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◉BIO | 略歴

苅部太郎

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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う。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(2025)、「Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean」Mynavi Art Square(2024)、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery(2020)。参加展覧会に「ふたたびくみたてる 日本の新進作家 vol.23」(2026)、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」(2019)など。Amanaとのデジタルヒューマン開発、Forbes JAPANやPrada x IMAなどへのアートワーク提供、AshnikkoのMV日本側プロデュースなど、領域を横断して協働を展開している。

JAPAN PHOTO AWARD・Elisa Medde賞(2024)、TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD・川島崇志賞(2022)受賞。主な出版物に『Typical World』(bookshop M)、『あの海に見える岩を、弓で射よ』(Troublemakers Publishing)。品は東京都写真美術館に収蔵されている。

​Taro Karibe

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, 2025), Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean (Mynavi Art Square, 2024), and Age of Photon / INCIDENTS (IMA gallery, 2020). Group exhibitions include the Auckland Festival of Photography (New Zealand, 2024), Asama International Photo Festival (2023), Platform 29.8 (ANB Tokyo, 2022), KG+ SELECT 2021 (2021), and LUMIX MEETS / BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6 (2019). Working across disciplines, he has collaborated with Amana on digital human development, provided artwork for Forbes JAPAN and Prada x IMA, and served as local producer in Japan for Ashnikko's music video.

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.

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◉EDUCATION/ WORK/ PROGRAMS | 教育・プログラム

2020-2023

RAM Association/ Organized by Graduate school of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts (文化庁「大学における文化芸術推進事業」)

2018

Eddie Adams WorkshopXXX, NY, USA

2007-2012

B.A. in Department of Psychology and Human Relations, Nanzan University, Aichi

2010

College for International Cooperation and Development: Development Instructor Program, Kingston upon Hull/ UK and Johannesburg/ Republic of South Africa ​

◉SOLO EXHIBITION | 個展

2025

洞窟の解剖学/ Anatomy of Caves, HECTARE, Tokyo

洞窟の解剖学/ Anatomy of Caves, KG+/Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Kyoto

2024

Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean, Mynavi Art Square, Tokyo

2023

電子的穴居人/ Electric Caveman, HECTARE, Tokyo

電子的穴居人/ Electric Caveman, PHOTO GALLERY FLOW NAGOYA, Aichi​

2020

Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS, IMA Gallery, Tokyo

2019

Regarding the Shadows of Others, Libris Kobaco, Fukuoka

Saori, Hyakunen, Tokyo

2017

Plastic Reincarnation, &Lounge, Tokyo

◉SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION | グループ展

​2025

"POD KOLOR", FORT INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Warsaw, Poland

2024

Rui YAMAGATA + Taro KARIBE, 暗箱間航行術 Inter Black Box Navigation/ Measure, Draw, Map, Code, 229 Gallery, Tokyo

Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, Newzealand

Ripple, UP&COMING, Tokyo

​2023

ASAMA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2023 PHOTO MIYOTA, Nagano

Kathleen Reilly + Taro Karibe "Through the Garden Window, The Dew on the Grass", Cale, Tokyo

2022

'Platform 29.8', ANB Tokyo, Tokyo

'ANB Open Studio vol.3', ANB Tokyo, Tokyo

2021

沙織 Saori, KG+ SELECT, Sanjo-Ryogaecho Building, Kyoto

RAM PRACTICE 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama, Japan (As collective "AdMornings" )

2018

1_WALL Finalist Exhibition, Guardian Garden Gallery, Tokyo

'LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6' Exhibition, Unseen, Amsterdam/        

Photo Saint Germain, Paris/ IMA Gallery, Tokyo

Head On Photo Festival, Paddington town hall, Sydney, Australia

Yakushima Photography Festival, Kagoshima

PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv, Israel

2017

Month of photography Denver, Colorado, USA

Mt.Rokko International Photography Festival, KIITO, Kobe

2016

Ueno Hikoma Award Exhibition, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

Tempus/Locus, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia

2014

SWPA exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK​

◉PUBLICATIONS | 出版

2024

Typical World, bookshop M, Japan

2023

Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean, Troublemakers Publishing, Japan

2019

Saori, Artist book, Japan

2018

Life-Forms, Artist book, Japan

2017

Plastic Reincarnation, Artist book, Japan

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◉COLLECTION | コレクション

​Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan

MoMA Library, USA

International Center of Photography Library, USA

◉SELECTED AWARDS | 受賞・選出

2024

Prize (Elisa Medde/ Foam Magazine Chief Editor Award), JAPAN PHOTO AWARD

FONDATIONE MAST ”PHOTOGRAPHY GRANT ON INDUSTRY AND WORK” Nominated

2022

Prize (Takashi Kawashima Award), Tokyo Frontline Photo Award

2019

World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass nominee

2018

18th "1_WALL" Photography, Finalist

2017

PDN Photo Annual Photojournalism/Photo documentary category

2016

Critical Mass 2016 Top50

Ueno Hikoma Award Shortlisted

◉ART FAIR / BOOK FAIR | アートフェア・ブックフェア

​2025

T3 PHOTO ASIA, HECTARE, Tokyo

​2024

Art Fair Tokyo, HECTARE, Tokyo

2023

Tokyo Artbook Fair, Museum of Contemporary art Tokyo, Tokyo

2017

Tokyo Artbook Fair, Museum of Contemporary art Tokyo, Tokyo

ArtRooms, Melia White House, London, UK

2016

ArtRooms, Melia White House, London, UK

◉Lecture, WS | レクチャー・ワークショップ

2025

CP+, Official Talks with Tomohiko Ishi, Yokohama

2024

NHK, lecture on AI technology, Japan

Osaka Sangyo University, lecture on AI technology as Art, Japan

2023

Photography as Generative Image, MMoP/ ASAMA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL, Nagano, Japan

Photography as Generative Image, PHOTO GALLERY FLOW NAGOYA, Aichi, Japan

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◉INTERVIEW / FEATURES | インタビュー・掲載

2024            "QUOTATION"​

                     EL PAIS Semanal

                     Nao Tokui at Mynavi Art Square

​                     2B Channel

                     Tomohiko Ishi at CP+

2020            Edition/ Tomorrow Land  

2018            IMA Online

2018​            Wired.jp

2015            British Journal of Photography

(Featured in)

2024            bijutsutecho

2021            bijutsutecho

​2021            nekoSLASH

2019            Fotoadvert

2019            IMA Online

​2018            Newsweek Japan

2018            Chunichi Shimbun

2018            CINRA
2018            Sydney Morning Herald

2018            Mainichi News Paper

2018            Fraction Magazine

2018            SBS Radio

2017            The New York Times

2017            The Washington Post

2016            Stern

2016            World Photography Organization

 

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