Takashi Arai

♂ *1978 / Japan

Works

Contacts for the work of Takashi Arai

Takashi Arai

Berlin
www.takashiarai.com

Solo exhibitions

mirrors/testaments

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
13 Sep 2024 – 6 Oct 2024
Tono - Forests Afar

Daguerreotypes by Takashi Arai

Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (GB)
26 Jan 2024 – 2 Mar 2024
Quotidian Mirrors

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
5 Jul 2023 – 23 Aug 2023
TAKASHI ARAI

Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (GB)
21 Oct 2020 – 21 Nov 2020
Imago

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
30 Aug 2019 – 18 Oct 2019
Cents Soleils

Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (FR)
7 Apr 2017 – 27 May 2017
Daily D-Type

Stills Center Photography, Edinburgh (GB)
29 Jun 2015 – 9 Aug 2015
Exposed in a Hundred Suns

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
25 Jul 2014 – 20 Sep 2014

Group

Prix Pictet - Storm

Fotografiska Shenzhen, Shenzhen (CN)
1 Oct 2026 – 29 Nov 2026

with Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balázs Gárdi, Roberto Huarcaya, Alfredo Jaar, Belal Khaled, Hannah Modigh, Baudoin Mouanda, Camille Seaman, Laetitia Vançon, Patrizia Zelano
Prix Pictet : Storm

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
29 May 2026 – 22 Aug 2026

with Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balázs Gárdi, Roberto Huarcaya, Alfredo Jaar, Belal Khaled, Hannah Modigh, Baudoin Mouanda, Camille Seaman, Laetitia Vançon, Patrizia Zelano
Prix Pictet : Storm

LUMA Westbau, Zürich (CH)
6 Mar 2026 – 5 Apr 2026

with Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balázs Gárdi, Roberto Huarcaya, Alfredo Jaar, Belal Khaled, Hannah Modigh, Baudoin Mouanda, Bill Seaman, Laetitia Vançon, Patrizia Zelano
Prix Pictet : Storm

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
12 Dec 2025 – 25 Jan 2026

with Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balázs Gárdi, Roberto Huarcaya, Alfredo Jaar, Belal Khaled, Hannah Modigh, Baudoin Mouanda, Camille Seaman, Laetitia Vançon, Patrizia Zelano
Prix Pictet : Storm

Alfredo Jaar winner

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
26 Sep 2025 – 19 Oct 2025

with Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balázs Gárdi, Roberto Huarcaya, Alfredo Jaar, Belal Khaled, Hannah Modigh, Baudoin Mouanda, Camille Seaman, Laetitia Vançon, Patrizia Zelano
REFLECTION – 11/03/11

Japanese Photographers Facing the Cataclysm

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
1 Jul 2024 – 29 Sep 2024

with Hikaru Fujii, Ai Iwane, Jun Kanno, Kazuma Obara, Tadashi Ono, Keiko Sasaoka, Lieko Shiga, Mayumi Suzuki
Blue: the pursuit of the heavenly colour

Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (GB)
17 Apr 2024 – 15 Jun 2024

with Celine Bodin, Susan Derges, Leila Jeffreys, Santeri Tuori
Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
2 Sep 2023 – 17 Mar 2024

with Tina Barney, Ilse Bing, Jonathan Calm, Reagan Louie, Richard Misrach, Zora Murff, Zoe Strauss, Guanyu Xu
The Flower Show

Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (GB)
21 Jul 2023 – 18 Sep 2023

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Jonny Delafield Cook, Charles Jones, Sandra Kantanen, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Keith Tyson
Prix Pictet Japan Award - Fire & Water

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
17 Dec 2022 – 22 Jan 2023

with Yoshinori Mizutani, Mikiya Takimoto
Care: In an Age of Uncertainty

Image Object Exhibition vol.2 : Contemporary Daguerreotype Exhibition

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
8 Oct 2021 – 16 Nov 2021

with Binh Danh, Jerry Spagnoli, Craig Tuffin
Fragments d'un paradis

Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (FR)
17 Jan 2020 – 28 Mar 2020

with Kristoffer Albrecht, Denis Brihat, Jeffrey Conley, Bernard Descamps, Éric Dessert, Michael Kenna, Sarah Moon, Josef Nadj, Bernard Plossu, Pentti Sammallahti, Jean-Francois Spricigo, Patrick Taberna …
PGI 40th 1979-2019

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
19 Apr 2019 – 25 May 2019

with Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Wynn Bullock, Emmet Gowin, Hiroaki Ishii, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yoshihiko Ito
FLORES

Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (FR)
7 Sep 2018 – 20 Oct 2018

with Denis Brihat, Éric Dessert, Marcelo Fuentes, Michael Kenna, Ingar Krauss, Sarah Moon, Francoise Nunez, Josef Nadj, Bernard Plossu, Jean-Francois Spricigo, Patrick Taberna, Masao Yamamoto
Women -through the lens-

TKB Bldg. 3F

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
12 Jul 2018 – 1 Sep 2018

with Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Imogen Cunningham, Elliott Erwitt, Louis Faurer, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Andre Kertesz, Michiko Kon …
Birds in the Hand

PGI Summer Show

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
13 Jul 2017 – 1 Sep 2017

with Hiroyuki Takenouchi
? THE IMAGE AS QUESTION

AN EXPLORATION OF EVIDENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (GB)
28 Sep 2016 – 26 Nov 2016

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Anonymous, Peter Beard, Guy Bourdin, Harold E. Edgerton, Melanie Einzig, Axel Haas, Alfredo Jaar, Valery Khristoforov, Sergio Larrain, Man Ray , Etienne-Jules Marey …
Festival photo La Gacilly 2016

