Chronology

1974 - Born in Hiroshima,Japan
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

2013 - Semicircle Law, Match and Company Co.,Ltd.
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

2021 - A Decade, Kurenboh, Tokyo, Japan
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

2020 - Time Flows: Reflections by 5 Arists, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
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

2003 - Photo City Sagamihara Award, New figure encouragement prize

Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Books from Tomoki IMAI