Takahiro Kaneyama Japanese, b. 1971

Overview
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 1, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 1, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 2, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 2, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Museum in Fukushima 2, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Museum in Fukushima 2, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 2 , 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 2 , 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in The Ryokan Hotel Hotel in Fukushima 1 , 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in The Ryokan Hotel Hotel in Fukushima 1 , 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother And My Aunt in Hakone , 2019 My Mother And My Aunt in Hakone , 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Persimmon Persimmon
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in Bed , 1999 My Mother in Bed , 1999
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone , 2019 My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone , 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Trees Outside a Department Store My Family Used to Frequent, Tokyo 1999, 2016 Trees Outside a Department Store My Family Used to Frequent, Tokyo 1999, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family at My Mother's Hospital, 1999 My Family at My Mother's Hospital, 1999
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Nikko, 2001 My Family in Nikko, 2001
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Nikko, 2000 My Family in Nikko, 2000
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother at Home Watching Television, 2001 My Mother at Home Watching Television, 2001
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Cloud, Fukushima, 2005 Cloud, Fukushima, 2005
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Hakone, 2009 My Family in Hakone, 2009
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Younger Aunt Walking Her Dog , 2009 My Younger Aunt Walking Her Dog , 2009
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Our House , 2007 My Family in Our House , 2007
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room, Kyoto , 2010 My Mother in a Hotel Room, Kyoto , 2010
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother Smoking in Back of Our House , 2006 My Mother Smoking in Back of Our House , 2006
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, View from a Hotel in Kinugawa, 2009, 2016 View from a Hotel in Kinugawa, 2009, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Swan Boat, 2020 Swan Boat, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in an Isolation Room at Her Hospital After Water Intoxication 1, 2016 My Mother in an Isolation Room at Her Hospital After Water Intoxication 1, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in Hakone , 2015 My Mother in Hakone , 2015
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Two Mt. Fuji Two Mt. Fuji
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family at Fujiya Hotel, 2017 My Family at Fujiya Hotel, 2017
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother Repeatedly Trying to Take a Shower at the Hotel in Hakone, 2016 My Mother Repeatedly Trying to Take a Shower at the Hotel in Hakone, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone 2, 2019 My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone 2, 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Field in Fukushima, 2020 Field in Fukushima, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 3, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 3, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Rebecca at a Ryokan Hotel in Fukushima 2020 Large Rebecca at a Ryokan Hotel in Fukushima 2020 Large
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Documenting his own family since 1999,  Takahiro Kaneyama’s unpretentious photographs quietly reveal his complex relationship with home and family. His mother, who suffers from schizophrenia, raised him with the aids of his grandmother and his two unmarried aunts. The story he tells with these bravely honest portraits and landscapes resonates both as a personal confession and a meditation on universal aspects of love, depression, and the passage of time.

Born in Tokyo in 1971, Takahiro Kaneyama studied film and photography at the City College of New York, earned an MFA in Photography and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts, and then studied documentary photography at the International Center of Photography. The recipient of several photo awards, Kaneyama has exhibited in Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Milwaukee, and Zurich. 

In 2016, he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and also completed an artist-in-residence at Light Work, Syracuse, New York. His book “While Leaves Are Falling…” (AKAAKA Publishing, Inc.) —accompanied by an essay by Eric Shiner — is “as beautiful, complex and heartfelt as its subject” according to Charlotte Cotton, a renowned photo curator/writer.  It has been nominated for two of the most prestigious Japanese photography awards. In 2017, along with his solo exhibition at MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, he participated in a group exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan with his “While Leaves Are Falling” series.

 

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Biography
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 1, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 1, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 2, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 2, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Museum in Fukushima 2, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Museum in Fukushima 2, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 2 , 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 2 , 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in The Ryokan Hotel Hotel in Fukushima 1 , 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in The Ryokan Hotel Hotel in Fukushima 1 , 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother And My Aunt in Hakone , 2019 My Mother And My Aunt in Hakone , 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Persimmon Persimmon
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in Bed , 1999 My Mother in Bed , 1999
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone , 2019 My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone , 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Trees Outside a Department Store My Family Used to Frequent, Tokyo 1999, 2016 Trees Outside a Department Store My Family Used to Frequent, Tokyo 1999, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family at My Mother's Hospital, 1999 My Family at My Mother's Hospital, 1999
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Nikko, 2001 My Family in Nikko, 2001
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Nikko, 2000 My Family in Nikko, 2000
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother at Home Watching Television, 2001 My Mother at Home Watching Television, 2001
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Cloud, Fukushima, 2005 Cloud, Fukushima, 2005
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Hakone, 2009 My Family in Hakone, 2009
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Younger Aunt Walking Her Dog , 2009 My Younger Aunt Walking Her Dog , 2009
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Our House , 2007 My Family in Our House , 2007
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room, Kyoto , 2010 My Mother in a Hotel Room, Kyoto , 2010
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother Smoking in Back of Our House , 2006 My Mother Smoking in Back of Our House , 2006
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, View from a Hotel in Kinugawa, 2009, 2016 View from a Hotel in Kinugawa, 2009, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Swan Boat, 2020 Swan Boat, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in an Isolation Room at Her Hospital After Water Intoxication 1, 2016 My Mother in an Isolation Room at Her Hospital After Water Intoxication 1, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in Hakone , 2015 My Mother in Hakone , 2015
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Two Mt. Fuji Two Mt. Fuji
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family at Fujiya Hotel, 2017 My Family at Fujiya Hotel, 2017
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother Repeatedly Trying to Take a Shower at the Hotel in Hakone, 2016 My Mother Repeatedly Trying to Take a Shower at the Hotel in Hakone, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone 2, 2019 My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone 2, 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Field in Fukushima, 2020 Field in Fukushima, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 3, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 3, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Rebecca at a Ryokan Hotel in Fukushima 2020 Large Rebecca at a Ryokan Hotel in Fukushima 2020 Large
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Education

