JERRY TAKIGAWA
Balancing Cultures
After my mother passed away, my brother and I were left with boxes of old photographs. Among them were images of family members taken in camp. In my family, when anyone spoke of “camp,” they weren’t referring to an idyllic pine-scented summer retreat; they were referring to the WWII American concentration camps sanctioned by President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. My Monterey-born parents were incarcerated at the Jerome, Arkansas camp. While this project gives voice to my family’s story, the process of researching and making these images has greatly informed the roots of my ideology.
BORN Chicago, Illinois, USA.
SOLO EHIBITIONS
2021
Balancing Cultures, Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award,
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, Center for Photographic Art, Members’ Juried Exhibition, 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.
Casa dell’Architettura, Natural Recall, Rome, Italy.
Vkhutemas Gallery, Natural Recall, Rojdestvenka, Moscow.
Curated Fridge, Inagural Exhibition, 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.
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey CA “Deep Ocean Travelers,”
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 Green Gallery, Manipulated Photographic Images, 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 At the Grin, layerings of meaning,memory, and family
By Mark Feeney 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, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, June.
PORTRAYAL/BETRAYAL, 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.
