Artist, Photographer
Born in 1986, Hiroshima, Japan
Based in Hiroshima and Paris


mana@manakikuta.com
instagram.com/manakikuta
  • 2009 — B.A., Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2013 — Residency Program, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP), Arles, France
  • 2015 — Master’s Degree, EMA Fructidor, École Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
  • 2016 — Post-Diploma, EMA Fructidor, École Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Expositions personnelles
  • 2025 — Voices Left Behind, Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2021 — Blowing Gently on the Burn Marks Left on My Hands, Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels, Saitama, Japan
  • 2018 — Quelques heures au soleil, Place de la Libération, Art Center, Gaillac, France
  • 2017 — Monument for Young Violinists, Magasin de Jouets, Arles, France
  • 2016 — The Garden of Memory, 8th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Kobo Chika, Tokyo, Japan
Expositions de groupe
  • 2026 — Chain Reactions, Harvard University, Boston, USA
  • 2025 — PERFORMANCE, Centre Claude Cahun, Nantes, France
  • 2024 — Rethinking Hiroshima as a Crossroads, Kanō Mikiyo Archive Sagori, Hiroshima, Japan
  • 2024 — PERFORMANCE, Centre Photographique Marseille, Marseille, France
  • 2024 — \ na.ʁa.tœʁ.tʁis , FECIT toolbox, Val-de-Vère, France
  • 2024 — PERFORMANCE, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan, France
  • 2022 — Regards du Grand Paris, Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France
  • 2022 — Soup, KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+, Gallery Tomi-koji, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2021 — Image Tangible Biennale, La Pièce Blanche, Paris, France
  • 2021 — Doko × Design, Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  • 2019 — Vendange photographique, Château de Lassay-le Donjon, Belvès-sur-Lyon, France
  • 2019 — VOYAGE, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
  • 2018 — Une histoire de résidence, Galerie L’Imagerie, Lannion, France
  • 2017 — Visual Communication Exhibition — in between —, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan
  • 2017 — Résidence 1+2, Musée Paul-Dupuy, Toulouse, France
  • 2017 — Intermedia Performance Festival INACT, Strasbourg, France
  • 2016 — Traces Without a Past, Galerie Grand E'terna, Paris, France
  • 2016 — International Young Photography, Niort, France
  • 2015 — Commémoration Hiroshima et Nagasaki, Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, with Jean-Gabriel Périot, Micha Patault, David Fathi, and Capucine Demnard, Arles, France
  • 2015 — CONSUL’ART 3e, Maison de l’Artisanat et des Métiers d’Art, Marseille, France
  • 2015 — Genbi Anywhere Exhibition Project 2015, Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Prix
  • 2025 — Finalist, T3 New Talent
  • 2020 — Selected, Genbi Doko × Design Special Open Call
  • 2015 — Selected, Genbi Anywhere Exhibition Project
  • 2015 — Jury Encouragement Award, 12th 1_WALL Exhibition, selected by Satoru Machiguchi
Résidences
  • 2018 — 3rd Gaillac City Photography Competition, Gaillac, France
  • 2016 — Centre d’Art Photographique Contemporain, Villa Pérochon, Niort, France
  • 2015 — Finalist, BMW–Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Publications
  • 2022 — Regards du Grand Paris — Commande photographique nationale 2016–2021, France
  • 2021 — Foam Magazine #60: Glyphs — The Image + Text Issue, Netherlands
  • 2019 — LIEU COMMUN — Regards du Grand Paris, France
  • 2016 — CARTE BLANCHE, France
Collections
  • Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), France
  • Musée français de la Photographie, France
  • City of Gaillac, France
  • Centre d’Art Photographique Contemporain — Villa Pérochon, Niort, France
Commandes
  • 2022 — PERFORMANCE, Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), France
  • 2019 — Regards du Grand Paris, Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) and Ateliers Médicis, France
Bourses
  • 2022 — Pola Art Foundation, Overseas Research Grant, Japan
  • 2021 — Sasakawa France–Japan Foundation
  • 2021 — Nomura Foundation, Japan
  • 2013 — Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund, Hiroshima Scholarship, Japan