1959   
Born in Tokyo.
1989   
Graduated from the Faculty of Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo.
1998   
Received the Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan.
2004   
Received the Prize of the Society of Photography.
2008   
Received the Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Award.Lives and works in Tokyo.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009   
Coming Closer and Getting Further Away, RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA.   
Coming Closer and Getting Further Away, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo.
half awake and half asleep in the water, GunGallery, Stockholm.   
funiculi funicula, Port Gallery T, Osaka.
2008   
half awake and half asleep in the water, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.   
half awake and half asleep in the water, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne.   
Another Side, Kurenboh, Tokyo.
2007   
half awake and half asleep in the water 06/07, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo.
2005   
half awake and half asleep in the water 04/05, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo.
2004   
half awake and half asleep in the water, Lee Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto.   
Works by Asako Narahashi, BankART1929, Bashamichi Hall, Yokohama.
2003   
funiculi funicula, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo.   
half awake and half asleep in the water 2003, il tempo, Tokyo; photographers’ gallery, Tokyo.
2002   
half awake and half asleep in the water, il tempo, Tokyo.   
Kabuki no kuni 02, photographers’ gallery, Tokyo.
2001   
NU-E: Misterijas Dokumentalitate, Latvijas Fotogrāfijas Muzejs, Riga, Latvia.   
Recent Works, 03FOTOS, Tokyo.
2000   
Kabuki no kuni [Land of Kabuki], Studio Ebis Photo Gallery, Tokyo.
1992   
NU-E, 03FOTOS, Tokyo. (17 exhibitions of the series, NU-E until 1997)
1990   
Mata Yuku Hito, 03FOTOS, Tokyo.
1989   
Haru wa Akebono [Dawn in Spring], Gallery Kaido, Tokyo.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009   
Japan Meets China: Our Future Reflected in Contemporary Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya.
2008   
Water in Photography, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam.   
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan, International Center of Photography, New York.
7 Views toward the World, Gallery Touch Art, Heyri, South Korea.
2007   
Japan Caught by Camera: Works from the Photographic Art in Japan, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Art of Water, The Museum of Modern Art Ibaraki, Ibaraki.   
Fascination: 5 Contemporary Photographers, Art Gallery X, Nihombashi Takashimaya, Tokyo.
2006   
Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
2005   
GAW: Part 5, Plastic Model, Tokyo.   
ArteLanzarote 2005: The 3rd Encuentro Bienal 2005, MIAC Lanzarote, The Canary Islands.
2004   
Yokohama Shashinkan, BankART1929, Yokohama.   
Everlasting Roses: Hommage à Hideo Nakai, Gallery Oculus, Tokyo.
2003   
Imagine: Asako Narahashi and Kaihatsu Yoshiaki, Parthenon Tama, Tama City Cultural Foundation, Tokyo.
Tama Vivant 2003, Tama Art University, Tokyo; Yaemon Gallery, Kyoto.   
Japan, Contemporary Ceramics and Photography: Tradition and Presence, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany.
2002   
Black Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography, Instituto Giapponese de Cultura in Roma. (travelled to Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris; The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo)   
Photonesia: The Memory of Light, the Fruit of Time, Maejima Art Center, Naha, Japan.
2001   
Kiss in the Dark: Contemporary Japanese Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.  (travelled to Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan)
1998   
Photography Today: The Absence of Distance, National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
1995   
Aspects of Contemporary Photography: Another Reality, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki.

Publications
2007   
half awake and half asleep in the water, Nazraeli Press, Portland, OR.
2003   
Funiculi Funicula, Sokyu-sha, Tokyo.1996-2000    main, No. 1-10, Editorial Room of main, Tokyo (co-edited).
1997   
NU-E, Sokyu-sha, Tokyo.

Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Higashikawa-cho, Hokkaido
Huis Marsellie, Amsterdam
Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Naha