Lives and works in New York City

1971 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1998 BA in Photography - CUNY, The City College of New York, New York, NY
2001 MFA Photography & The Related Media - School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2003 Photo Journalism/Documentary - International Center of Photography, New York, NY

 

Solo Exhibition

2017 While Leaves Are Falling… - Miyako Yoshinaga, New York, USA
2012 While Leaves Are Falling… - Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2009 SHUMAFURA - Miyako Yoshinaga, New York, USA

 

Group Exhibitions

2017     Resonance Vortex: Photography of Innocence and of Experience - Tokyo Photographic 
  Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Winners of Tokyo International Photography Competition - 72 Gallery, Tokyo and 
  United Photo Industries, New York
2012 Beyond 1 Lens & Over 100 Eyes, Group Show - hpgrp Gallery New York, New York
2011 Till All Is Green (Benefit For Children Affected by the 3/11 Earthquake/Tsunami) - Miyako 
  Yoshinaga, New York
2008

Hitotsubo-ten, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Group Show - Recruit Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Making a Home -Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Group Show - Japan Society, New York, USA
  Hitotsubo-ten, Recruit Fellowship Winners in The Past, Group show - Guardian Garden, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
 

Super PHAT: SVA Japan Alumni Association Exhibition - Group show at The School of Visual 
 

Arts Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Milwaukee International Art Fair, Milwaukee, USA
2005 Kunst 05 Zurich 11th International Contemporary Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
  Because I Dream, I'm Not - Capsule Gallery, New York, NY USA
  Cet05~Central East Tokyo 2005 - ROJI Cultural/logical/radical TOKYO, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
2004 One for Your Grandma - Capsule Gallery, New York, NY USA
2003

Photographs by Next Generation: Young Portfolio Recent Acquisitions 2000 - Kiyosato Photo 
 

Museum/K’MoPA, Japan
  Mindfactory, photographs from 1971 Project, group show - Jody Monroe Gallery, Milwaukee, USA
2001 Canon New Cosmos of Photography, Group show - Morta Politica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Hitotsubo-ten, 3.3mX3.3m Exhibition, Group show - Recruit Guardian Garden, Tokyo,Japan
2000

My side of the story—New York and Tokyo, Solo Exhibition - Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan
 

My side of the story—New York and Tokyo, 3-person show - Fuji Photo salon, Osaka, Japan

 

Publication

2016         While Leaves Are Falling…, AKAAKA, Japan
2012 Shades of the Departed (self-published)
2009 SHUMAFURA (self-published)
2007 Making a Home – Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York- Japan Society, Yale Press, USA
  200 Japanese Photographer’s Portfolios, Graphic Publishing, Japan

 

Awards & Grants

2016        

NYFA recipient of Artists’ Fellowship in the Photography category
2013 Tokyo International Photography Competition, Jury Selection
2003

Guardian Garden/ Recruit Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan
2001

Hitotsubo-ten(3.3mX3.3m) Award, Guardian Garden/Recruit, Japan
 

New Cosmos of Photography (Shashin-Shinseiki) Honorable Mention award, Canon, Japan
2000

The Rookie of the Year Award/New Face Award 2000, Fujifilm/Fuji Photo Salon, Japan

 

Talks/Lectures

2009          

Asian Contemporary Art Week 2009 (Co-hosted by Asia Society), Artist Talk on "SHUMAFURA" & "While Leaves Are Falling", Miyako Yoshinaga, New York, US

 

Public Collection

Light Work, Mr. and Mrs. Avedon, The Richard Avedon Foundation

"Kobayashi Sisters" from SHUMAFURA on the occasion of Japan Tsunami Relief

Harvard University Library (While Leaves Are Falling…)

Princeton University Library (Self-published books: SHUMAFURA and Shades of the Departed)

