Naoya Hatakeyama Blast
Artist statement
Hatakeyama’s photographic works examine, in a serial manner, the city; its past, present and future. Experimenting formally, Hatakeyama utilises the vocabulary of photography to reflect, more generally, upon the relationship between humans and their environment.
Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji. In addition to his participation in numerous solo and group exhibitions, Hatakeyama’s photographs are found in public collections including the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur; la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
About the photographer
1958, Iwate, Japan
Japanese
Tokyo, Japan
About Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoya Hatakeyama studied at the School of Art and Design at the University of Tsukuba in 1981, and later completed post-graduate studies there in 1984.
Prizes:
1997 Received the 22nd Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award
Solo exhibitions:
- The City and its Origin, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, UK, 1994
- Naoya Hatakeyama, Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art, Morioka; National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2002
- Naoya Hatakeyama, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France, 2003
- Naoya Hatakeyama, Fundacion BBK, Bilbao, Spain
- Artists Today XI: SUMI Wakiro/ HATAKEYAMA Naoya, HATAKEYAMA NAOYA Draftsman’s Pencil, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 2007
Group Shows:
- Metamorph, The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2004
- Global Cities, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
- Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan, International Center of Photography, New York, 2008
Earth shortlist
Nadav Kander, Yangtze, The Long River, 2006-2007
Darren Almond, Fullmoon, 1998-2010
Christopher Anderson, Capitolio, 2004-2009
Sammy Baloji, Memory, 2006
Edward Burtynsky, Quarries, 1991-2006
Andreas Gursky, Body of Work, 2002
Ed Kashi, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, 2004-2006
Naoya Hatakeyama, Blast, 1995-2010
Abbas Kowsari, Shade of Earth, 2007-2008
Yao Lu, New Mountain and Water, 2007
Edgar Martins, The Diminishing Present, 2005-2008
Chris Steele-Perkins, Mount Fuji, 2000-2001