Currently in; Tokyo, Japan
Please contact: hello@tarokaribe.com

◉BIO | 略歴
Taro Karibe
Born 1988 in Aichi. Tokyo-based Artist/ Photographer.
An artist and photographer whose work explores the structures and biases embedded in AI and photographic media from a Post-Photography perspective.
Returning to the foundations of human–machine recognition systems, his practice recursively interrogates the act of seeing itself.
By visualizing the relationships between photographer and viewer, and exposing the institutional and political mechanisms that shape visual perception, his work operates at the intersection of technology critique, image politics, and epistemological inquiry.
Karibe’s path into photography was shaped by an early academic focus on General Systems Theory, followed by professional experience in psychology, infectious disease prevention, finance, and IT.
With a sustained interest in structural thinking and social issues, he began his career as a photojournalist, producing documentary work that addressed life in disaster-affected areas and the relationships between humans and artificial objects.
In recent years, he has critically engaged with emerging technologies such as image-generating AI, using tools that are widely accessible in daily life. By occasionally misusing these technologies deliberately, he reveals the latent biases and societal structures that shape contemporary modes of seeing.
Major solo shows include ‘Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean’ MASQ (Tokyo, 2024), ‘Electric Caveman’, HECTARE (Tokyo, 2023), 'Saori', Kyotographie, KG+ SELECT (Kyoto, 2021); ‘Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS’, IMA gallery (Tokyo, 2020); 'Saori', Paddington Town Hall, Head on Photo Festival (Sydney, 2018). Group shows include ‘ASAMA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL’ (Nagano, 2023), ‘Platform 29.8’ ANB Tokyo (Tokyo, 2022) and 'LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6' (Paris/Photo Saint Germain, Amsterdam/ Unseen, Tokyo/ IMA gallery, 2019). Major awards include MAST Photography Grant Nominated (Italy, 2024), Japan Photo Award Elisa Medde Prize (2024), and Tokyo Frontline Photo Award Takashi Kawashima Prize (Tokyo, 2022).
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。
ポストフォトグラフィーの視点から、AIや写真メディアに内在する制度やバイアス、視覚の構造を批評的に読み解く作品を制作。人とマシンの認識システムに立ち返り、“見る”という行為そのものを再帰的に問う実践を行う。撮影者と観者の関係性、視覚の制度と権力構造を可視化する表現は、テクノロジー批評や視覚の政治性、認識論的アプローチといった文脈において位置づけられる。
学部時代に一般システム理論を研究したことを起点に、心理学、感染症予防、金融、ITの領域を経て写真に転じた。構造と社会的イシューへの関心を背景に、報道写真家としてキャリアをスタートし、被災地の記録や人工物と人間との関係をテーマとしたドキュメンタリー作品を制作してきた。近年は画像生成AIなど、誰もが手にする先端テクノロジーを批評的に用い、時に意図的に誤用しながら、潜在的なバイアスや社会構造を可視化している。
主な個展に「あの海に見える岩に、弓を射よ」MASQ(東京、2024)、「Electric Caveman」HECTARE(東京、2023)、「沙織」京都国際写真祭 KG+ SELECT(京都、2021)、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery(東京、2020)、「Saori」Paddington Town Hall, Head on Photo Festival(シドニー、2018)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)、「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)。
主な受賞・選出にMAST財団助成金ノミネート(伊、2024)、Japan Photo Award・Elisa Medde賞(2024)、Lensculture "Favorite Photobooks"(NY、2023)、Tokyo Frontline Photo Award /川島崇志賞(東京、2022)、PDN Photo Annual(NY、2018)、第18回写真「1_WALL」ファイナリスト(東京、2018)など。
◉EDUCATION | 教育
2020-2023 RAM Association/ Graduate school of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts (Non-degree program)
2018 Eddie Adams WorkshopXXX, NY, USA
2016 RPS Photobook Masterclass w/ Heijdens Karwei and Yumi Goto
2007-2012 BA Psychology, Nanzan University, Aichi, Japan
2010 College for International Cooperation and Development, UK/ South Africa
◉SOLO EXHIBITION | 個展
2025 Anatomy of Caves, KG+/Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Anatomy of Caves, HECTARE, Tokyo, Japan
2024 Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean, Mynavi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan
2023 電子的穴居人 Electric Caveman, PHOTO GALLERY FLOW NAGOYA, Aichi, Japan
Electric Caveman, HECTARE, Tokyo, Japan
2021 沙織 Saori, KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival/ KG+ SELECT, Sanjo Ryogaecho Building, Kyoto, Japan
2020 Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS, IMA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Regarding the Shadows of Others, Libris Kobaco, Fukuoka, Japan
Saori, Hyakunen, Tokyo, Japan.
