Tomatsu Shomei Atomic Bomb Damage: Wristwatch Stopped at 11:02, August 9, 1945, Nagasaki 1961
BIOGRAPHY
Tomatsu Shomei 東松照明
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Born in Nagoya, Aichi 1930, died in Okinawa, Japan 2012
– Education –
| 1950-54 | Aichi University, Nagoya |
– Selected Solo Exhibitions –
| 2017 | INTERFACE — Or, What Japan’s Great Post-War Photographers Kept Looking For. An Inquiry into the Artistic Practice of Shomei Tomatsu., Photo History Museum FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Shomei Tomatsu: Nagasaki, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan |
| 2015 | Chewing Gum and Chocolate, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Pencil of the Sun, Akio Nagasawa gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2013 | Afghanistan 1963, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Shomei Tomatsu Island life, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA | |
| Tomatsu Shomei and plants in Okinawa, Collection Gallery 2, Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan | |
| Toki-wo-kezuru, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| Tomatsu Shomei Photographs,Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan | |
| Nagasaki 11:02, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki, Japan | |
| Shomei Tomatsu The pencil of the Sun,Open Gallery, Canon S Tower, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2012 | Tomatsu Shomei Photographs, Tonami Art Museum, Toyama, Japan |
| 2011 | Shinjuku Turmoil, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Tomatsu Shomei. Okinawa Photographs- Love Letter to the Sun, Okinawa Perfectual Museum & Art Museum, Naha, Japan | |
| 2010 | TOMATSU SHOMEI: PHOTGRAPHS, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan |
| 2009 | Nagasaki 11:02, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki, Japan |
– Selected Group Exhibitions –
| 2018 | Japan Modern: Photography from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection, Freer｜Sackler, Washington, USA |
| a Handful of Dust from the Cosmic to the Domestic, California Museum of Photography, California, USA | |
| 2017 | 20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO, , Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2016 | PROVOKE BETWEEN PROTEST AND PERFORMANCE PHOTOGRAPHY IN JAPAN 1960- 1975, Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Le Bal, Paris, France |
| 2015 | For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979, The Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, USA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA; Japan Society Gallery, New York, USA |
| The 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War and Peace, Hiroshima Prefectural Museum and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Japan | |
| 2nd Collection Gallery Exhibition 2015-16, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan | |
| Conflict, Time, Photography, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany | |
| Aichi NotesClay, Ceramics, Landscape and Memory, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2014 | Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK |
| The Provoke Era: Japanese Photography from the Collection of SFMOMA, Crocker Art Museum, California, USA | |
| 2013 | 1968 -Japanese Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| Memories of the Town: Yokosuka via photography and art, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| 2012 | Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK | |
| Busan Biennale 2012 Garden of Leaning, The Busan Biennale 2012, Busan, Korea | |
| 2011 | Breaking News Fukushima and the consequences ?, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, German |
| 2008-09 | Ryukyu, Okinawa Two People Exhibition Higa Yasuo Ritual of Ryukyu: Tomatsu Shomei Chewing Gum and Chocolate, Canon Gallery S, Tokyo; Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa |
EXHIBITIONS
Chewing Gum and Chocolate
TOMATSU Shomei
March 1 – April 9, 2016
The Road Not Taken
OZAWA Tsuyoshi, AI Weiwei, Ken LUM, TOMATSU Shomei
Nov 27, 2015 – Jan 30, 2016
Afghanistan 1963
TOMATSU Shomei
September 19 – November 2, 2013
Shinjuku Turmoil
TOMATSU Shomei
April 21 – June 11, 2011