CV (en)


Nobuhiro Fukui

Born in Tokushima, Japan, 1972
Lives and works in Tokyo


Education

2003 to present
Self‐taught

2004
Participated in Osamu Kanemura Workshop


Solo Exhibitions

2013
"B'" Parzelle403 (Basel, Switzerland)

2011
"undercurrent" TKG Editions Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)

2010
"Asterism" Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

2008
"Juxtaposition" Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

2006
"There There" Joachim Gallery (Berlin, Germany)

2005
"Trans A.M." GENDAI HEIGHTS GalleryDEN (Tokyo, Japan)


Group Exhibitions

2015
"Celsius" CASHI (Curator: Arata Hasegawa, Erika Matsushima, Coordinator: Yuji Ohshita / Tokyo, Japan)

2014
"JAPON" Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain de Meymac (CAC) (Curator: Jean-Paul Blanchet / Meymac, France)

"Tokyo Story 2014 Part 1" TWS Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)

2013
"Hokkaido community art project [Susukino Art Project + Koshiyama Project] - Interaction and Exchange / Where are we? or What is this place?" Susukino Art Project & Koshiyama Project (Curator: Yuji Oshita / Sapporo, Japan)

"Shinonome Photo Festival 2013" TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME (Tokyo, Japan)

"Concrete - Photography and Architecture" Fotomuseum Winterthur (Curator: Thomas Seelig, Research Assistant: Daniela Janser / Zürich, Switzerland)

2012
"5 - Contemporary Japanese Photographers" Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific (Curator: Robert Coburn & Daniel Kasser / California, USA)

2010
"KABEGIWA: Akira Rachi - sites" Gallery GEN (Tokyo, Japan)

"France / Japan: University Exchange Project DOUBLE VISION" TWS Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)

2009
"No Man's Land" L'ambassade de France au Japon (Tokyo, Japan)

2008
"Invisible moments" UP FIELD GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)

2007
"Tokyo Painting - My Little Everyday Sceneries" TWS shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)

"Aspects of Memory" UP FIELD GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)

"WONDER SEEDS 2007" TWS shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)

2006
"Nobuhiro Fukui & Katsuhiko Miyauchi - Tomare, Miyo" gallery Archipelago (Tokyo, Japan)

"Sophie ERLUND & Nobuhiro FUKUI" Joachim Gallery (Berlin, Germany)

2005
"Expressions by young photographers in Germany 2005" Konica Minolta Plaza Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

"Berlin - Tokyo Group Exhibition I" Joachim Gallery (Berlin, Germany)


Award

2008
"Mention speciale du jury" The BMW Paris Photo Prize 2008 (Jury: Marta Gili, Vicki Goldberg, Stephen Shore, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Michael Wilson, Nicolas Wertans, Eric de Riedmatten)


Residency

2013
iaab - International Exchange and Studio Program Basel (Basel, Switzerland) *Tokyo Wonder Site Exchange Residency Program


Presiding Workshops

2011 - ongoing
"291 workshop" (Tokyo) *photography workshop

2013 - ongoing
"291 workshop - Personal Session" (around Tokyo)


Lectures, Conversations & Others

2015
CAMP - The Slide Shows for Seeing Photographs, namGallery (planned by Go Kawashima & Kaoru Nishio / Tokyo)

2014
Revisiting Sir Anthony Caro: from Table Piece to Table Talk, Art Center Ongoing (with Motohiro Tomii & Takayuki Hayashi / Tokyo)

CAMP - To Paint a Painting #3, blanClass (Yokohama)

Talk and Slide show "Urban Environment and Photography - Seeing, Taking, Making, Speaking" 8/01/COURT, Shibuya Hikarie (with Akira Rachi / Tokyo)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/n-291/20140407p2

CAMP - Reading "A Brief History of Curating" by Hans Ulrich Obrist (translated by Hanako Murakami), Aoyama Meguro (Tokyo)

2013
Extension Seminar, Tokyo Visual Arts (Tokyo)

Report: Artist-in-residence program in Basel, Genba Kenkyukai (Tokyo)

CAMP 7th Anniversary Talk: Lucky Seven, Aoyama Meguro (Tokyo)

Kazutaka Yoshida: Welcome To The Jungle, blanClass (Yokohama)

2012
Extension Seminar, Tokyo Visual Arts (Tokyo)

Talking about «Samazamana Sokudo, Aruiha Samazamana Tien» with Director Hironori Tadaishi, KINEATTIC (Tokyo)

