Hiroshi
Sugimoto

BIOGRAPHY
1948Born in Tokyo
1970Graduated from Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo
1974Graduated from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles
1974Moved to New York
Lives and works in Tokyo and New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form., Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles.
Optical Allusion, Lisson Gallery, New York
Giacometti/Sugimoto: Staged, The Institute Giacometti, Paris
2023Time Machine, Hayward Gallery, London
Honkadori Azumakudari, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
Playing with Fire, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.
2022Special exhibition: The Descent of Kasuga Spirit, Kasugataisha Museum, Nara, Japan
Hiroshi Sugimoto Honkadori, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
OPERA HOUSE, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Journey of the Kasuga spirit, Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
2021OPTICKS, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
2020HYOGU – Frame of Japan, The Hosomi Museum Kyoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto – Post Vitam, Higashiyama Cube, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
Past Presence, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2018Quatro Ragazzi: Hopes and Illusions of the Momoyama Renaissance – Europe through the Eyes of Hiroshi Sugiomto and the Tensho Embassy, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
SUGIMOTO VERSAILLES: Surface of Revolution, The Estate of Trianon, Palace of Versailles, France
Nobunaga and Quattro Ragazzi: Hopes and Illusions of Momoyama Renaissance – Europe through the eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and the Tensho Embassy, MOA Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
2017Gates of Paradise, Japan Society, New York
Le Notti Bianche, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
2016Lost Human Genetic Archive, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2015Art and Leisure, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan; Hosomi Museum, Kyoto(2016)
Past and Present in Three Parts, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan; Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia(2016); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland(2016)
2014ON THE BEACH, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Aujourd’hui, le monde est mort [Lost Human Genetic Archive], Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Tense, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
2013Hiroshi Sugimoto, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2012Five Elements, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
From Naked to Clothed, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2011Hiroshi Sugimoto ORIGINS OF ART | Architecture, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2009Hiroshi Sugimoto: Nature of Light, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka, Japan
Lightning Fields, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2008History of History, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan; The National Museum of Art, Osaka(2009)
2007Leakage of light, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Hiroshi Sugimoto, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany(2008)
2006Art Capturing, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Mathematical Forms, L’atelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2005History of History, Japan Society Gallery, New York
Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.(2006)
2004Étant donné: Le Grand Verre, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
2003Hiroshi Sugimoto, Serpentine Galleries, London
Hiroshi Sugimoto: L’histoire de l’histoire, Maison Hermès Forum, Tokyo
ARCHITECTURE, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2001Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Architecture of Time, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Portraits, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2000Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Architecture Series, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Sugimoto: Portraits, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
1999In Praise of Shadows, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
1998Modernism, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
1997Twice as Infinity, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
1996Hiroshi Sugimoto—Photographies, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Motion Picture, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
1995Sill Life, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Sugimoto, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston(1996); Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan(1996); Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio(1997)
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Exposed, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1994Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1992Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Exposed, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
1991Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Exposed, Sagacho Exhibit Space and IBM Courtyard, Tokyo
1989Recent Works 5 Hiroshi Sugimoto, National Museum of Art, Osaka
1988Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sagacho Exhibit Space and Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas, Theaters, Seascapes, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1977Hiroshi Sugimoto, Minami Gallery, Tokyo