Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) stands as one of Japan’s foremost contemporary artists through challenging traditional views of photography as a medium for capturing the world’s appearance objectively. Exploring the progression of time and the nature of space, Sugimoto pauses moments, focusing on the intangible to create monumental works from historically significant instances. His art invites viewers to reflect on time, space, culture, and our perception of reality. Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan and began his journey into photography during high school, capturing film footage of Audrey Hepburn playing in a theater. After earning a BA from Saint Paul’s University in Tokyo, he embarked on travels through communist nations like the Soviet Union and Poland, followed by visits to Western Europe. When he arrived in Los Angeles, he decided to stay and obtained a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in. A few years later, Sugimoto had relocated to New York. He currently works between New York and Tokyo.

Sugimoto's work has been showcased in solo exhibitions at prestigious venues, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Centre International d’Art Contemporain in Montreal, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2008). He has also been part of numerous international group exhibitions, such as The Art of Memory/The Loss of History at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Carnegie International, Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky at the Yokohama Museum of Art and Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Prospect 96 at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Johannesburg Biennale, International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama, Moving Pictures, and Singular Forms at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Reality Check at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.