Taku Aramasa

Exhibitions

• "A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America," Yurakucho Marion, Tokyo, 1986
• "A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America," Hiroshima and Osaka, Japan, 1987
• "Taku Aramasa Photographs-The 80th Anniversary of Japanese Immigration to Brazil," São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, 1988
• "Family, Commemorative Exhibition of 'Who Am I'," Nikon Salon, Tokyo and Osaka, 1990
• "Who Am I?- War Orphans Left in China," Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, 1991
• "Who Am I?- War Orphans Left in China," Hiroshima and Fukuoka, Japan, 1992
• "Taku Aramasa Photographs: Portraits of Native America," Yuraku-cho Art Forum, Tokyo, Hakata, Nara and Takaoka, Japan, 1994
• "Silent Land-Prison Camps in Siberia," Sinjuku Park Tower Gallery 1, Tokyo, 1995
• "Manchuria/Siberia," Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan, 1996
• "Silent Land-Prison Camps in Siberia," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 1997
• "Aramasa Taku Photographs-America/Promised Land," Mitsumura Art Plaza, Tokyo, 2000
• "11+1 Photographs," Musashino Art University, Department of Imaging Arts 10th Anniversary, Mitsumura Art Plaza, Tokyo, 2000
• "Aramasa Taku Photographs: Portraits of Japanese Immigrants," Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, 2001
• "Only Skin Deep-Changing vision of the American self," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
• "Aramasa Taku-Sakura," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco California, 2005
• "Aramasa Taku Photographs-Apocalypse," Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo, 2006
• "Aramasa Taku Photographs-America/promised Land" Gallery Out of Place, Nara Japan, 2008
• "Aramasa Sakura," Nikon Salon, Tokyo and Osaka, 2008
• ｢frame & vision｣ -blessing in forest- ARAMASA Taku Solo Exhibition Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, 2009
• "ARAMASA Taku Photographs 2011" One Men Show, OUT of PLACE, Nara, 2011
• "ARAMASA Taku 2012 -HRIZON-" One Men Show, Tokyo Publishing House,Tokyo, 2012
• "ARAMASA Taku 2014 -HRIZON-" One Men Show, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2014

  Awards

• 28th New Artist of the Year Award, Japan Photography Association, 1978
• Grand Prize at the 1st International Triennale Toyama, 1985
• the 5th Domon Ken Award, 1986
• the 10th Higashikawa Award, 1994
• the 46th Artist of the Year Award, Japan Photography Association, 1996

  Collections

• Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Arizona
• Domon Ken Memorial Hall, Sakata, Japan
• Higashikawa Museum, Higashikawa-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
• São Paulo Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
• History Museum of Japanese Immigrants, São Paulo, Brazil
• International Center of Photography, New York, New York
• Osaka Human Rights History Museum, Osaka, Japan
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
• History Museum of Japanese Immigrants, San Jose, California
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
• Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
• Gallery Out of Place, Nara, Japan
• Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

  Books

Books by Aramasa

• Gyakkō sango shō. Tokyo: Bunka Shuppankyoku, 1974.
• Aramasa Taku shashinshū. Tokyo: 北斗企画.
• *3. Anita Russell. 1977.
• *4. Carnaval. 1979.
• Carnaval: Aramassa e os anjos. Tokyo: Canon, 1979.
• To My Angels. 2nd ed. Tokyo: Zenkoku Kajo Hōrei Shuppan, 1983..
• Haruka naru sokoku / A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1985.. Text in Japanese and English.
• Who Am I? War Orphans Left in China. Who Am I? Publishing Committee. 1990.
• Shūchō no keifu / Portraits of Native America. Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1993..
• Monchiku no daichi / Shiberia / The Silent Land: Prison Camps in Siberia. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1995..
• Yakusoku no daichi / Amerika / America / Promised Land. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 2000.. Text in Japanese and English.
• Mokushi. Musashino, Tokyo: Musashino Daigaku Shuppankyoku, 2006..
• Aramasa Taku Photographs-Apocalypse. Museum Musashino Art University, 2006.
• Aramasa Taku Photographs- Apocalypse. Museum of Musashino Art University, 2007. E-book.
• ARAMASA Taku Photographs -ARAMASA SAKURA- in black box / in black room- at one's 1/1, 2010
• "ARAMASA Taku 2014" HORIZON Catalogue© -Annely Juda Fine Art- London, 2014

  Other books showing Aramasa's work

• Nihon nūdo meisakushū. Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 262-3 show a pair of photographs by Aramasa.