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“Using a muted color palette, her gen­tly beau­ti­ful images, with their soft light and care­ful com­po­si­tion pro­voke a quiet medi­a­tion in the viewer. As if hold­ing up a small hand mir­ror to her­self, and look­ing into it, she is metic­u­lously focus­ing on the details in an attempt to grasp the whole. In the process, she is urg­ing us to join her in her explo­rations and to exam­ine our own pre­sump­tions and the facile ways in which we often look at things. Aruha’s ten­der stud­ies invite us all to pon­der time­less notions of beauty, fem­i­nin­ity, his­tory, aging, love, pain and other uni­ver­sal truths known to us all.” — Frank Franca, pho­tog­ra­pher, fac­ulty at the Inter­na­tional Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy and Pratt Institute

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Pro­file

1980
Born in Tokyo, Japan
2007
Grad­u­ated from Inter­na­tional cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy, New York, with Full Time Gen­eral Stud­ies Certificate
2006
Grad­u­ated from Musashino Art Uni­ver­sity, Tokyo, majored in Museum Study, Pho­tog­ra­phy BA
2002
Grad­u­ated from Waseda Uni­ver­sity, Tokyo, majored in Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, His­tory of Pho­tog­ra­phy BA

Selected Exhi­bi­tion

2008
Onishi Gallery, New York
2008
Onishi Gallery, New York
2007
James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007
Inter­na­tional Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy, New York
2006
Musashino Art Uni­ver­sity, Tokyo
2005
Gallery Go, Tokyo
2004
Pepper’s Lost Gallery, Tokyo
2003
Musashino Art Uni­ver­sity, Tokyo

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Awards

2008
Hon­or­able Men­tion PX3 Prix De La Pho­tografie, Paris
2006
Inter­na­tional Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy Schol­ar­ship Award

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