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
Hiroshi Sugimoto takes the world as his theatre. Fascinated by architecture, history and contemporary life, his photographs probe the relationship between time and capturing it to delve into questions about the nature of reality. As a fierce admirer of Marcel Duchamp, Sugimoto takes a surreal eye to his subjects, transforming ordinary scenes into newly engaging works of art. Working in New York since the 1970s, he has used photography and printmaking to refashion old ideas about what photography can achieve. “Dioramas” (1976-), “Seascapes” (1980-), “Theatres” (1978-) and “Architecture” (2002) are among his most acclaimed series’, the diversity of which speak for the seemingly endless depth of his work.
Hiroshi Sugimoto has been honored with a Praemium Impierale Award and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. He has been the subject of more than a hundred solo and group exhibitions in his long career, including being featured at The Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Berlin), DIA Art Center (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa).
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