2005 Awarded the Photographic Society in Japan's Prize for 2006
2003 Awarded the 15th Shashin-no-kai Award
1999 Awarded the 11th Shashin-no-kai Award
Awarded the 15th the Domestic Photographer Prize of the Higashikawa Prize
1979 Awarded the 4th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award
1970 Leaves Tama Art University, major in textiles, without graduating
1953 Moves to Yokosuka
1947 Born in Gunma

2007
"Mother's," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
"Innocence," Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo

2006
"Mother's," Aurora arte Contemporanea, Trent
"Ishiuchi Miyako mother's," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

2005
"Mother's," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Innocence," Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"mother's 2000-2005 - traces of the future," The 51st international art exhibition of la Biennale Venezia, Venice
"Timeless encounters in the photography of Miyako Ishiuchi," House of Shiseido, Tokyo

2003
"Mother's," Sepia International, New York
"Mother's," Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama

2002
"Works of Miyako Ishiuchi," Photographers' Gallery, Tokyo　　
"Mother's," C Square, Nagoya

2001
"Endless Night 2001," Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo
"Endless Night 2001," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Miyako Ishiuchi Exhibition," Aya Bis, Osaka
"Nail" Galerie deux, Tokyo

2000
"1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face," Gallery RAKU, Kyoto
"1·9·4·7 Hands,Feet,Face," The Third Gallery Aya, amus, Osaka

1999
"Scars," Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"Miyako Ishiuchi : Time Textured in Monochrome," National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo
"Body and Air," Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo

1998
"Yokosuka Again," Gallery Verita, Tokyo
"Yokosuka Again," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

1997
"1·9·4·7," Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
"Yokosuka Story," Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama

1996
"Chromosome XY," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

1995
" To the Skin," Ouka Shorin, Nagoya
" Hiromi 1995," Gallery Verita, Tokyo
"Chromosome XY," Zeit- Foto Salon, Tokyo

1994
"To the Skin," Gallery Te, Tokyo
"1·9·4·7," Laurence Miller Gallery, NewYork
"1906 To the Skin," Dickson Foundation Gallery, Charlotte,N,C

1993
" Interior3," Gallery Te, Tokyo

1992
" Interior2," Gallery Te, Tokyo

1991
"Interior, " Past Rays Photo Gallery, Yokohama

1988
"From Yokosuka Third Position," Room 801,Tokyo

1986
"Tokyo Bay Cities in Yokosuka," Saikaya Salon,

1985
"Tokyo Bay Cities," Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
"Endless Night," Space Aupa, Nagoya

1984
"Tokyo Bay Cities," Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo

1982
"Bottled Time / Tokyo Dental College," Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo

1981
"From Yokosuka," Cabaret 2nd New Yokosuka,Yokosuka
"Endless Night," Workshop Observatory, Yokosuka

1980
"Endless Night," Ginza Nikon Salon ; Shinjyuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo

1978
"Apartment," Ginza Nikon Salon,Tokyo

1977
"Yokosuka Story," Ginza Nikon Salon,Tokyo

2007
"Portraits de L’autre," Musee d’xelles, Bruxelies
"Art Fair Tokyo 2007," Tokyo International Forum
"Vital Signs: Reality of 9 Contemporary Artists, " Yokosuka Museum of Art
"The Body Sings of Life, " Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
"The China International Gallery Exposition 2007, " Exhibition hall China World Trade Centre, Beijing
"Japan Contemporary Art Festival, " Heiri Art Village, Soeul

2006
"Case Study, " Beyond the Valley, London
"Food and Contemporary Art Part2: Ishokudogen, " BankART 1929 Yokohama; Bankart Market Oceans Bar Rose House, Yokohama
"MOT Collection: Art since the 1960s, "Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"The Photographic Society in Japan’s Awards Exhibition, " Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
"Berlin- Tokyo: Tokyo- Berlin, " Neue National Galerie, Berlin
"Case Study2, " Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
"Mite!- Okayama, " The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama
"Hajime Sawatari, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yasuhide Kuge: Slide Show at Bookfes 2006, " Aoyama Book Center, Tokyo
"Modern Paradise, " The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Family Scenes in Japanese Modern Art, " The Museum of Modern Art, Mito
"Collection3, "The National Museum of Art, Osaka
"Beyond Lilith: The Sacred Feminine," Scuderie Aldobrandini of Comune di Frascati, Frascati
"The Memory of Me: Nikon Salon 1968-2006 Special Exhibition, " Nikon Plaza Ginza, Toyo
"From the Garden, " The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Gift, The Store, " Spiral, Tokyo
"mas alla de lo ordinario/ extraordinario: fotografia japonesa contemporanea, " Centro de La Imagen, Mexicov

2005
"Toshodaiji , Photography and Haiku Exhibition for Ganjinwajo and Rashanabutsu," Tokyo National Museum
"Old Age: Beauty and Form," Fukushima Museum, Fukushima
"85/05 - 20 Years after the Tsukuba Museum of Photography," Sendai Mediatheque
"Video Installation by Bill Viola and Contemporary Works From the Museum Collection," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Art Fair Tokyo," Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
"Take Art Collection" Spiral Garden, Tokyo
"My Precious: Photos and Words Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers," Art Forum Azamino, Yokohama

2004
"Landscape and Scalpel," Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori
"out of the ordinary/ extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary photography" Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln; touring Europe
"Mask of Japan-Japanese Contemporary Photography," Guangtong Museum of Art, Guanzhou
"Yokohama Shashinkan," BankART1929, Yokohama
"Meguro Art Annual 2004," Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
"What’s Art? An Invitation to 20th Century Art: The Collection of National Museum of Art, Osaka," The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama

