1973
Born in Tokyo
1991-95
Bachelor's degree at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Majored in visual communication design
1997-99
Master's degree at California Institute of the Arts, California, USA　Majored in Art / Photography

Awards
1993
PARCO Prize in URBANART #2, Japan
2001
The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibition
1994
"Nagashima Yurie - A Room of Love-", P-House Gallery, Tokyo
1999
"Dousei Seikatsu (Living together)", California Institute of the Arts
2000
"Pastime Paradise", SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2004
"not six", NADiff, Tokyo
2004-05
"Candy Horror", SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2005
"Her Projects – memories of no one", KIRIN PLAZA OSAKA, Osaka

Selected Group Exhibition
1994
"Street Style", Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1995
"New Tokyo Photographers", Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo
"Ginzabout", Shiseido Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
"Family"(With Catharine Opie), Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1996
"NowHere" Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997
"Japanese Families after the World War 2nd - 1996", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"SHASHIN-TEN", Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe, Japan
1998
"An Incomplete History : Women photographers from Japan 1964-1997", The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY, USA; Houston Center for Photography, Texas, USA;
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA（1998-2000）
"Anwander", Koln, Germany
1999
"Mito Anual '99 Private Room II", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
"The Month of Photography, Tokyo '99", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Art Sweet Home", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2000
"Complicity", Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, Australia
"Immodest Gazes", Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain
2001
"Rush", Little More Gallery, Tokyo
"JAM: Tokyo—London", Barbican Art Gallery, London
"Illusion", Rinksutsallninggar, Stockholm
"Three Rooms", EPSON Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo
2002
"JAM: Tokyo—London", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"The Self", Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
"35 Artistes Contemporaines a Luxembourg", Musee d'histoire de la ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2003
"Japan - Contemporary Ceramics and Photography",Deichtorhallen, Hamburg(January 31 - May 4, 2003)
"The History of Japanese Photography, 1854 - 2000", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Huston (March 2 - April 27, 2003 ); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, (May 25 - July 20, 2003)
"HOPE", LAFORET Museum Harajyuku, Tokyo
2005
"National Treasures of Toshodaiji Temple—Ganjinwajo and Vairocana Buddha", Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
"36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award", Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
"My Precious:Photos and Words", Art Forum Azamino, Kanagawa
"Portraits –You are here-", Parthenon Tama, Tokyo

Publications
1995
"Nagashima Yurie Photobook", Fuga publications, Tokyo
"Empty White Room", Little More publication, Tokyo
1998
"A Family", Korinsha Press, Kyoto
2000
"PASTIME PARADISE", Madra Publishing Inc., Tokyo
2004
"not six", Switch Publishing, Tokyo