ARTIST

Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1948. He graduated from Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo in 1970 and in 1974 from the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles. In 1974 he moved to New York where he currently resides.

Sugimoto’s masterful photographs exemplify both the craftsman’s will to visual beauty and perfection, and an incisive exploration of philosophical notions of space and time, imagination and reality, science and history. Drawing on the classical photographic tradition, Sugimoto creates distilled, meditative images which unite the concrete and abstract, and contain meaningful conceptual underpinnings which seek to materialize the ‘invisible realm of the mind’ and the unconscious. In his process, Sugimoto seeks to comprehend the nature of perception, exploring duration and temporality through photography, and an understanding of how radical shifts through the past enlighten the present.

Recent solo exhibitions have been at the following institutions: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2018); Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagasaki, Japan (2018); Palace of Versailles, France (2018); Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (2018); The Japan Society, New York (2017); Chateau Le Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France (2017); Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2017); MOA, Museum of Art, Atami, Japan (2017); Casa Garriga I Nogués, Barcelona; Recoletos Exhibition Hall, Madrid (2016); and Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2015).

CHARITY

Avenues for Justice (AFJ) was founded in the 1970’s by Lower East Side residents and has continued to rescue at-risk and arrested youth from criminal activity, rerouting them to prevention services which include educational and tutoring services, employment and job training, and social and mental health services. 

AFJ serves as many as 600 youth and young adults each year across New York City ages 13 -24 who have been arrested or who are at-risk of arrest. Services include court advocacy, tutoring, job training with certification, life skills workshops, and college and career services through AFJ’s three program locations at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse and two community centers in Harlem and the Lower East Side.