b. 1973, Tokyo, Japan
1995 graduate of Musashino Art University in visual communication design
won the Parco Award at the Urbanart #2 contest in 1993 for her nude family portraits which drew much attention
1997, moved to the US to study and to escape media attention
graduate of California Institute of the Arts, May 1999, MFA in photography
returned to Japan after three years in the US
married
currently lives in Japan
exhibited photos of her live-in boyfriend (whom she later married) for the "Private Room II" exhibition at Art Tower Mito (Ibaraki Prefecture) in spring 1999
December 2000, exhibited Pastime Paradise (from her latest photo book) at SCAI The Bathhouse in Tokyo.
the excellent retrospective Pastime Paradise was published in December 2000, showing all her major work over the years including her famous family nudes; this book also won her the 26th Kimura Ihee Award (jointly with HIROMIX and NINAGAWA Mika) for 2000
Yurie Nagashima is a Japanese photographer. She lives in Saitama, close to Tokyo. Her pictures are mostly snapshots of her friends as well as self-portraits. She is very much into music (Bikini Kill, L7, Butthole Surfers, etc.). She says: "I'm not really interested in the obsession Japanese male photographers have with taking pictures of teenage girls and their panties. It seems to me they don't know what's really exciting. Some of my self- portraits look similar, but they're completely different. Theirs is about sexual appetite, while mine are about delusions." quoted in Momus Livejournal 2004/01/29
Yurie Nagashima at ARTnewsONLINE
PhotoGuide Japan - Yurie Nagashima
Yurie Nagashima at Contemporain