1948 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1970 Graduated from Saint Paul's
University,Tokyo
1974 Graduated from Art Center
College of Design, Los Angeles
1974 Moved to New York
Awards
2000 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts,
Parsons School of Design, New
School University, New York,
USA
2001 Hasselblad Foundation
International Award in
IPhotography, Göteborg, Sweden
2006 Top Prize at Madrid's
PHotoEspaña, Spain
2009 Awarded for Praemium Imperiale
-painting category, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Awarded the Medal with Purple
Ribbon, Japan
2013 Awarded the Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres, France
2013
"All You Need is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and
Hatsune Miku", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Re-encounters: The Izu Photo Museum Collection", Izu
Photo Museum, Shizuoka "Monochrome", Masaki
Art Museum, Osaka
"Mingei", The Pace Gallery, London
2012
"Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past",
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2011
"Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere", Fondation Cartier,
Paris
"Reflections of the Buddha", The Pulitzer Foundation for
the Arts, St. Louis
"Our Magic Hour: How Much of the World Can We Know? ",
Yokohama Triennale 2011
"TRA - Edge of Becoming", Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2010
"Autoritratti dalla Collezione della Galleria degli Uffizi",
Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo / National Museum of
Art, Osaka
"Faraday Cage", 17th Biennale of Sydney
"Sexuality and Transcendence", Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
2009
"Three. The Triptych in Modern Art", Kunstmuseum
Stuttgart,
"Element of Photography", Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
"Mapping the Studio", Punta della Dogana, Venice
"The Third Mind", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York
2008
"Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary
Photography", Metropolitan Museum, New York
"Photography on Photography: Refrections on the Medium
since 1960", Metropolitan Museum, New York
"Seascapes: Tryon and Sugimoto", Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery, Washington D.C.
2007
"KANNON", Museum Rietberg, Zurich
"Air de Paris", Centre Pompidou, Paris
"Modern Photographs from Collection XIV", Metropolitan
Museum, New York
2006
"Dark Matter", White Cube, London
"Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global
Realism", Villa Manin, Udine,
2005
"Sophie Calle + Hiroshi Sugimoto", Gallery Koyanagi,
Tokyo
2004
"Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)", Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
2003
"Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection",
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life", Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo
"Warum!", Martin - Gropius - Bau Museum, Berlin
"The History of Japanese Photography", The Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston/The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
"Liquid Sea", Museum of Contemporary of Art, Sydney
2002
"Selected Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: works
from the MCA Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
"Moving Pictures", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York
"Emotional Site", Rice Gallery, Tokyo
2001
"Give & Take", Serpentine Gallery / Victoria & Albert
Museum, London
"Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of contemporary
Art Mega-Wave-Towards a New Synthesis", Yokohama
"I Am a Camera", Saatchi Gallery, London
2000
"Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art - Between the Body
and Space", Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski
Castle, Warsaw
"Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the
Whitney Museum of American Art",
"Le Temps, Vite", Centre Pompidou, Paris
"Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art", Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego
1999
"Mirror's Edge", BildMuseet, Umeå University, Umeå,
"Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth
Century", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens,
Washington D.C.
