(b.1958 Iwate Japan)
畠山直哉
Biography[]
1958 Born in Iwate, Japan
1981 Graduated from The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design
1984 Completed postgraduate studies at The University of Tsukuba
1996 Resident Artist in Djerassi Resident Artists Program, CA, USA
1997 Recieved the 22nd Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award
2000 Received the 16th Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize
2001 Received the 42nd Mainichi Award of Art
Resident Artist in Light Xchange, Milton Keynes, UK
Presented Japan at The 49th Venice Biennale of Art (with Masato Nakamura, Yukio Fujimoto)
2003 Received the Photographer of the year Award from The Photographic Society of Japan
Exhibitions[]
Individual exhibitions[]
2006
- Tokyo Art Museum, Chofu, Tokyo
- Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2005
- Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lubeck, Germany
- Marion Center for Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2004
- L. A. Galerie, Frankfurt
- C/O Berlin, Berlin
- Osaka Seikei University, Intermedia Research Center, space B, Kyoto
2003
- Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
- Fundacion BBK, Bilbao, Spain
- Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2002
- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland / The Winchester Gallery / Impressions Gallery, York / The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock (Touring in UK), Kunstverein Hannover, Germany / Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany / Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
- Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan / National Museum of Art, Osaka
- L. A. Galerie, Frankfurt
- Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2001
- The AA School, London / Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York (for Toyo Ito)
2000
- Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York
- L. A. Galerie, Frankfurt
1999
- Chukyo University C-Square, Nagoya
- Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo
1998
- Yuki Civic Center, Ibaraki
- Gallery NW House, Tokyo
- L. A. Galerie, Frankfurt
1997 Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo, Osaka, etc. 1996
- Gallery NW House, Tokyo
- Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome
- Centro Iniziative Multimediali Diagonale, Rome
1994
- Gallery NW House, Tokyo
- Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, UK
1991
- Photo Interform, Osaka
1990
- Artotheque de Nantes, France
- Bibliotheque municipale, Falaise, France
- Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris
1989 Theatre d'Herouville, Caen, France 1988
- Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1987
- Photo Interform, Osaka
1986
- Tokyo University of Art and Design, Tokyo
1983
- Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Group exhibitions[]
2007
- The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
2005
- "Selections of the 26th Biennal of Sao Paolo", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile
- "Landschaft als Metapher", Ursula Blickle ? Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
- "Multiple Raume", Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
- "The Collection of Kushiro Art Museum : Photographs", Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido
- "sight-cruising",Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
- "Collection 2", The National Museum of Art, Osaka
- "36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award", Kawasaki City Museum
- "85/05 : The photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985", Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
2004
- "Roppongi Crossing : New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- "Mediarena ? Contemporary Art from Japan", Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
- "BRAINSTORMONG : topographie de la morale", Centre National de l'art et du paysage, Vassiviere en Limousin, France
- "StadtRaume", Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
- "Natur nach Mas!?", Zeche Westfalen I/II, Ahlen, Germany
- "smt CONSTRUCTION WONDERLAND", Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
- "Metamorph", The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
- "Territorio livre", 26th Bienal International de Sao Paulo, Pavilhao da Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- "The Secret Forest of Princess Knight", M.Y. Art Prospects, New York
- "Do You Believe in Reality?", Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
- "10 Year Anniversary Exhibition", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2003
- "Histories of Photographie", Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
- "Japan - Keramik und Fotografie - Tradition und Gegenwart", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
- "The History of Japanese Photography", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
- "Juegos de Escala", Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- "X Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia", Torino, Italy
- "Timeframes", Japan Society, New York
- "L'attitude", Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
- "Consuming Nature", The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
- "Kokoro no Arika, Location of the Spirit - Contemporary Japanese Art-", Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary / Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
2002
