Issei SUDA is a Japanese photographer who born in Tokyo in 1940.From 1967 to 1970 he worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group Tenjo Sajiki, under Shuji Terayama. He won the 16th Domon Ken Award by his work “Human Memory(人間の記憶)”. His main works are “Fushi kaden”, “Waga-Tokyo 100”, “Ningen no kioku”, “Min'yo sanga” etc..

Chronology

1940 - Born in Kanda, Tokyo on April 24.
1962 - Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography.
1967-70 - Worked as the photographer for the Tenjo Sajiki theater troupe, founded by Shuji Terayama.
1971 - Became a freelance photographer.
1971-2018 - Presented numerous works on the subject of everyday life and travel.
2019 - Died in Chiba on March 7 (78 years old).

Publications

2024 - “Fushi Kaden”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing & GwinZegal
2023 - “MONOGUSA SHUI”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2022 - “Holy Night”, Chose Commune
2022 - “The Sketch of Kanto Area”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2021 - “FAMILY DIARY”, Chose Commune
2021 - “Anonymous Man and Woman(Tokyo 1976-78)”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2021 - “EDEN”, Place M (
2020 - “NEW LIFE”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2020 - “78”, Chose Commune
2020 - “TOKYO MODERN PICTOIAL”, Zen Foto Gallery
2019 - “GAKOTOSHI”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2019 - “Landscapes with Chimneys”, Place M
2018 - “The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips”, Zen Foto Gallery
2018 - “Fragment of Everyday Life”, Seigensha Art Publishing,Inc.
2017 - “Kan-nagara”, Place M
2017 - “Sein”, SUPER LABO
2016 - “SUDDENLY”, Place M
2015 - “Boso Fudoki”, SUPER LABO
2015 - “Rei”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2015 - “Childhood Days”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2015 - “Kamagasaki Magic Lantern-Kamagasaki 2000-2014”, Zen Foto Gallery
2013 - “The Journey to Osorezan”, Zen Foto Gallery
2013 - “Waga Tokyo 100”, Zen Foto Gallery
2013 - “Tokyokei”, Nazraeli Press/ Zen Foto Gallery
2013 - “Anonymous Man and Woman: Tokyo 1976-78”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2013 - “Early Works 1970-1975”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2013 - “Nagi no hira-fragments of calm”, Tosei-sha
2013 - “Monogatari of Pines”, aurastudio
2012 - “1975 MIURAMISAKI”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2012 - “RUBBER”, Place M
2012 - “Fushi Kaden”, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
2012 - “Six by Six set4: SPARROW ISLAND”, Nazraeli Press
2011 - “Issei Suda The Work of a Lifetime-Photographs 1968-2006”, only photography
2011 - “Journey to the Tabacco Shop on the Corner”, Place M
2007 - “Minyou Sanga”, Tosei-sha
2000 - Scarlet Bloom, Wides Syuppan, Tokyo
1998 - Issei Suda , Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo
1996 - Human Memory, Creo, Tokyo
1991 - Dog Nose, IPC, Tokyo
1979 - Issei Suda: My Tokyo 100, Nikkor Club, Tokyo
1978 - Fushi Kaden, Asahi Sonorama, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 - “MONOGUSA SHUI”, AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery, Tokyo
2023 - “The Camera on Two Legs Suda Issei: Landscapes of Japan, Margins of the City”
2022 - FUJIFILM SQUARE Photo History Museum, Tokyo
2022 - “Mark Pearson Photo Collection Exhibition Part 2: SUDA ISSEI”
2022 - Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, Nara
2021 - “Issei Suda – My Japan”, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 - “EDEN”, Place M, Tokyo
2020 - “The Legacy of ISSEI SUDA (1940-2019): Human Memory”, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, New York, U.S.
2019 - “Fushi Kaden”, MUGE ART SPACE, Chengdu, China
2019 - “Fushi Kaden”, Youlian Studio, Shanghai, China
2019 - “GANKOTOSHI”, AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery, Tokyo
2019 - “Issei Suda: A Personal Retrospective” Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2019 - “Dog’s Nose”, gallery Main, Kyoto
2019 - “Landscapes with Chimneys”, Place M, Tokyo
2018 - “Gendai Tokyo zue -Tokyo Today”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2018 - “Childhood Days”, AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery, Tokyo
