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Current events
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Akifumi Tanaka “Chichibu Scenes II”
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Asuka Katagiri “Light & Now—Photon Superposition”
Presenting works from Katagiri’s “Light Navigation” series capturing sunlight from outer space on film and her “21_34” shots of fireworks lighting up the night sky. More »
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Fujiya Hotel Maintenance and Repair — The People Who Safeguard Architecture
The Fujiya Hotel—a Hakone landmark this year greeting its 140th anniversary—still enchants visitors today. This classic hotel features several Registered Tangible Cultural Properties among its many buildings....More »
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Gallery Show 2019
Poetic Scape will hold a group show with selected works from the past exhibitions at Poetic Scape, including some new works. Artists: Hiroshi Nomura, Satomi Sakuma, Toshiya Watanabe, Yoshiichi Hara,...More »
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Kanata Goto + Sayaka Toyoshima Exhibition
[Related Events] Performance and live flower arrangement demonstration Sayaka Toyoshima 2/9 (Sat) 18:00-18:30 (Start time may vary depending on opening party) 2/13 (Wed) 18:00-18:30 2/16 (Sat) 18:00-18:30 2/19...More »
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Kozo Miyoshi “Mayu”
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TSCA Collection | Foresights and Flow
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Azamino Photo Annual: The Camera and Photography Collection of Yokohama City
Featuring guest curation by the artist Hiroshi Nomura, known for his “Doppelopment” photo series, Facebook comic “On Photography,” and illustrated book “CAMERAer.”. More »
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Azamino Photo Annual: Yurie Nagashima Exhibition
The new exhibition series Azamino Photo Annual introduces contemporary expressions in photography. This show experimenting with relationships between photography and text focuses on the installation work...More »
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Ken Matsubara “Cicada Shells”
A book of photographs, glass art, and sculptures evoke skins left behind.More »
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Kohei Arai + Mai Tsumuraya “Kumo No Ito Ⅲ”
Kohei Arai’s works consider photography’s disorienting ability to contain unknown pasts and hidden lives. Mai Tsurumaya uses words and photographs as “twin pillars” to convey her perspective on the seemingly...More »
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Mami Yamasaki + Hidekazu Maiyama “Silent”
Hidekazu Maimiya’s photographs of actress Mami Yamasaki.More »
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Meisa Fujishiro “Roses”
Dazzling light and color-filled images of roses by Meisa Fujishiro, a well-known 1990s pop star and award-winning photographer.More »
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Mika Yamashita + Velonyca Toto “Yamanyca”
Venue: 2F ACT2More »
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Shigeo Takahashi “Field”
Venue: Gallery 2More »
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Takeshi Yagihara “Railway Scenes”
Gallery 1More »
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The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2019 — The Art of Transposition
The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions is a unique annual event founded in 2009 that combines exhibitions, screenings, live performances, and talk sessions. Over the years,...More »
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Letters – Written Correspondence Among the Elite
Letters from the estate of Waseda University founder Shigenobu Okuma reveal the close ties between the Okuma family and leading Saga Prefecture figures at the dawn of the Meiji Period. More »
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Mikako Kozai “Years”
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Asago Photo Contest 2018 Exhibition
Presenting winning works from a photography contest from Asago, Hyogo Prefecture, a town known for its beautiful “castle in the sky” Takeda-jo ruins.More »
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Japan Racing Photographers Association Exhibition: Competition
These images from the Japan Racing Photographers Association capture the dramatic interplay of humans and machines.More »
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Maria Nashiki “Now or Never”
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Shinzo Maeda, a Photographic Explorer Seeking Color: The Quest for New Discoveries
Shinzo Maeda was a photographer who determined the course of Japanese landscape photography in the 1970s. His unique style captures nature with a sophisticated sense of form, discovering new beauty in...More »
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From the Archives
Revisiting our past collaborations with a wide range of artists, “From the Archives” will feature many works that have yet to be exhibited in Japan. More »
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Hitoshi Tsukiji “Mother Police City”
