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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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Ryoji Akiyama Photography Exhibition
This exhibition showcases 30 original prints by photographer Ryoji Akiyama taken during a 2-year period from 1975. More »
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Musashino Art University Degree Show 2020
Exhibiting final research projects by 2020 graduates at the Takanodai campus. *Visitors not affiliated with the school are asked to make online reservations in advance.More »
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Hua Wang “Box of Dreams”
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Robert Doisneau La Musique Paris
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) is one of France’s most celebrated photographers. He produced many excellent works depicting Paris, and continues to be dearly loved by many around the world. This exhibition...More »
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Introduction to Art Archive XXI Fumihiko Maki and Keio University I: Resonating Architecture
*Due to the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease), an advance reservation system will be in place for this exhibition. Fumihiko Maki (1928- ), who has studied at Keio, Tokyo and Harvard University,...More »
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Papers Passed Into Your Hands, Books Started Moving
This project aims to connect people through books as works of art. Participants created books on the theme “my world” and responded to them through postcards. Their works are on display. More »
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Taro Okamoto’s Travels
The artist Taro Okamoto traveled all across Japan and around the world, researching cultures and peoples from an ethnological perspective. From 1957 to 1966, he travelled from Tohoku to Okinawa and published...More »
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Maki Ishii “Letters from 3.11/Voices of Sound”
Presenting the work of photojournalist Maki Ishii, who continues to document the conditions and lives of people impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. This exhibition...More »
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Ken + Julia Yonetani “That’s Why I Want To Be Saved”
*Reservations required. *Open 10:00-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Blending science and myth, contemporary artists Ken + Julia Yonetani contemplate environmental collapse, climate change, the pandemic,...More »
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Noriyoshi Shibata “Ten Years”
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Joshibi University of Art and Design Master’s Program Class of 2020 Graduation Exhibition
- at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Sagamihara Campus
- in the Musashino, Tama area
- Starts in 3 days
Introducing graduation projects from Master’s degree students at Joshibi University of Art and Design. The Suginami campus presents works of media, healing, fashion textiles, and art production while the...More »
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Tomoki Imai “A Decade”
It has been 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear incident. Artist Tomoki Imai explores the struggle against the unseen, the greatest source of human anxiety. *Reservations required....More »
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Michiko Sato “Creative Snap”
In abstract paintings based on actual scenes that transform into the unreal, Michiko Sato carves out her unique perspective on the world.More »
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Ko Maruyama “South Sudan – The Edge of Hope”
Ko Maruyama has spent a long time documenting a refugee camp in South Sudan. His photographs are introduced. More »
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Yushi Arai “2020 Tokyo Street Prayer”
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Tama Art University Art Department Information Design Media Art Course 2019 Graduate Exhibition ‘Skippp…p’
Exhibition featuring the graduation work of Tama University Media Art Course students. More »
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Joban Line Exhibition
- at Railway History Exhibition Hall, former Shimbashi car park
- in the Ginza, Marunouchi area
- Ends in 113 days
This exhibition commemorates the one-year anniversary of the complete resumption of operations by the Joban Line, which was heavily impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Look back on the rail’s...More »
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Disaster and Future – 10 Years After the Great East Japan Earthquake
- at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
- in the Odaiba, Kachidoki area
- Starts Today, Ends in 22 days
This exhibition remembers the Great East Japan Earthquake and passes on its lessons for the future through the sections “Memories of the Disaster,” “New Connections,” and “Issues for the Future.” NHK documentation...More »
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Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year
In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, which itself suffered damage from the disaster, organized an exhibition entitled...More »
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A Memory of Place - The Power of Recollection
This exhibition showcases works by artists expressing the present and past of various places. More »
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Iconic Figure
This is the 104th exhibition for Art Gallery M84 and features 20 photographs by 14 renowned photographers including Patrick Demarchelier, the official photographer to the late Princess Diana, known for...More »
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Kenryou Gu “A Part of There is Here”
This is Kenryou’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and will feature his current works based on physical sensations in urban spaces.More »
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Lavender Hair
“Lavender Hair” is curated by Lavender Opener Chair / Tomei, an artist-run gallery in Tokyo.More »
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NITO05
Osamu Shikichi and Momoko Tanizaki join this show’s roster of artists. Shikichi uses dance to explore issues of the body. Tanizaki’s paintings directly convey specific experiences and emotions.More »
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Ten Photography School Selections
An exhibition of work from ten photography schools. Part 1: Feb. 3 (Wed)–Feb. 25 (Thurs) Part 2: Feb. 26 (Fri)–Mar. 18 (Thurs) Location: Canon Open Gallery 2 More »
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Rajiogoogoo “Dad Said: Don’t Cross Your Legs”
Presenting works by a selected participant in a 2020 workshop led by photographer Osamu Kanemura.More »
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Shun Komiyama “My Beautiful Tokyo”
This exhibition features work under the theme of life in Tokyo and is the third following showings in Kyoto and Nagoya. More »
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Francis Bacon The Barry Joule Collection of Artworks from Francis Bacon Studio, 7 Reece Mews London SW7 U.K.
