Education
1947 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
1970 BA in Photography, College of Art, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
1970-73 Mentored by Eikoh Hosoe, Tokyo, Japan
Currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2019 “BLACKOUT” IBASHO Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2018 “BLACKOUT” MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Gallery, New York, USA
2017 “Body and Horizontal bar” PHOTO MASSAGE Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2017 “Body and Horizontal bar” TOKI-NO-WASUREMONO Gallery, Tokyo,
Japan
2016 “Flying Frying Pan 1979-1994” MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Gallery, New York,
USA
2012 “On the Circle” AKAAKA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Installation: “Mise-en-scène”, AKAAKA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “On the Circle” Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan
2010 “On the Circle” Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “On the Circle” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Wrap Trap Wrap” Café Daisuki, Tokyo, Japan
2002 “Flying Frying Pan” Prinz, Kyoto, Japan
2001 “KAMI/Demolition” Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
1999 “Waterfall Watchers” Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
1995 “Flying Frying Pan” as a part of “Object, Faces and Anti- Narratives—
Rethinking Modernism”
1995 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1992 “Game Over” PARCO Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
1984 “Flying Frying Pan” Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1982 “Floating Around” Galerie Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
1982 “Dark Changes” Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
1979 “Floating Around” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1976 “Floating Around” Gallery Shunju, Tokyo, Japan
1975 “Quiet Days” Gallery Shunju, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2019 “Monochrome Collection of Fugensha”,Fugensha Gallery,Tokyo,Japan
"20th Anniversary Show - Part I Photography", MIYAKO YOSHINAGA
Gallery, New York, USA
2018 “How Many Miles to Babylon?” MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Gallery, New York,
USA
2018 “Artists from Yonezawa” Yonezawa Citizens Gallery, Yonezawa,Japan
2016 “LE BAL Hommage à Etsuro Ishihara “ ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan
“Yonezawa Art Now Number 1” Yonezawa Citizens Gallery, Yonezawa,
Japan
2014-18 “Fuji Film Photo Collection: My Single Photo – A Collection of Single
Photographs from Doyens of Japanese Photographic History” FUJIFILM
SQUARE, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, and others, Japan
2013 “18 Photographers: Collection of Kushiro Art Museum” Kushiro Art
Museum, Kushiro, Japan
2007 “Japan Caught by Camera—Works from the Photographic Art in Japan”
Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China
2006 “Mite! Okayama” (produced by Amelia Arenas) Okayama Prefectural
Museum of Art, Okayama City, Japan
2003 “Original Prints of Alumni” (in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of
Original Print Collection by Nihon University’s Photography Department)
Tokyo, Art Archive of Nihon University College of Arts, Japan
2000 “Japanese Contemporary Photography” touring throughout Germany
1998 “Futurology of Photographs” (an inkjet-printing project by 17 artists)
Epson Imaging Gallery/EPSITE, Tokyo, Japan
1996 “New Japanese Photography in 1990s: The Resonance of
Unconsciousness” Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1996 “Japanese Photography of Today” touring in Spain
1985 “Paris-New York-Tokyo” Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Ibaragi, Japan
1983 “Japanese Art of Today” Museum of Art & History, Geneva, Switzerland
1982 “Three Japanese Visions” Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1981 “8 x10” Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California, USA
1974 “Quiet Days” (joint exhibition) Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-
Saone, France
Awards
The Nobuo Ina Award of Nikon Salon, Tokyo, 2010
Publications
“BLACKOUT” l’Artiere, Italy, 2018
“ON THE CIRCLE” AKAAKA ART PUBLISHING Inc., Tokyo, 2012
“Gakko; Maronie-dori kara Arch wo Kugutte (School: Walking Through the Arch from Horse Chestnut Street)” Bungei Shunju-sha, Tokyo, 2010
“Flying Frying Pan” Shazow Kobo, Tokyo, 1997
“Yagate Hito ni Ataerareta Toki ga Michite... (The Time Given to Man Shall Lapse Sometime and…)” in collaboration with author Natsuki Ikezawa, Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Tokyo, 1996
Collections
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
MoPA, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France
Art Archive of Nihon University College of Arts, Japan
Fuji Film, Tokyo, Japan