"The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art",
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
"Moving Image: Film-Reflexion in der Kunst", Galerie für
Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
"Modena per la fotografia 1999: Uno sguardo sul
Giappone", Galleria Civica Modena,
"Tomorrow For Ever: Photographie als Ruine", Kunstahlle
Krems, Basel
"The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect", Museum of
Modern Art, New York
1998
"Tastes and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990's", Japan
Foundation/National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi /
Metropolitan Museum of Manila
"Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th -
Century Vision, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester/
Arnolfini, Bristol / Ikon Gallery, Birmingham/
Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough / UCLA, Los
Angeles
"Speed-Visions of an Accelerated Age", Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London / Photographers' gallery, London/
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, London
"Terra Incoginita", Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
"At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of
Architecture", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo/
Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City / Ludwig Museum
and Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne / Geffen
Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles / Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary
Photography", Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona, Tucson/International Center for
Photography, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto/Agnes Martin", Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco
"Mysterious Voyages: Exploring The Subject of
Photography", The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore,
Maryland
1997
"Blueprint", De Appel foundation, Amsterdam
"In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art",
Science and the Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
"Evidence: Photography and Site", Wexner Center for the
Arts, The Ohio State University
"Making It Real", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1996
"Open Secrets: Seventy Pictures on Papers", 1815 to the
Present, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York / Fraenkel
Gallery, San Francisco
"Colleci´on Ordo´nez Falco´n de Fotografi´a", Ivam Centre
Julio Gonza´lez, Valencia
"Jurassic Technologies Revenant: Tenth Biennale of
Sydney", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, and
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
"Hall of Mirrors: Art and film Since 1945", Museum of
contemporary Art, Chicago / Wexner Center for the Arts,
Ohio State University, Columbus / Palazzo delle
Esposizioni, Rome / Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
"Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst",
Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
"By Night", Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain,
Paris
"Tranquility", Chiba City Museum of Art
1995
"3e biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon: Installation,
cinéma, vidéo, informatique", Musée d'art contemporain,
Lyon
"Nature Studies II, University Gallery", Fine Arts Center,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Album", Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam
"Witness: Photoworks from the Collection", Tate Gallery
Liverpool
"Art in Japan Today: 1985 – 1995", Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Private/Public (ARS 95 Helsinki)", Museum of
Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"Chasing Shadows: Photographs from the Collection",
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1994
"Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time and
Memory", Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo / Museo de Arte
Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico
City / Vancouver Art Gallery / Los Angeles County
Museum of Art / Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. / Denver Art Museum, Colorado / The Contemporary
Museum, Honolulu
"Fondation Cartier: A Collection", National Museum of
Contemporary Art of Seoul / Taipei Fine Arts Museum
"Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography", The
Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, North
Carolina
"Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away…", Serpentine Gallery,
London / Nordic Arts Center, Helsinki / Kunstverein,
Hannover
"Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky",
Yokohama Museum of Art / Guggenheim Museum SoHo,
New York / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1993
"Azur", Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-
en-Josas
"In die Felsen bohren sich Zikadenstimmen:
Zeitgenössische japanische Photographie", Kunsthaus
Zurich
"Das 21, Jahrhundert: Mit Paracelsus in die Zukunft ( The
21st Century: Into the Future with Paracelsus)",
Kunsthalle Basel
1992
"Réflexions Voilées (Hidden Reflections)", Israel
Museum, Jerusalem
"Un seconde pensée du paysage", Centre d'Art
Contemporain, Locmine
1991
"Carnegie International 1991", The Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh
"A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Post-Modern
Japan", Tate Gallery Liverpool
"Beyond Japan: A Photo Theater", Barbican Art Gallery,
London
1990
"Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre", Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt
"The Past and Present of Photography", The National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto
"Natural History Re-created", The Center for Photography
at Woodstock, New York
"Sonnabend Collection Exhibition", Sezon Museum of Art,
Tokyo / Sendai Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai / Fukuyama
Museum of Art, Fukuyama / National Museum of Modern
Art, Kyoto
"Reorienting: Looking East", Third Eye Centre, Glasgow /
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1989
"Continum and the Moment: Rita Myers, Hiroshi Sugimoto,
Bill Viola", Visual Arts Center, California State
University, Fullerton
"On Kawara: Again and Against: 23 Date Paintings and 24
Prominent Works of Japanese Contemporary Art, 1969-
1989", Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya
"Investigations 1989", Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1987
"Contemporary Japanese Art in America (I): Arita,
Nakagawa, Sugimoto", Japan Society Gallery, New York
1985
"The Art of Memory/The Loss of History", New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York
1983
"Landmarks Reviewed: Contemporary Photographs of
American Buildings, Structures, and Natural Forms",
Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida
1982
"Photography Collection from The Museum of Modern Art",
New York, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1981
"Baltimore Collects: Photographs from Local Private
Collections", Baltimore Museum of Art
1978
"Recent Acquisitions", Museum of Modern Art, New York
