JP

Yukihito Masuura

Biography

1981
Moved to Paris France
1986
Began photographing all the works of Maillol (~1988)
1987
Awarded Salon d’Automne France
1993
Exhibition ‘Borobudur, the stone remains over 1,000 years’ Kodak Photo Salon (Tokyo Japan)
1994
Exhibition ‘PROFIL - Hommage a Antoine Bourdelle’ Matsuda Rotary Midosuji (Osaka Japan)
Exhibition ‘Maillol - Hommage a Dina VIERNY’ Alliance Francaise (Osaka Japan)
2000
Exhibition ‘Khaos - The Works of Rodin’ Gallery Kuranuki (Osaka Japan))
2002
Exhibition ‘GENESIS - The Works of Michelangelo’ Casa Buonarroti (Florence Italy)
2003
Exhibition ‘GENESIS - poesy and luminosity of Michelangelo’ Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, currently Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo Japan)
Exhibition ‘GENESIS - light and shadows of Michelangelo’ Keihan Gallery of Arts and Science (Osaka Japan)
Exhibition ‘GENESIS - Michelangelo with Japanese special printing paper of Mino’ Active G. World design gallery (Gifu Japan)
2009
Exhibition ‘KAMI NO MIYA’ SEKI gallery (Osaka Japan)
2010
Exhibition ‘Heisei Dai Sengu’ Izumo Oyashiro (Shimane Japan)
2013
Exhibition ‘KAMI NO MIYA edited by Izumo Oyashiro’ Tokyu department store (Sapporo Japan)
2013~2014
Exhibition ‘KAMI NO MIYA edited by Ise Jingu’ Tokyu department store (Sapporo Japan)
2014
Participate in ‘Master Artists from Japan : LIVING TRADITIONS’ (University of California Santa Barbara USA)
Exhibition ‘「KAMI NO MIYA」Ise Jingu Izumo Oyashiro Kisekino ryosengu Yukihito Masuura photo exhibit’ Leica Gallery (Tokyo Japan)
2015
Exhibition ‘Inori/Spiritual Journey-Sengu by Yukihito Masuura’ Daiwa Foundation Japan House (London U.K.)
Exhibition ‘KAMI NO MIYA’ University of the Philippines (the Philippines)
2016
Exhibition ‘Special exhibition SENGU - Masuura Yukihito photographic exhibition「KAMI NO MIYA」’ Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo (Shimane Japan)
Exhibition ‘Masuura Yukihito photographic exhibition KAMI NO MIYA’ Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Mie Japan), commemorative exhibition of G7 Ise -Shima Summit.
Publication ‘KAMI NO MIYA Ise Jingu & Izumo Oyashiro ’ by University of Tokyo Press
2017
Exhibition ‘KAMI NO MIYA’ at Toyooka Keikodo (Hyogo Japan)
Exhibition ‘KAMI NO MIYA’ at Udatsu Paper & Craft Museum (Fukui Japan)
2018
Exhibition ‘HERITAGE Okamoto shrine and Otaki shrine、Ancestral god of Japanese paper ’ Udatsu Paper & Craft Museum (Fukui Japan)
Exhibition ‘The sensitivity of Yukihito Masuura and the sustainable world’ kudan house (Tokyo Japan)
2019
Lecture ‘The Japanese Aesthetic of Kehai in the Photography of Yukihito Masuura’ Harvard Business School Club of New York
Exhibition ‘The Japanese Aesthetic of Kehai in the Photography of Yukihito Masuura’ Foto Care New York

List of collections photographs

  • Court Imperial of Japan
  • Office of the Prime Minister’s official residence, Japan
  • Musee Maillol
  • Musee Bourdelle
  • Musee Rodin
  • Bibliotheque Nationale de France
  • Casa Buonarroti
  • Izumo Oyashiro
  • Gifu Prefecture
  • Mie Prefecture
  • City of Toyooka

Yukihito Masuura