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About Artist
Taro Karibe | 苅部太郎
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Born in Aichi in 1988, based in Tokyo. Karibe's practice centers on exposing the invisible structures embedded within photography and the broader institutions of visual communication. He frames the mutually constitutive loop between black boxes — optical technology, data, and the human mind — as the Black Box Problem. After working across psychology, infectious disease prevention, finance, and IT, he began his career as a photojournalist. He continues to interrogate the institution of seeing, at times deliberately misusing image-generation AI and other technologies to do so.
Selected solo exhibitions include Anatomy of Caves, HECTARE (2024); Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean, Mynavi Art Square (2024); Electric Caveman, HECTARE (2023); Age of Photon / INCIDENTS, IMA gallery (2020).
Group exhibitions include Auckland Festival of Photography (New Zealand, 2024), Asama International Photo Festival (2023), Platform 29.8, ANB Tokyo (2022), KG+ SELECT (2021), and LUMIX MEETS / BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6, shown at Photo Saint Germain, Paris; Unseen, Amsterdam; and IMA gallery, Tokyo (2019).
Awards and selections include JAPAN PHOTO AWARD, Elisa Medde Prize (2024) and TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD, Takashi Kawashima Prize (2022).
His work is held in the collection of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
1988年愛知生まれ、東京在住のアーティスト/写真家。光学技術・データとメディア・人の視覚認識システムといったブラックボックスが相互に構成し合う循環構造を問題提起し、写真や視覚情報伝達制度に埋め込まれた不可視の構造を暴露することを実践の核とする。心理学、感染症予防、金融、ITの領域を横断した後、報道写真家として活動を開始。画像生成AIなどのテクノロジーをときに意図的に誤用しながら、「見ること」の制度を問い直す。
主な個展に「Anatomy of Caves」HECTARE(2024)、「Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean」Mynavi Art Square(2024)、「Electric Caveman」HECTARE(2023)、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery(2020)など。
グループ展にAuckland Festival of Photography(NZ、2024)、浅間国際フォトフェスティバル(2023)、「Platform 29.8」ANB Tokyo(2022)、KG+ SELECT 2021(2021)、「LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6」(パリ/Photo Saint Germain・アムステルダム/ Unseen・東京/ IMA gallery、2019)など。
主な受賞・選出にJAPAN PHOTO AWARD・Elisa Medde賞(2024)、TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD・川島崇志賞(2022)など。
作品は東京都写真美術館に収蔵されている。
























