Toshiya Watanabe

1966年 福島県生まれ。

1990年多摩美術大学グラフィックデザイン科卒業。在学中にPARCOが主催する「期待される若手写真家20人」に選出される。現在はアートディレクターをしながら、写真を使った作品の制作を続けている。

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Beyond what you see, book obscura, Tokyo

2024 Beyond what you see, IBASHO gallery, Belgium

2022 Somewhere not Here Inokashira Edition, book obscura, Tokyo

2022 Somewhere not Here, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2019 Somewhere not Here, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2017 Somewhere not Here, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2015 THROUGH THE FROZEN WINDOW, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2013 18 months, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2012 3 months later, FUKUSHIMARCH TEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo

1996 Slowly Forward, Recent Gallery, Sapporo

1990 Toshiya Watanabe Photo Exhibition, Photo Interform, Osaka

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Looking Back: 10 Years of IBASHO, IBASHO Gallery, Belgium

2025 KWAIDAN exhibition, EXPO2025 OSAKA, Dublin, Tokyo

2024 BOKEH - Contemporary Photography, SO FINE ART EDITIONS, Ireland

2024 KWAIDAN exhibition, Mayo, Kyoto, Waterford, Sligo, Nagakute, Toyama, Limerick

2024 Gallery Show 2024, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2023 KWAIDAN exhibition, Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Matsue, Yaizu

2022 Group Show, MEMORĪ, Gallery XII, Paris

2022 Quelques arbres remarquables, box galerie, Belgium

2021 Gallery Show 2021, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2020 The Photo Book as Object, IBASHO Gallery, Belgium

2020 Gallery Show 2020, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2020 初雪 hatsuyuki - a group exhibition on 'first snow', IBASHO Gallery, Belgium

2019 Gallery Show 2019, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2018 NI'HOMME - SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION, IBASHO Gallery, Belgium

2018 Gallery Show 2018, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2017 Gallery Show 2017, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2016 Gallery Show 2016, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2014 winter showcase 2014, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo

2013 The Art of Photography Show, San Diego Art Institute, USA

2013 OBSCURA Festival of Photography, Malaysia

2013 Critical Mass 2012, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, The Southeast Museum of Photography, USA

2013 Labyrinth, Theory of clouds, Kobe

2012 Labyrinth, McDermott Gallery, Cambodia

2012 Fragments of Tokyo 2012" Place M, Tokyo

2012 Center Forward, The Center for Fine Art Photography, USA

2012 Critical Mass 2011, PhotoCenter NW, Newspace Center for Photography, RayKo Photo Center, USA

2011 Fragments of Tokyo 2011, Place M, Tokyo

2010 Fragments of Tokyo, Place M, Tokyo

1994 After Images, Recent Gallery, Sapporo

1990 Graduation Works Exhibition, CONTAX Salon, Tokyo

1990 20 Promising Photographers, PARCO Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya

Awards

2019 HARIBAN AWARD 2019, Juror’s Choice Awards

2016 STEIDL BOOK AWARD JAPAN, Winner

2014 International photography award 2014, Honorable Mention

2013 International photography award 2013, 1st place

2012 Potolucida Critical Mass, Top50

2012 International photography award 2012, Honorable Mention

2012 Exposure 2012, Finalists

2011 Potolucida Critical Mass, Top50

Publication

Beyond what you see, the (M) editions & IBASHO

Somewhere not Here, the (M) editions & IBASHO

Thereafter / あれから, STEIDL, coming soon

18 months, POETC SCAPE

Collection

The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art

Magazine / Newspaper / Lecture / Online

2025 Culturamas

2024 The Guardian

2022 恵比寿映像祭

2020 北海道新聞 2020

2020 FOTO FORM

2019 SEIN online SIGMA

2019 Cooltura

2019 L'(H)urbain

2018 新潮45

2014 lomography

2013 VIEW Magazine Issue 6

2013 THE BIG ISSUE Taiwan

2013 VICE

2013 DesignTAXI

2012 BOOOOOOOM

2012 FRACTION MAGAZINE Issue 41

2012 FRACTION MAGAZINE Issue 38

2012 Information.dk

2012 Le Monde

2012 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

2012 KWERFELDEIN FOTOGRAFIE MAGAZIN

1996 PHOTO WAVE

1990 COMMERCIAL PHOTO