Nobuhiro Fukui
Born in Tokushima, Japan, 1972
Lives and works in Basel
[Education]
2003 to present
Self‐taught
2004
Participated in Osamu Kanemura Workshop
[Solo Exhibitions]
2011
"undercurrent" TKG Editions Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
2010
"Asterism" Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2008
"Juxtaposition" Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2006
"There There" Joachim Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
2005
"Trans A.M." GENDAI HEIGHTS GalleryDEN (Tokyo, Japan)
[Group Exhibitions]
2013
"Concrete - Photography and Architecture" Fotomuseum Winterthur (Curator: Thomas Seelig, Research Assistant: Daniela Janser / Zurich, Switzerland)
2012
"5 - Contemporary Japanese Photographers" Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific (Curator: Robert Coburn & Daniel Kasser / California, USA)
2010
"KABEGIWA: Akira Rachi - sites" Gallery GEN (with Motohiro Tomii / Tokyo, Japan)
"France / Japan: University Exchange Project DOUBLE VISION" TWS Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)
2009
"No Man's Land" L'ambassade de France au Japon (Tokyo, Japan)
2008
"Invisible moments" UP FIELD GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2007
"Tokyo Painting - My Little Everyday Sceneries" TWS shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)
"Aspects of Memory" UP FIELD GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
"WONDER SEEDS 2007" TWS shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)
2006
"Nobuhiro Fukui & Katsuhiko Miyauchi - Tomare, Miyo" gallery Archipelago (Tokyo, Japan)
"Sophie ERLUND & Nobuhiro FUKUI" Joachim Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
2005
"Expressions by young photographers in Germany 2005" Konica Minolta Plaza Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
"Berlin - Tokyo Group Exhibition I" Joachim Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
[Award]
2008
"Mention speciale du jury" The BMW Paris Photo Prize 2008 (Jury: Marta Gili, Vicki Goldberg, Stephen Shore, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Michael Wilson, Nicolas Wertans, Eric de Riedmatten)
[Residency]
2013
iaab - International Exchange and Studio Program Basel (Basel, Switzerland)
[Presiding Workshops]
2011 - ongoing
"291 workshop" (Tokyo) *photography workshop
2013 - ongoing
"291 workshop - Personal Session" (around Tokyo)
[Lectures & Conversations]
2013
Kazutaka Yoshida: Welcome To The Jungle, blanClass (Yokohama)
2012
Extension Seminar, Tokyo Visual Arts (Tokyo)
Talking about «Samazamana Sokudo, Aruiha Samazamana Tien» with Director Hironori Tadaishi, KINEATTIC (Tokyo)
PARTY #4 - participation / popularity / preoccupation, CAMP (Tokyo)
2010
Researching Photography - Nobuhiro Fukui (with Akira Rachi & Bunmei Shirabe / Tokyo)
[Selected Publications]
2013
"CONCRETE: Fotografie und Architektur" edited by Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel in collaboration with Eva Kurz, Therese Seeholzer and Corinna Unterkofler (Scheidegger & Spiess) *exhibition catalogue
Sophie Cavaliero "Révélations: Photographie japonaise contemporaine" (Le Lézard Noir)
"Enjoying fine arts in the living room" SUMAInoSEKKEI (July-August, 2013)
2010
"Learning a Secret Formula by Photographer's Textbooks" Asahi Camera (November 2010)
Toshihiro Furuya "Nobuhiro Fukui: Asterism" Tokyo Shimbun (August 13, 2010 / *Japanese text only)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/furuyatoshihiro/20101212
2009
"No Man’s Land" (La France au Japon) *exhibition catalogue
2008
"Be in love with a subject: Nobuhiro Fukui" Shincho 45 (July 2008)
Toshihiro Furuya "Review Art: Two Different lights - Sei IMAZAWA & Nobuhiro FUKUI" Gunzo (June 2008)
"Stardust review of exhibitions" Geijutsu Shincho (May 2008)
Ren Fukuzumi "Exhibition reviews" artscape (March 2008 / *Japanese text only)
http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/exhibition/review/080501_02.html#t04
2007
"Tokyo Painting: My Little Everyday Sceneries" (Tokyo Wonder Site) *exhibition catalogue
2006
"feature graph" DIGITAL SHASIN SEIKATSU (2006. Vol. 2)
PHaT PHOTO, special edition 1 (2006. MAY. extra)
2005
"Review Channels" - Art, PAPER SKY (Autumn no.15)
[Selected Interviews]
2010
Researching Photography: record: Nobuhiro Fukui (*Japanese text only)
Part 1 http://researchingphotography.blogspot.jp/2011/07/rp-record-part-1.html
Part 2 http://researchingphotography.blogspot.jp/2011/08/record-rp-part-2.html
Nobuhiro Fukui interview 2008 | Tomio Koyama Gallery (*Japanese text only)
http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/interviews/nobuhiro-fukui-interview-2010/
2008
Nobuhiro Fukui interview 2008 | Tomio Koyama Gallery
http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/interviews_en/nobuhiro-fukui-interview-2008_en/
2007
Web Photography Neighborhood "Every Sunday - Nobuhiro Fukui" (with Yasuhiko Uchihara / *Japanese text only)
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/webphoto/2007/04/05/5996.html
[Selected Writings]
On Hironori Tadaishi & Hitoshi Toyoda, FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #4 (*unpublished)
A Memorandum on Oval = Markus Popp, FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #3
On Enrique Vila-Matas "Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil," FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #2
On Banksy's "Exit Through the Gift Shop," FOUNTAIN: Japanese contemporary art magazine #1
1972年、徳島県鳴門市生まれ。2004年、金村修ワークショップ参加。近年の主な個展に「undercurrent」（2011年・TKG Editions京都）、「Asterism」（2010年・小山登美夫ギャラリー）等、主なグループ展に「Concrete - Photography and Architecture」（2013年・ヴィンタートゥール写真美術館）、「5 - Contemporary Japanese Photographers」（2012年・Reynolds Gallery〔カリフォルニア、パシフィック大学〕）、「No Man's Land」（2009年・在日フランス大使館）等がある。
2008年には、Paris PhotoにおいてBMW Paris Photo Prizeの審査員特別賞を受賞。2011年よりワークショップ「291 workshop」を主宰。2013年より個人講座「291 workshop - Personal Session」を開催中。2012年、東京ビジュアルアーツ「エクステンション・ゼミ」にてゲスト講師として特別講義を開講。CAMP主催の「PARTY #4 - participation / popularity / preoccupation」（TRANS ARTS TOKYO）にスピーカーとして参加。blanClass主催の吉田和貴「Welcome To The Jungle」にパフォーマーとして参加。
