Shinya ARIMOTO
有元伸也
Born in Osaka, 1971, Arimoto currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1994, Arimoto received the 35th Taiyo Award in 1998 with his work “Portrait of Tibet”. In 2008, he founded the Totem Pole Photo Gallery. Arimoto published “Tokyo Circulation” with Zen Foto Gallery in 2016 and won the 26th Tadahiko Hayashi Award as well as the Photographic Society of Japan’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. His other publications include “ariphoto selection” (No. 1-10, Totem Pole Photo Gallery) and “TIBET” (Zen Foto Gallery, 2019). Actively presenting his work in and out of Japan, he held a solo show at Le Plac'Art Photo, Paris in 2017 and participated in the group exhibition “Am Rand der Gesellschaft. Barlach – Springer – Arimoto” at Museum Bautzen, Germany in 2019.
Chronology
1971 Born in Osaka, Japan
1994 Graduated from Visual Arts Osaka
1998 Awarded the 35th Taiyo Award
2008 Started administering Totem Pole Photo Gallery (TPPG)
2017 Awarded the 26th Tadahiko Hayashi Award
2017 Awarded the Photographic Society of Japan's Lifetime Achievement Award
1994 Graduated from Visual Arts Osaka
1998 Awarded the 35th Taiyo Award
2008 Started administering Totem Pole Photo Gallery (TPPG)
2017 Awarded the 26th Tadahiko Hayashi Award
2017 Awarded the Photographic Society of Japan's Lifetime Achievement Award
Selected Publications
1999 Portrait of Tibet (published by Visual Arts)
2001 Rush (joint work, published by Little More)
2010 ariphoto selection vol.1 (published by TPPG)
2011 ariphoto selection vol.2 (published by TPPG)
2012 Photography Today 4 (published by The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
2012 ariphoto selection vol.3 (published by TPPG)
2013 ariphoto selection vol.4 (published by TPPG)
2014 ariphoto selection vol.5 (published by TPPG)
2015 ariphoto selection vol.6 (published by TPPG)
2016 Tokyo Circulation (published by Zen Foto Gallery)
2016 ariphoto selection vol.7 (published by TPPG)
2019 TIBET (published by Zen Foto Gallery)
2020 TOKYO DEBUGGER (published by Zen Foto Gallery)
2001 Rush (joint work, published by Little More)
2010 ariphoto selection vol.1 (published by TPPG)
2011 ariphoto selection vol.2 (published by TPPG)
2012 Photography Today 4 (published by The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
2012 ariphoto selection vol.3 (published by TPPG)
2013 ariphoto selection vol.4 (published by TPPG)
2014 ariphoto selection vol.5 (published by TPPG)
2015 ariphoto selection vol.6 (published by TPPG)
2016 Tokyo Circulation (published by Zen Foto Gallery)
2016 ariphoto selection vol.7 (published by TPPG)
2019 TIBET (published by Zen Foto Gallery)
2020 TOKYO DEBUGGER (published by Zen Foto Gallery)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1994 "Portrait of My Country" Guardian Garden / Tokyo
1997 "Portrait of TIBET" Ginza Nikon salon / Tokyo
1998 "Exhibition" JICA gallery / Osaka
1998 "Exhibition" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
1999 "TIBETAN WAY" Studio Ebis Photo Gallery / Tokyo
2000 "Portrait of Tibet" Milk / Tokyo
2002 "Moth in the Rey" Ginza Nikon salon / Tokyo, Osaka Nikon salon / Osaka
2004 "Before Dawn" Photo Gallery Kyushu 銀 / Fukuoka
2006 "ariphoto2006" vol.1-vol.4 Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo
2006 "Falling Star Paradise" Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo
2007 "ariphoto2007" vol.1-vol.3 Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo
2008 "ariphoto2008" vol.1-vol.4 TPPG / Tokyo
2008 "calcutta - kathmandu 1994" TPPG / Tokyo
2008 "ariphoto2008 / fantastic metropolis" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
2009 "ariphoto2009" vol.1-vol.3 TPPG / Tokyo
2010 "ariphoto2010" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2010 "ariphoto selection vol.1" TPPG / Tokyo
2010 "WHY NOW TIBET" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
2011 "ariphoto2011" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2011 "ariphoto selection vol.2" TPPG / Tokyo
2012 "ariphoto2012" vol.1-vol.3 TPPG / Tokyo
2012 "ariphoto selection vol.3" TPPG / Tokyo
2013 "ariphoto2013" vol.1-vol.3 TPPG / Tokyo
2013 "TIBET (1999) / TOKYO (2012)" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2013 "ariphoto selection vol.4" TPPG / Tokyo