- "The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- "Episode", Mead Gallery at Warwick arts Centre, University of Warwick, UK
- "Orte des Unsichtbaren: Medienkunstler aus Japan und Korea", Japanisches Kulturinstitut Koln, Germany
- "Tweleve Japanese Artists from the Venice Biennale 1952-2001", Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
- "DER BERG", Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
2001
- "Bauart. Die Kunstsammlung der Heidelberger Zement AG", Kurpfalzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg
- "Fast and Slow", The 49th Venice Biennale of Art, Japan pavilion (with Masato Nakamura, Yukio Fujimoto), Italy
- "La Espiritualidad del Vacio", Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
- "Out of Japan", Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- "Monet’s Vermachtnis: Serie-Ordnung und Obsession", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
- "New Heimat", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
- "Urban Pornography", The Artist Space, New York
2000
- "Serendipity : Photography, video, experimental film and multimedia installation from Asia", The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
- "-scape:", Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo
- "Yume no Ato: Was vom Traum blieb - Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Japan", Haus am Waldsee Berlin, / Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
- "The 16th Higashikawa Awardees' Exhibition", Higashikawa Cultural Gallery, Hokkaido
- "Landschaft in der zeitgenossischen Fotografie", Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Germany
1999
- "Otsuji Kiyoji and 15 Photographers", Tokyo Zokei University
- "Modena per la Fotografia 1999", Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
- "Wohin kein Auge reicht", (Triennale der Photographie), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
- "The Locus of Kimura Ihei Memorial Award of Photography 1975-1999", Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
- "Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture", Suemondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany
1998
- "Photography Today: The Absence of Distance", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- "A Prova de Agua | Waterproof", Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
- "Asia City", The Photographers' Gallery, London
- "21st Anniversary Zeit-Foto", Artspace Shimoda, Tokyo
- "Speed", The Photographers' Gallery, London
- "Et Maintenant? Donai Yanen! La creation contemporaine au Japon", Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1997
- "Interferenzen", L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt
- "LAZUR", (Naoya Hatakeyama, Yoshihisa Otani), Delta-Mirage, Tokyo
- "City images in Photography from the Museum Collection", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- "LUST UND LEERE : Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart", Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, (Touring in Europe 1997-98)
- "SURFACE EXPOSED: Photography in Art of the 90's", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- "Art is Fun 8: WAYS OF (RE)PRODUCTION", Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
1996
- "LAND OF PARADOX", Photographic Resource Center, Boston (Touring in USA and Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, etc. in Japan, 1996-98)
- "Ideal Standard Life", Spiral Garden, Tokyo
- "New Japanese Photography in 1990's: The Resonance of Unconsciousness", Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
1995
- "Another Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Photography", Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
1994
- "Liquid Crystal Futures", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (Touring in Europe and Tokyo)
- "Desert of Desires", Spiral Garden, Tokyo
- "Kawasaki Monuments", Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
1993
- "In die Felsen bohren sich Zikadenstimmen, Zeitgenossische
- Japanische Photographie", Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1992
- "Matrix of Photography 3", Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
1991
- "Contemporary Photography 14 Japanese", Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
- "Orientalism", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
- "Vach' image", MJC, Saint Gervais Geneve, Switzerland
- "make-believe", The Photographers' Gallery, London (Touring in UK)
1990
- "Selection of Photographs on the Sea", Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi
- "Japanese Contemporary Photography - Twelve Viewpoints", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Pavillion des Arts, Paris
1989
- "The 9th Hara Annual", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- "Orientalism", White Museum, International Design Exposition, Nagoya
1988
- "Contemporary Photographs from Japan", Columbia Collage, Chicago, USA
1986
- "Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea", La Casa Elizalda, Barcelona (Touring in Spain)
- "Tama Vivant ‘88", Seed Hall, Tokyo
1985
- "Paris, New York, Tokyo", Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985, Ibaraki
1983
- "Photography", Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka
1982
- "15 contemporary photographic expressions", University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki
1981
- "Camera Works Exhibition at University of Tsukuba", University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki