YUKI TAWADA (b. 1978, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan) graduated from the Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University, with a focus on biotechnology, and studied as an exchange student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She later graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, in Photography, and completed her PhD in Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently a Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts. Her practice opens photography by hand as a kind of “field,” reweaving images through the exchange between body and information, and bringing transformation into being. 

Her major exhibitions include the international touring exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, Photography Now at the V&A, Poetry, Sci-Fi, Flesh and Spirit at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, and Seeing as Though Touching: Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol. 19 at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Her work is held in the collections of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the V&A. She lives and works in Kyoto.