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Hiroshi Watanabe    (Japanese)

 Hiroshi Watanabe - DPRK001 (Li Min Gyong, Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace, North Korea) (Photographs) h: 32 x w: 32 in / h: 81.3 x w: 81.3 cm
Hiroshi Watanabe
DPRK001 (Li Min Gyong, Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace, North Korea) 2006
 
 Hiroshi Watanabe - DPRK011 (Female Army Band, Grand Monument on Mansu Hill, North Korea) (Photographs) h: 32 x w: 32 in / h: 81.3 x w: 81.3 cm
Hiroshi Watanabe
DPRK011 (Female Army Band, Grand Monument on Mansu Hill, North Korea) 2006
 
 Hiroshi Watanabe - DPRK145 (Songdowon International Children's Camp, North Korea) (Photographs) h: 32 x w: 32 in / h: 81.3 x w: 81.3 cm
Hiroshi Watanabe
DPRK145 (Songdowon International Children's Camp, North Korea) 2007
 
 Hiroshi Watanabe - El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador (Photographs) h: 10 x w: 10 in / h: 25.4 x w: 25.4 cm
Hiroshi Watanabe
El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador 2002
 
  

Biography
1973 Received Advertising Photographers Association Award, Japan
1975 Graduated from the Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University
1978 Received a Los Angeles Times Award
1993 MBA, UCLA Business School
1996 Received a Western Art Directors Club Awarad
2000 Received an Advertising Photographers of America Award, Los Angeles and a London Photographic Award
2002 Received awards from the Center for Photographic Art and Photo Review
2003 Received an International Photography Award, a Photo Review Award and an Advertising Photographers of America Award, Los Angeles
2004 Received Black & White Spider Award
2005 Received Photo Review Award and Black & White Spider Award
2006 Received Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award
2007 Received Photo City Sagamihara Award
2008 Center Project competition First Prize
Born in Sapporo, Japan
Permanent collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; George Eastman House; Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Exhibitions
2009 "Ideology in Paradise" Kopeikin Gallery Hollywood, CA
"Hot Fun in the Summertime" (Group show) Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
"Summertime..." (Group show) Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, New York
"Ideology in Paradise" Friends' Center, Angkor Hospital for Children, Cambodia
Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial New York
2008 "Ideology in Paradise", Osaka Nikon Salon, Japan
"Japanese Studies", Gallery Tosei, Japan
FOTO8 Award & Summer Show, HOST Gallery, London, England
"Photo City Sagamihara", Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art
"Ideology in Paradise", Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon
2007 "Plaza de Toros" Margins and Mainstreams, Riverside, CA
"Masks and Faces" Gallery Pastrays, Tokyo, Japan
photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"L'Asie vue par ses artistes", Alliance Francaise de Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan
"I See Angles Every Day", Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
"FACES", Paul Smith SPACE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Gallery in the Garden, Orwigsburg, PA
Oswald Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming
"In Your Face" ART-MIAMI/Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL
2005 Hiroshi Watanbe at Oswald Gallery
"Best of Show" Gallery 1401, Philadelphia University of the Arts

Literature
2009 Ideology in Paradise
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