| Profile |
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Born
in Kanagawa Prefecture, 1947. Studied oil paintings
at Tama Art University, 1966-1968. Fulbright Scholar
at San Francisco Art Institute, 1975. Present: Professor,
Kyoto University of Art and Design.
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| Awards |
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New
Comer's Prize, Japan Print Association Exhibition
(1968), Japanese Culture Forum Prize, 5th International
Young Artist Exhibition (1969), Grand Prize, Japan
Print Association Exhibition (1969), 2nd Prize,
2nd Internat ional Biennale Ashiyagawa Exhibition
(1974), Special Prize, Japan Craft Comp etition
(1978), Kyoto Design Council Award (1978), Kyoto
City Artist Award for New Emerging Artists (1988),
Excellent Award, Kyoto Contemporary Photogra phers
Exhibition (1993), Grand Prize, Kyoto Art Exhibition
(1994)
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| Selected One-person Exhibitions |
| "Wind Mandala",
P.G.I. Shibaura (1999), "NAMASTE", Polaroid Gallery,
Tokyo (1997), "Self Portraits", P.G.I.Shibaura (199
6), Gallery Ississ, Kyoto (1996), Gallery TAF, Kyoto
(1996), Memory's Galler y, Nagoya (1995), D.C. Gallery,
Osaka (1995), A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe (1994 ), Gallery
Ississ, Kyoto (1994), Gallery Raku, Kyoto University
of Art and D esign, Kyoto (1994), VOICE Gallery, Kyoto
(1993), Toshiaki Inoue Gallery, Os aka (1992), Gallery
MIN, Tokyo (1991), Takada Fine Arts, San Francisco
(1990 ), Sacra, Kyoto (1989), Gallery MIN, Tokyo (1989),
Picture Photo Space, Osak a (1989), Andrew Smith Gallery,
Santa Fe (1989), Gallery DOT, Kyoto (1987), Gallery
Cuore, Kyoto (1985), Gallery Wide, Tokyo (1984), Polaroid
Gallery, T okyo (1984), City Gallery, Kobe (1983),
Gallery Beni, Kyoto (1979), Gallery Beni, Kyoto (1976),
Upstairs Gallery, San Francisco (1975), Heian Gallery,
K yoto (1974), Heian Gallery, Kyoto (1971), Kinokuniya
Gallery, Tokyo (1970), Ginza Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo
(1968) |
| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| "Contemporary Photographs
from China, Korea & Japan", Gallery A.O.I., New York
(1998), "History of Instant Camera", Queen Mol e Gallery,
Yokohama (1998), "The 8th Art Festival Kyoto", Shoseien,
Higashi Honganji Temple, Kyoto (1998), "The 16th Imadate
Paper Contemporary Art Exhi bition", Imadate Art Museum,
Fukui (1997), The National Museum of Modern Art ,
Kyoto (1997), "A Mandala of Clouds - Yasu Suzuka,
Nobuhiro Aihara", Galler y Ississ, Kyoto (1997), "Selected
Contemporary Photographs of Hands", Thread Waxing
Space, New York (1996), "Digital Visuality '96", Jyvaskyla
Gallery Ha rmonia, Finland (1996), "Seven Contemporary
Japanese Photographers", Xian In stitute of Fine Arts,
Xian (1995), "17 Contemporary Japanese Photographers",
Gallery A.O.I., Santa Fe (1995), "Eyes of Fifty Artists",
Museum of Tama Art University, Tokyo (1994), "Horizons
of Korean Photography", Contemporary Art Center, Seoul
(1994), "Photography in Contemporary Art", Walker
Hill Art Center, Seoul (1992), "Pinhole Camera Photograph",
San Francisco Airport Museum , San Francisco (1991),
"A Portrait is not a Likeness", Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson (1991),
"Polaroid Super Photo Exh ibition", Expo '90 Photo
Museum / International Garden & Greenery Exposition
, Osaka (1990), "150 Years of Photography, Photographs
of the Sea", Shimonos eki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki
(1990), "Biennale du Dessin, de L'estampe e t du Papier",
Quebec, Canada (1989),"Japanese Photographers", Center
for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
(1989), "Photography and The Circumference I", Gallery
16, Kyoto (1987), "9th British International Print
Biennale", Bradford (1986), "Departure From Recognition",
Ryo Gallery, Kyoto (1986), "K.I.S. 1985 Kunsan International
Contemporary Art Festival", In stitute of Contemporary
Arts, Kunsan National University, Kunsan (1985), "Ar
t Front 50", Parco, Osaka (1985), "Seoul Biennale
International Print Exhibi tion", Seoul Museum of
Modern Art, Seoul (1983), "Artist's Photographs",
Crown Point Gallery, Oakland (1982), "San Paulo Biennale
Exhibition", San Paulo (1981), "1st International
Impact Art Festival 1980". Kyoto Municipal Art Museum,
Kyoto (1980), "Art Now 1975", Hyogo Prefectural Museum
of Modern Art, Kobe (1975), "9th Biennale Tokyo International
Print Exhibition", The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo and Kyoto (1974), "7th Japan Art Festival",
Tokyo and Mexico City (1972) |
| Public Collections |
| The National Museum
of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama;
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Center
of Modern Art, Osaka; Johnson Collection, Wisconsin,
U.S.A.; Concept Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U. S.A.;
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona,
Tucson, U.S.A. ; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Kunsan
National University, Kunsan, Korea; Xian Institute of
Fine Arts, Xian, China |
| Publication |
| Yasuhiro Ishimoto,
(Japanese Photographers 26) Iwanami Shoten (1997), Yasuhiro
Ishimoto: Remembrance of Things Present, National Film
Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (1996),
Ise Shrine, Iwanami Shoten (1995), HANA, Chronicle Books,
San Francisco (1989), HANA, Kyuryudo (1988), Chicago,Chicago
II, Libro, Tokyo (1983), Katsura Villa, Iwanami Shoten
(1983), The World of Tadayoshi Sato, Modern Sculpture
Center, Tokyo (1982), The Eleven - Faced Goddess of
Mercy of Kokoku, Iwanami Shoten (1982), Mandalaof Two
Worlds: The Legend of Shingonin, Heibon Sha (1977),
KATSURA, Chuoukoron Sha (1971), Chicago, Chicago, Bijutsushuppan
Sha (1969), KATSURA: Tradition and Creation in Japanese
Architecture, Yale University Press and Zokei Sha<co-authors/
Walter Gropius and Kenzo Tange> (1960), Someday,
Somewhere, Geibishuppan Sha (1958) |
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