G A G O S I A N G A L L E R Y

Hiroshi Sugimoto Biography

Born in 1948, Tokyo. Lives and works in New York.

Education:

1972 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles. 1966-1970 BA, Saint Paul's University, Tokyo.

Solo Exhibitions:

2009 Lightning Fields, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan. Lightning Fields, , CA. 2008 : Seven Days/Seven Nights, , New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. Travelled to: 21st century Museum of , Kanazawa, Japan. 2007 Leakage of Light, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo. Hiroshi Sugimoto, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany. Travlled to: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Colors of shadow, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2006 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museum, Fort Worth, TX. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Colors of Shadow, Sonnabend, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Mathematical Forms, Galerie de l’Aterlier Brancusi, Paris. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris. Hiroshi Sugimoto:Joe, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographs of Joe, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, The Smithsonian, Washington D.C. 2005 Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History, Japan Society, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Retrospective, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. (through 2006) Conceptual Forms, Gagosian Gallery, London (Britannia Street) and Sonnabend Gallery, New York. 2004 Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Origins of Love, Yoshii Gallery, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galería Javier López. Madrid. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Étant Donné: Le Grand Verre, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (through 2005). 2003 , Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Serpentine Gallery, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto: L’histoire de l’histoire, Maison Hermès, Tokyo. Architecture, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. 2002 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture of Time, , Austria; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; The Fruitmarket Gallery and Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2001 Hiroshi Sugimoto: Hasselblad Foundation Award Winner, Hasselblad Center, Göteberg Museum of Art, Sweden. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City. Movie Theaters and Drive-Ins, Galerie KlausEngelhorn22, Vienna. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto, White Cube, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Noh Such Thing as Time, Dia Center for the Arts, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Japan. Viennale Fotoausstellung, Galerie Klaus Engelhorn, Vienna. 2000 Currents 28: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture Series, San Francisco , CA. Sugimoto Portraits, Berlin; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes/Theaters, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, MA. 1999 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Fiedler, Cologne, Germany. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt, Germany. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Japan. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Claude Berrie, RENN, Paris. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Renn, Paris. 1998 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Japan Foundation, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura - Roma, Rome. Hiroshi Sugimoto, La Caixa, Madrid. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bielefeld Museum, Bielefeld, Germany. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Interior Theaters: The of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto: In Praise of Shadows, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan 1997 Motion Pictures: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, CA Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hall of Thirty Three Bays, The Sainsbury Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas and Wax Museums, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles. 1996 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt, Germany. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Hiroshi Sugimoto, , Sparvagnshallarna, Stockholm. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Junta de Andalucia, Granada, Spain. 1996 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Theoretical Event, Naples, Italy Hiroshi Sugimoto, Photo + Co., Turin, Italy Hiroshi Sugimoto, Saint-Gervais Geneva, Switzerland. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Shashin: Transforming the Real, The Tufts University Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Studio Guenzani, Milan. 1995 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York,. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Centre International D'art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museum Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallerie SPSAS, Locarno, Italy. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Espace Renn, Paris. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1994 Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (through 1995) Hiroshi Sugimoto, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1993 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, White Cube, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA. 1992 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Hiroshi Sugimoto, CAPC, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, . Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Meier Ellingen, Frankfurt, Germany. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Locmine, France. 1991 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sagacho Exhibit Space and IBM Courtyard, Tokyo. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kasahara Gallery, Osaka, Japan. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo. 1990 Hiroshi Sugimoto, St. Louis Art Museum, MO. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Jahn and Fusban, Munich, Germany. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Urbi et Orbi, Paris. 1989 Hiroshi Sugimoto, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan. Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. 1988 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Zeit Photo Salon, Tokyo. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan

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1983 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. 1981 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. 1977 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Minami Gallery, Tokyo.

Group Exhibitions:

2011 Rodin – Sugimoto, Gagosian Gallery, Paris. 2008 Striking Resemblance: Portrait as Muse, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL. Seascapes: Tryon and Sugimoto, Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C. Photography on Photography: Refrections on the Medium since 1960, Metropolitan Museum, New York. Untitled (Vicarious) Photographing The Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery, New York. 2007 KANNON, Museum Rietberg, Zurich. Modern Photographs from Collection XIV, Metropolitan Museum, New York. 2006 Dark Matter, White Cube, London. Infinite , Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Udine, Italy. 2005 Women of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. The Perception of the Horizontal, Museion, Berlin. Important Vintage and Contemporary Photographic Works of Art, hamburg kennedy photographs, New York. Theme and Variation: Twentieth Century Master Prints, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, INC. New York. (In)Visible (In) Corporeal (curated by Pierluigi Tazzi), Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Italy. J’en rêve, Foundation Cartier, Paris. Landscape, Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York. + Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo. 2004 Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 2003 Five Billion Years, Swiss Institute, New York. Unreal Estate Opportunities, pkm gallery, Seoul, Korea. The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH. warum! Bilder Diesseits und Jenseits des Menschen, Martin – Gropius – Bau Museum, Berlin. The Eye Club, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Happiness - a survival guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. 2002 From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Some Options in Realism, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The Beach, Windsor, Vero Beach, FL. Iconoclash Beyond the Image Wars, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. Mask or Mirror? {A Play of Portraits}, Worchester Art Museum; Worchester, MA. Affinities…Now and Then, Kansas City Art Institute, MO. 2001 ALL-TERRAIN, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach. Melodrama, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. In Between: Art and Architecture, The MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A., West Hollywood, CA. Give and Take”, Serpentine Gallery / Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 2001 I am a Camera, Saatchi Gallery, London.

