Ryudai Takano

Solo Exhibitions
2025
top 30th anniversary takano ryudai: kasubaba, living through the ordinary, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (February 27, 2025 – June 8, 2025)

2024
Ryudai Takano, ZEIT-FOTO kunitachi, Tokyo

2022
Tokyo Tower on one day, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan

2021
Daily Photographs 1999-2021, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka)

2020
With me, Ibasho Gallery (Antwerp, Belgium)

2018
Find Your Fantasy, FANZA×#FR2 @#FR2 GALLERY 2 (Tokyo)
Desire Room, AYUMI GALLERY CAVE (Tokyo)

2017
Y Shiki, Operation Table (Fukuoka)

2016-17
“Time and Distance” NADiff Gallery (Tokyo)

2016
”When the absence of light touches the ground Distance is lost and distance created” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku (Tokyo)

2015
”Zan-ei” Morioka book store (Tokyo)

2014
”String and Coke” Capsule (Tokyo)
”In the order corresponding to shooting from January 2014 to recent date” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku(Tokyo)

2013
”Hongkong- Shenzhen 1988″ Zeit-Foto Salon (Tokyo)
”Visual Arts Gallery Exhibitions Photo Show vol.139 ‘Taking photographs before thinking” Visual arts gallery (Osaka)

2012
”Stand up, Kikuo!” ZEIT-FOTO SALON (Tokyo)
”Photo-Graph” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku (Tokyo)
”NADiff Window Gallery vol.18 Daily Snap shots” NADiff Window Gallery (Tokyo)

2011
”Takano Ryudai Exhibition” E&C GALLERY (Fukui)

2010
”An lgnition Point” Zeit-Foto Salon（Tokyo）
”Viva World Cup” totodo（Tokyo）
”Ikigaa” gallery rougheryet（Okinawa）

2009
”Open Studio 46th -Document, Memory, and Something” Fuchu Art Museum（Tokyo）
”with me” NADiff a/p/a/r/t （Tokyo）

2008
”Yuragi” CALM & PUNK GALLERY（Tokyo）
”Para-Para” Zeit-Foto Salon（Tokyo）
”akano, Ryudai’s Daily Photos” Yumiko Chiba Associates Viewing room / Ginza（Tokyo）

2007
”akano, Ryudai’s Daily Photos” GALLERY at lammfromm（Tokyo）

2006-07
“In My Room” GALLERY M（Aichi）

2006
”How to contact a man” Zeit-Foto Salon（Tokyo）
”The 31th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award Exhibition In My Room” KONICA MINOLTA PLAZA GALLERY C（Tokyo）
”In My Room” NADiff（Tokyo）

2005
”Common Sense” Zeit-Foto Salon（Tokyo）

2002
”Twelve Messengers” Zeit-Foto Salon（Tokyo）

2000
”Reclining Woo-Man” Zeit-Foto Salon（Tokyo）

1999
”Human Body 1/1″ Zeit-Foto Salon（Tokyo）

1996
”Gathering Bodies” il tempo（Tokyo）

Group Exhibitions
2024
BankART Life7 / Urban Nesting: Reinhabiting The City, BankART Station, Minatomirai 21, Kannai, and Yokohama Portside, Kanagawa
Does the Future Sleep Here?—Revisiting the museum’s response to contemporary art after 65 years, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Collection 2 Body─Body, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2023
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

2022
a two-person show by Ryudai Takano and Chikako Yamashiro ”Resonance of Distance”, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Subversive Bodies Art, Gender & Media, The 5th Floor, Tokyo, Japan
The 39th Higashikawa Award Winners’ Photo Exhibition, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan

2021
TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Oxford, UK
Photograph of Photograph and Photographs, Yumiko Chiba Associates/Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo
DECADE, Operation Table, Fukuoka
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985-2015, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

2020-2021
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1985-2015, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

2020
Collection Exhibition 2020-Ⅱ Special Feature Portraits of Self and Others, Hiroshima City Museum of Co ntemporary Art, Hiroshima

2019
JAPAN UNLIMITED, curated by Marcello Farabegoli, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space / MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
the amana collection Exhibit 04 – Ryudai Takano, Nao Tsuda, IMA gallery, Tokyo
International Dance Film Festival 2019, spiral Hall, Tokyo

2018
Photo MIYOTA Asama International Photo Festival, Nagano, Japan

2017-2018
with the Sea: Realism as Modern Asian Thought., Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art museum, Okinawa

2017
Group Exhibition Vol.3 “HAKKA”, MITSUBA kousakusyo, Tokyo
20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3　Synchronicity,
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
”Photo-Secession: The Illogicality of Photography-Distance and Vision” NADiff Gallery (Tokyo)

2016-17
“moment” Alternative Space LOOP (Seoul, Korea)

2016
’“Le Bal” A Memorial Service for Etsuro Ishihara, Where Artist Friends Will Gather” ZEIT-FOTO SALON (Tokyo)
”20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO” (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo)
”Internationale Photoszene Köln” (Cologne, Germany)
”Summer, the End and the Beginning” Art Gallery X, Takashimaya (Tokyo)
”WATCHQUEEN” Spiral (Tokyo)

2015-16
“Our Beloved World” Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (Kagawa)

2015
GALLERY SOAP (Fukuoka)
”Edition Works Prints & Originals” GALLERY SPEAK FOR (Tokyo)
”Come Close: Japanese Artists within their Communities” BUS Project Galleries (Australia)

