Hiroshi Sugimoto

1948 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1970 Graduated from Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo
1974 Graduated from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles
1974 Moved to New York

Selected Solo Exhibition

2011
Surface of the Third Order | The Pace Gallery, New York
Lake Superior | Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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.
The Day After, The Pace Gallery, New York.

2009
Nature of Light, Izu Photo Museum, Mishima.
Lightning Fields, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco ('07,'03,'01,'98,’96,’95,’94,’92)
Lightning Fields, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo. ('07,'06,'05',01,'98,'97,'96,'95)
Permanent Installation of "Coffin of Light " at Benesse Park, Naoshima.
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.
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./ The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.

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.
The Origins of Love, Yoshii Gallery, New York

2003
Serpentine Gallery, London.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: L’hisoire de l’histoire, Maison Herme`s FORUM, Tokyo.
SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECUTRE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

2002
The Architecture of Time, Stills Gallery/Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh

2001
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.
Portraits, White Cube2, London / Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
Noh Such Thing as Time, DIA Art Center, New York.
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.

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.
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.

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

Selected Group Exhibition

2011
Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere, Fondation Cartier, Paris
Our Magic Hour: How Much of the World Can We Know?, Yokohama Triennale 2011
TRA -Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

2010
Autoritratti dalla Collezione della Galleria degli Uffizi,
Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo / National Museum of Art, Osaka
Faraday Cage, 17th Biennale of Sydney
Sexuality and Transcendence, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukrania

2009
Element of Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Mapping the Studio, Punta della Dogana, Venice
The Third Mind, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2008
Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Untitled(Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Photography on Photography:Refrections on the Medium since 1960, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Seascapes: Tryon and Sugimoto, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D. C.

2007
KANNON, Museum Rietberg, Zurich
Modern Photographs from Collection XIV, Metropolitan Museum, New York

2006
Dark Matter, White Cube, London
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Udine, Italy

2005
Sophie Calle + Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.

2004
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2003
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Happiness － A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Warum!, Martin － Gropius － Bau Museum, Berlin
The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Liquid Sea, Museum of Contemporary of Art, Sydney

2002
Selected Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
American Standard: (Para)Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

2001
Give & Take, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of contemporary Art Mega-Wave-Towards a New Synthesis, Yokohama
I Am a Camera, Saatchi Gallery, London

2000
Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art － Between the Body and Space, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

1999
Mirror’s Edge, BildMuseet, Umea° University, Umea°, Sweden
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Washington D.C.
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Moving Image: Film-Reflexion in der Kunst, Galerie fu¨r Zeitgeno¨ssische Kunst, Leipzig
Modena per la fotografia 1999: Uno sguardo sul Giappone, Galleria Civica Modena, Italy
Tomorrow For Ever: Photographie als Ruine, Kunstahlle Krems, Basel
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1998
Tastes and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990’s, Japan Foundation/National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi/Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th －Century Vision. The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, England/ Arnolfini, Bristol, England/Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England/Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough , England/ UCLA, Los Angeles
Speed-Visions of an Accelerated Age. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London/Photographers’ gallery, London/Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, London
Terra Incoginita, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo/Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City/Ludwig Museum, Cologne/Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne/Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil/Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson/International Center for Photography, New York
Hiroshi Sugimoto/Agnes Martin, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Mysterious Voyages: Exploring The Subject of Photography, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

1997
Blueprint, De Appel foundation, Amsterdam.
Framed Area, Haarlemmermeer District, Netherlands.
In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Evidence: Photography and Site, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University
Making It Rea, ICI, New York

1996
Open Secrets: Seventy Pictures on Papers, 1815 to the Present, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York/Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Colleci´on Ordo´nez Falco´n de Fotografi´a, Ivam Centre Julio Gonza´lez, Valencia, Spain
Jurassic Technologies Revenant: Tenth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Hall of Mirrors: Art and film Since 1945.Museum of contemporary Art, Chicago/Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus/Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

1995
3e biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon: Installation, cine´ma, vide´o, informatique, Muse´e d’art contemporain, Lyon, FranceNature
Nature Studies II, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Being There, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
Album Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam
Le Monde apre`s la Photographie. Muse´e d’art moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Witness: Photoworks from the Collection, Tate Gallery Liverpool, England
Art in Japan Today: 1985 － 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Private/Public (ARS 95 Helsinki), Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Chasing Shadows: Photographs from the Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1994
Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time and Memory, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo/ Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City/Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada/Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Denver Art Museum, Colorado/Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Fondation Cartier: A Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Seoul/Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography, The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away…, Serpentine Gallery, London/Nordic Arts Center, Helsinki/Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany
Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan/ Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1993
Jardins do Paradiso: Gardens of Eden, Galeria do Museu Antropolo´gico da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
In die Felsen bohren sich Zikadenstimmen: Zeitgeno¨ssische japanische Photographie, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Das 21, Jahrhundert: Mit Paracelsus in die Zukunft ( The 21st Century: Into the Future with Paracelsus), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

1992
Re´flexions Voile´es (Hidden Reflections), Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Un seconde pense´e du paysage, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Locmine, France

1991
Carnegie International 1991, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Post-Modern Japan, Tate Gallery Liverpool, England
Beyond Japan: A Photo Theater, Barbican Art Gallery, London

1990
Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
The Past and Present of Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Natural History Re-created, The Center fro Photography at Woodstock, New York
Sonnabend Collection Exhibition, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo/Sendai Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai/Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama /National Museum of Modern Art. Kyoto
Reorienting: Looking East, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow/Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London

1989
Continum and the Moment: Rita Myers, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Viola, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton
On Kawara: Again and Against: 23 Date Paintings and 24 Prominent Works of Japanese
Contemporary Art, 1969-1989, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, Japan
Investigations 1989, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1987
Contemporary Japanese Art in America (I): Arita, Nakagawa, Sugimoto, Japan Society Gallery, New York

1985
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1983
Landmarks Reviewed: Contemporary Photographs of American Buildings, Structures, and Natural Forms, Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida

1982
Photography Collection from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

1981
Baltimore Collects: Photographs from Local Private Collections, Baltimore Museum of Art

1978 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York