HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Hiroshi Sugimoto (born in Tokyo Japan in 1947) is a Japanese artist and photographer. Since the 1970s he integrated performance and architecture to his multidisciplinary practice.  

"When I first arrived in New York in 1974, I visited many of the city's tourist sites, one of which was the the American Museum of Natural History” I made a curious discovery while looking at the exhibition of animal dioramas: the stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake, yet by taking a quick peek with one eye closed, all perspective vanished and  suddenly they looked very real. I had found a way to see the world as a camera does” .

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Selected past exhibitions​:

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UCCA, Beijing, China (2024)

Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2023)

Kasugataisha Museum, Nara, Japan (2022)

Frame of Japan, Hosomi Museum, Kyoto (2020)

Kyoto City Kyocera, Museum of Art, Kyoto (2020)

Marian Goodman Gallery, NYC (2019)

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2018)

Château la Coste, Provence, France (2017)

Selected public collections: ​

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, USA

MoMA, NYC, USA

National Gallery, Washington, USA

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US