Niko Mitsuko is an award winning American photographer, painter, and mixed media artist. She began her artistic career at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, graduating in 2007 with a BFA in Fine Art and Photography and a BA in Film. In the past ten years she has established herself as a professional artist, working primarily with galleries in her long time home of Portland, Oregon as well as across the US, but also exhibiting internationally in Paris, London, and most recently Berlin, where she is now based.
Believing that art is a way to get at the soul of modern society, Niko strives to create photographs with aesthetic, paint-like qualities, bestowing her works with abstract, surrealist, and minimalist properties.
She started out learning photography with a Canon AE-1 and printing in a darkroom. She has used various cameras but her favorite's are her Pinhole camera, trusty Canon DSLR, and Smart phone camera.
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EXHIBITIONS:
2019 'YOUR FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPH OF 2018 EXHIBITION' Lenscratch online exhibtion 2018 Das Universum in den Träumen/ The Universe inside a Dream at Galerie Unter der Treppe Berlin, DE 2017 The Universe inside a Dream at Hooten Street Project Nottingham, UK Femm Fest by Sweet’art London, England Pop Exhibition The Ballery Berlin, DE The Wrong Biennale by The Quickest via Pavilion online 2015 Solo Exhibition, White Space Gallery Portland, OR Portland Photo Month, White Space Gallery, Portland, OR 2014 Common Click May Exhibitions, Pomona, CA May Exhibition White Space Gallery Portland, OR 'Deep Roots' Old Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 'Round Hole Square Peg' Artist's Corner Hollywood, CA Photo LA 'Round Hole Square Peg' at Artist Corner and Emerging Focus Group Exhibition January White Space Gallery, Portland, OR 2013 'Les Amoureux' Solo Exhibition, White Space Gallery, Portland, OR 'LenZLess' Plates to Pixels Online Exhibition 'The Sea Consume thee' Solo Exhibition, Brickwall Photographic Gallery, Spokane, WA Mysterious, Dreams, and Other Worlds, Lenscratch Musing 18th Annual Photo Compettion NW Photo Center, Seattle, WA Open Show LA #17 The Icon Emerging Focus Photo L.A. 2012 Juried Exhibition “Enchantment” Plates to Pixels Online Exhibition Featured Artist Community Support Arts Seattle, WA Group Exhibition "Best Shot" OCCCA Santa Ana, CA Open Portfolio Exhibition Lens Culture Fotofest Speos, Paris, France Group Exhibition “Sight Unseen- New Works by Women” Siren Nation Albina Press Portland,OR Group Exhibition ‘Color shift’ Billboard exhibition Atlanta, GA curator Katerina Lanfranco Solo Exhibition “Les Amoureux” The Flaneur Art Gallery, Android app, UK Group exhibition November Show The Gallery Zero, Portland, OR Filter Photo Festival: Unfiltered Exhibition, Chicago, IL Solo Exhibit “Les Amoureux” Consortium Gallery, Seattle, WA Solo exhibit 'Trees Dancing in your Mind' Prophoto Supply Lab Gallery, Portland, OR Group exhibit ‘Not Afraid of Beauty’ Gallery Zero, Portland, OR Group exhibit ‘The surrealist Influence on contemporary photography’ Hideout Theatre Austin, TX Group Exhibit 'Then.Now.Here' Blue Sky Gallery and around the city or Portland, OR Solo Exhibition “Trees dancing in the mind” Seven Virtues, Portland, OR Group Show “PDX Photo Month Exhibit” Light Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR Group Show “Her love made Visible” Arts East New York, Brooklyn, NY “Online Focus” Brighton Photo Fringe, England Solo Exhibition “Land moves” Keybank, Portland, OR Group Show Tyson Gallery, Portland, OR Group Show “Food Exhibit” West Linn Library, West Linn, OR Threshold 2012's Silent Auction, a benefit for the Portland Artists Clinic “Printmaking & Photography Show” Splendorporium Art Gallery, Portland,OR 2011 Group Show “Time through Lens” Nirvana Café, Portland, OR Group Show The Billboard Art Project, Baton Rouge, LA Group Show The Billboard Art Project, New Orleans, LA Juried Show “International Juried Photography Exhibition” 12 12 Gallery, Richmond, VA Group Show The Billboard Art Project, Chicago, IL Group Show The Gallery Zero, Portland, OR Group Show Crows Art Manor, Portland, OR Group Show Square life in Portland Poster Garden, Portland, OR Solo Show Fairy Tales Little Fiat Gallery, Portland, OR Group Show “Call & Response” CODA Gallery, Portland, OR Group Show “PXL” Anka Gallery, Portland, OR Group Show “February Group Show” Gallery Zero, Portland, OR 2010 Solo Show Abandoning Time Hosted by Beard’s Faming Gallery Portland, OR Solo Show Abandoning Time Hosted by the Academy Theater Solo Exhibit Portland, OR Juried Show 4th Annual Juried Show 100th Monkey Studio Portland, OR Solo Show Capturing Time Hosted by U.S. Bank Solo Exhibit Portland, OR Auction Midwest Center for Photography benefit Center Gallery Wichita, KS 2009 Juried Show Hot New Pics Center Gallery Wichita, KS Group Show NEVER THINK small! climate/gallery Long Island City, NY Juried Show 3rd Annual Juried Show 100th Monkey Studio Portland, OR Juried Show Your Best Shot National Juried showRoHo Photo Gallery Cincinnati, OH Juried Show Crossing the Blues Regional Juried Exhibition, Satellite Gallery La Grand, OR Juried Show National Juried Show Acci Gallery Berkeley, CA Juried Show 4th Annual Photography Show Sixth Street Gallery Vancouver, WA Juried Show Self Portraits Utrecht Gallery Portland, OR 2008 Group Show Cycling: Family, Friends, and Pets New Seasons Portland, OR Group Show Bikes to Rwanda Stumptown Café Portland, OR Solo Show Spaces Neighborhood Pizzeria N. Portland, OR Group Show Snap to Grid LACDA, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Group Show Snap to Grid LACDA, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Juried Show 14th Annual Juried Show Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV |
AWARDS:
Nominee in 12th Annual International Color Awards Honorable mention 11th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for WomenPhotographers Honorable mention in 2016 international photography awards Honorable mention in 2015 international photography awards Honorable mention in the Moscow Foto Awards Honorable mention in 2014 international photography awards Honorable mention 7th Photography Masters Cup International Color Awards Honorable mention in 2013 International Photography Awards Honorable mention in 2012 International Photography Awards 10th annual competition Honorable mention in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 4th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award Official Selection Prix De La Photographi Paris Award of Excellence from Photographer’s Forum People’s Choice Award 4th Annual Photography Show Vancouver, WA Art in films: 2010 D.O.A music video by Titarius 2009 “After the Party” COLLECTIONS: Private collection of Life Works Northwest, Portland, OR Private collection of Jean Hunt, Alameda, CA Private collection of Jamie Lawson and Joe R. Media, Portland, OR Private collection of Eric Haddan, Portland, OR Private collection of Shara Edwards, Las Vegas, NV PUBLICATIONS: 2014 'Round Hole Square Peg' Catalogue 2013 Plates to Pixels catalogue 'LenZLess' 2012 F-Stop Magazine "Landscape" Issue 2012 F-Stop Magazine Issue #51- The Portrait February/March 2012 2011 Inspiration Hut Feature artist 2011 Escape Into Life Feature artist 2011 Light & Composition Magazine "Photo of the Day" 12/14/11 2011 Light & Composition Magazine "Photo of the Day" 12/8/11 2011 Catapult Art Magazine 1211.v4 2011 Photo Technique Magazine “Underexposed” 2010 Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography 2010 (Book) 2009 Honey Land Review Volume 2 Issue 1 2009 Perceptions Magazine May/June Issue 2008 Farmhouse Magazine May/June Issue 2007 Vagus Nerve 2006 Vagus Nerve 2005 Vagus Nerve 2004 Vagus Nerve |
