUI BIENNALE 8 'Human Body and Memory', Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui |
| 2001 | Now in real time, Nexus / Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, USA |
| 2002 | thinking about dog's death, art & river bank, Tokyo Art in Flux Ⅷ. Inside Out: Mechanism of Cityscapes: Photographs by INA Eiji and KANEMURA Osamu, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka |
| 2006 | Casual Meeting, Soh Gallery, Tokyo thinking about dog's death #5, art & river bank, Tokyo Photography Today 3 Resolution / Dissolution, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo |
| 2009 | Winning works Exhibition of Photo City Sagamihara 2009, Sagamihara Citizen Gallery, Kanagawa |
| 2010 | COLLECTION UNLIMITED, gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo Photo City Sagamihara 2009 Professional Division: Winning Works, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo |
■ PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
■ BOOKS
| 1995 | WASTE | / privatery published |
| 1998 | WASTE | / Nazraeli Press |
| 2008 | Emperor of Japan | / Nazraeli Press |
| 2010 | Wacht | / Nazraeli Press |