Profile | NAOKI ISHIKAWA WEB SITE

NAOKI ISHIKAWA

Born in Tokyo, 1977. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Interested in anthropology and ethnology, he has traveled widely, visiting every kind of environment, from urban to remote regions, creating outstanding works along the way. Selected solo exhibitions include: Across Borders:. 2015, Royal Alberta Museum, Canada. Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet. 2019, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo. JAPONÉSIA. 2021, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil. Vette di Luce. Naoki Ishikawa sulle Alpi Orobie. 2023, Accademia Carrara, Italy. Works in collections include: THE VOID, NEW DIMENSION, POLAR. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Mt Fuji. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo. ARCHIPELAGO. Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Naha.
In October 2024, he climbed Shishapangma in Tibet, summiting all fourteen of the 8,000-meter peaks in the world.

1977　Born in Tokyo, Japan
2002　Waseda University, Tokyo, B.F.A.
2005　Tokyo University of the Arts, M.F.A.
2008　Tokyo University of the Arts, Ph.D.
Lives and works in Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions

2024: “OKUNOTO PENINSULA” Nikon Salon, Tokyo; “THE SHAPE OF HOUSE” PALI GALLERY, Miyako-jima
2023: “K2 / Broad Peak / Nanga Parbat” SAI, Tokyo; “Vette di Luce. Naoki Ishikawa sulle Alpi Orobie” Accademia Carrara, Italy; “NAOKI ISHIKAWA: ASCENT OF 14” Hibiya Library & Museum, Tokyo
2022: “MOMENTUM” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; “MAREBITO: Wearing a spirit like a cloak” amanaTIGP, Tokyo; “DENALI IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo; “8848 / 8611” Shinmai Media Garden, Nagano; “THE HIMALAYAS AND SHERPA” Ashiyasu Mountain Museum, Southern Alps, Yamanashi; “JAPONÉSIA” Museu Cais do Sertão, Brazil; “Dhaulagiri / Kangchenjunga / Manaslu” GYRE GALLERY, Tokyo; “Road to K2” PALI GALLERY, Miyako-jima
2021: “JAPONÉSIA” Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil; “JAPONÉSIA” Espaço Cultural Casa das Onze Janelas, Brazil; “STREETS ARE MINE” GALLERY A⁴, Tokyo
2020: “EVEREST” SHIBUYA SKY / SKY GALLERY, Tokyo; “Naoki Ishikawa Photo Exhibition” Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, Nara; “JAPONÉSIA” JAPAN HOUSE São Paulo, Brazil; “STAY/ HOME / WORK” gallery trax, Yamanashi
2019: “Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo; “THE HIMALAYAS” VISUAL ARTS GALLERY, Osaka; “island ≒ mountain” Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
2018: “Far North” NEW ALTERNATIVE, Kagoshima; “Climbing for Mt.Fuji” The Former Kishi Residence in Higashiyama, Shizuoka; “Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet” THE MUSEUM OF ART, KOCHI, Kochi; “Ryusei no shima” Nikon plaza Shinjuku THE GALLERY 1+2, Tokyo ; Nikon plaza Osaka THE GALLERY, Osaka; “New Map for North Shiretoko × Unmei” Spiral Garden, Tokyo; “Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet” Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
2017: “New Map for North” Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido; “Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet” Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata; “ITSUDEMO DOKODEMO UTSURUNDESU” FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo; “POLAR” YUKIO TABUCHI MEMORIAL MUSEUM, Nagano; “Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet” Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba; “Svalbard” NADiff Gallery, Tokyo
2016: “Marebito” CANON GALLERY GINZA, Tokyo ; CANON GALLERY UMEDA, Osaka ; CANON GALLERY NAGOYA, Aichi ; CANON GALLERY FUKUOKA, Fukuoka ; CANON GALLERY SAPPORO, Hokkaido ; CANON GALLERY SENDAI, Miyagi; “Across Borders:” Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo; “DENALI” MORIOKASHOTEN, Tokyo; “Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet” ART TOWER MITO, Ibaraki
2015: “New Map” Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa; “Across Borders:” Royal Alberta Museum, Canada; “Across Borders:” Hokkaido Museum, Hokkaido; “K2” CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo
2014: “POLAR” Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo; “MAKALU” IMA Gallery, Tokyo; “AMA DABLAM/GLACIER” OVER THE BORDER, Tokyo; “Kunisaki Peninsula” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo ; Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka; “marebito” Ofunato City Museum, Iwate
2013: “Lhotse | Manaslu” EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo; “Lhotse” SLANT, Kanazawa
2012: “Remembrance 3.11” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo ; Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka; “the stranger” Tohoku University of Arts & Design, Yamagata; “Remembrance 3.11”, Yamagata Institute of The Arts, Yamagata; “Manaslu” SLANT, Kanazawa; “the stranger” Place M, Tokyo
2011: “CORONA: Ken Domon Award-winning works Exhibition” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo ; Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka ; Ken Domon Museum of Photography, Yamagata; “8848” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo; “Halluci Mountain” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo
2010: “ARCHIPELAGO” Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa; “ARCHIPELAGO” Niki Club, Tochigi ; Gallery Satsu, Tokyo; “CORONA” Place M, Tokyo
2009: “TRAVELOGUE 2000 – 2009” Fukuoka Camera Museum, Toyama; “Mt.Fuji” Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka; “ARCHIPELAGO” Chukyo University Art Gallery C. Square, Nagoya; “CHRISTMAS ISLAND” Place M, Tokyo; “ARCHIPELAGO” CANON GALLERY S, Tokyo
2008: “VERNACULAR” INAX Gallery, Tokyo; “POLAR/NEW DIMENSION: Ishikawa Naoki Photo Exhibition”Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo; “Mt.Fuji” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo; “VERNACULAR” Place M, Tokyo
2007: “POLAR” KONICA MINOLTA Plaza, Tokyo; “NEW DIMENSION” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo ; Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka; “POLAR” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2006: “THE VOID” Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
2005: “THE VOID” Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
2003: “for circumpolar stars" epSITE EPSON Imaging Gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2024: “Tokyu: Neighborhood Life and Culture” SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo
2023: “YATSUGATAKE ART ECOROGY 2023” Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi; “MOT Collection: Walking, Traveling, Moving―From the Great Kanto Earthquake to the Present” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2021: “OKU-NOTO TRIENNALE 2020+” Suzu, Ishikawa; “YAMA GA ARUKARA” Fukui Museum of Literature, Fukui
2020: “Nao Yoshigai × Naoki Ishikawa Exhibition in Shiretoko “TOP END4”” Yume Hall Shiretoko, Hokkaido; “INTERMEDIA ART 2020 APPARATION” Tokyo University of the Arts the Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo
2019: “Sohei Nishino × Naoki Ishikawa Photo Exhibition in Shiretoko “TOP END3”” Yume Hall Shiretoko, Hokkaido; “Sequenza Sismica」Italienisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin
2018: “NEW PLANET PHOTO CITY - William Klein and Photographers Living in the 22nd Century - ” 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo; “Naoki ISHIKAWA & Ryuichi ISHIKAWA Photo Exhibition in Shiretoko “TOP END2”” Yume Hall Shiretoko, Hokkaido; “New Collection Exhibition” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka; “Collection Exhibition II LANDSCAPE” Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata
2017: “Looking at the topography around the Shiraoi and Noboribetsu area,
these places are named in the Ainu language” THE AINU MUSEUM, Hokkaido; “Risaku SUZUKI・Naoki ISHIKAWA PHOTO EXHIBITION in SHIRETOKO “TOP END”” Yume Hall Shiretoko, Hokkaido; “to the mountains” Setagaya Literature Museum, tokyo; “Sapporo International Art Festival 2017” Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido; “OKU-NOTO TRIENNALE” Suzu, Ishikawa; “Kumamoto Admirable” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto; “Okinawa:Through the Eyes of a Photographer 1972-2017” Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa; “Sequenza Sismica” Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy; “Géants, le spectacle de la montagne Exposition” Librairie Volume, Paris