2018 Saori, Head On Photofestival, Paddington town hall, Sydney, Australia
Letters To You, Yakushima International Photo Festival, Yakushima Island, Japan
2017 Plastic Reincarnation, &Lounge Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
◉SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION | グループ展
2024 Rui YAMAGATA + Taro KARIBE, 暗箱間航行術 Inter Black Box Navigation/ Measure, Draw, Map, Code, 229, Tokyo, Japan
Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, Newzealand
Ripple, UP&COMING, Tokyo, Japan
2023 ASAMA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2023 PHOTO MIYOTA, Nagano, Japan
Kathleen Reilly + Taro Karibe "Through the Garden Window, The Dew on the Grass", Cale, Tokyo, Japan
2022 'ANB Open Studio vol.3', ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
'Platform 29.8', ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2021 RAM PRACTICE 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama, Japan (As collective "AdMornings" )
2018 1_WALL Finalist Exhibition, Guardian Garden Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6' Exhibition, Unseen, Amsterdam/
Photo Saint Germain, Paris/ IMA Gallery, Tokyo
PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photo Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Month of photography Denver, Colorado
Mt.Rokko International Photography Festival, KIITO, Kobe, Japan
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Paris, France
2016 Ueno Hikoma Award Exhibition, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ueno Hikoma Award Exhibition, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan
Tempus/Locus, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2015 SWPA exhibition, SONY imaging gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 SWPA exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
◉PROJECTION | プロジェクション
2018 YPF, Garalie Monstre, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
2017 Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
Perpignan Photo Festival, Perpignan, France
Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Riep, Cambodia
2016 Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Riep, Cambodia
◉PHOTO BOOKS | 写真集
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
◉RESIDENCY | レジデンシー
2022 ANB Studio Program, Tokyo, Japan
◉ART FAIR / BOOK FAIR | アートフェア・ブックフェア
2019 Poor man’s book fair, Hohohoza, Kyoto
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, Japan
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
◉PERFORMANCE | パフォーマンス
2020 "Making Liness" TOMO City Museum, Tokyo
“Recording Campfiring” w/ AdMornings, Tokyo
◉PUBLIC COLLECTION | 収蔵
2020 Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
2019 Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Library, Tokyo
2018 Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 MoMA Library, NY
International Center of Photography Library, NY
2016 Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
◉SELECTED AWARDS | 受賞
2024 Japan Photo Award Elisa Medde Prize, Japan
MAST Photography Grant, nominated, Italy
2023 'Favorite Photobooks 2023', Lensculture, US
2022 Tokyo Frontline Photo Award, Takashi Kawashima Jury Prize, Tokyo, Japan
IMA next, Erik Kessels Prize, Short Listed, Tokyo, Japan
2019 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass nominee, Amsterdam, Netherland
Photobook in Progress 3rd place, Czech
2018 1_Wall Finalist, Tokyo, Japan
Kolga Photo Award Finalist, Georgia
Associated Press Award/ Eddie Adams Workshop, NY
2017 PDN Photo Annual Photojournalism/Photo documentary category, NY
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris People category Bronze prize, Paris, France
2016 Critical Mass 2016 Top50, NY
Poland Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Finalist, Poland
Ueno Hikoma Award Shortlisted, Japan
2015 Fuji Award/ Magnum WS, Tokyo
2014 Sony World Photography Awards National Award second place, NY
◉INTERVIEW / PUBLICATION | インタビュー・掲載
(Interviewed by)
2024 "QUOTATION"
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