Daido MORIYAMA - 森山大道 | shashasha - Photography & art in books

Daido (Hiromichi) Moriyama was born on October 10th 1938, in Ikeda-cho (now Ikeda-shi), Osaka. In 1961, Moriyama moved to Tokyo, to join the eminent photographer's group VIVO in March, whose members included Shomei Tomatsu. After the groups disbandment, Eikoh Hosoe took Moriyama on as an assistant which would lead to Moriyama assisting in the production of Hosoe's series Ordeal by Roses a year later. In 1964, Moriyama started his career as a freelance photographer. He frequently shot around the American base in Yokosuka, Atami, Shinjuku, Asakusa, etc.

His solo works have been published and displayed in many local and international exhibitions, and can be seen at Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo), and other public collections worldwide.

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Chronology

1938 - On October 10, Daido (Hiromichi) Moriyama is born in Ikeda-cho (now Ikeda-shi), Osaka.
1961 - Moriyama moves to Tokyo, to join the eminent photographers` group VIVO in March, whose members include Shomei Tomatsu. After the groups disbandment, Eikoh Hosoe takes Moriyama on as an assistant and next year Moriyama assists in the production of Hosoe`s series
Ordeal by Roses
1964 - Started his career as a freelance photographer, frequently shot around American base in Yokosuka.　Started friendship with Takuma Nakahira at this time.
1967 - New Artist Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association
1971 - Visited NewYork for the first time with Tadanori Yokoo.
1987 - Opened his private gallery 'room.801'
1994 - Joined to the members organizing the private gallery Place M, Shinjuku.

Publications

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2007 - "Tales of Tohno (revised)" Kobunsha ltd, Japan
2007 - "Osaka Plus" Getsuyosha ltd, Japan
2007 - "Record no. 7" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2007 - "Erotica" Asahi Shinbunsha, Japan
2007 - "Hawaii" Getsuyosha ltd, Japan
2007 - "Record no. 8" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2007 - "Record extra issue No. 1" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2007 - "KAGERO & COLORS (revised and mixed)" Power Shovel Books, Japan
2008 - "Hokkaido" RAT HOLE GALLERY, Japan
2008 - "Record no. 1-5 (revised)" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2008 - "Record no. 9" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2008 - "S' " Kodansha ltd, Japan
2008 - "S' Limited Edition" Kodansha ltd, Japan
2008 - "To another country" Asahi Shimbun Publications inc, Japan
2008 - "Record no. 10" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2008 - "Yashi" La Fondation Cartier pour L´art contemporain, France
2009 - "Record no. 11" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2009 - "Light&Shadow (revised)" Kodansha ltd, Japan
2009 - "Buenos Aires (revised)" Kodansha ltd, Japan
2009 - "Record no. 12" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2009 - "Japan, A Photo Theater Magazine Works" Getsuyosha ltd, Japan
2009 - "Daido Moriyama Talks Photography" Seikyūsha, Japan) *In Japanese
2009 - "NORTHERN" Tosho Shimbun, Japan
2009 - "A Journey to something" Getsuyosha ltd, Japan
2009 - "Sao Paulo" Kodansha ltd, Japan
2009 - "Record no. 13" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2010 - "NAKAJI" Kodansha ltd, Japan
2010 - "Record no. 14" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2010 - "Record no. 15" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2010 - "NAGISA" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2010 - "NORTHERN 2" Tosho Shimbun, Japan
2010 - "Record no. 16" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2010 - "Rojo snap no susume" Kobunsha ltd, Japan
2010 - "THE TROPICS" Kodansha ltd, Japan
2010 - "Record no. 17" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2010 - "TSUGARU" Taka Ishii Gallery, Japan
2011 - "NORTHERN 3" Tosho Shimbun, Japan
2011 - "'71 New York (revised)" Kodansha ltd, Japan
2011 - "Record no. 18" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2011 - "Gekijo" SUPER LABO
2011 - "Color Photograph" SUPER LABO
2011 - "Record no. 19" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2011 - "On the Road " Getsuyosha ltd, Japan
2011 - "A HUNTER " Kodansha ltd, Japan
2011 - "Record no. 20" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2012 - "COLOR" Getsuyosha ltd, Japan
2012 - "REMIX II" Galerie Kamel Mennour, France
2012 - "Paris 88/89" Poursuite, France
2013 - "View from the Laboratory" Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009 - "Ginza/DIGITAL", RING CUBE, Tokyo
2009 - "Light&Shadow", BLD GALLERY, Tokyo
2009 - "Hokkaido", Miyanomori Art Museum Sapporo, Yubari Art Museum, Arte Piazza Bibai, Parco Sapporo
2009 - "Around Magazine Work 1965-1974", NADiff a/p/a/r/t/,Tokyo
2010 - "Daido Moriyama" LUHRING AUGUSTINE
2010 - "Hokkaido Vol.2" Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
2010 - "NAGISA" BLD GALLERY, Tokyo
2010 - "Northern" Six, Osaka
2010 - "Record No15 NewYork" artdish, Tokyo
2010 - "THE WORLD THROUGH MY EYES" Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy
2010 - "SNAP-ROUTE122" artdish, Tokyo
2010 - "THE TROPICS" Place M, Tokyo
2010 - "route.20"OLYMPUS PHOTO GALLERY, TOKYO & OSAKA
2011 - "Sao Paulo & Buenos Aires" Miyanomori Art Museum, Sapporo
2016 - "DAIDO TOKYO" Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain
2016 - ”Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition" Tokyo Metropolitan Theater
2016 - "SCANDALOUS" AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY
2016 - "RECORD" Place M
2016 - "Shangri-la" Hyogo Prefaectual Museum of Art
2017 - "Odasaku" POETIC SCAPE , Gallery 176
2017 - "Record No.33" A/D Gallery
2017 - "DAIDO MORIYAMA" Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Sapporo
2017 - "Pretty Woman & Pantomime" Visual Arts Gallery, Osaka
2017 - "Pretty Woman" AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY
2017 - "Aa, Koya" B GALLERY
2017 - "Tokyo Color" Luhring Augustine
2017 - "DAIDO MORIYAMA ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK" Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO
2018 - "Record No.35+36" AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY AOYAMA
2018 - "景" NaDiff Gallery
2018 - "RADIATION (color)" AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY
2018 - "RADIATION" Each Modern, Taipei
2018 - "Ango" POETIC SCAPE, Gallery176
2018 - "SCENE" HAMILTONS GALLERY, London
2018 - "宇和島" AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY AOYAMA
2018 - "Daido Tokyo Color" MATE, Lima
2018 - ”Daido Moriyama Exhibition in sakata 2018 Light and Shadow” Dewa Yushinkan
2019 - "Ango Daido" Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art
2019 - "A Diary" Hasselblad Foundation
2019 - "LABYRINTH (Remix)" AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY
2019 - "Record No.42" AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY Aoyama
2020 - ”Okinawa s49" SUPER LABO STORE TOKYO
2020 -”Moriyama Daido’ｓTokyo:Ongoing” TOP Museum
2020 -”Silkscreen” Taka Ishii Gallery
2020 -"A Diary" Foto Colectania, Barcelona
2021 - ”Orizuru” TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS
2021 - "DAIDO MORIYAMA" Stieglitz 19
2021 - ”Before 1968 DAIDO MORIYAMA’s works from magazines” NADiff Gallery
2021 - ”衝撃的、たわむれ” Shadai Gallery
2021 - ”Zushi vol.2” Zushi Art Gallery　
2021 - "THE FOSSILIZATION of LIGHT" Tsutaya Ginza　
2021 - "Travel Notes from Daido Moriyama" Gallery 101, Taipei
2021 - "Moeiyama-Tomatsu Tokyo" MEP
2022 - ”re:8fleurs" gallery cafe totonoeru
2022 - "Daido Moriyama '71 New York" Reflex Amsterdam, the Residence