2003
"The History of Japanese Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston　　　　
"Freedom of Photography, " Prinz , Kyoto
"Beyond The Surface - Japanese Style of Making Things," Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Cultural Center of Philippines, Manila
"Permanent Exhibition: Miyako Ishiuchi, Jun Shiraoka, Hiromi Kakimoto," The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
"Collection 3: Miyako Ishiuchi and Osamu Kanemura," Yokohama Museum of Art , Yokohama

2002
"Uncompleted Century Legacies of 20th Century Art, " The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"The Tokushima Collection Exhibition 2002-1, "The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
"The World of Polaroid Photography: Beyond Time, " Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo; Sen Space, Osaka
"Photoneshia: Memories of Light; Fruits of Time," Naha Civic Gallery, Okinawa

2001
"Global Visions," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
"Moderns by The Sumida River," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

2000
"Vestiges," Sepia International , New York
"Art and Society :Earthquake," Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki

1999
" Rediscovery of Photography, From the Photography Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Skin Dive," Kyoto Art Festival, Kyoto
"The Tracing Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award 1975-1999,"Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
"Art in the Ruins," Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama
"Premio Michelangelo Antonioni per le Arti 1999," Flash Art Museum, Trevi
"Main" 03Fotos, Tokyo
"Yokohama International Photography Festival’99," Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama

1998
"Main" 03FOTOS, Tokyo
"Art in the Ruins " Gallery Yamaguchi,Tokyo　　
"21st Anniversary Zeit-Foto, Artspace Shimoda, organized by Zeit-Foto," Tokyo
"Women Photographer’s eyes 1945-1997: Tokyo Photography Month" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.
"An Incomplete History: Women Photographers from Japan, 1864-1997," Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, Rochester; New York
"Art and the Environment: From an Ecological Point of View" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
"Art in the Ruins " Tokyo Gallery ; Gallery Te, Tokyo

1997
"Flexible Coexistence: Mito Annual '97," Art Tower Mito, Mito
"Lust und Leere Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart" Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
"Surface Exposed: Photography in the 90's Art," Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo
"1997 B semi 30th Anniversary Week in Daikanyama, Hill Side Plaza, Tokyo

1996
"Prospect '96," Schirin Kunstverein, Frankfurt
"Main," 03FOTOS, Tokyo
"Tracing Japanese Contemporary Photography through Kimura Ihei Memorial
Photography Award," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Cityscape Japan, "Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Koln
"Yokohama International Photo Festival ’96," Yokohama Museum of Art
"Contemporary Art From Galleries '96," Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
"Contemporary Photography since the 1980s," Yokohama Museum of Art,
"Main," 03FOTOS, Tokyo

1995
"Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives-Rethinking Modernism," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.
"Alter, Egodocument," Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam 　　
"20th Anniversary Kimura Ihei Prize," Ginza Canon Salon,Tokyo
"Photography and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Rituals and Transformation," The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
"Contemporary Japanese Photography," Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
"Contemporary Japanese Photography," The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1994
"Japanese Art After 1945," Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama,; Guggenheim Museum Soho, NewYork; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"When The Body Becomes Art," Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
"Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography," The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, N.C

1993
"Changing I dense cities," Shedhalle, Zurich
"Zeitgenossische Japanische Photographie," Kunsthaus , Zurich
"Light and Shadow," Fuji Photo Salon , Tokyo

1992
"Symposion uber Fotografie13, So Oder So Nicht Sein," Forum Stadtpark, Graz　　
"Photography 1960-1980," Konica Plaza, Tokyo

1991
"Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portrait of Contemporary Women," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Japanese Photography in The 1970s," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Make-Believe," The Photographers Gallery, London

1990
"Women’s Perspective in German and Japan," Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki

1989
"The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography," Center for Creative Photography, The university of Arizona

1987
"Japanese Women Photographers," Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem,P.A.

1986
"World of Super-Image," Yurakucho Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo

1985
"Paris, New York, Tokyo," The Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Ibaraki; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai

1984
"Dumont’5: Die Japanische Fotographie," Museum Fur kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg

1980
"Photo-Session'80," Konishiroku Gallery, Tokyo

1979
"Nuzyun in Okinawa Yamato," Dainaha, Okinawa
"Japan : A Self-Portrait," International Center of Photography, New York; Venice

1977
"Photography Today'77," Kanagawa Kenmin Gallery, Yokohama

1976
"Hyakka-Ryo-Ran," Gallery Simizu, Tokyo
"Photographic Effect 5," Espouse Saturday, Tokyo

1975
"Photographic Effect 3," Gallery Simizu, Tokyo

2007
"Club & Courts Yokosuka Yokohama, " Sokyusha
"Innocence," Akaakasha

2006
"mother’s 2000-2005 traces of the Future, " Tankosha

2005
"Scars," Sokyusha
"Kizuato," Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan
"Le Parfum de la Rose," with Katsuyuki Yomogida, Kyuryudo

2002
"Mother's," Sokyusha

2001
"Endless Night 2001," Wides Shuppan

2000
"Nail," Heibonsha

1998
"Yokosuka Again," Sokyusha
1996-2000 Foto Magazine"Main"

1995
"Hiromi:1955," Chikuma Shobo
"Choromosome XY," Shinchosha

1994
"1906 to the skin," Kawade Shobo Sinsha Publishers

1993
"Monochrome," Chikuma Shobo

1990
"1·9·4·7," Inter Press Corporation

1981
"Endless Night," Asahi Sonorama
"Tokyo Dental College," Issei Shuppan

1979
"Yokosuka Story," Shahin Tsushinsha

1978
"Apartment," Shahin Tsushinsha

Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
Higashikawa Photo Fiesta, Hokkaido
The Japan Foundation
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
Kunsthaus, Zuridh
Los Angels County Museum of Art, Los Angels
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Masion Europoenne de la Photographie