Hiroshi Sugimoto è nato a Tokyo, in Giappone, il 23 febbraio 1948.
Nel 1970 si laurea in scienze politiche e sociologia presso la Saint Paul’s University di Tokyo e quattro anni dopo si laurea in Belle Arti presso l’Art Center College of Design di Los Angeles. Lo stesso anno si trasferisce a New York, dove vive e lavora tuttora. È un fotografo ampiamente apprezzato, che ama suddividere il suo lavoro in diverse serie (Dioramas, Portraits, Theatres, Seascapes, Architecture, Lightning Fields…).
Una biografia completa può essere consultata sul sito dell’artista www.sugimotohiroshi.com
Past Presence - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Quatro Ragazzi: Hopes and Illusions of the Momoyama Renaissance - Europe through the Eyes of Hiroshi Sugiomto and the Tensho Embassy. Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The First Encounter - Italy through Eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tensho Embassy - Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Surface of Revolution. The Estate of Trianon - Palace of Versailles, Versailles
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Quatro Ragazzi - MOA Museum of Art, Atami
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life - Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Hiroshi Sugimoto. B.C. - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Notti Bianche - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Surface Tension - Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Snow White - Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Gates of Paradise - Japan Society, New York, NY
The Sea and The Mirror - Château la Coste, le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Provence
Seascapes-Atami - MOA Museum of Art, Atami
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters - FraenkelLAB, San Francisco, CA
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Remains to Be Seen - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Theaters: 1976-2001 - Lio Malca, New York City, NY
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Black Box - Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Sea of Buddha - Pace Gallery, New York City, NY
Past and Present in Three Parts / Art and Leisure, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan
Stop Time, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy.
Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models, Phillips Collectioni, Washington D.C
Hiroshi Sugimoto: On the Beach, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.
('12, '09,'07,'06,'05',01,'98,'97,'96,'95)
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cahiers d'Art Gallery, Paris.
Moderan Times, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venezia
The Glass Tea House Mondrian, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia
Still Life, Pace, New York.('10,'11)
Acts of God, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.('12,'09,'07,'03,'01,'98,’96,’95,’94,’92)
Aujourd'his le monde est mort [Lost Human Genetic Archive],Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Past Tense, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles.
Time Exposed, Xue Xue White, Taipei.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul.
Sugimoto Bunraku "Kannon Pilgrimage from The Sonezaki Love Suicides" (produced, art directed by Sugimoto) 2013 European Tour. Madrid, Rome, Paris.
Accelerated Buddha, Fondation Pierre Bergé Yve Saint Laurent, Paris.
Revolution, Last Supper, Couluers de l'ombre, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles.
SANBASO, divine dance – Mansai Nomura + Hiroshi Sugimoto, directed and set & constume were designed by Sugimoto, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Hèrmes Editeur - Couleurs de l'Ombre, Tyler Print Institue, Singapore
Revolution, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Rothko|Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes, Pace London
Hèrmes Editeur - Couleurs de l'Ombre, Museum der Kulture, Basel / La Verrière, Brussels / Le Forum, Tokyo / Miami Design District ,Miami
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lille Metropole: musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporian et d''art brut, Lille, France
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pace Beijing
Five Elements, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo.( '09,'07,'06,'05',01,'98,'97,'96,'95)
From naked to clothed, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (See Photo18)
Photogenic Drawings, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco ('09,'07,'03,'01,'98,’96,’95,’94,’92)
Surface of the Third Order, The Pace Gallery, New York
Lake Superior, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
New Work, The Chinati foundation, Marfa.
Sugimoto Bunraku: Dekunobo irinasake Sonezaki shinju tsuketari Kannon meguri
("Kannon Pilgrimage" from The Love Suicide at Sonezaki), produced / (artistic) directed by Sugimoto. Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KAAT), Yokohama. Aug.14-16.
Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawing, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
ORIGINS OF ART |Architecture, History, Religion, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa.
ORIGINS OF ART | Science, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa. (See Photo17) The Day After, The Pace Gallery, New York. (See Photo16)
Nature of Light, Izu Photo Museum, Mishima. Permanent Installation of "Coffin of Light " at Benesse Park, Naoshima. (See Photo15) Imakojima-Art, Architecture Collection, Yurinsou, Ohara Museum, Okayama. April 14 - May 17. History of History, The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
7Days / 7 Nights, Gagosian Gallery, New York Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museum der Moderne Salzburg/ Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin/ Kunstmuseum Luzern,Switzerland. History of History, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, K20, Dusseldorf/ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- de Young, San Francisco/ Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy. History of History, Asain Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco/ Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. (See Photo14) Colors of Shadow, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (’05,’03,’01,’98,’97,’95,’94,’92,’88,’83,’81)
Mathematical Forms, Galerie de l’Atelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Colors of Shadows, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/Sonnabend Gallery, New York Joe, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis / Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills. History of History, Smithsonian, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.(See Photo13)/ The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. (See Photo12)
History of History, Japan Society Gallery, New York Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Conceptual Forms, Gagosian Gallery, London
E´tant donne´: Le grande verre, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. (See Photo11) The Origins of Love, Yoshii Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London. (See Photo10) Hiroshi Sugimoto: L’hisoire de l’histoire, Maison Herme`s FORUM, Tokyo. (See Photo9) SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECUTRE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (See Photo8)
The Architecture of Time, Stills Gallery/Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. (See Photo7) Portraits, White Cube2, London / Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York Noh Such Thing as Time, DIA Art Center, New York. (See Photo6)
Portraits, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao / Deutche Guggenheim, Berlin
Gallerie Ulrich fiedler, Cologne (’98) Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt (’98,’96,’92) Galerie Claude Berrie, Paris
Japan Foundation, Istituto Giapponese de Cultura, Rome La Caixa, Madrid Akron Art Museum, Ohio Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon Hiroshi Sugimoto: In Praise of Shadows, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan. (See Photo5)
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, The Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, England Motion Pictures, Berkeley Art Museum, California
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica (’95, ’94, ’93) Modern Museet Sparvagnshallarna, Stockholm Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan. (See Photo4) Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen Junta de Andalucia, Granada Gallery Joan Parts, Barcelona TheoreticalEvent, Naples, Italy Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas Shashin: Transforming the Real, Tufts University Gallery, Massachusetts Studio Guenzani, Milan Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montre´al Art Gallery of York University, Toronto Le Musee´ Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Galleria SPSAS, Locarno, Switzerland RENN Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
CAPC Muse´e d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux. (See Photo3)
Sagacho Exhibit Space and IBM courtyard, Tokyo Gallery Kasahara, Osaka Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo Zeit-Photo Salon, Tokyo (’83)
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich, Germany Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris
The National Museum of Art, Osaka Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
Minami Gallery, Tokyo