PARTY #4 - participation / popularity / preoccupation, CAMP (Tokyo)

2010
Researching Photography - Nobuhiro Fukui (with Akira Rachi & Bunmei Shirabe / Tokyo)


Curating Activities

2015
Parrhesia #002 | Takeshi Hyakuto "Busy, busy, busy", TAP Gallery (Tokyo)
Parrhesia #001 | Takashi Tsuda "Atarashi-Yama", TAP Gallery (Tokyo)
Seeing Documentary #002 | Robert J. Flaherty "Nanook of the North", TAP Gallery (Tokyo)
Seeing Documentary #001 | Wang Bing "Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks", TAP Gallery (Tokyo)
TAP Gallery Portfolio Recommendations *co-curating with members, TAP Gallery (Tokyo)

2014
Hironori Tadaishi & Satoshi Nishizawa Movie Works Screenings *co-curated with Mr. and Mrs. Kuroyanagi, space dike (Tokyo)

2013
Film Screenings | Hironori TADAISHI & Satoshi NISHIZAWA New Movie Works, TAP Gallery (Tokyo)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/n-291/20130923p1

2012
291 workshop - EXTRA Meeting *including screening of Hironori Tadaishi’s short movie, TAP Gallery (Tokyo)


Selected Publications

2013
"TOKYO PHOTO 2013" *official catalogue

"CONCRETE: Fotografie und Architektur" edited by Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel in collaboration with Eva Kurz, Therese Seeholzer and Corinna Unterkofler (Scheidegger & Spiess) *exhibition catalogue

Sophie Cavaliero "Révélations: Photographie japonaise contemporaine" (Le Lézard Noir)

"Enjoying fine arts in the living room" SUMAInoSEKKEI (July-August, 2013)

2010
"Learning a Secret Formula by Photographer's Textbooks" Asahi Camera (November 2010)

Toshihiro Furuya "Nobuhiro Fukui: Asterism" Tokyo Shimbun

Toshihiro Furuya "Nobuhiro Fukui: Asterism" Tokyo Shimbun (August 13, 2010 / *Japanese text only)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/furuyatoshihiro/20101212

2009
"No Man’s Land" (La France au Japon) *exhibition catalogue

Fabriano Fabbri "Lo zen e il manga. L'arte contemporanea giapponese" (Mondadori Bruno)

2008
"Be in love with a subject by Nobuhiro Fukui" Shincho 45 (July 2008)

Toshihiro Furuya "Review Art: Two Different lights - Sei IMAZAWA & Nobuhiro FUKUI" Gunzo (June 2008)

"Stardust review of exhibitions" Geijutsu Shincho (May 2008)

Ren Fukuzumi "Exhibition reviews" artscape (March 2008 / *Japanese text only)
http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/exhibition/review/080501_02.html#t04

2007
"Tokyo Painting: My Little Everyday Sceneries" (Tokyo Wonder Site) *exhibition catalogue

2006
"feature graph" DIGITAL SHASIN SEIKATSU (2006. Vol. 2)

PHaT PHOTO, special edition 1 (2006. MAY. extra)

2005
"Review Channels" - Art, PAPER SKY (Autumn no.15)


Selected Interviews

2010
Researching Photography: record: Nobuhiro Fukui (*Japanese text only)
◦ Part 1 http://researchingphotography.blogspot.jp/2011/07/rp-record-part-1.html
◦ Part 2 http://researchingphotography.blogspot.jp/2011/08/record-rp-part-2.html

Nobuhiro Fukui interview 2010 | Tomio Koyama Gallery (*Japanese text only)
http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/interviews/nobuhiro-fukui-interview-2010/

2008
Nobuhiro Fukui interview 2008 | Tomio Koyama Gallery
http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/interviews_en/nobuhiro-fukui-interview-2008_en/

2007
Web Photography Neighborhood "Every Sunday - Nobuhiro Fukui" (with Yasuhiko Uchihara / *Japanese text only)
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/webphoto/2007/04/05/5996.html


Selected Writings

Letter from Basel #1 & #2, Art magazine VOID chicken
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/n-291/20130820p10

On Tadaishi Hironori & Hitoshi Toyoda, FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #4
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/n-291/20140203p3

A Memorandum on Oval = Markus Popp, FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #3
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/n-291/20121008p6

On Enrique Vila-Matas "Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil" (translated by Eiichi Kimura), FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #2
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/n-291/20120502p3

On Banksy's "Exit Through the Gift Shop," FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #1
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/n-291/20120124p2