苅部太郎 / Taro Karibe

◉BIO | 略歴

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Taro Karibe

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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.

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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/ 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. 

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苅部太郎

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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領域を横断し、AIや写真メディアの機能、視覚情報伝達の制度を主な関心として活動している。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、その機能や構造を可視化している。

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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。

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◉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 

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◉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

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◉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​

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◉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

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◉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

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◉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

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◉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

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(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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