Selected Solo Exhibition

2024

Optical Allusion, Lisson Gallery, New York
Giacometti/Sugimoto: Staged, The Institute Giacometti, Paris
Time Machine, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2023

Opera House, a selection for Bergamo, Academia Carrara, Bergamo
Hiroshi Sugimoto
, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Time Machine, Hayward Gallery, London
Honkadori Azumakudari, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
Playing with Fire, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.

2022

The Descent of The Kasuga Spirit, Kasugataisha Museum, Nara.
Honkadori. Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji.
Opera House. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Five Elements, Noh Climax. Engyoji Temple, Himeji.
Journey of the Kasuga Spirit, Kanazawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko Museum, Yokohama.

2021
Everyday is a stomy day, Study Hall, Ryosoku-in Temple, Kyoto
Opticks, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Theory of Colour, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

2020
Past Vitam. Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
飄々表具ーFrame of Japan, Hosomi Museum, Kyoto
Opticks. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Past Presence. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

2019
Past Presence. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

2018
Quatro Ragazzi: Hopes and Illusions of the Momoyama Renaissance - Europe through the Eyes of Hiroshi Sugiomto and the Tensho Embassy. Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum. Nagasaki.
Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.
The First Encounter-Italy through Eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tensho Embassy.
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano.
Surface of Revolution.
The Estate of Trianon, Versailles.
Quatro Ragazzi.
MOA Museum of Art, Atami.
Still Life. Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Hiroshi Sugimoto B.C.. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2017
Surface Tension. Maran Goodman Gallery, Paris
Snow White. Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Gates of Paradise. Japan Society, New York
Le Notti Bianche. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
The Sea and The Mirror. Château la Coste, le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Provence
Seascapes-Atami. MOA Museum of Art, Atami

2016
Remains to be Seen. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Lost Human Genetic Archive. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Black Box. Casa Garriga i Nogués Exhibition Hall, Barcelona/Recoletos Exhibition Hall, Madrid/FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
Sea of Buddha. Pace Gallery, New York

2015
Art and Leisure. Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba/Hosomi Museum, Kyoto (2016)
Past and Present in Three Parts. Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba/ Multi Media Art Museum, Moscow (2016)/Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Swizterland (2016)
Stop Time, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena
Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

2014
Still Life. Pace London, London
Confession of Zero. Permanent Installation at Castello di Ama per l’Arte Contemporanea, Siena
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
On the Beach. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Glass Tea House - Mondrian. Le Stanze del Vetro, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Modern Times. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Cahiers d’Art Gallery, Paris
Still Life. Pace, New York
Acts of God. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Aujourd'hui, le monde est mort [Lost Human Genetic Archive]. Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Past Tense. The J. Paul Getty Museum at The Getty Center, Los Angeles

2013
Time Exposed, Xue Xue White, Taipei
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Accelerated Buddha. Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris
Revolution, Last Supper, Couleurs de l'ombre. Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles

2012
Revolution. Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Painting and Seascapes. Pace London, London.
Henry VIII and His Six Wives. Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
Couleurs de l'Ombre. Museum of Cultures, Basel/La Verrière, Brussels/Hermès: Le Forum, Tokyo/Garden Building, Miami/Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2013)
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art, Villeneuve-d’Ascq
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Pace Beijing, Beijing
Five Elements. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
From Naked to Clothed. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Photogenic Drawings. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2011
Surface of the Third Order: Objects and Sculpture. The Pace Gallery, New York
Lake Superior. Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
New Work. The Chinati Foundation, Marfa
Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawing. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

2010
ORIGINS OF ART | Science, Architecture, History, Religion. Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
The Day After. The Pace Gallery, New York
Mathematical Model 012, Surface of Revolution with Constant Negative Curavature, (permanent installation), Château la Coste, Provence.
Faraday Cage. 17th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island

2009
Lightning Fields. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Lightning Fields. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Nature of Light. Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka
Coffin of Light. (permanent installation), Benesse House Park, Naoshima
Imakojima-Art, Architecture Collection. Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki

2008
History of History, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa/National Museum of Art, Osaka (2009)
7 Days / 7 Nights. Gagosian Gallery, New York

2007
Leakage of Light. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Stylized Sculpture. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf/Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria/Neue Nationalgalerie,Berlin/Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (2008)
Various Archetypes. National Museum of Art, Osaka
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Udine
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Studio Guenzani, Milan
Colors of Shadow. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2006
Art Capturing. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Colors of Shadow. Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Mathematical Forms
. Galerie de l’Arelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Colors of Shadow. Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/
Joe
. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Joe. Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis

2005
History of History. Japan Society Gallery, New York/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2006)/Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto /Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco (2007)
End of Time. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo/The Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. /The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (2006)/Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco (2007)
Cnceptual Forms. Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Conceptual Forms. Gagosian Gallery, London

 2004
Étant donné: Le Grand Verre. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Galería Javier López, Madrid
The Origins of Love. Yoshii Gallery, New York

2003
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
Architecture. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Serpentine Gallery, London
L’Histoire de l’Histoire, Hermès: Le Forum, Tokyo
Architecture. Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2002
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, San Paulo.