*According to the extension of the state of emergency including Kanagawa Prefecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama will be temporarily closed from Tuesday, January 12 to Sunday, March 7, 2021 to prevent...More »
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Seiji Kumagai Exhibition
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My Armchair
Matisse decided to become an artist when he was 20 years old, recuperating from an illness. For Matisse, art was a therapy. It was never meant to be a radical pollical message or an arcane intellectual...More »
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Tomoko Sawada “To Be Bewitched by a Fox”
Sawada Tomoko is an internationally renowned contemporary feminist artist and the winner of the 2000 Canon New Cosmos of Photography Award for her self-portrait piece titled “ID400.” As a “photographer...More »
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Untitled
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Keiichi Ito “Meditations 2020”
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Takashi Nagaoka “Fragment”
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South South Tokyo
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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 »
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Running through East Asia: Sports in the Modern Age
Since 2014, the National Museum of Japanese History has engaged in mutual exchange activities and research cooperation with the National Museum of Taiwan History in Tainan City, Taiwan. In 2016 we cosponsored...More »
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My Flower
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Kikuji Kawada “Endless Map”
Kikuji Kawada’s sixty-year career as a photographer began as a staff photographer for the newly founded weekly magazine Shukan Shincho in 1956. Since then, ambitious works like The Map (1965), a metaphor-riddled...More »
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The Sento: The History and Culture of Bathhouses in Tokyo
Since the Edo period, public bathhouses have been centers of rest and relaxation, and have evolved throughout the ages. The Public Bathhouse “Kodakara-yu” (1929) was relocated from Senju Motomachi in Adachi...More »
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Yusuke Yamatani “Tokyo – Sanjo”
This exhibition for the release of the New Balance R_C4 Capsule Collection features 30 images produced for this show along with an installation inspired by the Joetsu Shinkansen. Yamatani’s work brings...More »
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Landscape of Harbor and Waterside, Mainly in Yokohama
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery holds a collection of some 1,300 works, mostly created since its opening in 1964. This exhibition features around 50 works – oil paintings, Nihonga paintings, photography, and...More »
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3rd Anniversary Exhibition: Home/Town
For its third anniversary, Art Museum & Library, Ota features work by the poet Fusanojo Shimizu and the photographers Mari Katayama and Atsushi Yoshie, all of whom have ties to the city of Ota, Gunma....More »
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Charm of Gelation Silver Prints Ⅶ: Portraits of the 20th Century
For the exhibition’s seventh iteration, the gallery will show portraits taken by eight photographers of great figures of the 20th century (Picasso, Andre Breton, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol, Constantin...More »
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Ryo Owada “The Auto”
New photographs of classic cars by Ryo Owada.More »
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Yoko Fukuoka “Here You See Me, And I Am You”
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Gifts from the People 2020 - Reiwa Year One New Collection
This exhibition showcases recently collected documents and items about the history and culture of Edo/Tokyo. More »
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Views Toward Ainu Culture—Focusing on Photographs from the N.G. Munro Collection
Photographs of Ainu culture taken by the Scottish physician and archeologist N.G. Munro (1863–1942), who conducted research in Hokkaido from 1930. The film “The Kamui Iomande,” edited by Munro, is also...More »
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Qualities in Bodies
Simpson Choi creates images with the light and heat of fireworks on printing paper. Nigel Wong focuses on the immaterial qualities of digital photography. Their differing works presented together are an...More »
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Chikara Komura “Flowers in the Sea II”
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Hitoshi Fugo + Katsuyuki Uomoto “At the Same Time”
From 2018 to the spring of 2020, Fugo and Uomoto have worked together on this project where they have taken photos of their surroundings synchronizing when they press the shutter. They have consolidated...More »
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The Other Side of Photos
Fotomoti is a community service provided by Canon MJ promoting the enjoyment of photography. Fifty photographs by selected participants and judges for a competition held last year are on display. The...More »
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Ken Domon and Takeshi Fujimori: Photographs of Buddhist Sculptures from Northern Japan
This exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake presents images of Buddhist sculptures from the six Tohoku prefectures taken by prominent photographer Ken Domon and his...More »