2016: “GENBI SHINKANSEN” Joetsu Shinkansen, Niigata; “Aomori EARTH 2016：Roots and Routes” Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori; “Form of Landscape in Photographs by Shinzo Maeda and Japnese Contemporary Photographers” Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi; “IKIMONO / NAOKI ISHIKAWA × KENSHICHI HESHIKI” Kenshichi Heshiki Gallery, Okinawa
2015: “to the north, from here: naoki ishikawa + yoshitomo nara” The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; “TRANSMIGRATION 2015” Alang-Alang House, Bali; “MOT Collection: Postwar Art in Close-Up” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; “Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015” Niigata; “To the Heart of the Unknown Trail” Aomori; “Tokyo International Photography Festival 2015” ART FACTORY JONANJIMA, Tokyo
2014: “Kunisaki Art Festival 2014” Kunimi Furusato Tenjikan Old Arinaga House & ZECCO, Oita; “Ohdate Kita Akita Art Festival 2014” Akita; “anima on photo” UNSEEN, Netherlands
2013: “Kunisaki Art Project -Spring” Kunisaki, Oita
2012: “Daido Moriyama x Naoki Ishikawa To Nirvana and Back” Shibuya Hikarie 8/CUBE 1,2,3, Tokyo; “Water and Land-Niigata Art festival 2012" the old Sasagawa residence, Niigata; “Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012” Niigata
2010: “Crossing Chaos 1999-2009” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo / Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka; “VOCA: The Vision of Contemporary Art” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; “Setouchi International Art Festival” Fukutake House (Former Megi Elementary School), Kagawa; “126 POLAROID” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa; “2010 Sagamihara Grand Prize” Sagamihara citizen’s gallery, Kanagawa; “Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2009: “Artist File 2009: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art” The National Art Center, Tokyo; “MOT Collection: Field of Dreams” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; “Ecology and Art: From Nearby to Far Away” Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma; “The 25th Higashikawa Prize” Higashikawa bunka gallery, Hokkaido; “Voyages” Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris; “Sakhalin” Hokkaido Museum of Literature, Hokkaido; “Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol.8: Voyage” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; “PHOTO BOOK.PH 2009＋10” Photobook Award, Frankfurt
2008: “Matrix of Photography 2008 Towards a game of Photography:
11 Contemporary Artists playing with Photography” Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa; “Art and Ecology: Ecosophy in Practice 1” EYE of GYRE, Tokyo; “Whispered Prayers” 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo; “The Exhibition of Photographic Society of Japan Award-winning Works” FUJIFILM PHOTO SALON, Tokyo; “Five Photographers Show” Gallery ILLUM, Seoul, Korea; “NOW JUMP: Nam June Paik Festival” Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea; “MOT Collection: Survival Action: Focusing on New Aquistitions” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2007: “Emerging Artists in Meguro : Seven Artists, Seven Aspects” Meguro Museum Of Art, Tokyo; “The Doctoral Program Final Exhibitions” Tokyo University of the Arts The University Art Museum, Tokyo
2006: “THE EXPOSED of the art vol.1: Photographs” Contemporary Art Space Osaka; “New Visions of Japanese Photography” Yachao Gallery, Shanghai; “epSITE retrospective 1998-2006” EPSON Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo
2005: “Project the Projectors” former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo; “SKY-HIGH: Kazuhiko Hachiya, Taro Shinoda, Naoki Ishikawa” KPO Kirin Plaza, Osaka
2004: “Visions on the move” graf media gm, Osaka; “On The Edge of Nowhere” kuspace wien, Vienna, Austria; “Photo-Documan STILL & MOVE” Mori-no-Hall Hashimoto, Kanagawa

