2011.12.17
exhibition open：18:00
talkshow start：19:30
Ticket：¥1,000
Ryudai TAKANO
Ryudai TAKANO is a contemporary Japanese photographer. His work addresses issues of gender and sexual ambiguity, gay culture and the presence of the body in photography. Takano received the prestigious 31st Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award in 2006. His work has been shown at international venues such as Shanghai Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa, Israel, where he participated in the exhibition PostGender: Gender Sexuality and Performativity in Contemporary Japanese Art (2005).
1963 Born in Fukui, Japan
1987 Graduated from Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics
2006 The 31th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award
Solo Exhibitions
2010
“An Ignition Point” ZEIT-FOTO SALON,Tokyo,Japan
“Ikigaa” gallery rougheryet,Okinawa,Japan
“Viva World Cup!” totodo,Tokyo,Japan
2009
“with me” NADiff a/p/a/r/t,Tokyo,Japan
“Open Studio 46th -Document,Memory, and Something” Fuchu Art Museum,Tokyo,Japan
“Hana-machi-bito” GALLERY M,Aichi,Japan
2008
“Para-Para” Zeit-Foto Salon,Tokyo,Japan
2007
“Daily Snapshots” lammfromm the conceptstore,Tokyo,Japan
2006-2007
“In My Room” GALLERY M,Aichi,Japan
2006
“In My Room” NADiff,Tokyo,Japan
“In My Room” KONICA MINOLTA PLAZA GALLERY C ,Tokyo,Japan
“How to contact a man” ZEIT-FOTO SALON,Tokyo,Japan
2005
“Common Sense” ZEIT-FOTO SALON,Tokyo,Japan
2002
“Twelve Messengers” ZEIT-FOTO SALON,Tokyo,Japan
2001
“Naked, for Example” il tempo,Tokyo,Japan
2000
“Reclining Woo-Man” ZEIT-FOTO SALON,Tokyo,Japan
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Group Exhibitions
2010
“Dazzling, Garando (Dazzling, Hollowness)” The University Art Museum,Tokyo University of theArts,Tokyo,Japan
2009-2010
“When I Love You and When I Hate You” Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum,Okinawa,Japan
2009
“Jiro Takamatsu | Ryudai Takano PHOTOGRAPH and Photograph” Dazaifu Tenmangu Houmotsuden,Fukuoka,Japan
“Japan meets China － Our Future reflected in Contemporary Art” Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts,Tochigi,Japan
2008
“Still／Motion” Mie Prefactural Art Museum,Mie／National Museum of Art,Osaka/Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo,Japan
“Shanghai two show” Gallery kaido,Tokyo,Japan
“PARIS PHOTO 2008” CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE,Paris,France
2007
Art Fair “Art@Agnes2007” The Agnes Hotel and Apartments,Tokyo,Japan
“A Private History” Fotografisk Center／Copenhagen,Denmark
“Japan Caungt by Camera – Works from the photographic Art in Japan” Shanghai Art Museum／shanghai,China
2005
“out of ordinary / extraordinary : Japanese Contemporary Photography” Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst (Berlin,Germany,etc
“85/05 :The photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985” sendai mediatheque,Miyagi,Japan
“Post Gender” Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa,Israel
2004
“Metamorphosis of the Everyday ” The Museum of Modern Art,Gunma,Japan
Public Collections
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Japan Foundation
Kawasaki City Museum
Shanghai Museum
Dazaifu Tenmangu Collection
Photo Book of own Works
“In My Room”, Sokyu-sha, March 17, 2005
“Ryudai Takano 1993-1996” Sokyu-sha,September 30, 2006
“Para Para Maria, Toshihisa”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing, April 28, 2009
“Para Para Soft ice cream, Tooth brushing,”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing,April 28, 2009
“How to contact a man”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing, October 16, 2009
Gallery HP
http://www.ycassociates.co.jp
http://www.zeit-foto.com
Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates, Zeit-Foto Salon
© Takano Ryudai
Masanori HATA
1980 born in Fukuoka, Japan.
2008 Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2008 Grand PrizeWinners, Japan
2008 Public collection K.mopa
2009 Establishment Gallery akaruiheya
2010 blanClass+night[I can not see],talk[I can see]
Masanori HATA website
http://hatamasanorihata.ganriki.net
企画ギャラリー・明るい部屋
http://akaruiheya.info
