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
Selected Solo Exhibition
2013
"Hérmes Editeur- Couleurs de l'Ombre", Tyler Print
Institute,Singapore
"Accelerated Buddha", Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint
Laurent, Paris
"Revolution", Les Recontres d'Arles 2013, Arles
2012
"Revolution", Museum Brandhorst, Munich
"Rothko|Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes", Pace
Gallery, London
"Hérmes Editeur- Couleurs de l'Ombre", Museum der
Kulturen, Basel / La Verrière, Brussels / Maison Hérmes
[Forum],Tokyo / Miami Design District, Miami
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", The Lille Métropole Museum of
Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM), Lille,
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Pace Gallery, Beijing
"Five Elements", Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
"From Naked to Clothed", Hara Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo
"Photogenic Drawings", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2011
"Surface of the Third Order", The Pace Gallery, New York
"Lake Superior", Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", The Chinati foundation, Marfa
"The Love Suicide at Sonezaki", produced/artistic
directed by Sugimoto. Kanagawa Arts Theatre,
Yokohama.
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Scottish National Gallery of Modern
Art, Edinburgh
"ORIGINS OF ART | Architecture, History, Religion",
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary
Art,Kagawa
2010
"ORIGINS OF ART | Science", Marugame Genichiro-
Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
"The Day After", Pace Gallery, New York
2009
"Nature of Light", Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka
"Lightning Fields", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
"Lightning Field"s, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
"Imakojima-Art, Architecture Collection", Yurinsou, Ohara
Museum, Okayama
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", The National
Museum of Art, Osaka
2008
"7Days / 7Nights", Gagosian Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", 21st Century
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2007
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-
Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany. Traveled to Museum
der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg/ New National
Gallery, Berlin / Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Villa Manin Centro d'Arte
Contemporanea, Udine
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: Various Archetypes", The National
Museum of Art, Osaka
"Colors of Shadow", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Royal Ontario
Museum,Toronto / Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-
de Young, San Francisco
2006
"Mathematical Forms", Galerie de l'Atelier Brancusi,
Centre Pompidou, Paris
"Colors of Shadows", Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographs of Joe", The Pulitzer
Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
"Joe", Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery, Washington D.C.
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C. / The Modern Art Museum of
Fort Worth, Texas
2005
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Japan Society
Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Conceptual Forms", Gagosian Gallery, London
2004
"E´tant donne´: Le grande verre", Foundation Catier,
Paris
"The Origins of Love", Yoshii Gallery, New York
2003
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Serpentine Gallery, London
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Maison Herme`s
FORUM, Tokyo
"SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECUTRE", Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago
2002
"The Architecture of Time", Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Stills
Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh
2001
"The Architecture of Time", Kunsthaus Bregenz
"Portraits", White Cube2, London / Guggenheim Museum
SoHo, New York
"Noh Such Thing as Time", DIA Art Center, New York
2000
"Portraits", Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao / Deutche
Guggenheim, Berlin
1999
Gallerie Ulrich fiedler, Cologne
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Galerie Claude Berrie, Paris
1998
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: In Praise of Shadows", Center for
Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery,
Kitakyushu
Japan Foundation, Istituto Giapponese de Cultura, Rome
La Caixa, Madrid / Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1997
"Hall of Thirty-Three Bays", The Sainsbury Centre,
University of East Anglia
"Motion Pictures", Berkeley Art Museum, California
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
1996
"Shashin: Transforming the Real", Tufts University
Gallery, Massachusetts
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo
1995
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Kunsthalle BaseCentre International d'Art Contemporain
de Montréal / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Le Musée Villeneuve d'Ascq
Galleria SPSAS, Locarno
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1994
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
1993
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi
1992
CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
1991
Sagacho Exhibit Spaceand IBM courtyard, Tokyo
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo
Zeit-Photo Salon, Tokyo
1990
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
1989
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1977
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
2013
"Hérmes Editeur- Couleurs de l'Ombre", Tyler Print
Institute,Singapore
"Accelerated Buddha", Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint
Laurent, Paris
"Revolution", Les Recontres d'Arles 2013, Arles
2012
"Revolution", Museum Brandhorst, Munich
"Rothko|Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes", Pace
Gallery, London
"Hérmes Editeur- Couleurs de l'Ombre", Museum der
Kulturen, Basel / La Verrière, Brussels / Maison Hérmes
[Forum],Tokyo / Miami Design District, Miami
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", The Lille Métropole Museum of
Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM), Lille,
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Pace Gallery, Beijing
"Five Elements", Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
"From Naked to Clothed", Hara Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo
"Photogenic Drawings", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2011
"Surface of the Third Order", The Pace Gallery, New York
"Lake Superior", Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", The Chinati foundation, Marfa
"The Love Suicide at Sonezaki", produced/artistic
directed by Sugimoto. Kanagawa Arts Theatre,
Yokohama.
