Tomatsu Shomei, "Prostitute", Nagoya, 1957
東松照明 Tomatsu Shomei
1930 年–2012 年。戦後の日本を代表する写真家。愛知大学経済学部を卒業後上京し、岩波写真文庫でカメラスタッフを 経て、フリーランスとなる。1950 年代から数々の作品を発表し、近年の写真家に多大な影響を与えた。「Sakura and Plastics」メトロポリタン美術館 (ニューヨーク 1992 年)、「Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation」サンフランシスコ近 代美術館(2004 年)、「東松照明:Tokyo 曼陀羅」東京都写真美術館(2007 年)、「時を削る」長崎県美術館(2010 年)、 写真家:東松照明全仕事」名古屋市美術館(2011 年)、「Shomei Tomatsu: Island Life」シカゴ美術館(2013 年)、「Shomei Tomatsu」Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués Exhibition Hall(バルセロナ、2018 年)などの個展が国内外で開 催され、「Conflict, Time, Photography」テート・モダン美術館(2014 年)、「For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979」ヒューストン美術館(2015 年)「PROVOKE BETWEEN PROTEST AND PERFORMANCE – PHOTOGRAPHY IN JAPAN」アルベルティーナ美術館(2016 年)などのグループ展にも参加。
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EXHIBITIONS
Tomatsu Shomei Tokyo ca.1969
TOMATSU Shomei
May 26 – July 8, 2023
Afghanistan 1963
TOMATSU Shomei
September 19 – November 2, 2013
Plastics
TOMATSU Shomei
February 28 – April 18, 2020
Shinjuku Turmoil
TOMATSU Shomei
April 21 – June 11, 2011
Chewing Gum and Chocolate
TOMATSU Shomei
March 1 – April 9, 2016
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Nagoya, Aichi 1930, died in Okinawa, Japan 2012
Education
1950-54 Aichi University, Nagoya
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Plastics, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Tomatsu Shomei, Shining wind – Okinawa, INTERFACE – Shomei Tomatsu Lab., Okinawa, Japan
2019 Tomatsu Shomei, INTERFACE, INTERFACE – Shomei Tomatsu Lab., Okinawa, Japan
2018 Tomatsu Shomei Photographs, Okinawa Miyako 1972 to 1983, Miyakojima City Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2018 Shomei Tomatsu, Fundacion MAPFRE, Barcelona, Spain
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
2017 Assalamu alaikum, Place M, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Oh! Shinjuku, AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery | Publishing, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Shomei Tomatsu: Nagasaki, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2016 Shomei Tomatsu: The Pencil of the Sun, Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan
2015 Chewing Gum and Chocolate, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Pencil of the Sun, Akio Nagasawa gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Inaugural Exhibition: Shomei Tomatsu, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Afghanistan 1963, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Shomei Tomatsu Island life, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
2013 Tomatsu Shomei and plants in Okinawa, Collection Gallery 2, Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2013 Toki-wo-kezuru, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
2013 Tomatsu Shomei Photographs, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan
2013 Nagasaki 11:02, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki, Japan
2013 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
2011 Tomatsu Shomei. Okinawa Photographs- Love Letter to the Sun, Okinawa Perfectual Museum & Art Museum, Naha, Japan
2011 Shomei Tomatsu, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 TOMATSU SHOMEI: PHOTOGRAPHS, 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
2018 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
2015 The 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War and Peace, Hiroshima Prefectural Museum and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
2015 2nd Collection Gallery Exhibition 2015-16, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2015 Conflict, Time, Photography, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2015 Aichi NotesClay, Ceramics, Landscape and Memory, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi, Japan
2014 Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014 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
2013 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
2012 Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
2012 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