NOGUCHI was born in 1971 in Saitama Prefecture and has lived in Berlin since 2004. She graduated from the Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University in 1994 and did graduate studies in Film/Image Art also Nihon University in 1995. In 2002, she won the 52nd Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, and in 2014 the 30th Higashikawa Award for a Domestic Photographer.