2018 - “Fragment of Everyday Life”, Gallery SUGATA, Kyoto
2018 - “Kan-nagara”, gallery Main, Kyoto
2018 - “Minyo Sanga-another version”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2018 - “Fushi Kaden”, Nirei Art, Kanagawa
2017 - “Kan-nagara”, Place M, Tokyo
2017 - “Fushi Kaden: MOMAT Collection”, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo, Tokyo
2017 - “IN A FLASH”, Gallery PAST RAYS , Kanagawa
2017 - “Thanatos”, RED Photo Gallery, Tokyo
2016 - “Fushi Kaden”(Paris Photo 2016), Paris, France
2016 - “Hitchcokian”, Gallery Photo/synthesis, Tokyo
2016 - “Joyoku no Hako”, See+, Beijing, China
2016 - “SUDDENLY”, Place M, Tokyo
2016 - “Human Memory”, gallery Main, Kyoto
2016 - “CUT”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2016 - “Taipei Kissyo”, aura gallery Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 - “Minyo Sanga”, JCII PHOTO SALON, Tokyo
2015 - “Childhood Days”, aura gallery, Beijing, China
2015 - “Asakusa”, Place M, Tokyo
2015 - “Kamagasaki Magic Lantern-Kamagasaki 2000-2014”, Bloom Gallery, Osaka
2015 - “SOLO”, Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo
2015 - “Rei”, AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery, Tokyo
2015 - “Kinmaku”, Gallery Photo/synthesis, Tokyo
2015 - “Kamagasaki”, Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2015 - “Tokyo 1976-78”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2014 - “Solo Exhibition of Suda Issei”, aura gallery, Beijing, China
2014 - “Life in Flower1971-1977”, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, New York, U.S.
2014 - “Ikkaku Tanabe”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2014 - “INSOMNIA”, Wada Garou, Tokyo
2014 - “Waga Tokyo”, Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
2013 - “ALBUM -Sekishuncho 1968-1973”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2013 - “Anonymous Man and Woman: Tokyo 1976-78”, Gallery Tosei, Tokyo
2013 - “RUBBER”, Place M, Tokyo
2013 - “Nagi no hira-fragments of calm”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Tokyo
2013 - “TEMPTATION 2011-2013”, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
2013 - “Floating cloud”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2013 - “Tenjo Sajiki Soseiki”, nagune, Tokyo
2013 - “Issei Suda:Photographs”, Charles A.Hartman Fine Art, Portland, U.S.
2013 - “THE TRANSMISSION OF THE FLOWER OF ACTING STYLE”, Galerie Priska Pasquer,
Cologne, Germany
2013 - “Monogatari of Pine”, aura gallery, Beijing, China
2013 - “To Mt.Osorezan”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2012 - “RUBBER”, Place M, Tokyo
2012 - “Fushi Kaden”, BLD GALLERY, Tokyo
2012 - “ANONYMOUS”, Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo
2012 - “Fushi Kaden”, aura gallery, Beijing, China
2012 - “SUDA ISSEI”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2011 - “ROOM 2010”, Place M, Tokyo
2011 - “Sign”, Place M/M2 gallery, Tokyo
2011 - “Sparrow Island”, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
2011 - “ZAPPING”, nagune, Tokyo
2011 - “TOKYO MAP 1983-1987”, Hotel Ibis Mini Gallery, Tokyo
2011 - “TOKYO B-side, around 1980”, Gallery Tosei, Tokyo
2011 - “Journey to the Tobacco Shop on the Corner”, Place M, Tokyo
2010 - “Fresh and Blood”, Gallery TAMTO TEMPO, Hyogo
2010 - “Zangiku blues”, NAJA, Chiba
2010 - “Tokyo-kei”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2010 - “Fushi Kaden”, Place M, Tokyo
2010 - “Vintage Photographs 1970s and 80s”, Higher Pictuers, New York, U.S.
2010 - “Jokei”, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo/ Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
2009 - “4-Chome, Ginza, Tokyo 2008-2009”, Place M, Tokyo
2009 - “NUDE”, PUNCTUM, Tokyo
2009 - “Journey to the Tobacco Shop on the Corner”, nagune, Tokyo
2008 - “Human Memory”, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2008 - “Gankai”, Place M, Tokyo
2008 - “Minyo Sanga”, NADAR, Osaka
2008 - “1987 Taipei gaishi”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2007 - “Minyo Sanga”, Gallery Tosei, Tokyo
2007 - “Okinawa”, NADAR/SHIBUYA355, Tokyo
2007 - “Pine Trees of Chiyoda”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Tokyo
2007 - “Sceneries of Japan”, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo/ Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
2007 - “Tokyo 1980”, Big Stone Gallery, Osaka
2007 - “HOTEL”, NADAR, Osaka
2007 - “Suda Issei:My Tokyo from Yokohama Museum of Art Collection”, Yokohama Museum
of Art, Kanagawa
2007 - “Sceneries with Children”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Tokyo
2007 - “OKINAWA”, Big Stone Gallery, Osaka
2006 - “SNAPSHOT”, NAJA, Chiba
2006 - “KINETICSCAPEⅡ”, Art Space Motor, Tokyo
2006 - “Summer, The 50th Year of Showa”, NADAR/SHIBUYA355, Tokyo
2006 - “ROOM”, Roonee 247 Photogrephy, Tokyo
2006 - “KINETICSCAPE”, NADAR, Osaka
2006 - “KINETIC CHRONICLE”, NADAR/SHIBUYA355, Tokyo
2006 - “Tokyo-kei”, Roonee 247 Photogrephy, Tokyo
2006 - “KINETICSCAPE”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Tokyo
2005 - “Before Night Falls”, NADAR/SHIBUYA355, Tokyo
2005 - “ANOTHER PLACE”, Art Space Motor, Tokyo
2005 - “EDEN-the Last Chapter”, NADAR, Osaka
2005 - “Fushi Kaden”, JCII Photo Salon, Tokyo
2005 - “Landscapes with Chimneys: Tokyo 1980-82”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2005 - “Issei Suda 1969-1974”, Art Space Motor, Tokyo
2004 - “VIETNAM 1999-2002”, Gallery Musunso, Tokyo
2004 - “F・PHOTO”, Art Space Motor, Tokyo
2004 - “EDEN-the Last Chapter”, Gallery La Vie, Iwate
2004 - “EDEN-the Last Chapter”, Art Space Motor, Tokyo
2004 - “Osaka”, NADAR, Osaka
2004 - “Osaka”, LIGHT WORKS, Knagawa
2003 - “To Niemon-jima”, NAJA, Chiba
2003 - “Vietnam”, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka
2003 - “ALBUM -Sekisyuncho 1968-1973”, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
2003 - “F・PHOTO”, NADAR, Tokyo
2003 - “SHANGHAI, Part.1 City Part.2 Bund”, galley CRADLE, Kanagawa
2003 - “EDEN”, NADAR, Osaka
2003 - “F・Photo”, Fukusuke Gallery, Osaka
2003 - “Figure”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2002 - “VIETNAM TIME”, Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
2002 - “SPOT”, Nirei Art, Kanagawa
2002 - “EDENⅡ”, LIGHT WORKS, Kanagawa
2002 - “RUBBER”, NADAR, Osaka
2002 - “TYPHOON-Okinawa”, Tokyo Photographic Culture Center, Tokyo
2002 - “EDEN”, Gallery PAST RAYS, Kanagawa
2001 - "Typhoon Okinawa", Gallery Nadar, Osaka
2001 - "Rubber", Gallery Past Rays, Yokohama
2000 - "Tokyo Landscape 1975-1978", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, Osaka
2000 - "Issei Suda", Mick, Kumamoto
2000 - "Vintage 1965-1972", Light Works, Yokohama
2000 - "Beginning", Gallery Past Rays, Yokohama
2000 - "Issei Suda", Osaka University of Arts, Osaka
2000 - "Infancy Days", Konica Plaza, Tokyo
2000 - "Issei Suda", Tokyo Photographic Culture Center, Tokyo
2000 - "Bosoh Sketch ?", Gallery Furushima, Chiba
2000 - "Taipei", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
1999 - "Issei Suda", International Fototage Herten
1999 - "Sequence", Tokyo Photographic Culture Center, Tokyo
1999 - "Fushi Kaden", Gallery PastRays, Yokohama
1999 - "Issei Suda Works", Gallery PastRays, Yokohama
1999 - "Issei Suda Selected", Gallery Furushima, Chiba
1999 - "Fushi Kaden", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1999 - "New Area", Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1999 - "2Places", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
1999 - "Issei Suda", Gallery la vie, Iwate
2000 - "Bosoh Sketch", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
1998 - "Hello Vietnam", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
1998 - "Snap Landscape", Gallery Furushima, Chiba
1997 - "Still Photographs-Tenjo Sajiki 1967-70", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1997 - "Vietnam Night Seen", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
1997 - "Human Memory", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, Osaka
1996 - "Eclipse", Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1996 - "Vietnam Summer", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
1996 - "Ho-Chi-Minh City", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1996 - "Fushi Kaden", Gallery Verita, Tokyo
1996 - "October Light-To Osorezan", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1995 - "Flow of People", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1995 - "Landscape of Japan 1988-1993", Fuji Photo Salon Professional Space, Tokyo
1995 - "Normal Life", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1995 - "Shanghai", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1995 - "Trance Trunk/Elegy", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1994 - "Challenge of Light", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
1994 - "Trance", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1993 - "Naked City", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1993 - "Taipei", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1993 - "Fushi Kaden", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
1993 - "Family Diary", Hiranaga‐cho‐bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1992 - "Hong Kong Scan", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1992 - "Osaka 1990/Tokyo 1980", Picture Photo Space, Osaka
1992 - "Hakodate", Hakodate History Plaza, Hakodate
1992 - "Taipei", 高雄市立図書館, Taiwan
1991 - "Utsunomiya", FROG, Tokyo
1991 - "Wet Sand in August", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1991 - "Dog Nose", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo
1991 - "In the Storehouse", Fuji Photo Salon Professional Space, Tokyo
1991 - "Yokohama", FROG, Tokyo
1991 - "Jilong Chilung", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1989 - "4 Chome, Ginza, Tokyo 1983-1986", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
1989 - "Block 1988 Hong Kong", Olmpus Gallery, Tokyo
1989 - "Issei Suda", Niihama Municipal Establishment Museum, Niihama
1989 - "Tokyo 1980", P・G・I, Tokyo
1988 - "Taipei White Heat", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1987 - "The Big Picture-International Month of Photography'87", Athenae
1986 - "Tsugaru", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
1986 - "Landscape of Japan", Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
1986 - "Sight-seeing Photograph", Pax Gallery, Tokyo
1986 - "Issei Suda", Picture Photo Space, Osaka
1985 - "Hong Kong Acceleration", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1985 - "Taipei Kissyo", Tokyo Designers' Space Gallery, Tokyo
1985 - "Fragment of Everyday life", Olympus Gallery, Tokyo
1983 - "Landscape with Chimney: Tokyo 1980-82", Olympus Gallery, Tokyo
1983 - "Tokyo Today", Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Tokyo
1983 - "Issei Suda", Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics Gallery, Tokyo
1982 - "Monogusa Syui", Nagase Photo Salon, Tokyo
1982 - "to North-from North", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo, Osaka
1981 - "Issei Suda: My Tokyo", SICF, Milan
1979 - "Shinano", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo, Osaka
1979 - "Issei Suda", Tukaido, Fukuoka
1978 - "Issei Suda", Camp, Tokyo
1978 - "Fushi Kaden", Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam
1978 - "Anonymous Men and Women: Tokyo 1976-78", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
1977 - "Fushi Kaden", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo

Awards

2019 - Special Award from the Society of Photography
2014 - Lifetime Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan
1997 - Domon Ken Award
1985 - The Domestic Photographer Award from the Higashikawa Awards
1983 - Annual Award from the Photographic Society of Japan
1976 - Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan for “Fushi Kaden”

Collections

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma
Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi
Ken Domon Museum of Photograrhy, Yamagata
Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, Yamaguchi
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi
Tokyo Polytechnic University, Tokyo
Osaka University of Arts, Osaka
Higashikawa-cho, Hokkaido
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.
J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, U.S.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, U.S.
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, U.S.
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

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