Please contact: tarokaribe@gmail.com
©︎Paollo Pellegrin
◉BIO | 略歴
Taro Karibe
Born in Aichi in 1988, based in Tokyo. His practice is grounded in questioning the black box structures that govern how we see. Taking as its point of departure the circular system in which optical technology, data and media, and the institution of visual perception mutually constitute one another, his work engages with the invisible systems embedded in photography and society at large. After working across psychology, infectious disease prevention, finance, and IT, he began his career as a photojournalist. He now employs technologies such as generative AI as a "metaphysical camera," at times deliberately misusing them to unsettle the institutions of seeing.
Selected solo exhibitions include Anatomy of Caves, HECTARE (2024); Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean, Mynavi Art Square (2024); Electric Caveman, HECTARE (2023); Age of Photon / INCIDENTS, IMA gallery (2020).
Group exhibitions include Auckland Festival of Photography (New Zealand, 2024), Asama International Photo Festival (2023), Platform 29.8, ANB Tokyo (2022), KG+ SELECT (2021), and LUMIX MEETS / BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6, shown at Photo Saint Germain, Paris; Unseen, Amsterdam; and IMA gallery, Tokyo (2019).
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.
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。「見る」ことを支配するブラックボックスの構造を問い直すことを実践の核とする。光学技術、データとメディア、視覚認識の制度が相互に構成し合うその循環を起点に、写真や社会に埋め込まれた不可視のシステムを扱う。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。画像生成AIなどのテクノロジーを「形而上のカメラ」として、ときに意図的に誤用しながら、見る制度を揺さぶる。
主な個展に「Anatomy of Caves」HECTARE（2024）、「Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean」Mynavi Art Square（2024）、「Electric Caveman」HECTARE（2023）、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery（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（2023）、「Platform 29.8」ANB Tokyo（2022）、KG+ SELECT 2021（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賞（2024）、TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD・川島崇志賞（2022）など。
作品は東京都写真美術館に収蔵されている。
◉EDUCATION/ WORK/ PROGRAMS | 教育・職務・プログラム
2020-2023
RAM Association/ Organized by Graduate school of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
2018
Eddie Adams WorkshopXXX, NY, USA
2012-2015
MUFG Bank, Ltd.
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