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Takashi Homma

Biography

In 1999, he received the 24th Kimura Ihei Award for Photography for his photo book
“Tokyo Suburbia” (Korinsha Publishing Co., Ltd.). From 2011 to 2012, he held a solo

exhibition, “New Documentary,” at three different museums in Japan. He is the authorof “Fun Photography: A Photography Classroom for Good Children” and recent

collections of his work include THE NARCISSISTIC CITY (MACK) and TRAILS (MACK).
He has also published “Symphony mushrooms from the forest” (Case Publishing) and“Looking Through Le Corbusier Windows” (Walther König, CCA, Window Institute) in
2019. Currently a visiting professor at Tokyo Zokei University

1962 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1999 Received 24th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the photobook,Tokyo Suburbia.
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 mushroom from the forest, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

2020 Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier, CCA, Montreal

Takashi Homma/Symphony – mushrooms from the forest, POST, Tokyo

2019 Trails of Takashi Homma, Pon Ding & moom bookshop, Taipei
Looking through – Le Corbusier windows, TARO NASU, Tokyo

2018 Fugaku 11/36 –Thirty six views of mount fuji - , TARO NASU, Tokyo
Mountain, CIFAKA, Okayama

2017 NEW WAVES, POST, TokyoTWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS / ROYAL ROAD TEST / BABYCA
KES, POST, Tokyo

La città narcisista. Milano e altre storie, VIASATERNA, Milan

2016 Various cameraobscura studies - inprogress, TARO NASU, Tokyo

Mitsukoshi Wrapping Paper, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kagawa

VARIOUS SHAPED HOSES AND SNAKE, POST, Tokyo

2015 Chandigarh, CoSTUME NATIONAL, Tokyo

Seeing Itself, Dazaifu Tenmangu Art Program vol.9 Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka

Camera obscura studies, Tokyo International photograph fair ART FACTORY, Tokyo

2014 NINE SWIMMING POOLS AND A BROKEN IPHONE, POST, TokyoTOWARDS THE CITY - camera obscura study - , TARO NASU, Tokyo

2013 New Waves, Longhouse Projects, New York

Kenzo Tange Exhibition From Setouchi to the World, Kagawa prefecture Museum, Kagawa
Pinhole Revolution / Architecture, TARO NASU, Tokyo

2012 mushrooms from the forest 2011, Blind Gallery, Tokyo
MORE Mushroom, The Cave, Tokyo

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Takashi Homma

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012 Homma Takashi New Documentary, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum ofContemporary Art, Kagawa

New Waves, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

Hokuo Kenchiku Toka [Nordic Architecture etc.], Bo Concept, Tokyo

2011 Homma Takashi New Documentary, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa,Kanazawa Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, TokyoIN OUR NATURE, Mitsubishi Estate Artium, Fukuoka

2010 Vedove/Widows, Antico Castello sul Mare, Rapallo, Italy (Rapallo FotografiaContemporanea, 4a edizione)

New Waves 2010, 1223 Gendaikaiga—Contemporary Painting Museum, TokyoM, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2009 Trails, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2008 I don’t Go to Grandes Jorasses, limArt, TokyoTokyo, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

Mountains “Seeing Itself,” Display By Arts&Science, Tokyo

2007 New Waves, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

New Waves, Logos Gallery, Tokyo

Tokyo/Reykjavik, 101 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Architectural Landscapes, Gallery White Room Tokyo, Tokyo

2006 Tokyo and My Daughter, Galerie Claudia Delank, Cologne, Germany
2005 New Waves 2005, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2004 Kiwamete yoi fukei [Extremely Good Landscapes], NADiff, Tokyo
Short Hope, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2003 Waves, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
New Waves, A.P.C., Tokyo

2002 Tokyo Children, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2000 Tokyo Suburbia, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

1999 Takashi Homma: Tokyo Suburbia, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo; Minolta Photo Space inOsaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai

Tokyo Suburbia, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Takashi Homma Exhibition ’99, Gallery The Deep, Tokyo

1998 Hyper Ballad: Icelandic Suburban Landscapes, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
Tokyo Suburbia, Parco Gallery, Tokyo

1995 Babyland, Parco Gallery, TokyoTokyo Teens, Homma Takashi Photo Office, Tokyo

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Takashi Homma

Selected group Exhibitions

2020 The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows, Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa

2019 The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows, The National Museum ofModern Art, Tokyo Present Day and in Times Past - Multiple Perspectives, Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

2018 Casino Palermo, VIASATERNA, Milan

Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Le Corbusier / Chandigarh -Creation and Context-, Arch-DepoTokyo

A gaze into architecture :Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture,Arch-Depot, Tokyo

