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dent in Fukuda’s installation Mainichi Shimbun
Newspaper, April 30, 2000(2000). This work con-
sists of a page from a newspaper showing an art
review, including photographs of excited viewers at
a Vermeer exhibition in Osaka, Japan, in which one
photograph from the newspaper is enlarged to the
extent that the Vermeer painting therein, Girl with
the Blue Turban, is displayed in its original dimen-
sions. Impressed with the high quality of reproduc-
tion available in newspaper printing and excited
about the fact that the painting reproduced in the
newspaper can be viewed as an original by dint of
her re-contextualizing it, Fukuda placed a color
reproduction of the painting over the photocopied
painting in the enlarged newspaper photograph.
Fukuda also used newspaper reproductions in ear-
lier works, such asMetrocard(1995) by placing on
one side of the Tokyo subway prepaid transit
Metrocard well-known photo images from news-
papers, covering the notorious 1995 Tokyo sarin
attack by Aum cultists that killed and injured a
number of subway passengers. Such images include
casualties rescued on a subway station platform,
heavily gas-masked and uniformed hazardous ma-
terials works decontaminating the subway, and one
of the attackers presenting an innocent demeanor
while being interviewed. These images, have bec-
ome signature images of the attack and thus coded
into the public’s memory.

YASUFUMINAKAMORA

Seealso:Conceptual Photography; Gilbert & George;
Photography in Japan; Vernacular Photography

Biography

Born in Tokyo in 1963. In 1985, received BFA (in painting)
from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and
Music. In 1987, received MFA from Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music and received Honor-
able Mention atThe 18thContemporary Art Exhibition of
Japan.In 1989, received The Yasui Prize atThe 32nd
Yasui Prize Exhibition.In 1991, received the Triennale
International Prize, theVII Triennale India

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1990 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Hara Documents: Miran Fukuda(Hara Museum of
Contemporary Art)
1994 Nabisu Gallery, Tokyo
1995 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1996 One day One show, Gallery 360, Tokyo
2000 Takumi Na Takurami (Ingenious Schemes), Miran Fukuda &
TraditionalCraftsmen(SumidaRiversideHallGallery,Tokyo)
2001 Shigeo Fukuda, Miran Fukuda(Setagaya Art Museum,
Tokyo)

2002 Yurinso. Fukuda Miran. Ohara Museum of Art(Yur-

inso, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan)

Selected Group Exhibitions

1988 The 17thInternational Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo

Metropolitan Art Museum and The Kyoto Municipal

Museum of Art

1991 VII Triennale India(awarded International Award),

New Delhi, India

1993 The 1stAsia-Pacific Triennial Exhibition of Contem-

porary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Aus-

tralia

The Return of the Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Center,

New York, New York

1994 Shinjyuku Shonen Art Exhibition, on the streets, Kabu-

kicho, Shinjuku, Japan

1994 The 7thBusan Biennial, Busan Culture Center, Busan,

Korea

1995 Make Believe, Royal College of Art, London, England

The ‘‘VOCA’’ Exhibition, The Ueno Royal Museum,

Tokyo

Photography and Beyond in Japan, Hara Museum of

Contemporary Art, Tokyo, traveling to museums in

North America including Corcoran Gallery of Art,

Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles County Museum

1997 The First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan, Grey

Art Gallery, New York University, New York

Cities on the Move, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria

and traveling to six museums including P.S. 1 Contem-

porary Art Center, Long Island City, New York

2000 The 5thBiennial of Lyon, the hall Tony Garnier, Lyon,

France

2002 New Acquisitions, Hiroshima City Museum of Con-

temporary Art, Japan

2003 Masterpieces of Contemporary ‘‘Japanese Paintings

[Nihonga]’’, The Contemporary Art Museum, Kuma-

moto, Japan

200420 thAnniversary Exhibition: The Copy Age – From

Duchamp through Warhol to Morimura,The Museum

of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan

Selected Works

Tablecloth, 1990

3D-waterfall, 1990

The Forge of Vulcan, 1992

Metrocard, 1995

Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper, April 30, 2000, 2000

Gilbert & George and I, 2001

Frank Stella and I, 2001

Further Reading

Conceptual Photography; History of Photography:8: the

1990s; Photography in Japan;Vernacular Photography;

Gilbert & George.

Picturesque, Miran Fukuda 1992–1998(1998), Asahi Shim-

bun, Tokyo, Japan;Miran Fukuda(2001), Setagaya Art

Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

FUKUDA, MIRAN