2001
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Hasselblad Foundation Award Winner. Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Architecture of Time. Kunsthaus Bregenz/ Kunsthalle Bielefeld(2002)/The Stills Gallery/The Fruitmarket Gallery and Stills Gallery Edinburgh(2002)
Portraits. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Portraits. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Dioramas, Wax Figures, and Portraits. Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Portraits. White Cube2, London

2000
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
The Architecture Series. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Portraits. Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin/Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao/Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York (2001)

1999
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Galerie Renn, Paris
Modernis., Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo
In Praise of Shadows. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Modernism. Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne

1998
In Praise of Shadows. Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Modernism. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Sugimoto. Caixa Forum, Madrid/Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Hiroshi Sugimoto—Recent Seascapes. Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Interior Theaters & Drive-In Theaters. Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome

1997
Dioramas and Wax Museums. Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Twice as Infinity. Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Twice as Infinity. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Sanjusangendo: Hall of Thirty-Three Bays. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sonnabend Gallery, New York (accompanied by artist’s video Accelrated Buddha)
Motion Pictures. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley

1996
Drive-In Theatres and Interior Theatres. Studio Guenzani, Milan
Shashin: Transforming the Real. The Diorama Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto.Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts
Hiroshi Sugimoto—Photographies. Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Mirando a Mares. Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Galerie Rodolphe Janssesn, Brussels
Twenty-one Seas (1980 to 1995). Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Motion Picture, Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo
Day Seascapes — Diorams— Drive-Ins — Interiro Theaters — Wax Museums.
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Motion Picture. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

1995
Sugimoto. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1996)/Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Gunma(1996)/Akron Art Museum, Akron (1998)
Hiroshi Sugimoto. RENN Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Motion Picture by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Galleria SPSAS, Locarno, Switzerland
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Séries Photographiques, 1979–1994. Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal/Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Still Life. Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Time Exposed. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel/Stedelijk Museum,‘s-Hertogenbosch
Still Life.
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Still Life. Sonnabend Gallery, New York/Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

1994
Motion Pictures. Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Parrish Art Museum, Southampton/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995)
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Motion Picture. Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1993
Sugimoto. Studio Guenzani, Milan
Seascapes and Theaters. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Theaters—Seascapes. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
Seascapes, Theatre, Dioramas & Drive-Ins. White Cube, London
Seascapes. Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographs. Angles Gallery, Santa Monica

1992
Seascapes. Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
Time Exposed. CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Seascapes. Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Seascapes. Sonnabend Gallery New York

1991
Time Exposed. Installation Plan for Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1992. Hosomi Contemporaroy, Tokyo
Time Exposed, Investigated. Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Time Exposed
. Sagacho Exhibit Space and IBM Courtyard, Tokyo (this show was one of two parts, another part was exhibited in the group show Carnegie International 1991, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh)
Sugimoto. Gallery Kasahara, Osaka

1990
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas—Theatres—Seascapes. Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris

1989
Seascape Photographs. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Dioramas, Theaters, Seascapes. National Museum of Art, Osaka

1988
Dioramas, Theatres, Seascapes. Sonnabend Gallery, New York/Sagacho Exhibit Space and Zeit- Foto Salon, Tokyo
 
1983
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographs. Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1981
Movie Theaters. Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1977
Sugimoto. Minami Gallery, Tokyo





Selected Group Exhibition
 

2024
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens, National Portrait Gallery, London
Janus, Berggruen Arts, Culture exhibition Palazzo Diedo, Venice

2023
WORLD CLASSROOM; Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

2022
Gods, magicians, and wise men. The artists’ private collections./ Caixa Forum, Madrid and Barcelona

2020
STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 

2019
Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24 Photography,San Francisco
Lacock Abbey: Birthplace of Photography on Paper.Hans P Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, New York. 

2018
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture. Parrish Art Museum,
Water Mill, New York

2017
What Absence Is Made Of.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Seeking Stillness. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
On the Origin of Art. Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania
Diorama. Palais de Tokyo, Paris/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

2016
Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker. National Gallery, Washington D.C.
Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.
Collected. Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco

2015
The Memory of Time. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
Magnificent Obsessions:The Artist as Collector. Barbican Art Gallery, London

2014
Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the modern age, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
Simple Shapes, Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Mingei: Are You Here? , Pace London.

