JERRY TAKIGAWA
Jerry Takigawa is an independent photographer, designer, and writer. He is a co-founder and creative force behind Carmel’s Center for Photographic Art’s PIE Labs workshop. He received the Imogen Cunningham Award in 1982, the Clarence J. Laughlin Award in 2017, and CENTER Santa Fe Curator’s Choice Award in 2018. His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Monterey Museum of Art. He studied photography with Don Worth at San Francisco State University and received a degree in art with an emphasis in painting. Takigawa lives and works in Carmel Valley, California.
JERRY TAKIGAWA
BORN Chicago, Illinois, USA.
SOLO EHIBITIONS
2021
Balancing Cultures, Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award,
Balancing Cultures, Foto Forum, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.
2018
Balancing Cultures, Alvarado Gallery, Monterey, CA.
Balancing Cultures, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art, Providence, RI.
Balancing Cultures, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA.
2016
False Food, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA.
2015
False Food, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA.
2014
False Food, San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco CA.
False Food, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA.
2012
False Food, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, False Food, Carmel CA.
2002
Landscape of Presence, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA.
Landscape of Presence, Art in Public Places, Cultural Council for Monterey County, CA.
1988
Kimono Series, Lightwork Gallery, Sacramento CA.
1984
Color Landscape, Photography West Gallery, Carmel CA.
Kimono Series, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey CA.
1982
Color Work, Brooks Photographic Institute, Santa Barbara CA.
1981
Landscapes, Balthazar Gallery, Pacific Grove CA.
1979
Reflections, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey CA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Shadows from the Past; Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA.
Becoming (In)visition: Countering Asian Hate, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA.
Shadows from the Past; Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA.
2018
Family Photographs, Flower City Art Center, Rochester, NY.
Fine Art Photography Awards, LensCulture, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY.
State of the Art, Center for Photographic Art, Dick Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.
Contemporary Photography 2008-2018, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Tipping Point, Corden Potts, San Francisco, CA.
Full Circle: 2018 CENTER Award Winners, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC.
Cortona on the Move, 2017 Critical Mass Top 50 Photograhers, Cortona, Italy.
Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers, Edition One Gallery, 2017 Santa Fe, NM.
Portfolio Showcase 11, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.
Depth of Field, Center for Photographic Art, rFotofolio, Carmel, CA.
Matters of the Ocean, NOAA 6IMDC, San Diego, CA.
2017
International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
4th Annual Open Call, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI,
Members’ Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
23rd Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
Director’s Cut, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA,.
Art and Oppression, Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Image Flow, Reflect and Engage, Mill Valley, CA.
Choice 2017, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA
2016
Curated Fridge, Elin Spring Curator, Somerville, MA.
Transitions, Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
XXc Icons of Photography, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA.
A Point of View: Contemporary Photography, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
Edition One Gallery, Faith in New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Los Angeles Center of Photography, Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.
Don’t Take Pictures, online magazine, Still Life, New York, NY.
2015
Natural Recall, Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy.
Natural Recall,Casa dell’Architettura, Rome, Italy.
Natural Recall, Vkhutemas Gallery, Rojdestvenka, Moscow.
Inagural Exhibition, Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA.
Natural Recall, Atelier de gravure Zec, Paris, France.
2014
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove CA.
2013
Looking Back; the Art of Nostalgia, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury Vermont.
Chesebro Winery, Carmel Valley CA.
2012
Portayal/Betrayal, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Transcendental Vision, Japanese Culture and Contemporary Art, The Independent, Sand City, CA.
Deep Ocean Travelers, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey CA.
2011
Think Twice, Healdsburg Center for the Arts.
2000
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
1996
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
1993
Claypoole-Freese Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA.
1989
University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.
1987 Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA.
Photography on the Monterey Peninsula: The New Generation, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA.
1986
Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite CA.
Site 311, Pacific Grove CA.
1985
Extending the Perimeters of Contemporary Photography, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA.
1984
Visions of Peace, Democratic Convention, San Francisco CA.
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey CA.
Neikrug Photographica Gallery, New York, NY.
1983
BPB Gallery, Berkeley CA.
Members Show, The Friends of Photography, Carmel CA.
The Photographers Gallery, Palo Alto CA
Imogen Cunningham Winners, Transamerica Building, San Francisco CA.
1982
Members Show, Friends of Photography, Carmel CA.
Gallery 291, Kansas City MO.
Sundance Gallery, Redondo Beach CA.
Focus Gallery, San Francisco CA.
Robert Louis Stevenson School, Pebble Beach, CA.
1981
BC Space, Laguna Beach CA.
Contemporary Color Landscapes, Photography West Gallery, Carmel, CA.
Avenue House Gallery, Peaks Island ME.
1980
Members Show, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA.
1979
Manipulated Photographic Images, Green Gallery, Carmel, CA.
1978
Santa Cruz Public Library, Santa Cruz, CA.
1977
Sequential 77, Harkness House, New York, NY.
1976
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove CA.
1969
Peoples Park, Phoenix Gallery, Berkeley CA.
Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA.
SELECTED REVIEWS
2021
Mark Feeney, At the Grin, layerings of meaning, memory, and family, Globe Staff, Updated April 7, 2021, 12:21 pm.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/07/arts/griffin-layerings-meaning-memory-family/
PUBLISHED WORK
2013
False Food, Museum of Craft and Design San Francisco, TRICYCLE, Fall Issue.
OIC Moments, Artistic Expression Speaks Out for World Oceans. TRICYCLE, Summer Issue.
WORDS & CONVERSATIONS, No. 24.
2012
Portfolio and Interview, BLACK & WHITE MAGAZINE, Fall Issue.
False Food (catalog), Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, June.
Portrayal/Betrayal (catalog), Fall 2012, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
1993
AIA, Architecture California, 7/93.
1989
Photo, METRO CALENDAR.
1986
Photo, METRO MAGAZINE, 11/86.
1984
Capa, PHOTOGRAPHER’S FORUM, Japan, 9/84.
1983
MONTEREY LIFE MAGAZINE, 9/83.
Photo METRO, 4/83.
1982
Portfolio, MONTEREY LIFE MAGAZINE, 6/82.
Portfolio, AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, 5/82.
Color PhotographyMonterey, LIFE MAGAZINE, 3/82.
1981
Portfolio, MONTEREY LIFE MAGAZINE, 3/81.
1979
American Wilderness Calendar, published byTime-Life Books.
1973
The Cascades, published byTime-Life Books.
1969
Peoples Park, Ballantine Books.
AWARDS
2013
Nominee, Prix Pictet.
Juror Award of Merit, International Fine Art Photography Award.
2007
Nominee, Santa Fe Prize.
1984
Second Place, lford Cibachrome Grant Competition.
1983
Best of Show, Northern California Competitive, Monterey Museum of Art.
1982
Imogen Cunningham Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA.
The Monterey Vineyard, Gonzales, CA.
Syntex Laboratories Inc., Palo Alto CA.
Digital Research Inc., Monterey CA.
Imogen Cunningham Trust, Lopez Island, WA.
University of Louisville, Louisville KY.
San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco CA.
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey CA.
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey CA.


