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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Overview

Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is a contemporary Japanese photographer whose esoteric practice explores memory and time. Using the intrinsic quality of long exposure photography, the artist provides insight into how the medium can both obscure and alter reality. Influenced by Dadaist and Surrealist theory, Sugimoto’s Seascapes, Dioramas, and Theaters, craft mysterious scenes from vernacular subject matter. “Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world,” the artist said. “Photography is a system of saving memories. It’s a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.”

In the mid-1970s Sugimoto moved to New York. He was the recipient of the Hasselblad Award in 2001, and the subject of a mid-career retrospective in 2006 organised by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The artist currently lives and works between New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan. Sugimoto’s works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Featured Exhibitions

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Arctic Ocean, Nord Kapp, 1990, #333

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

English Channel, Fecamp, 1989, #361

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Atlantic Ocean, New Foundland, 1982, #303

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Ionian Sea, Santa Cesara, 1990, #345

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Marmara Sea, Silivli, 1991, #371

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Mediterranean Sea, Crete, 1990, #347

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Tyrrhenian Sea, Amalfi, 1990, #340

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sea of Okhotsk , Hokkaido, 1989, #325

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Bay of Biscay, Bakio, #364, 1991

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Ionian Sea, Santa Cesara, #344, 1990

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Mediterranean Sea, Cassis, #322, 1989

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sea of Japan, Oki, #311, 1987

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Norwegian Sea, Vesteralen Island, #335, 1990

Tri-tone offset lithograph mounted on card

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

North Sea, Berriedale, #336, 1990

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