2013
Mingei: Are You Here?  Pace New York

2012
Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past.  Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

2011
Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewher. Fondation Cartier, Paris
Reflections of the Buddha. The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis.
Our Magic Hour: How Much of the World Can We Know? Yokohama Triennale    2011
TRA -Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

2010  
Autoritratti dalla Collezione della Galleria degli Uffizi. Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo / National Museum of Art, Osaka
Sexuality and Transcendence. PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukrania

2009    
Element of Photography. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Mapping the Studio. Punta della Dogana, Venice
The Third Mind. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2008    
Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography. Metropolitan Museum, New York
Untitled(Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object. Gagosian Gallery, New York
Photography on Photography:Refrections on the Medium since 1960. Metropolitan Museum, New York
Seascapes: Tryon and Sugimoto, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington D. C.

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. Pacifico Yokohama, 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 für Zeitgenössische 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/Museum Contemporary Art, Chicago /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: Recent Seascapes and Agnes Martin: Works on Paper. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Mysterious Voyages: Exploring The Subject of Photography. The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

1997    
Blueprint. De Appel foundation, Amsterdam. 
Framed Area. Haarlemmermeer District, Netherlands.
In Visible Light:  Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Evidence: Photography and Site. Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University
Making It Rea. ICI, New York

1996    
Open Secrets:  Seventy Pictures on Papers, 1815 to the Present, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York/Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Colección Ordoñez Falcón de Fotografia. Instituto Valenciao de Art Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Jurassic Technologies Revenant:  Tenth Biennale of Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Hall of Mirrors:  Art and film Since 1945. Museum of contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus/Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Prospect 96: Photographie in derGegenwartskunst. Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
By Night. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

1995    
3e biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon:  Installation, cine´ma, vide´o, informatique,
Muse´e d’art contemporain, Lyon, FranceNature
Nature Studies II, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Being There, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
Album Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam
Le Monde apre`s la Photographie. Muse´e d’art moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Witness:  Photoworks from the Collection, Tate Gallery Liverpool, England
Art in Japan Today:  1985 - 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
PRIVATE/PUBLIC - ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Chasing Shadows:  Photographs from the Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1994    
Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time and Memory, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo/ Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City/Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada/Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Denver Art Museum, Colorado/Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Fondation Cartier: A Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Seoul/Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Inside Out:  Contemporary Japanese Photography, The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away…, Serpentine Gallery, London/Nordic Arts Center, Helsinki/Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany
Japanese Art After 1945:  Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan/ Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1993    
Jardins do Paradiso:  Gardens of Eden, Galeria do Museu Antropolo´gico da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
In die Felsen bohren sich Zikadenstimmen:  Zeitgeno¨ssische japanische Photographie, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Das 21, Jahrhundert:  Mit Paracelsus in die Zukunft ( The 21st Century:  Into the Future with Paracelsus), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

1992    
Re´flexions Voile´es (Hidden Reflections), Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Un seconde pense´e du paysage, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Locmine, France

1991    
Carnegie International 1991, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. 
A Cabinet of Signs:  Contemporary Art from Post-Modern Japan, Tate Gallery Liverpool, England
Beyond Japan:  A Photo Theater, Barbican Art Gallery, London

1990    
Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
The Past and Present of Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Natural History Re-created, The Center fro Photography at Woodstock, New York
Sonnabend Collection Exhibition, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo/Sendai Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai/Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama /National Museum of Modern Art. Kyoto
Reorienting:   Looking East, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow/Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London

1989    
Continum and the Moment:  Rita Myers, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Viola, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton
On Kawara:  Again and Against:  23 Date Paintings and 24 Prominent Works of Japanese Contemporary Art, 1969-1989, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, Japan
Investigations 1989, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1987    
Contemporary Japanese Art in America (I):  Arita, Nakagawa, Sugimoto, Japan Society Gallery, New York

1985    
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1983    
Landmarks Reviewed: Contemporary Photographs of American Buildings, Structures, and Natural Forms, Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida

1982    
Photography Collection from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

1981    
Baltimore Collects:  Photographs from Local Private Collections, Baltimore Museum of Art

1978    
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York




 
 

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2020

Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, 2018

Marian Goodman Gallery, London, 2017

Pace Gallery, New York, 2016

Chiba City Museum, Chiba 2015

Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice 2014

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2014

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2014

Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, 2012

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2012

Marugame,Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, 2010

Pace Gallery, New York, 2010

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2008

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - de Young , San Francisco, 2007

Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Udine, 2007

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 2007

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. , 2006

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 2006

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 2004

Serpentine Gallery, London, 2003

Maison Hermès, Tokyo, 2003

Kunshaus Bregenz, Austria, 2001

CCA Kitakyushu, Fukuoka,1998

De Appel foundation, Amsterdm, 1997

Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, 1996

Musee d'Art Contemporian, Bordeaux, 1992

The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1991

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