Togonon gallery is pleased to present Hiroyo Kaneko's "Selections From Three Series" in her first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will feature photographs from The Three Cornered World, Sentimental Education, and Picnics series. Kaneko is a recipient of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography 2009. Her work is currently in the Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea exhibition at the San Francisco MOMA until December 20, 2009.

Kaneko explores photography as a mediator between time, space, people and the photographer herself. "These photographs are attempts to absorb personal moments and subtly reveal their varying facets", the artist explains. The Three Cornered World series is inspired by Soseki Natsume's novel Kusamakura. The series displays scenes from Tokyo and San Francisco and is driven by the idea of journey or "soyuu," a Japanese word meaning "I have once amused myself here." In Picnics and the Sentimental Education, Kaneko takes a more personal and passionate look at human figures and their environments.

Hiroyo Kaneko is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Rayko Photo Center. She has exhibited in the United States and Japan including the National Museum 
of Modern Art in Tokyo, the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Rayko Photo Center and the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Togonon Gallery. She completed her MFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. She lives and works in the U.S. and Japan.