Kenji Wakasugi is a Japanese photographer born in Osaka, Japan. |
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Awards | |
1997 | the Art Directors Club 76th annual awards (Merit Award for “My Shangri-La”), New York |
Books and Magazines | |
1994 | Collection of Photographs; “3P” published by Doumeisha. |
1996 | Collection of Photographs: “My Shangri-La” published by Hirakawa |
1997 | Exhibition My Shangri-La at Canon Salon in Ginza, Tokyo A photo book My Shangri-La received a prize in the Art Directors Clubs |
2000~01 | Weekly Takarajima “Islands That A Spell Had Been Cast On” Series Photos / Writings published by Takarajima. |
2021 | Collection of Photographs: “Madonna – Adore Volume 1” published by NJG Studio |
Collection of Photographs: “Madonna – Adore Volume 2” published by NJG Studio | |
Exhibitions | |
1997 | “My Shangri-La” Exhibition at CANON SALON in Ginza, Tokyo |
2002 | “Cosmo Tree” Exhibition at Japanese Embassy in Belgium |
2014 | “DIORAMA (Fusuma Photography)” at Nikon Salon in Ginza, Tokyo |
2016 | “Fusuma Photography-Synthesis” Exhibition at iPPodo Gallery in Tokyo-New York |
ippodo gallery NewYor - https://www.ippodogallerytokyo.com/ja/artists/46-/works/ | |
ippodo gallery Tokyo Ginza | |
2017 | “Fusuma Photography ” Exhibition at Tokyo American Club in Tokyo |
2021~22 | “Synthesis II -「Adore」Madonna and Fusuma Photography” Exhibition at iPPodo Gallery in New York |
Donation | |
2015 | Donation to the Auction at the Museum of photographic Arts, San Diego |
Artist Talk | |
2021 | with Kenji Wakasugi (artist) Felice Fischer (curator emerita of japanese and east asian art at philadelphia museum of art) |
Artist Talk - https://www.ippodogallery.com/events/24/ | |
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AboORzRUe78 | |
Public Collection | |
2016 | Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia, PA |
People he took photographs of |
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World Celebrities: Well-known Writers, Presidents, Scholars、Musicians, Actors such as Madonna, Glenn Close, Boz Scaggs, Hall & Oates, Richard Gere, Richard Branson, Jeffrey Archer, Cong Li, Morgan Freeman, Alain Dominique Perrin (former President of Cartier), Jacues Jean Delos, Dalai Lama, Imelda Marcos, Franklin Covey and others |
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Japanese Celebrities: Writers, Scientists, Journalists, Businessmen such as Kazuo Inamori, Hiroyuki Itsuki, Kunio Yanagida and others. | |
Kenji Wakasugi Official Site: http://www.kenjiwakasugi.com |