BIOGRAPHY
BORN
1936 Tokyo, Japan
EDUCATION
1960 Musashino Art College, Tokyo, Japan
EXHIBITIONS
2014 | “ARAMASA Taku 2014 -HRIZON-” One Men Show, Annely Juda Fine Art, London |
2012 | “ARAMASA Taku 2012 -HRIZON-” One Men Show, Tokyo Publishing House,Tokyo |
2011 | “ARAMASA Taku Photographs 2011”(Na2 Platina print) One Men Show, OUT of PLACE , Nara |
2009 | ｢frame & vision｣ -blessing in forest-ARAMASA Taku Solo Exhibition Tokyo Gallery+BTAP |
2008 | “ARAMASA Taku Photographs-America/promised Land,” (Platina print) Gallery OUT of PLACE , Nara “ARAMASA SAKURA,” NIKON Salon -One Men Show-, Tokyo & Osaka |
2006 | “ARAMASA Taku Photographs-Apocalypse,” Museum of Musashino Art Unversity,Tokyo |
2005 | “ARAMASA Taku-SAKURA,” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco California |
2003 | “Only Skin Deep-Changing vision of the american self,”International Center of Photography, New York |
2001 | “ARAMASA Taku Photographs:Portraits of Japanese Immigrants, “polaroid Gallery, Tokyo |
2000 | “ARAMASA Taku Photographs-America / Promised Land, ”Misumura Art Plaza, Tokyo “11+1 Photographs, ”Musashino Art Unversity, Department of Imaging Arts 10th Anniversity, Mitsumura Art Plaza, Tokyo |
1997 | “Silent Land-Prison Camps in Siberia, ”Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo |
1996 | “Manchuria/Siberia, ”Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan |
1995 | “Silent Land-Prison Camps in Siberia,”Sinjuku Park Tower Gallery 1, Tokyo |
1994 | “Taku Aramasa Photographs: Portraits of Native America, ”Yuraku-cho Art Forum, Tokyo / Hakata / Nara & Takaoka, Japan |
1992 | “Who Am I ? – War Orphans Left in China, ” Hiroshima & Fukuoka, Japan |
1991 | “Who Am I ? – War Orphans Left in China, ”Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo |
1990 | “Family, Commemorative Exhibition of ‘Who Am I’, ”Nikon Salon, Tokyo & Osaka |
1988 | “Taku Aramasa Photographs-The 80th Anniversary of Japanese Immigration to Brazil,” Sao Paulo Museum, San Paulo |
1987 | “A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America, ”Hiroshima & Osaka, Japan |
1986 | “A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America, ”Yurakucho Marion, Tokyo |
PUBLICATIONS
2014 | “ARAMASA Taku 2014” HORIZON Catalogue© -Annely Juda Fine Art- London |
2010 | ARAMASA Taku Photogaphs-ARAMASA SAKURA -in black box / in black room- at one’s 1/1 |
2007 | e-bookARAMASA Taku Photogaphs – Apocalypse, e-book Humandream |
2007 | e-book ARAMASA Taku’s PORTFOLIO, (1960-2006) e-book Humandream |
2006 | ARAMASA Taku Photographs-Apocalypse, Museum Musashino Art University |
2000 | America / Promised Land, Misuzu Shobo |
1995 | The Silent Land: Prison Camps in Siberia, Chikuma Shobo |
1993 | Portrait of Native America, Kodansha |
1990 | Who Am I ? War Orphans Left in China, Who Am I ? Publishing Committee |
1985 | A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America, Asahi Shinbunsha |
1980 | To My Angels, Zenkoku Shuppan |
AWARDS
1996 | The 46th Artist of the Year Award, Japan Photography Association |
1994 | The 10th Higashikawa Award |
1986 | The 5th domon ken Award |
1985 | Grand Prize (Public Poster) at the 1st International Triennale Toyama |
1978 | The 28th New Artist of the Year Award, Japan Photography Association |
COLLECTIONS
- Center for Creative Photography, Arizona State University, Arizona
- Domon – Ken Memorial Hall, Sakata, Japan
- Higashikawa Museum, Higashikawa-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
- San Paulo Museum, San Paulo, Brazil
- History Museum of Japanese Immigrants, San Paulo, Brazil
- International Center of Photography, New York, New York
- Osaka Human Rights History Museum, Osaka, Japan
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- History Museum of japanese Immigrants, san Jose, California
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
- Museum of Musashino Art University, (ARAMASA Taku Collections of Photography) Tokyo,Japan