佐々木 睦 (Makoto SASAKI)

Sep. 5, 1971, born in Yubari-shi, Hokkaido, Japan.

Graduated from Osaka University of Foreign Studies (majored in Arabic language) in 1994.

Living in Yokohama-shi, Japan.

[Solo Exhibition]

tokyo layers @ SOHO China, Beijing [Nov. 25, 2012 - Jan. 18, 2013]

tokyo layers @ Frantic Gallery, Tokyo [May 25 - 27, 2012]

tokyo layers @ Kaigandori Gallery CASO, Osaka [Jan. 20 - 29, 2012]

untitled @ Buoys ,Motomachi, Yokohama [Aug. 28 - Sep. 19, 2010]

(several pieces of) divided darkness @ Hibiya Patio, Tokyo [Jul. 1 - Aug. 1, 2010]

The Leaves in New York @ RA・KU・RA, Tokyo [Jun. 7 - 19, 2010]

(6 pieces of) divided darkness @ Bunkamura Gallery +, Tokyo [Mar. 27 - Apr. 2, 2010]

[Group Exhibition]

RANDY ART HILLS "C-DEPOT Selection” @ RANDY, Tokyo [Oct. 16 - Nov. 31, 2015]

C-DEPOT -September Session- @ Park Hotel Tokyo [Aug. 31 - Sep. 13, 2015]

C-DEPOT Landmark @ Ikebukuro Tobu, Tokyo [May 14 - May 20, 2015]

RANDY ART HILLS "SHEEP” @ RANDY, Tokyo [Dec. 27, 2014 - Feb. 28, 2015]

EXHIBITION "T"-DEPOT @ C-DEPOT terminal, Tokyo [May 15 - May 28, 2014]

Digit((al) (/)Sound(/)Image)(.) @ Das Foto Image Factory, Berlin [Apr. 4 - May 30, 2014]

- C-DEPOT Native - trend of J ART, Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo [Apr. 1 - 8, 2014]

ART FAIR C-DEPOT -Shapes of HEART- @ Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo [Feb. 11 - 16, 2014]

SICF 14 (The 14th Spiral Independent Creators Festival) @ Spiral Hall, Tokyo [May 5 - 6, 2013]

C-DEPOT selection @ Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo [Oct. 3 - 8, 2012]

EXHIBITION C-DEPOT 2012 TOKYO-YOKOHAMA @ Spiral Garden, Tokyo & Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, Yokohama [Sep. 27 - Oct. 8, 2012]

7th Tagboat Award @ IID Setagaya Monodukuri Gakko, Tokyo [Jun. 22 - 24, 2012]

Foursixty Exhibition @ Nagoya Citizens' Gallery Yada, Nagoya [May 2 - 6, 2012]

Shibuya Style Vol.5 @ Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo [Nov. 29 - Dec. 11, 2011]

Young Artists Japan Vol.4 @ La Foret Museum Roppongi, Tokyo [Sep. 30 - Oct. 2, 2011]

Getty Images Japan "Click! Real Japan" @ Emon Photo Gallery, Tokyo [Aug. 29 - Sep. 3, 2011]

The International Artists At Home & Abroad exhibition series @ Broadway Gellary NYC, New York, U.S.A. [Jul. 7 - 28, 2011]

Chianciano International Award for Digital and Photographic Art 2010 @ Art Museum of Chianciano Terme, Siena, Italy [Sep. 18 - 25, 2010]

5th Tagboat Award @ Turner Gallery Tokyo [May 21 - 23, 2010]

Florence Biennale 2009 in Florence, Italy [Dec. 5 - 13, 2009]

Tagboat Autumn Award 2009 @ Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan, Tokyo [Oct. 31 - Nov. 1, 2009]

Tagboat Summer Award 2009 @ Art Complex Hall, Tokyo [Jun. 20 - 21, 2009]

Altered States of Reality @ Agora Gallery, New York, U.S.A. [Nov. 19 - Dec. 9, 2008]

[Art fair]

Positions Berlin @ Kaufhaus Jandorf, Berlin [Sep. 19 - 21, 2014]

Art Beijing @ National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing [Apr. 30 - May 3, 2013]

Lille Art Fair @ Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France [Mar. 7 - 10, 2013]

Art Stage Singapore @ Marina Bay Sands, Singapore [Jan. 23 - 27, 2013]

Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam @ Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Oct. 24 - 28, 2012]

cutlog, contemporary art fair, Paris @ Bourse de Commerce de Paris, Paris [Oct. 17 - 21, 2012]

PREVIEW BERLIN @ Former Airport Berlin Tempelhof, Berlin [Sep. 13 - 16, 2012]

SH Contemporary @ Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China [Sep. 6 - 9, 2012]

[Award]

2011 Young Artists Japan Vol.4, The Jury's Special Award (Kentaro Totsuka Award)

2011 Getty Images Japan "Click! Real Japan" 3rd place

2009 Tagboat Autumn Award 2009, The Jury's Special Award (Tsutomu Ikeuchi Award)

[Bibliography]

Catalog:

2009 Florence Biennale 7 th edition

Magazine:

2010 Commercial Photo 2010/4 "exhibition preview" (Genkosha)

[Internet]

2012 designboom "makoto sasaki : tokyo layers at frantic gallery" [May 16]

http://www.designboom.com/

[Statement]

Photography is a deeply personal and spiritual experience for me, and pressing the camera shutter button is similar to a prayer or wish.

My expression will be received with sympathy, reception, repulsion or refusal, as one of the diverseness in the world.

And then that will make sociality and significance of existence of itself high, and make the interchange of the soul of artist and viewers profound also, I think.