Hiroshi SUGIMOTO 杉本博司
Japanese 1948
Born in Tokyo in 1948, Hiroshi Sugimoto moved to Los Angeles and studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in 1970. Time, memory, dream and history are the main themes of Sugimoto's works. He is best known for his highly unique photographic series of seascapes, theaters, natural history dioramas, waxworks and architectures. He won the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 2001, which is recognized as one of the most important prizes for photography in the world today. Art exhibitions: 2000 "Portraits", Berlin; 2005 "End of Time", Tokyo; 2006 "Hiroshi Sugimoto: Joe", Beverly Hills; 2006 "Mathematical Forms", Paris; 2007 "Colors of Shadow", New York; 2009 "Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seven Days/ Seven Nights", New York; 2009 "Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Osaka; 2009 "Lightning Fields", San Francisco; 2009 "Art Basel Miami Beach", Miami; 2010 "Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Day After", New York; 2011 "Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition", Tokyo; 2011 "Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawing", Edinburgh; 2011 "Hiroshi Sugimoto: Surface of the Third Order", New York; 2012 "Le Silence Une Fiction", Monaco.
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Hiroshi SUGIMOTO 杉本博司