2014
”Group Exhibition Vol. 2 HAKKA” BankART　Studio NYK/2A Gallery (Kanagawa)
”VENT NOUVEAU x 15 Photographers” TAKEO Co., Ltd. MIHONCHO HONTEN (Tokyo)
”Japan Architects since 3.11″ 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa)
”quadruple track” GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery Den (Tokyo)
”What is Japanese Photography? Exhibition Part 1″ Tokia Tokyo Bldg (Tokyo)
”Photographs by Five” Zeit-Foto Salon(Tokyo)
”Unknown Nature – Unknown Series No. 5″ Ayumi Gallery (Tokyo)
”Photography Will Be” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Aichi)
”Photo Session Nihon” Kyoto University of Art and Design Galerie Aube (Kyoto)
”Complex Media by Edition Works” The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo (Tokyo)

2013
”Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art [railroad siding 2013]” Former Tokorozawa School Lunch Center Number Two (Saitama)
”Ryudai TAKANO × Masanori HATA—Exhibition + [Picture?]” BankART Studio NYK 1F / BankART Mini (Yokohama)
”Works by Edition Works, Yuichi Higashionna, Ryudai Takano” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku (Tokyo)
”CABINET LIBRARY Vol.5″ Port Gallery T (Osaka）

2012
”Black Closer to White” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku (Tokyo)
”Missing You－Yurie Nahashima, Sakiko Nomura, Ryudai Takano Fhoto Exhibition” Shibuya Hikarie 8/CUBE1,2,3 (Tokyo)
”Photo Session Tokyo” Art Gallery C・SQUARE (Nagoya)
”Ryudai TAKANO × Masanori HATA—Exhibition + Talk Part 3[Photography]” blanClass(Yokohama）
”Ryudai TAKANO × Masanori HATA—Exhibition + Talk Part 2[Picture?]” blanClass(Yokohama)
”MiO PHOTO OSAKA2012″ MIO TENNOJI(Osaka)
”PORTRAITS” Art Gallery X, Takashimaya (Tokyo)

2011
“Ryudai TAKANO × Masanori HATA—Exhibition + Talk Part 1[Picture?]” blanClass(Yokohama)
”ANTIFOTO 2011″ Kunstraum (Düsseldorf, Germany)
”JAPANESE PHOTO BOOKS NOW” (Paris, France)
”AKARI” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku (Tokyo)
”HAKKA TEN” Ryugu Bijutu Ryokan (Yokohama)
”MODERNITY STRIPPED BARE” University of Maryland（Washington, D.C.,USA)

2010
”Photo Secession Tokyo” NADiff GALLERY (Tokyo)
”Snapshots Cast Their SpellRadiant Moments” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)
”Beyond The Border” Tangram Art Center (Shanghai、China)
”The 35yerar Anniversary Exhibition of the KIMURA IHEI Photography Award” KAWASAKI City Museum (Kanagawa)
”Look at me! Portrait photographs of nude” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)
”Dazzling, Garandô (Dazzling, Hollowness)” The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo)

2009-10
“When I Love You and When I Hate You” Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (Okinawa)

2009
”Japan meets China – Our Future reflected in Contemporary Art” Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi)
”Jiro Takamatsu | Ryudai Takano PHOTOGRAPH and Photograph” Dazaifu Tenmangu Houmotsuden (Fukuoka)

2008
”PARIS PHOTO 2008″ CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE (Paris, France)
”Daegu Photo Biennale 2008″ EXCO Daegu Exhibition & Convention Center (Daegu, Korea)
”Backlight 2008 Tickle Attack 8th International Photography Triennial” Exhibition Centre TR1 (Tampere, Finland etc.)
”The history of art and city -Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai-” sendai mediatheque (Miyagi)
”Rudai Takano×Koji onaka / Shanghai two men show” Gallery Kaido (Tokyo)
”Still / Motion : Liquid Crystal Painting” Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Mie) The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography（Tokyo）

2007-08
“A Private History” Fotografisk Center（Copenhagen, Denmark), VB- VALOKUVAKESKUS (Kuopio, Finland)

2007
”Japan Caught by Camera – Works from the photographic Art in Japan” Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai、China)
”Japan contemporary Art Festival” (Heyri, Korea)

2005
”Post Gender” Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art（Haifa，Israel）
”85／05：The photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of Photography 1985″ sendai mediatheque（Miyagi）

2004
”out of the ordinary / extraordinary Japanese Contemporary Photography” Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst (Berlin, Germany, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain)
”Les métamorphoses du quotidian” The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma（Gunma）

2003
”Mask of Japan : Japanese Contemporary Photography” aura gallery（Shanghai，China）

2002
”Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition” Turkish Japanese Foundation Cultural Center（Ankara, Turkey）
”Kiss in the Dark : Contemporary Japanese Photography” Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art（Kagawa）

2001
”Kiss in the Dark : Contemporary Japanese Photography” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography（Tokyo）

2000
”The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2000″ The Ueno Royal Museum（Tokyo）

Public Collections
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
KAWASAKI CITY MUSEUM
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Fuchu Art Museum
Shanghai Art Museum
The Japan Foundation
Dazaifu Tenmangu Collection
The Kinsey Institute
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
the amana
Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Sapporo