Akira Komoto
Akira Komoto was a Japanese artist and photographer, whose photographs often show his artworks in the open air. Born Masaaki Komoto (Komoto Masaaki) in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo (now Ōta-ku, Tokyo) on 14 August 1935, Komoto was brought up in Seki, Gifu Prefecture. He studied at Gifu University, graduating in 1958; and until 1962 at the graduate school of Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University).
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Akira Komoto
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- Born
- 1935 · Tokyo.
- Died
- 2017
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer · painter
- Education
- University of Tsukuba
- Languages
- Japanese
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Akira Komoto was a Japanese artist and photographer, whose photographs often show his artworks in the open air. Born Masaaki Komoto (Komoto Masaaki) in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo (now Ōta-ku, Tokyo) on 14 August 1935, Komoto was brought up in Seki, Gifu Prefecture. He studied at Gifu University, graduating in 1958; and until 1962 at the graduate school of Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University).
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Akira Komoto (1935–2017) was a painter and photographer, of Japanese nationality. The painter was born in Tokyo. Akira Komoto was educated at University of Tsukuba. Languages used include Japanese.
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Komoto has created paintings, prints and photographs from the 1960s. From the 1980s these have gained critical acclaim outside Japan, bringing Nomoto invitations to Spain and elsewhere in Europe. From 1971 to 1974 Komoto taught at Gifu College of Education (now Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University); since 1994 he has been teaching at Joshibi University of Art and Design. In 1990 he was awarded the Düsseldorf Prize of the Osaka Triennale. Komoto died 2017.
• Gallery Stratford, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and elsewhere in North America, 1994–2000 • "Fūkei to no kōkan: Komoto Akira ten", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts 1998 • "Komoto Akira ten", Minokamo City Museum 2004 • "60 nendai to genzai: Komoto Akira ten", Eizō & Tōichi Katō Memorial Art Museum, 2005 • "Shizen to no kōkan", Komoto Akira ten", Hekinan-shi Tetsugaku-taiken-mura Mugaen, 2008 • "Shizen e / shizen kara", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, 2008. • "SEEING ’99" – Photographic Works“ (with Yuri Nagawara), Hermann-Harry-Schmitz-Societät/Institut, Uhrenturm, Düsseldorf/Germany, 1999
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• "Gendai bijutsu no dōkōten", National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1965 • "Gendai bijutsu ni okeru shashinten", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1983 • "GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW" Düsseldorf, Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen, Messe Düsseldorf, 1999 • Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 2000/2003
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Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris); Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Victoria and Albert Museum (London);.
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- 1.Mihashi Junko ( ), "Nomoto Akira", Nihon shashinka jiten ( ) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.139. (Despite the English language alternative title, in Japanese only.)
- 2."Shizen e / shizen kara ", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, 2008.
- 3.Gerda Kaltwasser. Akira Komoto. Found objects from the Rhine. Rheinische Post Düsseldorf/Germany. 1999-08-12.
- 4.Anonymous. The artist Akira Komoto has an exhibition in Germany/Düsseldorf. Chūnichi Shimbun. 1999-10-08.
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