Artist
アーティスト
ISHIHARA Tomoaki
Japan
Profile
Born in Osaka in 1959 and currently based in Kyoto, Japan, he first gained attention in the 1980s for his complex method of combining photography, painting, sculpture, and installation, and has exhibited both in Japan and abroad, including the “Aperto 88” exhibition at the Venice Biennale. He views the act of production as a process of repeating “physicalizing things, imaging the body, and materializing images,” and develops his activities as “an attempt to extend the finiteness of the body." His works, which utilize various forms of expression including self-portraiture, approach fundamental issues related to art and perception.
Recent major solo exhibitions include “SELFIES” (Kyoto City University of Arts, 2024), “Saccade Afterimage” (MEM, Tokyo, 2024), and “Mirror and Hole - Interface between Sculpture and Photography” (Gallery αM, Tokyo, 2017). Major group exhibitions include “MOT Collection: Film Fiction and Reality” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2023), “The 80s in Kansai” (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 2022), “Photographic Distance” (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, 2021), “Japanorama: New Japanese Art since 1970” ( Center Georges Pompidou, Metz, France, 2018) “The 80s as a Starting Point” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and others, 2018).