Photographic Publications

2024: CHO OYU, HEIBONSHA; Nanga Parbat, SLANT
2023: VETTE DI LUCE, SKIRA
2022: MOMENTUM, Seidosha; STREETS ARE MINE, DAIWASHOBO; Kangchenjunga, POST-FAKE; Manaslu 2022 edition, SLANT
2021: OKUNOTO PENINSULA, Seidosha
2020: SHERPA, TOO MUCH Magazine＋THE NORTH FACE; TOKYO The City Where I Was Born, Errand Press
2019: NIPPON Yamaguchi, SUPER LABO; NIPPON Ishikawa, SUPER LABO; NIPPON Kagawa, SUPER LABO; Ama Dablam, SLANT; Naoki Ishikawa – The Himalayas, TOO MUCH Magazine; Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet, Little More; Gasherbrum II, SLANT; Kagoshima Archipelago, FCR; MAREBITO, SHOGAKUKAN; EVEREST, CCC Media House; EVEREST / K2, CCC Artlab
2018: Ryusei no Shima, SUPER LABO; NIPPON Hokkaido, SUPER LABO; NIPPON Akita, SUPER LABO; NIPPON Niigata, SUPER LABO; NIPPON Tokyo, SUPER LABO; NIPPON Oita, SUPER LABO
2017: Shiretoko Peninsula, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press; Svalbard, SUPER LABO
2016: DENALI, SLANT
2015: SAKHALIN, amana; KATA and SATOYAMA, Seidosha; K2, SLANT
2014: Qomolangma, SLANT; Manaslu, SLANT; Makalu, SLANT; Kunisaki Peninsula, Seidosha; HAIR, Seidosha
2013: Lhotse, SLANT
2010: CORONA, Seidosha
2009: ARCHIPELAGO, Shueisha
2008: VERNACULAR, AKAAKA Art Publishing; Mt. Fuji, Little More
2007: NEW DIMENSION, AKAAKA Art Publishing; POLAR, Little More
2005: THE VOID, knee high media japan
2003: POLE TO POLE, Chuokoron-shinsha

Awards

2024: Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon
2023: The Higashikawa Award,The Special Photographer Award
2020: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan
2011: The Domon Ken Award
2010: Sagamihara Award
2009: The Higashikawa Award,New Photographer Prize
2008: The Kaiko Takeshi [Non-Fiction] Award; The Kodansha Publication Culture Award for Photography; The Newcomer's Award from the Photographic Society of Japan
2006: The Annual Miki Jun Award; Sagamihara Emerging Photographer Incentive Award

Public Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Ken Domon Museum of Photography, Yamagata, Japan
Sagamihara-city, Kanagawa, Japan
Higashikawa bunka gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
East Japan Railway Company (JR East), Niigata, Japan
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Shanghai, China
Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

8000m × 14 mountains

①EVEREST［8848m］
Summit Date：2001.5.23・2011.5.20
②MANASLU［8163m］
Summit Date：2012.9.30・2022.9.28
③LHOTSE［8516m］
Summit Date：2013.5.17
④MAKALU［8463m］
Summit Date：2014.5.25
⑤GASHERBRUM II［8035m］
Summit Date：2019.7.25
⑥DHAULAGIRI［8167m］
Summit Date：2022.4.9
⑦KANGCHENJUNGA［8586m］
Summit Date：2022.5.7
⑧K2［8611m］
Summit Date：2022.7.22
⑨BROAD PEAK［8051m］
Summit Date：2022.7.29
⑩ANNAPURNA［8091m］
Summit Date：2023.4.15
⑪NANGA PARBAT［8126m］
Summit Date：2023.7.2
⑫GASHERBRUM I ［8068m］
Summit Date：2023.7.26
⑬CHO OYU［8201m］
Summit Date：2023.10.2
⑭SHISHAPANGMA［8027m］
Summit Date：2024.10.4