Shingo WAKAGI
Photographer/Film Director/Book Shop Owner

Shingo Wakagi (1971-) is born and raised in Hamamatsu City in Japan, Wakagi studied at Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. After returning to Japan in 1996, he has released a number of monographs that often focused on his family and friends in his hometown, including Eiji and Hiro (2015) and The Funeral of Takuji Wakagi (2007). Wakagi is also an acclaimed filmmaker. His debut film Waltz in Starlight (2007) was nominated for the Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam. His most recent film Asleep (2015), based on Banana Yoshimoto’s novel, was the Centerpiece Presentation at Japan Cuts Film Festival in New York. TOTEM Song for Home (2009) is a moving documentary about indigenous musicians in Taiwan. Wakagi opened a small bookshop BOOKS AND PRINTS (2010-) in his hometown Hamamatsu City. Bookshop sells collections of domestic and foreign photo books.

Solo Exhibition

2018: March WANNA BE A PHOTOGRAPHER, LEICA GINZA SIX, SAYEGUSA MAIN STORE TOKYO, TOKYO
2017: January John Muir Trail, Stereographs, Spoonbill, Tokyo
May Matayoshi Naoki Portrait, Shashokudo Gallery, Tokyo
2016: September  Come & Go, City Museum of Hamamatsu,Hamamatsu City
September  Hyomen, HIRANO ART GALLERY,Hamamatsu City
August  Let’s go for a drive,HIRANO ART GALLERY, Hamamatsu City
February  Hyomen,Daikanyama Hillside Terrace Hillside Forum, Tokyo
2015: October Shingo Wakagi XX, Kamoe Art Center, Hamamatsu City
April Let’s go for a drive in Singapore, EDIT LIFE TOKYO, Tokyo
April Ghana, Leica Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Nagoya
March Mukoujima One Day Gallery Shingo Wakagi and Mike Ming,MUKOUJIMA GALLERY, Tokyo
2014: August Let’s go for a drive Shingo Wakagi + Mike Ming, EDIT LIFE SINGAPORE, Singapore
June Ghana, Leica Sogo Yokohama, Yokohama
2013: July XEROXED/HIROSHIMA, Suppose Design Office, Hiroshima
2012: December Walk into Brooklyn Air, Brooklyn Parlor SHINJUKU, Tokyo
October Takuji Contact Prints, KAGIYA Gallery, Hamamatsu City
2011: July Taiwan Totem Song for home, Photo gallery Sai, Osaka
Landscape, Bloom Gallery, Osaka
2010: March Let’s go for a drive 13th anniversary, VACANT,Tokyo
January Yuya Uchida, Leica Gallery Ginza, Tokyo
2009: September XEROXED, SLANT, Kanazawa
2007: December The Funeral of Takuji Wakagi, Yokohama Museum of Art,Gallery 1, Yokohama
September Time & Portraits, Tokyo Hipsters Club, Tokyo
2004: September On going, Prinz,Kyoto
June On going, PUNCTUM, Tokyo
2003: August A DAY IN THE LIFE, Gallery 360゜,Tokyo, Tokyo
2002: June Now’s the Past, AOYAMA BOOK CENTER, Tokyo
2001: May takuji is youngtree, Nagoya PARCO Gallery, Nagoya
March Double Focus, Gallery Rocket, Tokyo
Mike Loves Jenny, Organic Depo, Tokyo
T, Gallery TRAX, Yamanashi
T, Gallery 360゜, Tokyo
young tree, Little More Gallery, Tokyo
1999: September Free for All, Gallery TRAX, Yamanashi
March Takuji, PARCO Gallery, Tokyo
1997: August Let’s go for a drive, PARCO Gallery, Tokyo

Monographs

2016: September Come & Go, Mitsumura Suiko Shoin Publishing Co.,Ltd
2015: October SLANT #0, SLANT
April Eiji and Hiro, amana
2013: July XEROXED/HIROSHIMA, Suppose Design Office, Limited Edition of 100
June I want to meet people who give me hope,Nihonkeizaishinbunshuppansha
2009: September XEROXED, SLANT, Limited Edition of 100
2007: December The Funeral of Takuji Wakagi, Youngtree Press
September Time & Portraits, Art Beat Publishers
2004: June On going, Private Publishing Limited Edition of 10
2003: August A DAY IN THE LIFE, Gallery 360゜
2002: June Now’s the Past, Aoyama Publishing
2001: May Distance, Switch Library
March Double Focus, Marble Books
Mike Loves Jenny, relax library
T, Youngtree Press
young tree, little more
1999: September Free for All, Metalogue
March Takuji, Korinsha/Nazraeli Press
1997: August Let’s go for a drive, Korinsha

Group Exhibition

2018: December THINKING OF YOU-SEND A MESSAGE by Milk JAPON x J-WAVE,IMA gallery, Tokyo

November Arigatou Sakuragaoka by Art Photo Tokyo, Yamaha Electone City, Tokyo
2017: April The 9th Gelatin Silver Session 2015-Save The Film, AXIS GALLERY,Tokyo
2015: April The 8th Gelatin Silver Session 2015-Save The Film, AXIS GALLERY, Tokyo
2013: October The 7th Gelatin Silver Session 2013-Save The Film, AXIS GALLERY, Tokyo
2012: April Art Beijing 2012, curated by aura gallery, Beijing
2010: September An Interim Report, Shingo Wakagi X SPBS Workshop 2010 exhibition, Gallery TRAX, Yamanashi
April The 5th Gelatin Silver Session 2010-Save The Film, AXIS GALLERY, Tokyo
2009: October Photo Communication, Art Forum Azamino, Yokohama
2008: October The 3rd Gelatin Silver Session 2008-Save The Film, AXIS GALLERY, Tokyo
2003: March Straight Photography, Die Tiroler Kunstlerschaft, Austria
2002: January TIROL TRANSFER, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna,Austria
2001
: November SURFACE Contemporary Photography,Video,Painting from Japan, nederlands foto instituut, Rotterdam,Holland
1998: May TOKYO FASHION STORY, PARCO Gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibition Catalog

2011: November AURA 03 External Landscape, aura gallery, Beijing
2010: August 126 POLAROID Encounter from Goodbye, AKAAKA
2002: January TIROL TRANSFER, Krinzinger Projekte
2001: November SURFACE Contemporary Photography, Video and Painting from Japan, nederlands foto instituut
1998: May TOKYO FASHION STORY, Korinsha

Award

2014: November Hamamatsu City Education and Culture Prize for Encouragement
2001: Photo City Sagamihara 2001 New Face Photographer Prize for Encouragement
1995: Kodak Scholarship, Life Magazine Award, Entertainment Weekly Award at Eddie Adams Workshop

Filmography

2015: April Asleep, Theatre Shinjuku
May Asleep, Fowler Museum UCLA, California
July Asleep, Centerpiece Presentation at Japan Cuts Film Festival, New York
2009: October TOTEM Song for home, Cinemart Roppongi
TOTEM Song for home, Kaoshung Films Festival,Taiwan
2008: January Waltz in Starlight, Tiger Award Competition Nominee at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Holland
2007: April Waltz in Starlight, Cinema Rise,Tokyo

Shingo WAKAGIPhotographer/Film Director/Book Shop Owner