Throughout her career, Koike has received several awards and nominations, including:
Perhaps Koike’s most radical contribution to contemporary literature is her reclamation of the obasan (auntie/older woman) gaze. In visual media, the aging Japanese woman is often rendered invisible or comic. In Koike’s prose, the older woman’s gaze becomes a scalpel. emiko koike
If there is a unifying thread in Koike’s diverse output—from her public sculptures to her intimate, lens-based work—it is her obsession with texture. Her recent series, Patina , currently on view at a private gallery in London, explores the decay of industrial materials. Throughout her career, Koike has received several awards