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Rooms to Breathe
From Edi Dubien’s encounters with animal and vegetal life, keeping nature close at hand, a tactic for the fauna that inhabits his art to make its way into the open, to Cathy Burghi’s tropical luxuriance...More »
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Luisa Lambri Exhibition
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Yozo Hamaguchi + Yuji Hamada Exhibition
- at Musee Hamaguchi Yozo / Yamasa Collection
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi area
- Ends in 29 days
This two-person exhibition features 25 copper prints by Yozo Hamaguchi along with 60 photographs by Yuji Hamada. More »
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Yuji Takano Exhibition
This exhibition features painting-like works based on enlarged photos. Venue: 2nd floor ACT3More »
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Photo Group Komorebi 11th Exhibition
Forty-two images of landscapes, nature, and traditional ceremoniesMore »
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Kazutomo Tashiro “2011–2020 Sanriku, Fukushima/Tokyo”
Communication Gallery Fugensha presents two series of work by the Tokyo-based photographer Kazutomo Tashiro. The first, “Hamayuri no koro ni,” comprises portraits from the disaster zone and the surrounding...More »
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Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi, Tokuko Ushioda, Mari Katayama, Maiko Haruki, Mayumi Hosokura, and Your Perspectives
Shiseido Gallery, which has a long history of introducing female artists, will have a group show by female photographers pursuing creative expression. Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi and reconstruct images...More »
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Tetsuo Kashiwada “Into the Gray”
Tetsuo Kashiwada, who studied abroad in Australia, was shocked by its wildfires in 2019 and 2020. This exhibition of photographs commemorates the publication of “Into the Gray,” a book of his work. More »
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Maki Taguchi “Secret Garden /0”
Photographer Maki Taguchi’s first exhibition of new work in four years features images from “Secret Garden” shot on the Eurasian continent and “Secret Garden/1” documenting places free of gender constraints....More »
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Myu Mikki “Sound of Color”
Venue: Nikon SalonMore »
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A Happy New World 2021
This exhibition of new and previous works by eight artists seeks out new relationships between the pieces. More »
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Something at Maison Kenpoku 2021
Now in its second edition, Maison Kenpoku is an art project in northern Ibaraki Prefecture started in 2018. This year’s theme is “memories of the region.” It features work by clothing designer Nao Hisaka...More »
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An Empty Vessel
Lacquerware, sculpture, and photography by three artistsMore »
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Artists Along the Railway Lines: Den-en-toshi Line and Setagaya Line
The Tamagawa Electric Railway (tram), precursor of the present-day Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line and Setagaya Line, was the first rail line to operate in Setagaya, and was affectionately known as“Tamaden,” a...More »
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Eikoh Hosoe and Beloved Artists
Portraits from Eikoh Hosoe’s “Ai suru Geijutsuka tachi” series and works by the photographed artistsMore »
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Kyohei Hayashi “Home”
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Shin Hamada “Atarimae・no・Kototachie Ⅱ”
*Advance reservations are required. Mr. Hamada, who says that “the act of taking a photograph is a life attitude itself,” does not adhere to any particular motif or technique, but captures the casual...More »
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Hideyuki Tsukahara “Upepo II”
Hideyuki Tsukahara revisits an earlier series of platinum prints capturing life on the Savannah desert. More »
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Akane Ito “Eyes Open, But Not Seeing Reality”
Akane Ito received the Grand Prize in the 22nd “1_WALL” Photography Competition for “(Last) Weekend Utopia Travel,” her series of photographs taken on weekends spent in search of her ideal utopias. Mainly...More »
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Hirohisa Yasu Exhibition
Venue: The GalleryMore »
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Shun Komiyama “Names for Nothing”
Featuring works previously exhibited at Haku Gallery in Kyoto and c7c Gallery in Nagoya, along with “My Beautiful Tokyo,” a show of new works inspired by Tokyo life.More »
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Simon Roberts “The Brexshit Machine”
With days before the official separation of the UK from the EU, there is no more timely occasion to present Simon Roberts’”Brexshit Machine” in the confined space of The Container. Radiating monotonous“Brexit...More »
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Reiko Hagihara “Heart of Nature”
The 25th edition of this series featuring young photographs presents the work of landscape photographer Reiko Hagihara. Venue: Fujifilm Photo Salon Tokyo Space 2More »
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Natsuki Kuroda “The Photograph Begins”
Thirty-minute screenings of two categories of photographs: “friends” and “rooms.”More »
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Noriko Takasugi “Musuhi”
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2020 Press Photography Exhibition
*Open Fridays and Saturdays only until March 7. *Reservations required The year 2020 was rocked by the spread of the COVID-19 virus around the world, which resulted in the postponement of the 2020...More »
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Bubbles / Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989–2019
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art hosts this exhibition at Higashiyama Cube, looking back on the art of the Heisei period (1989–2019), with a focus on the collective activities of the artists concerned....More »
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What We Saw, Did, and Understood
This exhibition looks back on a project by Fujifilm to salvage, clean, and return photographs damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Venue: Fujifilm Photo Salon Tokyo Mini GalleryMore »
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Kenji Tajiri “Mimesis”
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Yoshikazu Shirakawa “Eternal Japan / The Earth”
This exhibition features two major compilations of the work of Shirakawa Yoshikazu in two series, each exhibited over an approximately month-long period. The first part, Eternal Japan, Series 11, introduces...More »
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The Secret 2021
This charity photography exhibition with 20% of sales going to support Akai Hane volunteer services presents a total of 44 works. The photographer responsible for each work is not revealed until after...More »
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Kota Kishi Exhibition Part 2
For a 15-year period from 2005 until 2020, Kota Kishi has photographed the neighborhoods of Kamagasaki in Osaka, San’ya in Tokyo, and Kotobukicho in Yokohama. This two-part exhibition documents the changes...More »
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Kihachiro Kawamoto and Tadanari Okamoto, Puppet Animation Filmmakers
Kihachiro Kawamoto (1925-2010) and Tadanari Okamoto (1932-1990) were artists who each left unparalleled achievements in Japanese animated film, particularly in stop-action animation. Both studied under...More »
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「Photo Beachcombing: Found Photo Association」
Snapshots from the collections of Yusuke Shinozuka and John Sypal.More »
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VOCA Exhibition 2021
Location: Main Building 1F/2FMore »
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2021 Izu Biennale
The seventh Izu Biennale features the work of fifty recognition-worth artists from the Izu area and eastern Shizuoka Prefecture. More »
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Takaaki Inada “Portrait in Kazakh”
Portraits of traditional nomadic life by the Altai Kazakh people in central Eurasia. More »
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Goodbye, Gallery Tsukigime
This independent gallery in Ikejiri Ohashi, which held its shows in a basement and renovated parking lot, will close after three years of activity due to the building’s demolition. The last exhibition...More »
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Yuko Nakamura + Tomona Matsukawa “My River runs to thee”
In recent years, both artists have employed research, particularly interviews, to explore realizations and sensations conjured from the experience of being a mother, and given it form in words and film...More »
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Maki Morimoto “My Forest”
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100th Birthday of Tal-su Kim Exhibition
*Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature is temporarily closed from Jan. 12 to Mar. 8. Through his work Tal-su Kim (1920-1997) explored what it means to be human from the perspective of a person of Korean...More »
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“Domani: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2021
This year’s exhibition—featuring seven promising newcomers with overseas study program experience over the past ten years, plus earlier program participants and now Japanese art scene frontrunners Kengo...More »
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Kiyoshi Sonobe “Hometown”
This exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of photographer Kiyoshi Sonobe with 30 color images from his 1990 photobook “Furusato” (Hometown) capturing landscapes across Japan. Location:...More »
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Out and About in the City - It Started From Ripples in the Water
- at Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
- in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
- Ends in 92 days
This exhibition features the work of the 1995 exhibit at Watar-um ‘Ripples in the Water95’ along with the work of currently active artists. More »
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Yasuhide Kuge “Mnemosyne”
Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory in Greek mythology and the mother of the Muses. Photographer Yasuhide Kuge met two performers, Norico Sunayama of Dumb Type and Nakao Ikemiya of Nomad-s, and began creating...More »
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The Day We Saw the Same Moon
Atsushi Watanabe is a former “hikikomori” shut-in who has rejoined society. In this era of COVID-19, when many people feel isolated, he began observing and photographing the moon, noting that when you’re...More »
