Rika Noguchi

Rika Noguchi (野口里佳 Noguchi Rika, born 1971) is a Japanese photographic artist.

Biography Noguchi was born in Tokyo and has a degree in photography from the Department of Photography, College of Art at Nihon University in 1994. She has lived and worked as a photographer in Berlin, Germany between 2004 and 2016 and is currently based in Okinawa, Japan.

Early works include “A Prime” (1997), a series of landscape shots with lonely persons forming undefined foregrounds. She later made “Color of the Planet” (2004) and “In the Desert” (2007) depicting urban and natural landscapes, with colourful blurs and light reflections, inspiring a sense of distance to the subject. Recent works include “The Sun” (2005-2008), a series with the sun as a source of light through a pinhole camera. “I Dreamt of Flying 2” (2009) depicts warped images of the starry sky, the way we would perceive the stars looking out from a spacecraft travelling at the light of speed.

In 2009, Noguchi's work was included in "The Light" at the National Art Center, Tokyo along with Yoko Matsumoto.

From October 2022 through January 2023, Noguchi had a solo exhibit at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.