Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 28 |
| Japan | 9 |
| Italy | 7 |
| France | 5 |
| Germany | 4 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan |
3 |
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
18.3.1933 Born in Yonezawa, Yamagata-ken (JP)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 70 
Solo shows 22
2011
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| Eikoh Hosoe - photography - CLAIR, Munich |
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| Eikoh Hosoe - theatre of memory - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| Eikoh Hosoe:Photographic Scrolls - Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing |
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| Eikoh Hosoe - Irrationality - Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| Hanadorobou - TantoTempo, Kobe |
2010
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| Eikoh Hosoe - Photo4, Paris |
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| Estasi e Memorie - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
2008
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| Embrace and Ordeal by Roses - Gallery White Room, Tokyo |
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| Hosoe Eikoh and Butoh: Photographing Strange Notions - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
2006
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| Spherical Dualism of Photography - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo |
2004
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| Eikoh Hosoe Ukiyo-e Projections - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| EIKOH HOSOE - Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona |
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| Eikoh Hosoe: Photographs 1950-2000+ - Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato |
2002
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| Eikoh Hosoe - Galerie Acte 2, Paris |
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| Eikoh Hosoe - Killed by Roses - Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne |
1996
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| Eikoh Hosoe: META - Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD |
1995
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| Eikoh Hosoe: Meta - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City |
1991
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| Eikoh Hosoe: Meta - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Eikoh Hosoe: Meta - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
1983
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| Eikoh Hosoé - Le Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse |
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| Eikoh Hosoe: Killed by Roses - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1973
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| Kamaitachi (Sickle Weasel) - Optica - centre for contemporary art, Montreal, QC |
Group shows 48
2013
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| Charm of Gelatin Silver Prints IV - Gallery Toki No Wasuremono, Tokyo |
2012
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| Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Creating with Light - The Manipulated Photograph - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo |
2011
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| Tanto Tempo Collection 2011 Summer - TantoTempo, Kobe |
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| LONGING FOR IDENTITY: Postwar Japanese Photographers - Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Kazuo Ohno: 103 - Omaggio a Kazuo Ohno - mc2gallery, Milan |
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| Human Images of 20th Century: All Photographs are Portraits - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo |
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| Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| exposed - Aktfotografie des XX. Jahrhunderts - in focus Galerie, Cologne |
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| Restricted - Monte Clark Gallery - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
2009
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| The Private Collection of Fern M. Schad - Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Counter Photography: Japan’s Artists Today - Photographic Center Northwest , Seattle, WA |
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| Nippon Kōbō - Forma - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan |
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| Remember? Photographs before Digitization - Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY |
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| Reality Revisted - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
2008
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| FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME: Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar Photography - Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY |
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| Counter-Photography – Japan’s Artists Today - Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX |
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| Photographers of Japanese Descent - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| POST-WAR PERSPECTIVES 1945 -1960 - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Counter – Photography: Japan Artists Today - Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung |
2007
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| Convection - Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing |
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| Livres de nus, une anthologie - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| Eyes Of An Island - Japanese Photography 1945-2007 - Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (England) |
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| Eyes Of An Island - Japanese Photography 1945 - 2007 - Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London (England) |
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| Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Couples: The Art of Connection - Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2006
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| Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Without them, count on me - Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia |
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| Six Post-War Japanese Photographers - Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| My Collection - Museo Ken Damy, Brescia |
2005
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| Napoli presente. Posizioni e prospettive dell’arte contemporanea - PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples |
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| Invito al Collezionismo - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
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| Summer Skin - Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Personal Mythologies - Earlier, Recent and Future Acquisitions - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
2004
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| Eijanaika Yes Future - Collection Lambert, Avignon |
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| Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Glorious Harvest - photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
2003
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| Heiliger Sebastian - A Splendid Readiness For Death - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| "Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst" - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Through the Looking Glass - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1997
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| JAPANESE ART, 1960s First Phase: Japanese Summer 1960-64 "I Don't Give a Damn Anymore!" - Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito |
1992
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| Figure/Form: The Nude in 20th Century Photography - Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1986
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| Black Sun: The Eyes of Four - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1979
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| Neue japanische Photographie - Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden |
1977
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| Irina Ionesco & Eiko Hosoe - Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza |
1974
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| New Japanese Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Dealer Directory 7 |
France
Japan
| | Gallery White Room, Tokyo
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United Kingdom
| | Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach
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Collections 11

Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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China
| | Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
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France
| | MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
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Germany
Japan
| | Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
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| | National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo
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Switzerland
| | Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne
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USA
| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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