Akira Komoto (小本 章, Komoto Akira) is a Japanese artist and photographer, whose photographs often show his artworks in the open air.

Born Masaaki Komoto (小本 昌彰, Komoto Masaaki) in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo (now Ōta-ku, Tokyo) on 14 August 1935,[1] Komoto was brought up in Seki, Gifu Prefecture.[2] He studied at Gifu University, graduating in 1958; and until 1962 at the graduate school of Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University).[1]

Nomoto has created paintings, prints and photographs from the 1960s. From the 1980s these have gained critical acclaim outside Japan, bringing Nomoto invitations to Spain and elsewhere in Europe.[1]

From 1971 to 1974 Nomoto taught at Gifu College of Education (now Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University); since 1994 he has been teaching at Joshibi University of Art and Design.[2]

Exhibitions

One-man exhibitions

Other exhibitions

Collections

Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris);[2] Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art;[2] Kunsthalle Düsseldorf;[2] Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo;[2] Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu;[2] Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama;[2] National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto;[2] National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;[2] Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography;[1] Victoria and Albert Museum (London);.[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Mihashi Junko (三橋純子), "Nomoto Akira", Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN 4-473-01750-8),　p.139. (Despite the English language alternative title, in Japanese only.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Shizen e / shizen kara Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, 2008.


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