31 Facts About Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect.

Hiroshi Sugimoto leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory.

Hiroshi Sugimoto reportedly took his earliest photographs in high school, photographing film footage of Audrey Hepburn as it played in a movie theater.

In 1970, Sugimoto studied politics and sociology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.

Hiroshi Sugimoto soon started working as a dealer of Japanese antiquities in Soho.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto's work focuses on transience of life, and the conflict between life and death.

Hiroshi Sugimoto is deeply influenced by the writings and works of Marcel Duchamp, as well as the Dadaist and Surrealist movements as a whole.

Hiroshi Sugimoto has expressed a great deal of interest in late 20th century modern architecture.

Hiroshi Sugimoto is equally acclaimed for the conceptual and philosophical aspects of his work.

Hiroshi Sugimoto began his work with Dioramas in 1976, a series in which he photographed displays in natural history museums.

The systematic nature of Hiroshi Sugimoto's project recalls the work Sunrise and Sunset at Praiano by Sol LeWitt, in which he photographed sunrises and sunsets over the Tyrrhenian Sea off Praiano, Italy, on the Amalfi Coast.

In 1997, on a commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Hiroshi Sugimoto began producing series of large-format photographs of notable buildings around the world.

In 2001, Hiroshi Sugimoto traveled the length of Japan, visiting the so-called meisho "famous sites" for pines: Miho no Matsubara, Matsushima, Amanohashidate.

In July 2003 Hiroshi Sugimoto travelled to St Louis to photograph the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, designed by Tadao Ando whose work he had portrayed various times before.

Hiroshi Sugimoto gave the photographs serial numbers from his Architecture series.

Hiroshi Sugimoto began working on this series as a response to The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even by Marcel Duchamp.

Series Stylized Sculpture, Hiroshi Sugimoto selected distinctive garments by celebrated couturiers from the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute, shot in chiaroscuro on headless mannequins—from Madeleine Vionnet's precociously modern T-dress and Balenciaga's wasp-waisted billowing ensemble to Yves St Laurent's strict geometric Mondrian shift and Issey Miyake's sail-like slip.

Hiroshi Sugimoto noted it was merely a "coincidence" that the image appears on both album covers.

In 2009, Hiroshi Sugimoto acquired some rare negatives made by Henry Fox Talbot in the 1840s and retrieved through an intensely fragile process what "looks remarkably like Plato's shadows in the cave".

Hiroshi Sugimoto founded his architecture practice in Tokyo after receiving requests to design structures from restaurants to art museums.

Hiroshi Sugimoto gets involved with the performance art occurring beside them.

In 2013, Hiroshi Sugimoto created a sculpture and rock garden for the Sasha Kanetanaka restaurant in Omotesando, Tokyo.

Hiroshi Sugimoto designed Stove, a top-tier French restaurant housed in a refurbished wooden house in the Kiyoharu Art Village, Yamanashi Prefecture.

The first in a series of temporary artist-designed structures at the Le Stanze del Vetro museum on view during the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, a Hiroshi Sugimoto-designed glass teahouse was set over a tiled pool and had the traditional tea ceremony performed for the public in it.

In 2011, Hiroshi Sugimoto published an architecture book about the many museums that have shown his work, from the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, to the Fondation Cartier in Paris.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin ; the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria ; the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris.

In 2013, Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibited his artwork alongside pieces from his personal collection at the Fondation Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.

Hiroshi Sugimoto's exhibition, "Lost Human Genetic Archive", at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2016, incorporated selected images from Dioramas, Seascapes, Theaters and the Sanjusangen-do series, among others.

Hiroshi Sugimoto's work is held in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC ; MACBA, Barcelona; and Tate Gallery, London.

In 2009, Hiroshi Sugimoto established the Odawara Art Foundation to promote Japanese culture.

Hiroshi Sugimoto has been represented by Pace Gallery, New York, since 2010, while regularly showing with Gagosian Gallery.