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Takahiko Sakai + Tina Okuhara “Face 2 Face”
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Identity
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Tomona Hayashi “Fragmentlight”
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Silent
The exhibition “Silent” demonstrates art’s ability to calm and quiet us. More »
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Ryuhei Yokoyama + Kanji Hasegawa “Some Kinda Freedom”
Photographer Ryuhei Yokoyama and sculptor Kanji Hasegawa find parallels between Buddhism and street culture. More »
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Masaya Chiba Exhibition
Masaya Chiba is a promising young painter and art school professor. He creates his works with human-shaped objects made from materials such as clay or wood, beginning with provisional landscapes he creates...More »
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Mina Daimon + Robert Adachi “Quotations II”
Paintings based on random texts from the bookshelf of the gallery’s director. More »
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Tomohiro Muda “Icons of Time 2021”
Ten years following the Great East Japan Earthquake, “Icons of Time 2021” presents an exhibition of Tomohiro Muda’s photographs, which record the aftermath of the disaster through the various objects lost...More »
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Shozaburo Ishida “Integral”
For “Integeral,” photographer Shozaburo Ishida continues in the line of his previous series “Radiation Buscape” and “Crossing Ray” creating works that contemplate the relationships between electricity,...More »
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Inner Landscapes, Tokyo
“Inner Landscapes” is a project by Finland-based photographic artist, Marja Pirilä, and Satoko Sai + Tomoko Kurahara, a ceramic artist unit working in Japan. Interviewing elderly people living in certain...More »
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Ryo Kameyama “Mexico/Everyday Violence and Death”
For his second exhibition at Studio 35 Minutes, Ryo Kameyama presents photographs of people living under the influence of drug cartel fighting in Mexico. The black and white snapshots evoke a sense of...More »
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Born with Flowers— Reconstruction and Art after 3.11
This exhibition looks back on the ten years since the Great East Japan Earthquake with panels by the Iwate Reconstruction Bureau and works reflecting on the disaster by artists with ties to the NPO Iwate...More »
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Hisachika Takahashi “This is Hisachika Takahashi”
The present exhibition is, on one level, meant to add to the information that has surfaced regarding the artist Hisachika Takahashi; this following an ongoing exploration of the artist and his work by...More »
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Halfway Happy Vol. 2 Kosuke Nagata: Eat
Kosuke Nagata explores motifs of eating and mouths in this series.More »
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Chotoku Tanaka “Today Tokyo 1964/2020”
Forty black and white images of Tokyo in 1964, when the last Olympic Games were held here, and in 2020. More »
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2021 A Space Odyssey Monolith: Memory as Virus - Beyond the New Dark Age
Released in 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark science fiction film dealing with the relationship between humanity and technology, as well as with human evolution. This exhibition uses art to...More »
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Kaede Fukumoto “The Last Supper”
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Takeshi Miyamoto “Spectrum”
This exhibition commemorates the release of Takeshi Miyamoto’s photobook “spectrum” by torch press. The Paris-based photographer juxtaposes portraits of sexual minorities with natural landscapes in Iceland....More »
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Hwajin Lee “Saudade Project”
Hwajin Lee has been creating works through video and photography that focus on phenomena that occur in the relationship between people and time.”Saudade Project” (2019–) is a series of works in which she...More »
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Mitsugu Ohnishi “Tokyo Heat Map 1997-2004”
This is Ohnishi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, composed of his snapshots of Tokyo‘s Shitamachi area [traditional shopping and residential districts in Eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay], taken around...More »
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Yoshihisa Kino “Pines”
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David Felix “Post Tenebras Lux”
David Felix has been showing his photographic works taken with his own pinhole camera. In this exhibition, he will be showing his works taken with a pinhole camera using instant camera film. By moving...More »
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Fission and Fusion—Post / Photography
[Event] Hiroshi Kato Live Performance Date: March 11 (Thurs) from 14:46, March 13 (Sat) from 14:46 and 19:00 Each performance to last about 30 minutes. Free. Please see the official website for details....More »
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Decades 2000_2020
This exhibition commemorates the launch of the new photography magazine Decades (No.1 2000_20 Issue) by Akaaka Art Publishing. The magazine was launched by the Japanese photographer, Ai Iwane, and the...More »