This will be Hitoshi Tsukiji’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and will feature approximately 25 works selected from a show held under the same title at the Polaroid Gallery in Tokyo in 1984....More »
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Keiji Tsuyuguchi “Natural History”
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Legendary Nude Photos: Parisiennes of the Good Old Days
Displaying both eroticism and restraint, these 100 classical nude photographs of Parisian women are exhibited in Japan for the first time.More »
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Naoko Katayama “Affogato Syndrome”
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Tsutomu Yamagata “Surveillance”
Zen Foto Gallery is pleased to present Tsutomu Yamagata’s exhibition “Survelliance” from February 8 to March 2, his third solo exhibition at the gallery after “Thirteen Orphans” in 2012 and “Ten Disciples”...More »
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Aspirations Show
A group of photographers hoping to land a solo show present their works. Visitors can vote for a favorite to be granted a two-week exhibition at NADAR this coming November. A NADAR-selected artist will...More »
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Daido Moriyama “Radiation (Color)”
On display are color photographs taken in the 1970s-80s, selected by Moriyama himself from the original positive film, and transformed into new works in a lightbox format for this exhibition. In conjunction...More »
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Kenneth Anger “Iconic Memory”
- at Sgùrr Dearg Institute for Sociology of the Arts
- in the Ebisu, Daikanyama area
- Ends in 10 days
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Masumi Shiohara “Bear Fruit”
Masumi Shiohara’s botanical art-inspired photo series “Bear Fruit” received the 2016 Onaeba Grand Prix. Tokyo Institute of Photography presents her photographs with grape motifs printed on high-gloss paper....More »
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Meiji Era 150th Anniversary “The 1000 Technologies That Changed Japan”
2018 marks 150 years since the start of the Meiji Era. Over 600 valuable pieces of technology that changed Japan have been gathered from universities, research centers, and companies throughout the country...More »
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The Dawn of Japanese Rail
- at Railway History Exhibition Hall, former Shimbashi car park
- in the Ginza, Marunouchi area
- Ends in 10 days
2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the start of Japan’s Meiji Era, a period that saw the introduction of the country’s first railway. Through railway models, this exhibition looks back on the excitement...More »
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Zhang Yu “Meiji Monument”
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“New Material Research Laboratory・— New Material × Old Material”
This special exhibition introduces ten years of achievements by the New Material Research Laboratory (NMRL), co-established by internationally acclaimed artist Hiroshi Sugimoto and architect Tomoyuki Sakakida...More »
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Goto Aki “Terra”
In these 43 images, photographer Goto Aki presents places in Japan from the perspective of “expressions of earth.” More »
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Masato Shimizu “In Search of a Clear Heart: From the Mt. Fuji Foothills”
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Shinichi Iwata “Enchanted with Yatsugatake in Winter”
Shinichi Iwata captures the beauty and nostalgic charm of the Yatsugatake mountain range in Yamanashi and Nagano in these 30 black and white photographs. More »
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Cannon Photo Collection: Shigeichi Nagano’s ‘Memories of This Country’
Exhibiting some 25 works from photographer Shigeichi Nagano’s half-century career that capture the changing face of postwar Japan. These works may offer hints for how Japanese people can live in the times...More »
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Sophie Calle “Parce que”
Sophie Calle’s ‘Parce que’ series of embroidered text and photography on cloth makes its debut in Japan with this exhibition of nine new works. The text explains the “why” (parce que) of Calle’s choice...More »
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Ari Marcopoulos Exhibition
Fergus McCaffrey is pleased to present our inaugural exhibition with photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos, on view at the gallery’s Tokyo location. Widely recognized for his photographic work that...More »
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Hugh Scott-Douglas “Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You”
Hugh Scott-Douglas introduces two new bodies of work entitled “Natural History” and “Forms of Nature,” which address symptoms of human impact on the natural environment and the sites of collective imagination...More »
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2019 Gallery Jy Exhibit
An annual five-part exhibition featuring three artists in each segment, with paintings, sculpture, collage, photography and other works.More »
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Open Space 2018: In Transition
Open Space is an exhibition introducing works of media art and other forms of artistic expression born out of today’s media environments to a broad audience. On display along with explanatory notes are...More »
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Sophie Calle “My mother, my cat, my father, in that order”
Perrotin is pleased to present “My mother, my cat, my father, in that order,” a solo exhibition by Sophie Calle. It is the artist’s first show at the Tokyo gallery and the sixteenth since the start of...More »
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The Reading Room For Provoke
Traveling from Moom Bookshop in Taiwan, this exhibition displays and sells vintage photobooks and documents from participants in the Provoke photography magazine of the late 1960s. It also displays original...More »
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Toluca Editions 12 Titles
Parisian-based Toluca Editions is a publishing company founded by Alexis Fabry and Olivier Andreotti in 2003. This exhibition is a curated selection of 12 works from their 42 volume Artist Book series....More »
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20th “1_WALL” Graphics Exhibition
As always, this latest in the series of “1_WALL” Graphics Exhibitions brings together six diverse up-and-coming young designers. Mai Kato creates lithographs using the motif of traces on her wall left...More »
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Ken Morisawa “Memory of Consciousness”
Alongside his photography, Ken Morisawa has always been a swimmer, and is now a skin-diving fisherman. Morisawa says that while cultivating his aesthetic sense through working with water, he often felt...More »
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Aesthetics of Shinzo Fukuhara - Shinzo Fukuhara, Assemble, and The Eugene Studio
Photographer Shinzo Fukuhara (1883-1948) believed that artistic beauty was created by transcending fields and combining genres such as painting and photography or photography and poetry. He also believed...More »
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Shotaro Akiyama “Making Beauty More Beautiful”
This exhibition looks back on the career of photographer Shotaro Akiyama (b. 1920) in 130 works including portraits of Showa-era celebrities and artists, his art photos of flowers, and his snapshots from...More »
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Taiji Kiyokawa “Showa Student Travels”
Painter Taiji Kiyokawa (1919-2000) pursued his own distinct form of abstract art for almost 60 years since the 1940s. However, as a student at Keio University, Kiyokawa was in the photo club and held a...More »
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Takeshi Mizukoshi “Thinking About Landscape Photography”
- at Ricoh Imaging Square Ginza 8F, A.W.P Gallery zone
- in the Ginza, Marunouchi area
- Ends in 24 days
Presenting 36 emotionally evocative black and white photographs of mountains, forests, and elephants by the landscape photographer Takeshi Mizukoshi, a student of mountain cameraman Yukio Tabuchi. Original...More »
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Takuro Kishibe “Whereabouts Unknown”
Takuro Kishibe uses folded photographs in collages that stimulate minds with a morbid curiosity. Original illustrations from previous works and limited-edition silkscreen posters produced with Kameido...More »
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A Universe of Dots and Lines
Three artists with ties to the Shonan area present works portraying the universe and natural world with constellations of small dots and slender lines. More »
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1968: Art in the Turbulent Age
Held as a turning point in 20th-century history, 1968 likewise marked a pivotal year in modern art. This retrospective held just over 50 years later shows how the state of art stood then. Modern art broadened...More »
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Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan
Sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) sought to reintegrate art into people’s daily lives. Meanwhile, Saburo Hasegawa (1906-1957) was a leading figure in Japanese prewar abstraction as a painter, and as a...More »
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Doigahama Site Exhibition
Doigahama is a burial site in Yamaguchi Prefecture that dates back from the Yayoi period. This exhibition features important findings that detail the origins of the Japanese people. More »
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Naoki Ishikawa: Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet
Naoki Ishikawa (b. 1977) is an accomplished mountain climber who trekked from the North Pole to the South Pole at age 22 and scaled the world’s seven highest summits by age 23. He continues to travel the...More »
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The Collection Now: Painting, Sculpture, Printing + Seizo Suzuki
Inroducing works from the 1980s onward in the Meguro Museum of Art’s collection, including contemporary sculptures by Noe Aoki and Keizo Tawa, intricate pencil drawings by Norio Shinoda and Yuriko Terasaki,...More »
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Yuki Harada “Photography Wall”
Yuki Harada (b. 1989) is a photographer and artist influenced by his father’s experience with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Taking an interest in an “insurmountable wall” of two-dimensional media such...More »
