1972
Born in Tokyo, Japan
1997
B.F.A., Graphic design, Tama Art University, Tokyo

Solo exhibition
2010
"Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom" Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Nederland
"FLOWER ADDICT" Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan (upcoming: Oct.)
2009
"Liquid Dreams" GALERIE PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany (Jan.24 - Mar.4)
"FLOWER ADDICT" Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2008
"Mika Ninagawa x GLAMOROUS Charity Nude; photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon", Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo, Japan / HERBIS PLAZA ENT 3th floor, Osaka
"Mika's, Dreaming Theater", PARCO FACTORY, Shibuya Tokyo (Mar.20 - Apr. 7)
Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan (Mar.27 - May.11)
Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai, China (Oct.17 - Dec.10)
"Mika Ninagawa : Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Nov.1 - Dec.28) [touring Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan / Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan / Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan / The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan 2009]
Helene Nyborg, Valby, Denmark (Nov.7 - Dec.20)
"EROTIC TEACHER X X X YUKA by MIKA " Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan : Kyoto Gokurakudo 2F, Kyoto, Japan (Nov.8, 2008 - Jan.31, 2009)
2007
"Mika Ninagawa Exhibition" Arndt & Partner Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"Mika Ninagawa" Colette, Paris, France
"girls' holiday!" LAPNET SHIP, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
"CELINE meets Mika Ninagawa" Isetan Main Building The Stage, Tokyo, Japan
"Everlasting Flowers" Galleria MICIA, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
"girls' holiday" PARCO Shizuoka, SQUARE6, Shizuoka, Japan
"NINAGAWA WOMAN" Omotesando Hills Space [O:], Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
2006
"Everlasting Flowers 1" Tokyo Wonder Site Sibuya, Tokyo, Japan
"Everlasting Flowers 2" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
"MIKA NINAGAWA PHOTO EXHIBITION IN LONDON 2005" eclectic, London, UK
"floating yesterday" Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japan
2004
"mika over the rainbow" (Toured in Japan) Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo / HEP HALL, Osaka / Hiroshima Parco, Hiroshima / Nagoya Takashimaya, Aichi / ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
"photographs 2001-2004" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2003
"Acid Bloom" NADiff, Tokyo / gallery ROCKET, Tokyo, Japan
"Liquid Dreams" (Toured in Japan until 2004) Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2002
"Ever Holding My Ocean" NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
"like a peach" Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo / Laroret Museum Harajuku, Tokyo / Laforet Museum, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
"MIKA NINAGAWA at ISSEY MIYAKE AOYAMA" Issei Miyake Store, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
2001
"Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki" Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2000
"Pink Rose Suite" ROCKET'S Tokyo, Japan
"Sugar and Spice" (Toured in Japan until 2001) Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo / Tank Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1999
"Baby Blue Sky" Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
"Christmas at Isla Mujeres" NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
"French kiss" ROCKET, Tokyo, Japan
1997
"Walk3" Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan

Group exhibition
2010
"In aller Munde / On the tip of everyone's tongue" The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
"NINAGAWA BAROQUE / EXTREME" NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo, Japan
"Tokyo Visualist" National Art Gallery Malaysia, Malaysia
"Summer Loves"　Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, 2010" Very Very Good Something / Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
"FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPE Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Ohmaki, Mika Ninagawa, and Satoko Nachi", The Contemporary Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
"Medicine and Art; Imagining a Future for Life and Love" Mori Arts Center Gallery, Mori Tower、Tokyo, Japan
2008
"The Masked Portrait" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
"JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPER CULTURE" The Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer, Wasington DC, USA
"Faithful Documents-Japanese Contemporary Photography" Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"JAPAN NOW" Inter Alia Art Company, Korea
"Review / Preview : Japanese Photographs" Gallerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2007
"HITOTUBO" Guardian Garden, Ginza,Tokyo, Japan
"SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE" MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Kiyosumi, Tokyo, Japan
2006
"treasure" Yokohama Civil Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
"VOCA 2006" Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"IDOL!" Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
"SAKANA NO SUGATA" The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan
2005
"Artists' Gardens - Botanical Recollections" Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004
"HARAJUKU COLLABO - APARTMENT 2004" Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
"TAKARAZUKA: THE LAND OF DREAMS" Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003
"Hitotsuboten 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002" Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan
"do hope for the futre" Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
"Topics on Happiness" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
"Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo" Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo, Japan
"KEEP IN TOUCH. POSITIONS IN JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY" Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
"take art collection 2003" Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"Okayama City Arts Festival 2003 - LOVE PLANET" Ishii Elementary School, Okayama, Japan
2002
"The Doraemon" (Toured in Japan until 2006) Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka / Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama / Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa / Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya / Oita Art Museum, Oita / Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Shimane / Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita / Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, Toyama / Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu / Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan
"Pingyao International Photo Festival" Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, China
"Futuring Power-Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
"VERSUS EXHIBITION 02" (Toured in Japan until 2003) Nakameguro Depot, Tokyo/ Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2001
"Three Rooms" Epson Imaging Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
"Naked Eyes" Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Japanese New Generation Photographer" Colette, Paris, France

Public collection
UBS Art CollectionContemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
Ohara Museum of Art
Toyota Contemporary Art Collection
SURUGA BANK
Huis Marseille

Awards
2006
Ohara Museum of Art Prize
2001
26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award
1998
Encouragement Award at "9th Konica Award
1996
Grand Prize at "7th Shashin hitotsubo ten (3.3㎡ photography)
Superior Prize at "13th New Cosmos of Photography" by Canon