Gocho Shigeo
WORKS
Childhood
Outline
| 1946 | Born in November 2, in Kamo, Niigata Prefecture |
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| 1949 | diagnosed as having a spinal caries |
| 1968 | Graduates from Kuwasawa Design School(Tokyo) |
| 1976 | Begins teaching photography at Nippon Engineering College and at Tokyo University of Art and Design |
| 1978 | received New Talent Award from Photographic Society of Japan for Self and Others |
| 1983 | June 2, dies of heart failure in Kamo |
Selected Solo Exhibition
| 2013 | "Gocho Shigeo - the second" The Third Gallery Aya "Shigeo Gocho Part 2 “KODOMO – children-”, MEM "Shigeo Gocho Part 1 “Familiar Street Scenes”, MEM |
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| 2003 | "Gocho Shigeo:- A Retrospective", The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo "Gocho Shigeo", Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Yamagata Art Museum, Mitaka City Arts Foundation |
| 2002 | "Gocho Shigeo(1)(2)", Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum |
| 2001 | "Self and Others", The Third Gallery Aya,Osaka |
| 2000 | "Gocho Shigeo", Niigataeya, Niigata |
| 1996 | "Gocho Shigeo", 4chome Plaza 7F4 Pula Hall, Sapporo |
| 1995 | "Self and Others:-Another Gesture", Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art |
| 1994 | "Gocho Shigeo," Gallery ississ, Kyoto "Gocho Shigeo:- Self and Others", Gallery Wall, Kotaru, Hokkaido |
| 1992 | "The Photographs of Gocho Shigeo",Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum "Gocho Shigeo", Photo Gallery Mole, Tokyo "Gocho Shigeo:- Memory of Water", Tokyo Design Center, Tokyo "Gocho Shigeo's Posthumous Works", Kamo Cultural Hall, Niigata |
| 1989 | "The Childhood", Gallery Frog1, Tokyo |
| 1982 | "Familiar Street Scenes", Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo "Familiar Street Scenes", Minolta Photo Space Osaka, Osaka |
| 1978 | "Self and Others", Minolta Photo Space Osaka, Osaka "Gocho Shigeo", Kamo Credit Union small Hall, Niigata |
| 1977 | "Self and Others:-Another Gesture", Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo |
| 1975 | "Fairy of the Darkness",Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo |
Selected Group Exhibition
| 2013 | "1968:-Japanese Photography", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography |
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| 2012 | "What Can We Leave for the future with Photography?", Sakyukan, Niigata |
| 2004 | "The Prefectural Heritage of Beauty of Niigata Prefecture:-The History of collections of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art", Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art |
| 2003 | The History of Japanese Photography", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
| 2002 | "The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art", The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
| 2001 | "Gocho Shigeo and Miura Kazuto Photo Exhibition:-Ripples and Resonance-the Influence of Self and Others", Studio Ebisu Photo Gallery, Sendai Mediatheque and Hakodate Photo Library |
| 1999 | "Otsuji Kiyoji and 15 Photographers”, Giacomo Manzu Museum, Tokyo Zokei University ”Gocho Shigeo and Sekiguchi Masao Photo Exhibition:- Days and Things/1994-1999,” Photo Gallery Mole, Tokyo |
| 1998 | ”Tokyo Photography- Kuwahara Kineo and Gocho Shigeo”, Gallery 1 (Shinjuku Park Tower), Tokyo ”Memory and Creative Perspective Post-War 50 years:-The History of Japanese Contemporary Photography”, Umeda Navio Museum, Osaka |
| 1992 | ”What did Photography Convey? 1960-1980”, Konica Plaza, Tokyo |
| 1990 | ”Tokyo A City Perspective”,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography |
| 1989 | ”The people from 1965-1975:-Has Japanese Photography Changed?”, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum |
| 1985 | "An Illustrated Book of Tokyo People", Ikebukuro Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo |
| 1986 | "Tokyo A Paris Photo Exhibtion:-Part II: The Museum of Tokyo People", City Hall Gallery of 9e Arrondisse de Paris |
| 1977 | "11 Italian Photographers and 11 Japanese Photographers:- Eyes, Cameras and Reality", Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Italia |
| 1969 | "Photography 13 People:-Veiws-All Day and All Night", Nikon Salon Ginza,Tokyo |
Publications
| 1989 | "Childhood" |
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| 1981 | "Familiar Street Scenes" |
| 1977 | "Self and Others" |
| 1971 | "Days" |