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Scottish National Gallery of Modern
Art, Edinburgh
"ORIGINS OF ART | Architecture, History, Religion",
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary
Art,Kagawa
2010
"ORIGINS OF ART | Science", Marugame Genichiro-
Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
"The Day After", Pace Gallery, New York
2009
"Nature of Light", Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka
"Lightning Fields", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
"Lightning Field"s, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
"Imakojima-Art, Architecture Collection", Yurinsou, Ohara
Museum, Okayama
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", The National
Museum of Art, Osaka
2008
"7Days / 7Nights", Gagosian Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", 21st Century
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2007
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-
Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany. Traveled to Museum
der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg/ New National
Gallery, Berlin / Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Villa Manin Centro d'Arte
Contemporanea, Udine
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: Various Archetypes", The National
Museum of Art, Osaka
"Colors of Shadow", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Royal Ontario
Museum,Toronto / Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-
de Young, San Francisco
2006
"Mathematical Forms", Galerie de l'Atelier Brancusi,
Centre Pompidou, Paris
"Colors of Shadows", Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographs of Joe", The Pulitzer
Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
"Joe", Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery, Washington D.C.
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C. / The Modern Art Museum of
Fort Worth, Texas
2005
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Japan Society
Gallery, New York
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Conceptual Forms", Gagosian Gallery, London
2004
"E´tant donne´: Le grande verre", Foundation Catier,
Paris
"The Origins of Love", Yoshii Gallery, New York
2003
"Hiroshi Sugimoto", Serpentine Gallery, London
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", Maison Herme`s
FORUM, Tokyo
"SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECUTRE", Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago
2002
"The Architecture of Time", Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Stills
Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh
2001
"The Architecture of Time", Kunsthaus Bregenz
"Portraits", White Cube2, London / Guggenheim Museum
SoHo, New York
"Noh Such Thing as Time", DIA Art Center, New York
2000
"Portraits", Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao / Deutche
Guggenheim, Berlin
1999
Gallerie Ulrich fiedler, Cologne
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Galerie Claude Berrie, Paris
1998
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: In Praise of Shadows", Center for
Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery,
Kitakyushu
Japan Foundation, Istituto Giapponese de Cultura, Rome
La Caixa, Madrid / Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1997
"Hall of Thirty-Three Bays", The Sainsbury Centre,
University of East Anglia
"Motion Pictures", Berkeley Art Museum, California
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
1996
"Shashin: Transforming the Real", Tufts University
Gallery, Massachusetts
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo
1995
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Kunsthalle BaseCentre International d'Art Contemporain
de Montréal / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Le Musée Villeneuve d'Ascq
Galleria SPSAS, Locarno
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1994
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
1993
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi
1992
CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
1991
Sagacho Exhibit Spaceand IBM courtyard, Tokyo
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo
Zeit-Photo Salon, Tokyo
1990
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
1989
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1977
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
