Tokyo, Japan
Please contact: tarokaribe@gmail.com
◉BIO | 略歴
Taro Karibe
Born in Aichi in 1988, currently based in Tokyo.
Working at the intersection of post-photography and the philosophy of technology, his practice critically visualizes the institutional frameworks and visual structures embedded within AI and photographic media. Through this approach, they explore the act of seeing itself and the ways technology reorganizes human perception.
Driven by an interest in invisible structures, he moved across fields such as psychology, finance, and information technology before becoming a photojournalist.
In recent years, he has critically engaged with widely accessible advanced technologies such as image-generative AI. By deliberately misusing these tools, his work reveals latent functions and underlying structures that shape contemporary visual experience.
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と技術哲学の交差点で活動する。AIや写真メディアに内在する機能や、共同体の協力装置としての視覚情報伝達制度に関心を持ち、人の「ものを見る」営みや、テクノロジーが再編する知覚やポストヒューマニティを探究する。
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に報道写真家として活動開始した。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取り入れ、時に意図的に誤用しながら、潜在的な機能や構造を可視化している。
主な個展に「Anatomy of Caves」HECTARE/ホテルアンテルーム京都（東京/京都、2024/2025）、「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Japan Photo Award・Elisa Medde賞（2024）、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/ Organized by Graduate school of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
2018
Eddie Adams WorkshopXXX, NY, USA
2007-2012
BA Psychology, Nanzan University, Aichi
2010
College for International Cooperation and Development, UK/ South Africa
◉SOLO EXHIBITION | 個展
2025
洞窟の解剖学/ Anatomy of Caves, KG+/Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Kyoto
洞窟の解剖学/ Anatomy of Caves, HECTARE, Tokyo
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
2021
沙織 Saori, KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival/ KG+ SELECT, Sanjo Ryogaecho Building, Kyoto
2020
Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS, IMA Gallery, Tokyo
2019
Regarding the Shadows of Others, Libris Kobaco, Fukuoka
Saori, Hyakunen, Tokyo
2018
Saori, Head On Photofestival, Paddington town hall, Sydney, Australia
Letters To You, Yakushima International Photo Festival, Yakushima Island
2017
Plastic Reincarnation, &Lounge Gallery, 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, 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
'ANB Open Studio vol.3', ANB Tokyo, Tokyo
'Platform 29.8', ANB Tokyo, Tokyo
2021
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
PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photo Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017
Month of photography Denver, 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
◉ART BOOKS | アートブック
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
◉PUBLIC COLLECTION | コレクション
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
MoMA Library, NY
International Center of Photography Library, NY
◉SELECTED AWARDS | 受賞・選出
2024
JAPAN PHOTO AWARD, Elisa Medde Prize, Japan
FONDATIONE MAST ”PHOTOGRAPHY GRANT ON INDUSTRY AN WORK” Nominated, Italy
2022
Tokyo Frontline Photo Award, Takashi Kawashima Jury Prize, Tokyo, Japan
2019
World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass nominee, Amsterdam, Netherland
2018
1_Wall Finalist, Tokyo, Japan
2017
PDN Photo Annual Photojournalism/Photo documentary category, NY
2016
Critical Mass 2016 Top50, NY
Ueno Hikoma Award Shortlisted, Japan
◉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
◉PERFORMANCE | パフォーマンス
2020
“Recording Campfiring” as an art collective AdMornings, Tokyo
◉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
◉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