Biography
Solo Exhibitions (extract)
Public Collections (extract)
1951 Born in Kyoto, Japan.
Learned photographic techniques with his grandfather, professional photographer, Yoshitaro Miyagawa.
1969-1971 Worked as a producer and cameraman, and 1972 he arrived in Paris with a modern theatre troop.
1973 Started to photography in Paris
Awarded a number of prizes mostly in France and Japan, he became one of the most famous Japanese artists in France.
Exhibited many times in his solo and group exhibitions.
His works entered in public collections, as Fonds National dArt Contemporain, Maison européenne de la photographie, and so on.
1985 Photographie contemporaine en France, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
1983 Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France
1981 Des Photographies dans le paysage, Galerie de France, Paris, France
1977 Tendences actuelles de la photographie en France, Musée National d’art modern, Paris, France
1974 Bibliothéque Nationale de Paris, France
2001 Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France
1998 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
1994 Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France (completed series of Fenêtre)
1993 Chateau d’eau Toulouse, France (Fenêtre, Eclan, Portraits and Min)
1993 Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France ( Fenêtre)
1988 Musée de Strasbourg, France (Fenêtre)
1982 Centre George Pompidou, France (Eclats)
1974 Bibliothéque Nationale de Paris, France (Environnement)
Art Fairs
2012 Paris Photo, Paris, France
2011 Fotofever, Paris, France
2013 Specila exhibiton Torse, Fireking cafe, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Keiichi Tahara, Light sculptures, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Keiichi Tahara, lHomme lumière, Château de Malves-en-Minervois, Carcassonne, France
2000 Light Installation: Echos of light, public project, in the Canal Saint-Martin, Paris, France
1988 Keiichi Tahara, Prix Nièpce 1988, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
1986 Keiichi Tahara1973-85 Rencontres de la photographie, Lorient, France
1982 Eclats, Galerie de France, Paris, France
1980 Fenêtre, Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York, United States
1974 Environnement, La Photogalerie, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions (extract)
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