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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

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