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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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Teppei Sako “Poor, Video, Anytime, God”
A resampling of the cover art for the Radiohead album “Hail to The Thief.” More »
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Reco Someya Exhibition
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Daido Moriyama
- at Shadai Gallery, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics
- in the Musashino, Tama area
- Ends in 44 days
Shadai Gallery holds a collection of some 900 vintage prints by photographer Moriyama Daido from the 1960s and 1970s. More »
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Fumi Ishino “Tinted Lines”
The new photobook “Tinted Lines” features fragmented scenes captured in Los Angeles. These images gesture towards categorized social structures and issues of class, race, immigration, urban development,...More »
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Jeanloup Sieff “Monochrome”
This is the 106th exhibition at Art Gallery M84. Jean-Loup Sieff, one of France’s most famous photographers, has been at the forefront of photography for half a century, from his debut in the 1950s until...More »
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Maiko Haruki “Still Life”
For Maiko Haruki’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, she has chosen to focus on pop culture icons in the form of around ten soft toy characters including Hello Kitty, the emblem of Japanese “kawaii...More »
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2020 Press Photography Exhibition
*Open Fridays and Saturdays only until March 21. *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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2020 the 45th Exhibitions of the JPS
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Canon Photo Circle Monthly Photo Contest 2020
Exhibiting 36 award-winning worksMore »
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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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Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from Around the World
Recent years have witnessed growing moves worldwide to right inequalities around aspects of identity such as gender, race, ethnicity, and beliefs, and attach greater value to diversity. Also in contemporary...More »
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Yasuhiro Ogawa “The Dreaming”
Around 30 selected works in silver gelatin prints from Yasuhiro Ogawa’s photobook “The Dreaming.”More »
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Taisuke Koyama “Interface Yurakucho”
Interface_Yurakucho features the work of photographer Taisuke Koyama on eight buildings and glass facades around Yurakucho and Marunouchi. Koyama uses photography as a tool to recompose urban structures...More »
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Cherry Blossom Party
eitoeiko is pleased to announce the second edition of seven artists exhibition Cherry Blossom Party. The inaugural cherry blossom viewing party in Shinjuku Gyoen park had been hosted by the Prime Minister...More »
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Sadahiro Koizumi Exhibition
This exhibition features the black and white street photography of Sadahiro Koizumi. More »
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Minoru Hirata “Action: Vintages from the 1960s”
This exhibition features 11 vintage prints of photos Minoru Hirata took of avant-garde artists active in the 1960s. More »
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Rhizomatiks_Multiplex
*In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo has introduced reservation priority tickets (date and time tickets, date and time tickets) with a limited number...More »
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Kota Takeuchi “Parallel, Body, Possession”
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Haruka Akagi + Kazuhiro Yasuda “To Flowers/Step on Flowers”
Photographs of flowers by Haruka Akagi and street photography by Kazuhiro YasudaMore »
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Kiyoshi Tatsukawa + Hiroshi Narita “Postman Cheval’s Dream – Space and Photography and Painting”
Two artists pay homage in photography and painting to Ferdinand Cheval, the 19th century French postman who spent 33 years constructing his Le Palais idéal (the “Ideal Palace”). 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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Digitalis or First-Person Camera
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Digitalis or First-Person Camera, a group exhibition featuring artists and filmmakers Umi Ishihara, Maiko Endo, Yokna Hasegawa and Mayumi Hosokura,...More »
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Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2019-2021 Exhibition
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) established the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA) in 2018 as a contemporary art prize to encourage mid-career artists to make new breakthroughs...More »
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2020 MOMAS Collection Term 4
Selected works from the MOMAS collection works include Moïse Kisling’s “Fruit on a Red Table.” The “Beyond MOMAS Doors” segment looks at fresh ways to enjoy the collection through the workshop MOMAS Doors....More »
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Joban Line Exhibition
- at Railway History Exhibition Hall, former Shimbashi car park
- in the Ginza, Marunouchi area
- Ends in 71 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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New Space / New works
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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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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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5 Artists
Works by five of the gallery’s artists introducing a selection of previously unexhibited works by Yutaka Aoki and Fumiko Imano, as well as Ataru Sato’s painted box and a selection of recent works by Noritaka...More »
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Francis Bacon ―The Barry Joule Collection of Artworks from Francis Bacon Studio
Barry Joule, who happened to live near Bacon’s studio, began to interact with the artist since 1978. And since he was a neighbor, Bacon sometimes asked Joule to perform odd jobs for him. In 1996, Joule...More »
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Chokko Yamadaya “SO”
Chokko Yamadaya’s sculptural prints reconstruct elements of silver nitrate, ink, and light, the fundamentals of photography. More »
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Wang Yibing “Happy Holidays”
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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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Estate
Exhibiting work by curator Kosuke Yamawaki and four other artists.More »
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Tamami Iinuma “Japan in Der DDR”
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Yoshihiko Ueda “Camellia Garden”
Presenting photographs from Yoshihiko Ueda’s film “Tsubaki no Niwa” (Camellia Garden) telling the story of a year at an old house enveloped in a calm silence. More »
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Masatoshi Mori “Between the Ground and the Sky”
After working as an assistant to Takashi Miyamoto and Hiroshi Osaka, Mori went independent in 2004. Since then, he has been in charge of photographing brand images for the likes of Time & Style and...More »
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Tomohiro Noguchi “Slow Waltz”
This exhibition features 25 snapshots of the streets of London, Paris, Vienna, Venice, Stockholm, and New York before the COVID-19.More »
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Koji Yoneya “Night Train Schedule”
This exhibition will showcase 15 gelatin silver prints under the theme “night trains”. More »
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Decades 2000_2020
*Ishiuchi Miyako’s work is removed from the exhibition after March 27. This exhibition commemorates the launch of the new photography magazine Decades (No.1 2000_20 Issue) by Akaaka Art Publishing. The...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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Kiyoshi Sumi + Louise Claire Wagner “La Lumière pour L’Avenir”
Drawings and photographyMore »
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Kiyotaka Hamamura “Mars”
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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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Katsumi Sunamori “Contact Zone”
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Persevering Fluctuations
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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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Inner Landscapes, Tokyo
*Due to the concern regarding the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), we have announced to postponement of opening the Exhibition “Inner Landscapes, Tokyo” until April 1. *The start of this exhibition...More »
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Kazuo Saito “Diary of Old Age”
Photographs of a husband and wife in old ageMore »
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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 50 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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Goshi Uhira “Unknown Skin”
High-quality grey scale photographs of the limitless textures of people’s skinMore »
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Yusuke Enomoto “Yamabiko”
This exhibition features Yusuke Enomot’s snapshots of seemingly ordinary landscapes that evoke a sense of fear of being watched by someone.More »
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Kimio Yajima “L’esprit de Kimio Yajima”
This is an exhibition of photographs by Kimio Yajima, the second winner of the ’Shines’ photography audition held by Canon Marketing Japan Inc. After working in advertising photography, Yajima turned...More »
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Kazuo Kitai: A Photographer on the Road with His Camera To the Village
Kazuo Kitai’s photographs for To the Village were serialized in twenty-four issues of the Asahi Camera monthly magazine from January 1974 to December 1975. The 1970s was a time when people in Japan were...More »
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Silent
The exhibition “Silent” demonstrates art’s ability to calm and quiet us. More »
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Takashi Kato “Trip to Square”
During the COVID-19 lockdown photographer Takashi Kato spent his time documenting an area within a two-kilometer radius of his home. Another series captures cherry trees blossoming as the human world closed...More »
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Panacea
Four artists of different ages, nationalities, backgrounds, and mediums explore the concept of a “panacea” for surviving within the cycles of capitalism. More »
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MOMAT Collection
This spring, we mark 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake struck the Tohoku region in northeastern Honshu. In May 2011, shortly after the earthquake and tsunami, the museum presented a special...More »
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Tsuyoshi Miyazawa “Capture a Shadow”
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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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Mitsugu Onishi “Topographic Record Tokyo/Cliffs”
Mitsugu Onishi has been photographing the people and scenery of Tokyo’s shitamachi area, where he was born, and the city’s bay area since the 1970s. He began his fieldwork-like expeditions, during which...More »
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Uruma Takezawa “Boundary”
Uruma Takezawa travels the globe photographing borders where conflicts and strife occur.More »
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Takuro Yoneda “Stone Country”
Takuro Yoneda photographs the Fuefuki River in the Kofu Basin and other places where stones can be found near water.More »
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Before 1968 Daido Moriyama’s Works From Magazines
This exhibition commemorates the publication of Daido Moriyama’s 5th photo collection which traces the early work of Daido Moriyama, featuring 930 prints taken between 1960 and 1982 from the collection...More »
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Ryuichi Ishikawa “The Inside of Life”
Presenting the work of photographer Ryuichi Ishikawa (b. 1984). Featured are 42 new photographic works that were taken at a mountain by Ishikawa during his stay there. Since his past portrait series, Ishikawa...More »
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Takuko Katayanagi “Possession”
Katayanagi has studied photography at workshops such as Osamu Kanemura Workshop and Kenji Takazawa Seminar (Calotype) and has continued to produce works. This will be her first solo exhibition. The...More »
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Takashi Mitsuhashi “Walkdown”