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003 - "Japan: Contemporary Ceramics and Photography" Hamburg
2003 - "Mask of Japan" aura gallery, Shanghai
2005 - "Moriyama/Shinjuku/Araki" (two persons exhibition with Nobuyoshi Araki) Tokyo Operacity Gallery
2005 - "Guangzhou Photo Biennale" Guangdong Museum of Art
2005 - "CHIKAKU: Space and Memory in Japan" Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, Spain
2005 - "Shuji Terayama and Daido Moriyama: Aa, KMya" Logos Gallery, Tokyo
2008 - "A Quiet Gaze, Echoing Worlds#, Daido Moriyama and Migues Rio Branco", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2016 - "LAST DANCE" parco gallery, Tokyo
2018 - Sprengel Museum, Hannover "1938"
2018 - Barbican Centre Art Gallery, London "Another Kind of Life"
2018 - Power Station of Art, Shanghai "Beautiful Elsewhere"
2020 - "Tokyo Curiosity 2020Shibuya" Bunkamura the museum
"SHINJUKU_RESOLUTION" Isetan, Shinjuku
2021 - "Moriyama-Tomatsu" MEP, Paris

Awards

1967 - New Artist Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association
1983 - Photographer of the Year Award from the Photographic Society of Japan
2003 - Mainichi Art Award
2004 - Der Kulturpreis (The Cultural Award) der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Photographie
2004 - Lifetime Achievement Award from The Photographic Society of Japan
2012 - ICP Infinity Award, Lifetime Achievement
2018 - L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier
2019 - The Hasselblad Foundation, International Award in Photography
2020 - The Asahi Prize

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