2017 TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part1 : In the Here and Now, Tokyo Photographic
Art Museum2016 20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO, Tokyo Photographic Art
Museum, Tokyo

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

2015 Tokyo Art Meeting VI "TOKYO" -Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis, Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo

In the Wake : Japanese Photographers Respond to 3-11, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston

2014 The Fab Mind: Hints of the Future in a Shifting World, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT , Tokyo

You reach out – right now – for something : Questioning the Concept of Fashion, Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa

You reach out – right now – for something : Questioning the Concept of Fashion, Art Tower
Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki

2013 gesture, form, technique III, TARO NASU, Tokyo
Ryosen, POST, Tokyo

Memories of town, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa

2012 Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan, Moscou Museum of Modern Art,Moscou/Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

The Month of Photography 2012, FUJIFILM PHOTO SALON, Tokyo

2010 Asia Spectrum at Daegu Photo Biennale 2010, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
2009 Mountains “A Way of Seeing,” Gallery Trax, Hokuto, Japan

2007 Gazing at the Contemporary World: Japanese Photography from the 1970s to the Present.

(traveling exhibition to 22 cities in 12 countries including Lithuania, Germany, Egypt, Latvia,Indonesia, Australia.)

2006 Stories, Histories: Set 3 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum
Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2005

36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki

2003 Japan—Contemporary Ceramics and Photography—Tradition and Presence,
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

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Takashi Homma

Selected group Exhibitions

2003 The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

Everyday Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea, and Thailand, Kunstforeningen,Copenhagen, Denmark

2001 JAM: Tokyo-London, Barbican Art Gallery, London; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (2002).
Landscapes, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2000 MOT Annual 2000: Land/mind/body-scapes in the Age of Cold Burn, Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

1999 TOKYO 60/90 17 Contemporary Photographers, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum ofPhotography, Tokyo

Retrospective: The Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award 1975-1999, Kawasaki CityMuseum, Kawasaki, Japan

1997 Cities on the Move: Contemporary Asian Art on the Turn of the 21st Century, Secession,Vienna; Hayward Gallery, London and other venues until 2000.

1996 Baby Generation, Parco Part III Square 7, Tokyo

Major Publications

Babyland, Little More, Tokyo, 1995

Baby Generation, Little More, Tokyo, 1996 (with other authors)
Tokyo Teens, Little More, Tokyo, 1996

Hyper Ballad: Icelandic Suburban Landscapes, Switch Publishing, Tokyo, 1997
Tokyo Suburbia, Korinsha Press, Kyoto, 1998
Tokyo Children, Little More, Tokyo, 2001
New Waves, A.P.C., Tokyo, 2003

New Waves, Magazine House, Tokyo, 2003 (relax magazine special edition)
Kiwamete yoi fukei [Extremely Good Landscapes], Little More, Tokyo, 2004

In-between 1: Takashi Homma: Denmark, Poland, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee, Tokyo, 2005
Tokyo and My Daughter, Nieves, Zurich, 2006
New Waves, Parco Publishing, Tokyo, 2007

Architectural Landscapes, Gallery White Room Tokyo, Tokyo, 2007
Takashi Homma: Tokyo, Aperture Foundation, New York, 2008

Mountains “Seeing Itself” (between the books 00), Between the Books, Tokyo, 2008
Trails, Match and Company, Tokyo, 2009

Tanoshii shashin [Fun Photography], Heibonsha, Tokyo, 2009 (essays on photography)
First, jay comes., Hassla Books, New York, 2009
R: 1994-2009, Zine’s Mate, Tokyo, 2009

35 Years Later, The Thunderstorm Press, Tokyo, 2009

Vedove/Widows, Fantombooks/Boiler Corporation, Milan, 2010

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Takashi HommaMajor PublicationsNursery, Nieves, Zurich, 2010
M, Gallery 360°, Tokyo, 2010

IN OUR NATURE, SUPER LABO, 2011

Takashi Homma New Documentary, Asahishinbunsha, 2011 (exhibition catalog)
Mushrooms from the Forest, blind gallery, 2012

Tanoshii shashin 2Portrait [Fun Photography], Heibonsha, Tokyo, 2012 (essays on photography)
New Waves 2000-2013 , 1223 Gendaikaiga, Tokyo, 2013
New Documentary, SUPER LABO, Tokyo, 2014

Tanoshii shashin 3 [Fun Photography]Workshop, Heibonsha, Tokyo, (essays on photography), 2014

THE NARCISSISTIC CITY , MACK BOOKS, London, 2016

Homma takashi Renovation: I've tried it! Introduction to Video Literacy, Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2017
TRAILS, MACK BOOKS, London, 2019

Symphony - mushrooms from the forest, Case Publishing, Tokyo, 2019

Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows, Window Research Institute, CCA, Walther König, 2019