Toshiya Murakoshi was born in Sukagawa in Fukushima Prefecture in 1980. In 2003, Murakoshi graduated from Nippon Photography Institute. In 2009, Murakoshi established the TAP gallery in Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Tokyo). Murakoshi is the recipient of the 2011 Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer’s Award and the 2015 Sagamihara Photograph New Face Incentive Award. His artistic works form part of the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Chronology

1980 - Born in Sukagawa, Japan
2003 - Graduated from Nippon Photography Institute
2009 - Established TAP Gallery in T okyo
2011 - Received a prize Japan Art of Photography Association
2012 - Started "factory" project

Publications

2006 - "RAINY DAYS" Sokyu-sha, Tokyo
2008 - "timelessness" Sokyu-sha, Tokyo
2009 - "uncertain" TAP, Tokyo
2010 - "until and unless" TAP, Tokyo
2011 - "calendula" TAP, Tokyo
2012 - "Prayer & Bark" plump WorM factory, Tokyo
2012 - "A drop in the map" artdish g, Tokyo
2013 - "turn back the hands of time" TAP/Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2014 - "Burn After Seeing" Libro Arte, Tokyo
2016 - "turning and release" Tosheisha, Tokyo
2017 - "What is the Distance to the Moon?" Case Publishing, Tokyo
2017 - "A gradual thaw" Case Publishing
2018 - "An Eventual Saturation" Case Publishing

Awards

2011 - Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer’s Award
2015 - Sagamihara Photograph New Face Incentive Award

Collections

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Books from Toshiya MURAKOSHI