“Walkdown” in this exhibition refers to the process of visiting a site, observing, inspecting, or investigating a device or thing according to a certain procedure, and then evaluating and recording the...More »
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Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2020
The Young Portfolio exhibition contributes to culture by encouraging young people through photography. Each year it takes submissions from photographers around the world age 35 and younger and through...More »
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Lottery Exhibition - Ai Mi Tagai 2021
In 2019, the London and Tokyo Program (LTYE) was the 5th anniversary, and “Aimitagai” was held in Tokyo as a comprehensive exhibition. LTYE project has been ongoing since 2015 as part of the young artists...More »
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Hitoshi Kameyama “Daily Life in Myanmar”
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Saki Otsuka “To Be a Woman”
Photographer and painter Saki Otsuka’s solo-exhibition 女であるために (To Be a Woman) features two new interrelated series of photographs and video installation. Otsuka is a Tokyo native and multidisciplinary...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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Etsuko Kasagi “The Mother I Don’t Know”
Award-winning photographer Etsuko Kasagi creates collages of her photographs of her mother in the past and in the present.More »
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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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Daisuke Yokota “Photographs”
Focusing on new works from Daisuke Yokota’s “Untitled” series, which questions the nature of photography in works of exposed printing paper. More »
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The Sento: The History and Culture of Bathhouses in Tokyo
*Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum is temporarily closed until April 21(Wed). Since the Edo period, public bathhouses have been centers of rest and relaxation, and have evolved throughout the...More »
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Entrance Gallery - Vol. 2 Yuki Shimizu
On the first floor of the Chiba City Museum of Art, which was expanded and reopened in July 2020, a new museum store and café were built around the Saya-do Hall. Using the bustling entrance space as a...More »
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S,M,L – To Unknown Worlds
Artworks in various sizesMore »
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All our stories are incomplete… Colours of the imagination Collection Exhibitions curated by Ryan Gander
The England-based artist Ryan Gander puts his own spin on the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery collection. Gallery 1, 2, 3, 4 More »
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Daisuke Morishita “Dance with Blanks”
The core themes Morishita explores in his work are “existence” and “relationships.” Through repetition of the prototypical photographic ritual—to witness reality, click the shutter, print in the darkroom...More »
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Loop Beyond Art
Started by Kobo Chika in 2011, loop is a volunteer organization that brings art to hospitals and care facilities. This exhibition presents works by four artists participating in loop. More »
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Takumi Fujimoto Exhibition
Photographer Takumi Fujimoto captures scenes of life in Korea.More »
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Kim Dooha “Another Self-Portrait”
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Wan Chaofan + Cai Yunyi “People in Landscape”
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Koki Shinoda Exhibition
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Shinji Ihara “Love Your Neighbor 2021”
By appointment only. (Please visit official website for the details.) In 2019, Ihara was invited by his friend to travel to Antarctica. Departing from Ushuaia, the southernmost port city of Argentina,...More »
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Hiroshi Takizawa ”Fingerprinted Objects”
Hiroshi Takizawa uses photography in various ways in works that blur the line between image and object. Here he presents photographs of fingerprinted clay, interpreted as a kind of relief sculpture. More »
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Contemporary Japanese Photography 1985–2015
For its 70th anniversary, the Japan Professional Photographers Society presents “Contemporary Japanese Photography 1985–2015,” a compilation and exhibition of photography history. Part 1 focuses on a global...More »
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Nuranura Exhibition 2021
This is the third year of an exhibition of work based on the motif of Shunga by contemporary artists from a variety of genres, including manga, woodcarving, video, performance, photography, and contemporary...More »
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Hollywood Stars in Screen Magazine: Commemorating its 75th Anniversary
John Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster, Michael J. Fox, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio… One cannot discuss the evolution of Japanese movie...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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Ikuhisa Sawada “Commercial Factory, Apr. 2021 the White”
The exhibition will be held in Room#303 of “The White”, a space run by the artist himself, and will be updated every month. The exhibition aims to visualize the artist’s progressive efforts through repeated...More »
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Hiroshi Sugimoto “Opticks”
This exhibition shows four works from the “Opticks” series, which was first presented at Kyoto City Kyocera Museum last year. The work originates in artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s idea to recreate Sir Isaac...More »
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Kozo Miyoshi “Shashin”
Kozo Miyoshi started out in photography in the 1970s, began using a 10-inch camera in 1981, and since 2009 has worked with a 20-inch camera. These 32 photographs, printed with the Canon imagePrograf, demostrate...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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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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Natsumi Yamada “TOKΘYO”
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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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Himawari Hara “Route 1”
This exhibition consists of 35 color photographs taken while walking along the 761-kilometer long Route 1 from Tokyo to Osaka.More »