Kiyosato Photo Museum/ K’MoPA, Japan

Liberal Arts and Science Department, The City College, The City College of New York, New York, NY

 

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Bibliography
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 1, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 1, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 2, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Hotel in Fukushima 2, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca at a Museum in Fukushima 2, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca at a Museum in Fukushima 2, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 2 , 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 2 , 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in The Ryokan Hotel Hotel in Fukushima 1 , 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in The Ryokan Hotel Hotel in Fukushima 1 , 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother And My Aunt in Hakone , 2019 My Mother And My Aunt in Hakone , 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Persimmon Persimmon
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in Bed , 1999 My Mother in Bed , 1999
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone , 2019 My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone , 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Trees Outside a Department Store My Family Used to Frequent, Tokyo 1999, 2016 Trees Outside a Department Store My Family Used to Frequent, Tokyo 1999, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family at My Mother's Hospital, 1999 My Family at My Mother's Hospital, 1999
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Nikko, 2001 My Family in Nikko, 2001
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Nikko, 2000 My Family in Nikko, 2000
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother at Home Watching Television, 2001 My Mother at Home Watching Television, 2001
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Cloud, Fukushima, 2005 Cloud, Fukushima, 2005
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Hakone, 2009 My Family in Hakone, 2009
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Younger Aunt Walking Her Dog , 2009 My Younger Aunt Walking Her Dog , 2009
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family in Our House , 2007 My Family in Our House , 2007
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room, Kyoto , 2010 My Mother in a Hotel Room, Kyoto , 2010
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother Smoking in Back of Our House , 2006 My Mother Smoking in Back of Our House , 2006
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, View from a Hotel in Kinugawa, 2009, 2016 View from a Hotel in Kinugawa, 2009, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Swan Boat, 2020 Swan Boat, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in an Isolation Room at Her Hospital After Water Intoxication 1, 2016 My Mother in an Isolation Room at Her Hospital After Water Intoxication 1, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in Hakone , 2015 My Mother in Hakone , 2015
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Two Mt. Fuji Two Mt. Fuji
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Family at Fujiya Hotel, 2017 My Family at Fujiya Hotel, 2017
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother Repeatedly Trying to Take a Shower at the Hotel in Hakone, 2016 My Mother Repeatedly Trying to Take a Shower at the Hotel in Hakone, 2016
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone 2, 2019 My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone 2, 2019
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Field in Fukushima, 2020 Field in Fukushima, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 3, 2020 Miyako And Rebecca in a Ryokan Hotel room in Fukushima 3, 2020
  • Takahiro Kaneyama, Rebecca at a Ryokan Hotel in Fukushima 2020 Large Rebecca at a Ryokan Hotel in Fukushima 2020 Large
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2013    

Images from Shades of The Departed, Pagan Dawn magazine, UK

 

2012

Identities Now: Contemporary Portrait Photography, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, USA

Takahiro Kaneyama, Shades of The Departed, New York Photo Review.com (online)

Communities with the spirits at Japan’s Mount Fear, DESIGN BUREAU Magazine, USA

The DART Board: 03.13.2012, DARK Design Arts Daily, USA

Mysteries of Mt.Osore, Weekly NY Life (New York-based Japanese local paper)

 

2011

Things To Do, Japan: How you can help, BID ON ART, TIMEOUT NEW YORK

Kaneyama’s Japan, Before the Flood, DART Design Arts Daily

 

2009

Roalf Peggy, Review Takahiro Kaneyama’s SHUMAFURA, DART Design Arts Daily, NYC, USA (online)

Asian Contemporary Art Week catalog, Asia Society, USA

 

2008-07

Shiner Eric, Kaneyama Sisters in exhibition catalog "Making a Home -Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York," Yale university, pp. 98-101

Reviews: New York, UP NOW, December 2007, P150, ARTnews

Russet Hart, Making A Home: Takahiro Kaneyama at The Japan Society, American Photo/Pop Photography, USA

Canon-News from Past Winners (of New Cosmos of Photography), Takahiro Kaneyama Participates in Making A Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Online

Family Secrets, on-line review for the Japan Society's centennial exhibition:    http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/4843/family-secrets.html

Schwendener Martha, Super Phat "Art In Review" New York Times, Sept. 21, 2007

ARTnews, Reviews, Making A Home-Japan Society

 

2005

Kunst 05 Zurich 11th International Contemporary Art Fair, catalog

 

2003

Snapshot, New York Times Magazine, Sophisticated Traveler Part 2 / March 2, P.24

1971, American Photo Oncampus, P.22-23 December issue

Going 1992-2002 Guardian Garden, Hitotsubo-ten, 20 th Anniversay, P.134, P158-160, Guardian Garden/Recruit, Tokyo, Japan

Photographs by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio Acquisition 2002, P.26, P.152, P.197, K’Mopa, Japan

WRAPAROUND MAGAZINE, October

American Photo Magazine, Portfolio, October

 

 

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