BIOGRAPHY


1948            Born in Tokyo, Japan

1970            Graduated from Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo

1972            Graduated from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles

1974            Moved to New York

Selected Solo Exhibition


2007   
Leakage of Light, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo. ('06,'05',01,'98,'97,'96,'95)

Hiroshi Sugimoto, K20, Dusseldorf/ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- de Young,
San Francisco/ Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy.

History of History, Asain Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco/ Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Colors of Shadow, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco ('03,'01,'98,’96,’95,’94,’92)

2006   
Mathematical Forms, Galerie de l’Atelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris. (See Photo1)

Colors of Shadows, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Joe, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis / Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

History of History, Smithsonian, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Smithsonian, Hirshhorn  Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington D.C.(See Photo2)/ The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. (See Photo3)

2005   
History of History, Japan Society Gallery, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto:  End of Time, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Sonnabend Gallery, New York (’05,’03,’01,’98,’97,’95,’94,’92,’88,’83,’81)

Conceptual Forms, Gagosian Gallery, London

2004           
E´tant donne´:  Le grande verre, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. (See Photo4)

The Origins of Love, Yoshii Gallery, New York

2003           

Serpentine Gallery, London. (See Photo5)

Hiroshi Sugimoto:  L’hisoire de l’histoire, Maison Herme`s FORUM, Tokyo. (See Photo6)

SUGIMOTO:  ARCHITECUTRE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (See Photo7)

2002   
The Architecture of Time, Stills Gallery/Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh

2001   
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. (See Photo8)

Portraits, White Cube2, London / Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York

Noh Such Thing as Time, DIA Art Center, New York. (See Photo9)   

2000   
Portraits, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao / Deutche Guggenheim, Berlin

1999   
Gallerie Ulrich fiedler, Cologne (’98)

Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt (’98,’96,’92)

Galerie Claude Berrie, Paris

1998   
Japan Foundation, Istituto Giapponese de Cultura, Rome

La Caixa, Madrid

Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon

Hiroshi Sugimoto:  In Praise of Shadows, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan. (See Photo10)



1997   
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta

Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, The Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, England

Motion Pictures, Berkeley Art Museum, California

1996   
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica (’95, ’94, ’93)

Modern Museet Sparvagnshallarna, Stockholm

Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan. (See Photo11)

Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen

Junta de Andalucia, Granada

Gallery Joan Parts, Barcelona

TheoreticalEvent, Naples, Italy

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas

Shashin:  Transforming the Real, Tufts University Gallery, Massachusetts

Studio Guenzani, Milan

Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo


           
1995   
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montre´al

Art Gallery of York University, Toronto

Le Musee´ Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

Galleria SPSAS, Locarno, Switzerland

RENN Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris


           
1994
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago



1993   
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

 
          
1992   
CAPC Muse´e d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux. (See Photo12)



1991   
Sagacho Exhibit Space and IBM courtyard, Tokyo

Gallery Kasahara, Osaka

Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo

Zeit-Photo Salon, Tokyo (’83)



1990   
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri

Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich, Germany

Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris



1989   
The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio



1988   
Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo



1987   
Minami Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibition

2007   
KANNON, Museum Rietberg, Zurich

Modern Photographs from Collection XIV, Metropolitan Museum, New York

2006   
Dark Matter, White Cube, London

Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Udine, Italy



2005   
Sophie Calle + Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.



2004   
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York



2003   
Supernova:  Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Happiness − A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Warum!, Martin − Gropius − Bau Museum, Berlin

The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Liquid Sea, Museum of Contemporary of Art, Sydney



2002   
Selected Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain:  works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

American Standard:  (Para)Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York



2001   
Give & Take, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of contemporary Art Mega-Wave-Towards a New Synthesis, Yokohama

I Am a Camera, Saatchi Gallery, London

2000   
Gendai:  Japanese Contemporary Art − Between the Body and Space, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York

Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego



1999   
Mirror’s Edge, BildMuseet, Umea° University, Umea°, Sweden

Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Washington D.C.

The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Moving Image: Film-Reflexion in der Kunst, Galerie fu¨r Zeitgeno¨ssische Kunst, Leipzig

Modena per la fotografia 1999: Uno sguardo sul Giappone, Galleria Civica Modena, Italy

Tomorrow For Ever: Photographie als Ruine, Kunstahlle Krems, Basel

The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, Museum of Modern Art, New York


1998   
Tastes and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990’s, Japan Foundation/National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi/Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines

Secret Victorians:  Contemporary Artists and a 19th −Century Vision. The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, England/ Arnolfini, Bristol, England/Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England/Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough , England/ UCLA, Los Angeles

Speed-Visions of an Accelerated Age. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London/Photographers’ gallery, London/Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, London

Terra Incoginita, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

At the End of the Century:  One Hundred Years of Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo/Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City/Ludwig Museum, Cologne/Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne/Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil/Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles

Sea Change:  The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson/International Center for Photography, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto/Agnes Martin, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Mysterious Voyages: Exploring The Subject of Photography, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland