Tomoki IMAI
今井智己
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1974, he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 1998. His works, such as “真昼” (2001) and “光と重力” (2009), depict everyday scenes such as streets, forests, and rooms, but with a sense of tranquility. In recent years, he has also carefully followed the work of photographers who were involved in photography in different capacities during World War II, and has created works such as “In Their Eyes” (2016), which presents memories of the past not as something detached from the present, but as something that comes to the present, and “The Light and Gravity” (2009), in which he photographed the buildings of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from several mountaintops within a 30-km radius of the plant. In Their Eyes” (2016), in which the artist's own gaze is focused on the past not as something detached from the present, but as something that comes to the present.
Chronology
1998 - Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts (Aesthetics and Art History)
2016 - Overseas study program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Japan (Rotterdam)
lives and works in Tokyo,Japan
Publications
2011 - A TREE OF NIGHT, Match and Company Co.,Ltd.
2009 - LIGHT AND GRAVITY, Little More Co.,Ltd.
2005 - In-between 10, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
2001 - Mahiru, Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 - Remains to be seen, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
2013 - Tomoki Imai, YU-UN, Tokyo
2013 - Semicircle Law, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film, Tokyo
2012 - mapping TAIPEI, epSITE Gallery , Tokyo
2011 - far and near, Bloirer Space, Tokyo
2010 - light and gravity, Little More Chika,Tokyo
2004 - another time, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2002 - Mahiru, Gallery SPEAK FOR,Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 - Landscapes, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2018 - Azamino Contemporary vol.9 Uncertain Landscape, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino,
Kanagawa, Japan
2018 - A gaze into architecture – Phases of contemporary Photography and Architecture-, Archi-Depot Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018 - Tuska, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2017 - TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei – Part 1 “In the Here and Now”, Tokyo Photographic ArtMuseum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - 19th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2014 - Crossing Views, N.G.Hayek Center, Tokyo, Japan
2012 - Meguro Address, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2011 - Hitotoki, Chiba Citizen’s Gallery Inage, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2007 - Photographs:What You See & What You Don’t, The Chinretsukan Gallery,Tokyo University of Arts,Tokyo,Japan
2006-2008 PHotoEspaña06-Del Paisaje Reciente, De la imagen al territorio, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid,Spain (toured to Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de San Benito,Valladrid and Organismo Autonomo de Museo y Centros Cabildo Insular de Tenerife,Tenerife,Spain)
2005 - The Ancient Sound of the Image-Contemporary Photography from Japan, Palazzo fontana di Trevi, Rome,Italy
2005 - Paper Bridges, Contemporary Art Services of Tasmania(CAST), Hobart,Australia
2005 - Some Trees, Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen,Germany and SeARCH,Amsterdam,The Netherlands
2004 - Yokohama Shashin-kan, BankART 1929&Bashamichi, Yokohama,Japan
2004 - Photo City SAGAMIHARA 2003, Nikon Saloon,Tokyo,Japan
2003 - VOID, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama,Japan
2002-2003 BLACK OUT:Contemporary Japanese Photography, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura a Roma, Roma,Italy (toured to Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris,Paris,France and The Japan Foundation Forum,Tokyo,Japan)
Awards
Collections
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
