Nakahira Takuma
1938
1965

Born in Tokyo
Graduated from the Spanish Department of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Solo Exhibition
2019
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2013
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2011
2007
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2003
1997
1989
Group Exhibition
2023
2021

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2016

Nakahira Takuma: 1974-1989, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
Nakahira Takuma, H-code, Hong Kong (Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2018)
Circulation, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Takuma Nakahira, aura gallery taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Circulation: Date, Place, Events, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA
Circulation: Date, Place, Events, BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Documentary, ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
Documentary, BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kirikae, Comme des Garçon Six, Osaka; Hannam Six, Seoul
Why an Illustrated Yokohama Dictionary? , ShugoArts, Tokyo, JapanWhy an Illustrated Human-animal Dictionary? , ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
Takuma Nakahira: Degree Zero―Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama; Naha
Civic Gallery, Okinawa, Japan in 2004
Everyday Life: Nakahira Takuma Now, C-square, Art Gallery of the Chūkyō University,Nagoya, Japan
Adieu à X, Foto Daido, Tokyo, Japan

OKINAWA：Araki Nobuyoshi・Nakahira Takuma, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
Living for the City, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA until 2022
Kirikae: From Mono-ha to Simulationism, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
PROVOKE - Opposing Centrism, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
New Situation：EM Staff Select, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
Japanese Photography ― 1930s-1970s, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Yokohama Museum of Art Collection: Rhythm, Resonance, Noise, Yokohama Museum of Art,
Yokohama, JapanThe Gaze of Things: Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke, Bombas Gens Centred’Art, Valencia, Spain
Eyes Wild Open, Musée du Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
TOP Collection: Learning―Into the Pictures, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Provoke & Beyond, JCCAC, Hong Kong (Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2018)
1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba; Kitakyushu
Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
until 2019
Seize the Uncertain Day, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Museum, Tokyo Universityof the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Japanorama: New Vision on Art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Provoke: Between Protest and Performance―Photography in Japan 1960-1975, Albertina, Vienna;
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Le Bal, Paris, France; Art Institute ofChicago, Chicago, USA until 2017
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Things: Rethinking Japanese Photography and Art in 1970s, The National Museum of ModernArt, Tokyo, JapanFor a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979, TheMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NewYork; The Japan Society Gallery, New York, USA
ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the Sea of Oblivion, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama(Yokohama Triennale 2014)
Arata Isozaki 12×5 = 60, Watari-um, Tokyo
1974: A Turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Discover, Discover Japan, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
1968―Japanese Photography: Photographs that Stirred Up Debate, 1966-1974, Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Roppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
The 70s in Japan 1968-1982, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Yokohama Preview, Shinkō Pier, Yokohama, JapanThe Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA,USA
Faithful Documents: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aki Gallery, Taipei
All our Everydays, Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand《Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan,1950-1970》, Getty Research Institute, CA, USA
Chikaku: Time and Memory in Japan, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; Museo de Arte
Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain; Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan until
2006
ICANOF Media Art Show 2005: MEGANEURA, Hachinohe City Museum of Art,Aomori, Japan
Spread in Prato 2004, Prato, Italy
Photonesia: Memories of Lights, Fruits of Time: Waves after the 30th Anniversary of the Return ofOkinawa to Japan, Naha Civic Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
Photography and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995, The National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Eleven Photographers in Japan: 1965-75, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
Travaux/débat/projection: L’avant-garde au Japon, Galerie ADDA, Marseille, France
Photography about Photography, Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Fifteen Photographers Today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, JapanThe 7th Paris Biennale, Le Parc de Floral, Bois de Vincennes, Paris
The 6th Paris Biennale, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ParisCollections
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, JapanThe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, JapanThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, USA
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, JapanNew York Public Library, New York, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain

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Publications- First Discard the World of Verisimilitude: Thoughts of Photography and Language (Tokyo: Tabata Shoten,1970. Co-authored. Edited by Kōji Taki and Nakahira.)- For a Language to Come (Tokyo: Fūdosha, 1970)- Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?: Takuma Nakahira’s Collected Writings on the Image (Tokyo:Shōbunsha, 1973)- Duel on Photography (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1977. Co-authored. Nakahira’s writings and Kishin
Shinoyama’s photographs)- A New Gaze (Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 1983)- Adieu à X (Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1989. Reprinted in 2006 and 2016.)- Japanese Photographers 36: Takuma Nakahira (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1999)- Japanese Box (Göttingen: Steidl, 2001. Co-authored. Facsimile reprint of 6 rare photographic publicationsof the Provoke Era)
- Hysteric Six: Nakahira Takuma (Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2002)- Degree Zero―Yokohama (Tokyo: Osiris, 2003)- Fire at the Limits of my Perpetual Gaze: Collected Essays of Takuma Nakahira 1965-1977 (Tokyo: Osiris,2007. Edited by Akihito Yasumi and Masato Ishizuka.)- Takuma Nakahira Tabloid Photobook (Tokyo: Osiris, 2008)- For a Language to Come (Tokyo: Osiris, 2010. Republication.)- Documentary (Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2011)- Toshi Fūkei Zukan: Magazine Work 1964-1982 (Tokyo: Getsuyōsha, 2011)- Okinawa, Amami, Tokara 1974-1978 (Tokyo: Miraisha, 2012)

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