2014 "ariphoto2014" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2014 "Tokyo Debugger Shinjuku / Okutama" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2015 "ariphoto in niigata 2015" Sakyukan / Niigata
2015 "ariphoto2015" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2015 "Tokyo Debugger" Ginza Nikon salon / Tokyo, Osaka Nikon salon / Osaka
2015 "Recent and Early Works" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2016 "Tibet/Grassland-Tokyo/Streets" Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City
2016 "Tokyo Circulation" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo
2016 "TIBETAN WAY" TPPG / Tokyo
2016 "Moth in the Rays" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Le Plac'art Photo / Paris, FRANCE
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" FUJIFILM SQUARE / Tokyo
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Shunan City Museum of Art and History / Yamaguchi
2017 "ariphoto" vol.29-vol.30 TPPG / Tokyo
2017 "ariphoto 2017" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Higashikawa Bunka Gallery / Hokkaido
2018 "ariphoto" vol.31-vol.32 TPPG / Tokyo
2018 "Calcutta, Kathmandu, Tibet, Tokyo" Fukuoka Asian Art Museum / Fukuoka
2018 "Falling Star Paradise / ariphoto 2018" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2019 "TIBET" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo, Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
2019 "Tokyo Circulation 2" SPRING GALLERY / Yamanashi
2019 "Tokyo Debugger 2019" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2020 "Tokyo Debugger 2019" TPPG / Tokyo
2020 "Tokyo Debugger, Complete" TPPG / Tokyo
2021 "Tokyo Debugger" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo
2021 "Tokyo Strut #01" TPPG / Tokyo
2022 "Portrait of TIBET（1997）Vintage prints exhibition" TPPG / Tokyo
2022 "Tokyo Circulation / Tokyo Strut" Nihombashi Takashimaya Gallery X / Tokyo
2022 "Tokyo Strut" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo
1997 "Portrait of TIBET" Ginza Nikon salon / Tokyo
1998 "Exhibition" JICA gallery / Osaka
1998 "Exhibition" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
1999 "TIBETAN WAY" Studio Ebis Photo Gallery / Tokyo
2000 "Portrait of Tibet" Milk / Tokyo
2002 "Moth in the Rey" Ginza Nikon salon / Tokyo, Osaka Nikon salon / Osaka
2004 "Before Dawn" Photo Gallery Kyushu 銀 / Fukuoka
2006 "ariphoto2006" vol.1-vol.4 Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo
2006 "Falling Star Paradise" Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo
2007 "ariphoto2007" vol.1-vol.3 Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo
2008 "ariphoto2008" vol.1-vol.4 TPPG / Tokyo
2008 "calcutta - kathmandu 1994" TPPG / Tokyo
2008 "ariphoto2008 / fantastic metropolis" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
2009 "ariphoto2009" vol.1-vol.3 TPPG / Tokyo
2010 "ariphoto2010" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2010 "ariphoto selection vol.1" TPPG / Tokyo
2010 "WHY NOW TIBET" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
2011 "ariphoto2011" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2011 "ariphoto selection vol.2" TPPG / Tokyo
2012 "ariphoto2012" vol.1-vol.3 TPPG / Tokyo
2012 "ariphoto selection vol.3" TPPG / Tokyo
2013 "ariphoto2013" vol.1-vol.3 TPPG / Tokyo
2013 "TIBET (1999) / TOKYO (2012)" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2013 "ariphoto selection vol.4" TPPG / Tokyo
2014 "ariphoto2014" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2014 "Tokyo Debugger Shinjuku / Okutama" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2015 "ariphoto in niigata 2015" Sakyukan / Niigata
2015 "ariphoto2015" vol.1-vol.2 TPPG / Tokyo
2015 "Tokyo Debugger" Ginza Nikon salon / Tokyo, Osaka Nikon salon / Osaka
2015 "Recent and Early Works" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2016 "Tibet/Grassland-Tokyo/Streets" Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City
2016 "Tokyo Circulation" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo
2016 "TIBETAN WAY" TPPG / Tokyo
2016 "Moth in the Rays" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Le Plac'art Photo / Paris, FRANCE
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" FUJIFILM SQUARE / Tokyo