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The Big Show – ‘HEALING’, New International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium. Rear Window, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA. Bogus, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY. About Faces, C&M Arts, New York. Beautiful productions, art to play, art to wear, art to own, collaboration with artists”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. 2001 At Sea, Liverpool, England. 2002 MEGA-WAVE – Towards a new synthesis, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Minato Mirai 21, Yokohama, Japan. Facts of Life: Contemporary , Hayward Gallery, London. ABBILD: recent portraiture and depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. 2000 LUX, Lucas Schoormans, New York. Architecture Without Shadows, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain. Traveled to: Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona. Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Le Temps Vite, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Traveled to: Palais des Expositions, Rome; Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. The Sea & The Sky, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA. Currents 28: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI. Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York. Abstract Photography, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany. 1999 The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia. Lawrence Beck, Elger Esser, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Views From the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York. Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, International Center of Photography, New York. Galleria Civica Modena, Italy. Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. Autour de L’Insolite, Modernism, San Francisco, CA. The Museum as Muse, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Center for Contemporary Art, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden. Tomorrow For Ever – Photography as a Ruin, KunstHalle Krems, Austria. As Far As The Eye Can See, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, GA. Black or White, Malca Fine Art, New York. Moving Images. Film – Reflection in Art, Galerie for Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany. Mirror’s Edge, BildMuseet, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. 1998 Photographer’s Gallery, London. Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD. Terra Incognita, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany. At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years Of Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Ludwig Museum / Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany; Fundacao Bienal de San Paulo, Brazil; Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. (Not Pictured) the Presence of Absence, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC. Ghost Story: The after-image of cinema, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. Secret Victorians, Firstsite, The Minories, Colchester, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England. Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Art Institure of Chicago. In Over Our Heads: The Image of water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of

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Art, CA. Through the Lens, The Rye Arts Center, NY. 1997 Speed, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Museum Studies: Eleven Photographers' Views, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Evidence, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. In Visible Light: Photography & Classification in Art, Science and The Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England. De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam. La Collection de la Foundation pour l’art contemporain, Foundation Cartier Paris. Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa. 1996 Prospect 96, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. By Night, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris. Anima Mundi, James Graham & Sons, New York. Tenth Biennale of Sydney, The Gunnery. Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Tranquility, Chiba Museum of Art, Japan. James Graham & Sons, New York. 1995 Making It Real, ICI, New York. Seeing Things: Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Art in Japan Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Private/Public, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland. Greenpiece, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY. A Century of Silence: Non-representation and Withdrawal in Modern Art, Academy Gallery of Art and Science, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York. Still Life, James Graham & Sons, New York. Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS. Jason McCoy Gallery, New York. Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA. The Abstracted Image in Photography, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA. Nature Studies II, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1994 Some went mad, some ran away..., The Serpentine Gallery, London; Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Kunstverein, Hannover; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Sixth Biennial Art Auction, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Theroretical Events, Piazza Gesu Nuovo, Naples, Italy. Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography, The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, NC. Space, Time and Memory: Photography and Beyond in Japan, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI. 1994 Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern in association with The Center for the Arts at Yerba, CA. Elemental Images: Contemporary Asian and American Photography, The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York. Seasights, Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, NY. Light Into Art: From Video to Virtual Reality, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase, NY. 1993 Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Adrian Schiess and Hiroshi Sugimoto, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.

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Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York. A Century of Silence, University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamton. Gardens of Eden: Jardins do Paraiso, Galeria do Museu Antropologico da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. The 21st Century, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. 1993 In die Felsen bohren sich Zikadenstimmen, Kunsthaus, Zurich. Daydream Nation, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York. Multiple Images: Photographs since 1965 from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1991 Beyond Japan: A Photo Theater, Barbican Art Gallery, London. Carnegie International 1991, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Reflexions Violees, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Le Printemps de la Photo, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Ville de Cahors, France. 1990 Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland. Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London. Natural History Recreated, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY. Photography Past and Present, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, Japan. Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter, Germany. 1989 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Visual Art Center, California State University at Fullerton, CA. On Kawara Again and Against", ICA, Nagoya, Japan. 1988 ROSC, Dublin, Ireland. 1987 Contemporary Japanese Art in America, Japan Society, New York. 1985 The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 1983 Landmarks Reviewed, Pensacola Museum of Art, FL. 1982 Photography Collection from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo. 1979 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Windows on the East, A Survey of Contemporary Japanese Art, World Trade Centers New York. Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA. Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Baltimore Art Museum of Art, MD.

Awards and Grants:

1982 National Endowment for the Arts Grant. 1980 Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship. 1977 Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Grant

Public Collections;

The Art Institute of Chicago. The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH. George Eastman House – International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY. Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France. Hara Museum of Art Tokyo, Tokyo.

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Harvard University Art Museums, The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The Princeton University Art Museum, NJ. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, , Washington, D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Seagrams Collection, New York. St. Louis Art Museum, MO. The Tate Gallery, London. Worcester Museum, MA. Benessee Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan.

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