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Sophie Calle “Exquisite Pain: From the Hara Museum Collection”
This exhibition reprises Sophie Calle’s “Exquisite Pain,” a show originally held from 1999 to 2000 and with works that became part of the Hara Museum Collection. Sophie Calle is largely known for her highly...More »
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Nishimura Gallery Collection
Displaying around 25 works from the Nishimura Gallery collection, including pieces by David Hockney, Edward Keinholz, Anthony Green, Takanobu Kobayashi, Katsura Funakoshi, Atsuhiko Misawa, Tadanori Yokoo,...More »
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Boro – Real Astonishment
With this exhibition, “boro” garments are hung among 34 photos newly published by Kyoichi Tsuzuki (the photographer and author of “Boro Rags and Tatters from the Far North of Japan” released in 2009 when...More »
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Plaza Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition
An exhibition of photography.More »
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Yumeji Takehisa’s Bijins
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Toshiko Okanoue “Photo Collage: The Miracle of Silence”
Toshiko Okanoue burst onto the art scene in the 1950s, when she came to the attention of Shuzo Takiguchi, the leader of the Surrealism movement in Japan. Through the medium of photo collage, she fully...More »
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Alvar Aalto – Second Nature
Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is an iconic Finnish architect whose designs range from private houses to public buildings, and include such works as Villa Mairea, Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Paimio, and Viipuri...More »
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Bunkamura’s 30th Anniversary Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic
The somewhat clumsy and always hungry world-famous bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, was created in England in 1926. The humorous and witty world of Pooh, as penned by A.A. Milne and illustrated by E.H. Shepard,...More »
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Takeyoshi Tanuma: Picturing My Tokyo 1948-1964
Known for his photographs of children all over the world and his photographic portraits of the era’s most important cultural figures, Takeyoshi Tanuma (b. 1929) remains at the forefront of photography...More »
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Kiyoshi Niiyama “Vintage”
In his late years, the Ehime Prefecture-born photographer Kiyoshi Niiyama (1911–1969) was invited by Otto Steinert to participate in the German exhibition “subjektive fotografie.” Subjective photography...More »
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Chad Moore “Memoria”
Thirty-two works by the photographer Chad Moore, who has worked and an assistant for Ryan McGinley. Taking a unique approach to color, Moore views photography as an opportunity to draw out moments into...More »
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Le Corbusier and the Age of Purism
The Main Building of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo was designed by Le Corbusier (1887-1965), one of the 20th century’s greatest architects. The building was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage...More »
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Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions
The Roppongi Crossing series launched in 2004 by the Mori Art Museum provides a snapshot of the Japanese contemporary art scene every three years. This sixth edition will showcase the work of around 25...More »
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Sugiura Hisui: Image Collector
Hisui Sugiura (1876-1965) took an important role in the earliest days of Japanese graphic design. He actively promoted Zuan design plans in his publications co-authored with Soshu Watanabe (1890-1986):...More »
Permanent events
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Jim O’Connell “Kabukicho”
Jim O’Connell documents Tokyo’s red-light district, making connections with Kabukicho’s working men and women, revelers and passers-by. This exhibition comprises of ten photographs shot in 2006. This...More »
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Permanent Exhibitions
Art Factory Jonanjima is home to three permanent exhibitions: “Kimiyo Mishima Installation Work 1984-2014” Focusing on Mishima’s installations from the 1980s, this display features 13 works in an...More »
Upcoming events
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Illuminating Graphics 2
The spread of computers and ubiquitous use of the Internet have clearly caused vast changes in our everyday lives, especially in the way we communicate. Ongoing advances in media technology have also expanded...More »
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Landscape
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New Documentary — Attitude of Seeing
Explorations of “new documentary” methods taking the form of painting, photography, performance, fashion, and more. Examples include Keisuke Katsuke’s braun tube pixel paintings and the label Pugment’s...More »