Born in 1948 in Tokyo, Japan

EDUCATION

1966 – 1970
B.A., Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo, Japan

1972
B.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2001
Hasselblad Foundation International Award
C.A.P.S.
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts

SOLO SHOWS

2010
Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Day After, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Mechanical Forms, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

2005-2006
End of Time, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2004
Architectures, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

2000
Portraits, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Germany

1999
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan

1998
The Japan Foundation, Instituto Giapponese di Cultura in Rome, Rome, Italy
La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
Fraenkel gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Bielefeld Museum, Bielefeld, Germany
Galerie Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
ModernismGallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
Angels Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1997
Hiroshi Sugimoto Theaters, Berkeley Art Museum ? berkeley, CA, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt, Germany
Galleri Faurshou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Moderna Museet, Sparvagnshallarna, Stockholm, Sweden

1996
Junta de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
Galerie Tres, Barcelona, Spain
Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Theoretical Event, Naples, Italy
Seeing Things, Fraenkel Gallery, fifteenth anniversary exhibition San Francisco, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan

1995
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Museum Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Gallerie SPSAS, Locarno, Italy
Espace Renn, Paris, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA
Angeles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1994-1995
Museum of Contemporary Art, Parrish Art Museum, etc., Los Angeles, Southampton, NY, Chicago, USA

1994
Angeles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

1993
Angeles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
White Cube, London, United Kingdom

1992
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

1991
Sagacho Exhibit Space and IBM Courtyard, Tokyo, Japan
Kasahara Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Hosomi Galley, Tokyo, Japan

1989
The National Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

1988
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Zeit Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan

1983
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1981
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA

GROUP SHOWS

2001
Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1999
View from the edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, International Center of Photography NY, USA
The Museum as Muse, The Museum of Modern Art NY, USA

1998
Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Terra Incognita, Neues Museum weserburg, Bremen, Germany
At the End of the Century : One Hundred Years of Architecture, Museum of Brazil ; Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

In Over Our Heads: The Image of Water in Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA, USA
Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco, CA, USA
Akron Art Museum Akron, Ohio, USA

1997
Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, USA
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
La Collection de la Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Foundation 1997
Akron Art Museum Akron, OH, USA
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Johannesburg Biennal, Johannesburg, South Africa
Time, one’s eyes, memory Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1996
Motion Picture, Embassy of Canada
Prospect 96Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Anima Mundi, James Graham&Sons, New York, USA
Hall of Mirrors : Art and Film Since 1945, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA/ the Wexner Center for the Arts, Colombus palazzo delle esposioni, Rome, Italy/ The Museum of Contemorary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France

1994-5
Museum of Contemp. Art, Parrish Art Museum, etc. Los Angeles; Southampton, NY; Chicago (traveled)

1994
Space, Time, and Memory: Photography and Beyond in Japan, Hara Museum of Art, Museum Rufino Tamayo, etc. Tokyo, Mexico City, Vancouver, Los Angeles,&Denver
Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Guggenheim SoHo, SF MoMA Yokohama, NY, & San Francisco

1992
CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

1990
Photography Past and Present, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan

1988
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan

1985
The Art of Memory/ the Loss of History, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

1979
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA