Hiroshi Sugimoto

- Selected Works

- Biography

Hiroshi Sugimoto is born in Tokyo, Japan, on February 23, 1948.

In 1970 he graduated in politics and sociology at Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo and four years later he obtained a degree in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles. The same year he moved to New York, were he actually lives and works.
He is an highly appreciate photograph, that uses to organize his work in different series (Dioramas, Portraits, Theatres, Seascapes, Architecture, Lightning Fields…).A complete biography can be found on the artist’s website www.sugimotohiroshi.com

- Exhibitions

2019
Past Presence - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Quatro Ragazzi: Hopes and Illusions of the Momoyama Renaissance - Europe through the Eyes of Hiroshi Sugiomto and the Tensho Embassy. Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The First Encounter - Italy through Eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tensho Embassy - Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Surface of Revolution. The Estate of Trianon - Palace of Versailles, Versailles
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Quatro Ragazzi - MOA Museum of Art, Atami
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life - Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Hiroshi Sugimoto. B.C. - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Notti Bianche - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Surface Tension - Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Snow White - Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Gates of Paradise - Japan Society, New York, NY
The Sea and The Mirror - Château la Coste, le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Provence
Seascapes-Atami - MOA Museum of Art, Atami
2016
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters - FraenkelLAB, San Francisco, CA
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Remains to Be Seen - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Theaters: 1976-2001 - Lio Malca, New York City, NY
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Black Box - Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Sea of Buddha - Pace Gallery, New York City, NY
2015
Past and Present in Three Parts / Art and Leisure, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan
Stop Time, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy.
Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models, Phillips Collectioni, Washington D.C
2014
Hiroshi Sugimoto: On the Beach, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.
('12, '09,'07,'06,'05',01,'98,'97,'96,'95)
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cahiers d'Art Gallery, Paris.
Moderan Times, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venezia
The Glass Tea House Mondrian, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia
Still Life, Pace, New York.('10,'11)
Acts of God, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.('12,'09,'07,'03,'01,'98,’96,’95,’94,’92)
Aujourd'his le monde est mort [Lost Human Genetic Archive],Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Past Tense, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles.
2013
Time Exposed, Xue Xue White, Taipei.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul.
Sugimoto Bunraku "Kannon Pilgrimage from The Sonezaki Love Suicides" (produced, artistic directed by Sugimoto) 2013 European Tour. Madrid, Rome, Paris.
Accelerated Buddha, Fondation Pierre Bergé Yve Saint Laurent, Paris.
Revolution, Last Supper, Couluers de l'ombre, Les
Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles.
SANBASO, divine dance – Mansai Nomura + Hiroshi Sugimoto, directed and set & constume were designed by Sugimoto, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Hèrmes Editeur - Couleurs de l'Ombre, Tyler Print Institue, Singapore
2012
Revolution, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Rothko|Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes, Pace London
Hèrmes Editeur - Couleurs de l'Ombre, Museum der Kulture, Basel / La Verrière, Brussels / Le Forum, Tokyo / Miami Design District ,Miami
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lille Metropole: musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporian et d''art brut, Lille, France
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pace Beijing
Five Elements, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.( '09,'07,'06,'05',01,'98,'97,'96,'95)
From naked to clothed, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (See Photo18)
Photogenic Drawings, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco ('09,'07,'03,'01,'98,’96,’95,’94,’92)
2011
Surface of the Third Order, The Pace Gallery, New York
Lake Superior, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York  New Work, The Chinati foundation, Marfa.
Sugimoto Bunraku: Dekunobo irinasake Sonezaki shinju tsuketari Kannon meguri ("Kannon Pilgrimage" from The Love Suicide at Sonezaki), produced / (artistic) directed by Sugimoto. Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KAAT), Yokohama. Aug.14-16.
Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawing, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
ORIGINS OF ART |Architecture, History, Religion, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa.
2010
ORIGINS OF ART | Science, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa. (See Photo17)  The Day After, The Pace Gallery, New York. (See Photo16)
2009
Nature of Light, Izu Photo Museum, Mishima.  Permanent Installation of "Coffin of Light " at Benesse Park, Naoshima. (See Photo15)  Imakojima-Art, Architecture Collection, Yurinsou, Ohara Museum, Okayama. April 14 - May 17.   History of History, The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
2008
7Days / 7 Nights, Gagosian Gallery, New York  Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museum der Moderne Salzburg/ Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin/ Kunstmuseum Luzern,Switzerland.  History of History, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
2007
Hiroshi Sugimoto, K20, Dusseldorf/ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- de Young, San Francisco/ Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy.  History of History, Asain Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco/ Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. (See Photo14)  Colors of Shadow, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (’05,’03,’01,’98,’97,’95,’94,’92,’88,’83,’81)
2006
Mathematical Forms, Galerie de l’Atelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris.  Colors of Shadows, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/Sonnabend Gallery, New York  Joe, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis / Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.  History of History, Smithsonian, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C.  Hiroshi Sugimoto, Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,  Washington D.C.(See Photo13)/ The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. (See Photo12)
2005
History of History, Japan Society Gallery, New York  Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo  Conceptual Forms, Gagosian Gallery, London
2004
E´tant donne´: Le grande verre, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.  (See Photo11)   The Origins of Love, Yoshii Gallery, New York
2003
Serpentine Gallery, London. (See Photo10)   Hiroshi Sugimoto: L’hisoire de l’histoire, Maison Herme`s FORUM, Tokyo. (See Photo9)   SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECUTRE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (See Photo8)
2002
The Architecture of Time, Stills Gallery/Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh   
2001
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. (See Photo7)   Portraits, White Cube2, London / Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York  Noh Such Thing as Time, DIA Art Center, New York. (See Photo6)
2000
Portraits, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao / Deutche Guggenheim, Berlin   
1999
Gallerie Ulrich fiedler, Cologne (’98)  Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt (’98,’96,’92)  Galerie Claude Berrie, Paris
1998
Japan Foundation, Istituto Giapponese de Cultura, Rome  La Caixa, Madrid  Akron Art Museum, Ohio  Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany  Kerlin Gallery, Dublin  Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon  Hiroshi Sugimoto: In Praise of Shadows, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan. (See Photo5)    
1997
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta  Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, The Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, England  Motion Pictures, Berkeley Art Museum, California   
1996
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica (’95, ’94, ’93)  Modern Museet Sparvagnshallarna, Stockholm  Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan. (See Photo4)   Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen  Junta de Andalucia, Granada  Gallery Joan Parts, Barcelona  TheoreticalEvent, Naples, Italy  Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas  Shashin: Transforming the Real, Tufts University Gallery, Massachusetts  Studio Guenzani, Milan  Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo   
1995
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York  Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland  Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montre´al  Art Gallery of York University, Toronto  Le Musee´ Villeneuve d’Ascq, France  Galleria SPSAS, Locarno, Switzerland  RENN Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris   
1994
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles  The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1993
 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond  Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium    
1992
CAPC Muse´e d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux. (See Photo3)
1991
Sagacho Exhibit Space and IBM courtyard, Tokyo  Gallery Kasahara, Osaka  Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo  Zeit-Photo Salon, Tokyo (’83)
1990
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri  Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich, Germany  Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris
1989
The National Museum of Art, Osaka  Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1988
Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo   
1987
Minami Gallery, Tokyo