Tokyo, Japan
Please contact: tarokaribe@gmail.com
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◉BIO | 略歴
Taro Karibe
Born in Aichi in 1988. Tokyo based artist Taro Karibe works across the fields of post-photography and philosophy of technology, he explores the redefinition of visual regimes in the age of AI, reconsidering the human act of seeing itself.
Driven by an interest in invisible structures, he moved across the fields of psychology, infectious disease prevention, finance, and IT before beginning my practice as a photojournalist.
Dealing with photography as a device for making visual regimes visible, I incorporate emerging technologies such as generative AI—tools now accessible to anyone—and at times intentionally misuse them to examine how the systems through which humans come to believe in reality are constructed, while questioning the institutional structures embedded in AI and photographic media, the mechanisms of visual information transmission, and their impact on human agency.
Major solo shows include ‘Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean’ MASQ (Tokyo, 2024), ‘Electric Caveman’, HECTARE (Tokyo, 2023), ‘Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS’, IMA gallery (Tokyo, 2020). Group shows include ‘ASAMA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL’ (Nagano, 2023), ‘Platform 29.8’ ANB Tokyo (Tokyo, 2022), KG+ SELECT 2021 (Kyoto, 2021), and 'LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6' (Paris/Photo Saint Germain, Amsterdam/ Unseen, Tokyo/ IMA gallery, 2019). Major awards include Prize (Elisa Medde/ Ex Foam Magazine Chief Editor Award), JAPAN PHOTO AWARD (2024), and Prize (Takashi Kawashima Award), TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD (Tokyo, 2022). His works is part of collection by Tokyo Photographic Arts Museum.
苅部太郎
1988年愛知生まれ、東京在住のアーティスト／写真家。AI時代に視覚制度を再定義することを主題に、ポストフォトグラフィーと技術哲学の領域を横断しながら、人間の「見る」営みを再考する。
不可視の構造への関心を背景に、心理学、感染症予防、金融、ITの領域を横断した後、報道写真家として活動を開始した。
写真を「視覚制度を可視化する装置」として捉え、画像生成AIなど、誰もが手にする先端テクノロジーを取り入れ、ときに意図的に誤用しながら、人間が現実を信じる制度がいかに成立するのかを探り、AIや写真メディアに埋め込まれた制度、視覚情報伝達の構造、そして人間性への影響を問う。
主な個展に「Anatomy of Caves」HECTARE（東京、2024）、「Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean」Mynavi Art Square（東京、2024）、「Electric Caveman」HECTARE（東京、2023）、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery（東京、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（長野、2023）、「Platform 29.8」ANB Tokyo（東京、2022）、KG+ SELECT 2021（京都、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（Foam Magazine元編集長）賞（2024）、TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD /川島崇志賞（東京、2022）、第18回写真「1_WALL」ファイナリスト（東京、2018）など。作品は東京都写真美術館に収蔵されている。
◉EDUCATION | 教育
2020-2023
RAM Association/ Organized by Graduate school of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
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, UK and 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
◉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
◉INTERVIEW / FEATURES | インタビュー・掲載
2024 "QUOTATION"
Nao Tokui at Mynavi Art Square
2018 IMA Online
2018 Wired.jp
2015 British Journal of Photography
(Featured in)
2024 bijutsutecho
2021 bijutsutecho
2021 nekoSLASH
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