Festival photo , La Gacilly (FR)
4 Jun 2016 – 30 Sep 2016

with Daniel Beltra, Anita Conti, Guillaume Herbaut, Olivier Jobard, Miho Kajioka, Daesung Lee, Yoshinori Mizutani, Sohei Nishino, Lucille Reyboz, Jean-Francois Spricigo, Takeyoshi Tanuma, Hiromi Tsuchida …
The Memory of the Future / La mémoire du futur

Photographic Dialogues between Past, Present and Future / Dialogues photographiques entre passé, présent et futur

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
25 May 2016 – 28 Aug 2016

with Israel Arino, Anna Atkins, Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Martin Becka, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Mathew B. Brady, Pierre Cordier, Binh Danh, John Dugdale, Dan Estabrook, Joan Fontcuberta …
Take In

Collection Show

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
10 May 2016 – 2 Jun 2016

with Harry Callahan, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Michiko Kon, Kozo Miyoshi, Mark Osterman, Janet Russek, Aaron Siskind, Kazuyuki Soeno, George Tice, Kiyoshi Yagi
To What End?

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
27 Sep 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Heba Y. Amin, Mohamed Bourouissa, Hrair Sarkissian, Vangelis Vlahos
In the Wake

Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
5 Apr 2015 – 12 Jul 2015

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Naoya Hatakeyama, Kikuji Kawada, Rinko Kawauchi, Keizo Kitajima, Kozo Miyoshi, Yasusuke Ota, Masato Seto, Lieko Shiga, Tomoko Yoneda
La Main

Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (FR)
29 Jan 2015 – 14 Mar 2015

with Kristoffer Albrecht, Anita Andrzejewska, Gregor Beltzig, Bernard Descamps, Éric Dessert, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Lucien Herve, Christien Jaspars, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Sarah Moon, Francoise Nunez, Max Pam …

Events

Photo London 2026

Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (GB)
14 May 2026 – 17 May 2026

with Celine Bodin, Susan Derges, Samuel Fosso, Leila Jeffreys, Sandra Kantanen, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Diana Matar, Anaïs Tondeur, Tessa Traeger
Photo London 2026

Photo London, London (GB)
14 May 2026 – 17 May 2026

with Ahmed Ali, Maurizio Anzeri, Nadim Asfar, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Anne Bean, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Bernard, John Blakemore, Celine Bodin, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson …
Paris Photo 2025 - Group show C03

Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Denis Dailleux, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Lucien Herve, Ingar Krauss, Jung-Jin Lee, Jung-Jin Lee, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Sarah Moon, Paolo Roversi, Pentti Sammallahti, Masao Yamamoto
Photo London 2024

Photo London, London (GB)
16 May 2024 – 19 May 2024

with Albarran Cabrera, Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, David Bailey, Susannah Baker-Smith, Peter Beard, Valerie Belin, Tonje Boe Birkeland, Erwin Blumenfeld, Celine Bodin, Jo Bradford, Coco Capitan …
London Art Fair 2024

Photo50

London Art Fair, London (GB)
17 Jan 2024 – 21 Jan 2024

with Veronica Bailey, Susannah Baker-Smith, Celine Bodin, Susan Derges, Tif Hunter, Leila Jeffreys, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu, Ghada Khunji, Linda Lieberman, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Denisse Ariana Pérez …
London Art Fair 2023

Photo50

London Art Fair, London (GB)
18 Jan 2023 – 22 Jan 2023

with Heather Agyepong, Karis Beaumont, Celine Bodin, Vanley Burke, Jonny Delafield Cook, Susan Derges, Joy Gregory, Adaeze Ihebom, Adama Jalloh, Leila Jeffreys, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu …
London Art Fair 2020

Photo50

London Art Fair, London (GB)
22 Jan 2020 – 26 Jan 2020

with Tami Bahat, Olaf Otto Becker, Tom Blachford, Celine Bodin, Julie Cockburn, Ellie Davies, Susan Derges, Elaine Duigenan, Formento & Formento, Elisabeth Heyert, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Tif Hunter …
EXPO CHICAGO 2019

EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago (US)
19 Sep 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Valerie Belin, Bae Bien-U, Sebastiaan Bremer, Christopher Bucklow, Tricia Capello, Lynn Davis, Jason DeMarte, Elliott Erwitt …
photo london 2019

Photo London, London (GB)
16 May 2019 – 19 May 2019

with Ansel Adams, Claire Aho, Albarran Cabrera, Miles Aldridge, Alia Ali, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Liza Ambrossio, Matan Ashkenazy, Jessica Backhaus, Roger Ballen, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Fernando Bayona …
Le Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris 2017

Le Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris, Paris (FR)
1 Apr 2017 – 30 Apr 2017

with Erwin Blumenfeld, Peter Campus, Robert Doisneau, Stephane Duroy, Mitch Epstein, Walker Evans, Harold Feinstein, Milton Gendel, Josef Koudelka, Namsa Leuba, Eli Lotar, Robert Mapplethorpe …
The 11th Shanghai Biennale

Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories

Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
12 Nov 2016 – 12 Mar 2017

with Sener Oezmen, Navjot Altaf, Sammy Baloji, Khaled Barakeh, Patty Chang, John Gerrard, Hao Jingban, Taus Makhacheva, LEE Mingwei, Fabrice Monteiro, Peter Piller, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen)
Festival photo La Gacilly 2016

Festival photo , La Gacilly (FR)
4 Jun 2016 – 30 Sep 2016

with Daniel Beltra, Miho Kajioka, Sohei Nishino, Takeyoshi Tanuma, Hiromi Tsuchida, Shoji Ueda