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About Artist

Taro Karibe | 苅部太郎

Contemporary artist and photographer. Deliberately misusing generative AI as a "metaphysical camera," he interrogates the invisible systems that govern how we see. Working from within photography as a medium, he engages the circuit in which black boxes—optical technology, data and media, human cognition, and social institutions—mutually constitute one another. A background spanning psychology, public health, finance, and IT before beginning his career as a photojournalist grounds his capacity to observe these systems from the outside. Born in Aichi in 1988; based in Tokyo.

Selected solo exhibitions include Anatomy of Caves, HECTARE (2024); Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean, Mynavi Art Square (2024); Electric Caveman, HECTARE (2023); Age of Photon / INCIDENTS, IMA gallery (2020).

Group exhibitions include Auckland Festival of Photography (New Zealand, 2024), Asama International Photo Festival (2023), Platform 29.8, ANB Tokyo (2022), KG+ SELECT (2021), and LUMIX MEETS / BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6, shown at Photo Saint Germain, Paris; Unseen, Amsterdam; and IMA gallery, Tokyo (2019).

Awards and selections include JAPAN PHOTO AWARD, Elisa Medde Prize (2024) and TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD, Takashi Kawashima Prize (2022).

His work is held in the collection of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.

現代美術家/写真家。画像生成AIを「形而上のカメラ」と見立てて意図的に誤用しながら、「見る」ことを支配する不可視のシステムを問い直す。光学技術、データとメディア、人の認知、社会制度といったブラックボックスが相互に絡み合う循環を、写真というメディウムの内側から組み立て直す。心理学、公衆衛生、金融、ITを横断したのち報道写真家として活動を開始した。1988年愛知生まれ、東京在住。

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主な個展に「Anatomy of Caves」HECTARE(2024)、「Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean」Mynavi Art Square(2024)、「Electric Caveman」HECTARE(2023)、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery(2020)など。

グループ展にAuckland Festival of Photography(NZ、2024)、浅間国際フォトフェスティバル(2023)、「Platform 29.8」ANB Tokyo(2022)、KG+ SELECT 2021(2021)、「LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020  BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6」(パリ/Photo Saint Germain・アムステルダム/ Unseen・東京/ IMA gallery、2019)など。

主な受賞・選出にJAPAN PHOTO AWARD・Elisa Medde賞(2024)、TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD・川島崇志賞(2022)など。

作品は東京都写真美術館に収蔵されている。

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