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Shunan City Museum of Art and History / Yamaguchi
2017 "ariphoto" vol.29-vol.30 TPPG / Tokyo
2017 "ariphoto 2017" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Higashikawa Bunka Gallery / Hokkaido
2018 "ariphoto" vol.31-vol.32 TPPG / Tokyo
2018 "Calcutta, Kathmandu, Tibet, Tokyo" Fukuoka Asian Art Museum / Fukuoka
2018 "Falling Star Paradise / ariphoto 2018" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2019 "TIBET" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo, Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka
2019 "Tokyo Circulation 2" SPRING GALLERY / Yamanashi
2019 "Tokyo Debugger 2019" Gallery & Darkroom Lime Light / Osaka
2020 "Tokyo Debugger 2019" TPPG / Tokyo
2020 "Tokyo Debugger, Complete" TPPG / Tokyo
2021 "Tokyo Debugger" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo
2021 "Tokyo Strut #01" TPPG / Tokyo
2022 "Portrait of TIBET（1997）Vintage prints exhibition" TPPG / Tokyo
2022 "Tokyo Circulation / Tokyo Strut" Nihombashi Takashimaya Gallery X / Tokyo
2022 "Tokyo Strut" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2001 "RUSH" Little More Gallery / Tokyo,JAPAN
2003 "Pingyao International Photograph Festival" / Pingyao, CHINA
2003 "Henan International Photograph Festival" / Henan, KOREA
2004 "Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki" / Miyazaki, JAPAN
2006 "That Photograph Once Again" Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo, JAPAN
2008 "Kabukichou" nagune / Tokyo,JAPAN
2009 "Visual Arts Gallery vol.100 Commemorative Exhibition" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka, JAPAN
2009 "KAZE NO TABIBITO -Now, a trip in here-" KONICA MINOLTA PLAZA / Tokyo, JAPAN
2009 "OPERA, TIOUS×TPPG" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2010 "OPERA IN KYOTO" shin-bi / kyoto,JAPAN
2010 "Shinjuku×TPPG" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "2011×TPPG" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "The Historic Future 5.5 OME" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "Eternity at a Moment" 3331 Arts Chiyoda / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "Surface of window 2011" Gakei Gimlet / Kyoto, JAPAN
2011 "Carte Blanche in Asia" Gallery Carte Blanche / San Francisco, USA
2012 "Photography Today 4" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / JAPAN
2012 "This IZU photo" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2013 "Portraits" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2013 "Arimoto Tokyo" The 4th PHOTOQUAI photography biennial, Musée du quai Branly / Paris, FRANCE
2013 "Landscape" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2014 "Snap" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2014 "Under The Spell of Portraits" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka, JAPAN
2014 "Basically. Forever." Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / JAPAN
2015 "Ariphoto (2006-2014)" Goa Photo 2015 / Panaji, India
2016 "WHY NOW TIBET" Daegu Photo Biennale 2016 / Daegu, KOREA
2016 "Tokyo Circulation" fotofever / Carrousel du Louvre Paris, FRANCE
2017 "Festival Fotografico Europeo" Palazzo Marliani-Cicogna / Busto Arsizio, ITALY
2017 "The Photographic Society of Japan Award Exhibition" FUJIFILM SQUARE / Tokyo, JAPAN
2017 "Daikanyama Photo Fair 2017" Daikanyama Hillside Forum / Tokyo, JAPAN
2017 "La Nuu Festival of Photography in Rubí" Barcelona, SPAIN
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" fotofever / Carrousel du Louvre Paris, FRANCE
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Lianzhou Foto Festival / Lianzhou, CHINA
2018 "NIHON MIRAI SEN" SPACE 22 / Seoul, KOREA
2018 "Basically. Forever. -2018-" Tokyo Photographic Art Museum / Tokyo, JAPAN
2018 "Tokyo Before/After" The Japan Foundation traveling exhibitions
2018 "From the Collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts : Beginnings, Forever" National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / Taichung, TAIWAN
2019 "Heisei - Tokyo - Snap Shot Love" FUJIFILM SQUARE / Tokyo, FUJIFILM PHOTO SALON / Osaka
2019 "Am Rand der Gesellschaft. Barlach – Springer – Arimoto" Museum Bautzen / Sachsen, GERMANY
