Tomatsu Shomei 東松照明

Tomatsu Shomei, "Prostitute", Nagoya, 1957
Tomatsu Shomei, "Oh Shinjuku", 1963
Tomatsu Shomei, "Blood and Roses", Shinjuku, Tokyo, 1962
Tomatsu Shomei, "Protest", Shinjuku, Tokyo, 1969
Tomatsu Shomei, "Statue of Christ in Urakami Cathedral", Motoomachi, Nagasaki, 1961
Tomatsu Shomei, "The Ise Bay Typhoon", Nagoya, 1959
Tomatsu Shomei, "Asphalt", Tokyo, 1960
Tomatsu Shomei, "Plastics", Kujukuri Beach, Chiba, 1988 - 1989
Tomatsu Shomei, "Atomic Bomb Damage: Wristwatch Stopped at 11:02, August 9 1945", Nagasaki 1961

ABOUT

1930 年至 2012 年。代表戰後日本的攝影師。從愛知大學經濟系畢業後，他搬到了東京，在岩波照片圖書館擔任攝影師，並成為了一名自由職業者。自 1950 年代以來，他發表了許多作品，近年來對攝影師產生了很大的影響。 “櫻花和塑料”大都會藝術博物館（紐約 1992），“Shomei Tomatsu：國家的皮膚”舊金山現代藝術博物館（2004），“Shomei Tomatsu：東京 Mandara”東京大都會攝影博物館（2007）， “剃須時間”“長崎縣立美術館（2010），攝影師：Shomei Tomatsu All Work”名古屋市美術館（2011），“Shomei Tomatsu：Island Life”芝加哥藝術博物館（2013），“Shomei Tomatsu”Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués 展覽館曾在國內外舉辦個展（巴塞羅那，2018），“衝突，時間，攝影”泰特現代美術館（2014），“For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese藝術與攝影，1968-1979”參加群展，如“在抗議與表演之間挑起——攝影在日本”阿爾貝蒂娜博物館（2016）。此外，今年6月，與森山大道的兩人聯展將在巴黎的歐洲攝影博物館舉行。

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Tomatsu Shomei

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: 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
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