Hiroshi Sugimoto

The largest survey to date of Hiroshi Sugimoto, an artist renowned for creating some of the most alluringly enigmatic photographs of our time.

Featuring key works from all of the artist’s major photographic series, this survey highlighted Sugimoto’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into our understanding of time and memory, and photography’s ability to both document and invent. The exhibition also included lesser-known works that revealed the artist’s interest in the history of photography, as well as in mathematics and optical sciences.

Over the past five decades Sugimoto has created pictures which are meticulously crafted, deeply thought-provoking and quietly subversive. Often employing a large-format wooden camera and mixing his own darkroom chemicals, he has repeatedly re-explored ideas and practices from 19th century photography while capturing subjects including dioramas, wax figures and architecture. Sugimoto’s work has stretched and rearranged concepts of time, space and light that are integral to the medium.

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Hiroshi Sugimoto divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Over the past five decades, his photographs have received international acclaim and have been presented in major institutions across the globe.

While best known as a photographer, Sugimoto has more recently added architecture and sculpture to his multidisciplinary practice, as well as being artistic director on performing arts productions.

His work is represented in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and National Gallery, London.

‘It’s hard to look away from this staggeringly inventive show’

The Telegraph

‘A beautiful, enthralling and meditative show’

The Observer