2021 "Contemporary Japanese Photography＊1985-2015" Tokyo Photographic Art Museum / Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 "GET OUT INTO STREETS!" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 "T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO" TODA building / Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 "Direct Photography with a Positive Viewing Attitude" Ningbo, CHINA
2022 "Machi to Hito to -The Final-" TPPG / Tokyo
2003 "Pingyao International Photograph Festival" / Pingyao, CHINA
2003 "Henan International Photograph Festival" / Henan, KOREA
2004 "Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki" / Miyazaki, JAPAN
2006 "That Photograph Once Again" Lotus Root Gallery / Tokyo, JAPAN
2008 "Kabukichou" nagune / Tokyo,JAPAN
2009 "Visual Arts Gallery vol.100 Commemorative Exhibition" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka, JAPAN
2009 "KAZE NO TABIBITO -Now, a trip in here-" KONICA MINOLTA PLAZA / Tokyo, JAPAN
2009 "OPERA, TIOUS×TPPG" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2010 "OPERA IN KYOTO" shin-bi / kyoto,JAPAN
2010 "Shinjuku×TPPG" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "2011×TPPG" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "The Historic Future 5.5 OME" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "Eternity at a Moment" 3331 Arts Chiyoda / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 "Surface of window 2011" Gakei Gimlet / Kyoto, JAPAN
2011 "Carte Blanche in Asia" Gallery Carte Blanche / San Francisco, USA
2012 "Photography Today 4" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / JAPAN
2012 "This IZU photo" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2013 "Portraits" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2013 "Arimoto Tokyo" The 4th PHOTOQUAI photography biennial, Musée du quai Branly / Paris, FRANCE
2013 "Landscape" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2014 "Snap" TPPG / Tokyo, JAPAN
2014 "Under The Spell of Portraits" Visual Arts Gallery Osaka / Osaka, JAPAN
2014 "Basically. Forever." Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / JAPAN
2015 "Ariphoto (2006-2014)" Goa Photo 2015 / Panaji, India
2016 "WHY NOW TIBET" Daegu Photo Biennale 2016 / Daegu, KOREA
2016 "Tokyo Circulation" fotofever / Carrousel du Louvre Paris, FRANCE
2017 "Festival Fotografico Europeo" Palazzo Marliani-Cicogna / Busto Arsizio, ITALY
2017 "The Photographic Society of Japan Award Exhibition" FUJIFILM SQUARE / Tokyo, JAPAN
2017 "Daikanyama Photo Fair 2017" Daikanyama Hillside Forum / Tokyo, JAPAN
2017 "La Nuu Festival of Photography in Rubí" Barcelona, SPAIN
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" fotofever / Carrousel du Louvre Paris, FRANCE
2017 "Tokyo Circulation" Lianzhou Foto Festival / Lianzhou, CHINA
2018 "NIHON MIRAI SEN" SPACE 22 / Seoul, KOREA
2018 "Basically. Forever. -2018-" Tokyo Photographic Art Museum / Tokyo, JAPAN
2018 "Tokyo Before/After" The Japan Foundation traveling exhibitions
2018 "From the Collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts : Beginnings, Forever" National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / Taichung, TAIWAN
2019 "Heisei - Tokyo - Snap Shot Love" FUJIFILM SQUARE / Tokyo, FUJIFILM PHOTO SALON / Osaka
2019 "Am Rand der Gesellschaft. Barlach – Springer – Arimoto" Museum Bautzen / Sachsen, GERMANY
2021 "Contemporary Japanese Photography＊1985-2015" Tokyo Photographic Art Museum / Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 "GET OUT INTO STREETS!" Zen Foto Gallery / Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 "T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO" TODA building / Tokyo, JAPAN
2021 "Direct Photography with a Positive Viewing Attitude" Ningbo, CHINA
2022 "Machi to Hito to -The Final-" TPPG / Tokyo
Awards
1998 The 35th Taiyo Award
2017 The 26th Tadahiko Hayashi Award
2017 The Photographic Society of Japan's Lifetime Achievement Award
2017 The 26th Tadahiko Hayashi Award
2017 The Photographic Society of Japan's Lifetime Achievement Award
Collections
Shunan City Museum of Art and History
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
Kyushu Sangyo University
The Japan Foundation
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
Kyushu Sangyo University
The Japan Foundation
