Akira Komoto

Akira Komoto (小本 章, Komoto Akira) is a Japanese artist and photographer, whose photographs often show his artworks in the open air.

Born Masaaki Komoto (小本 昌彰, Komoto Masaaki) in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo (now Ōta-ku, Tokyo) on 14 August 1935,^[1] Komoto was brought up in Seki, Gifu Prefecture.^[2] He studied at Gifu University, graduating in 1958; and until 1962 at the graduate school of Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University).^[1]

Nomoto has created paintings, prints and photographs from the 1960s. From the 1980s these have gained critical acclaim outside Japan, bringing Nomoto invitations to Spain and elsewhere in Europe.^[1]

From 1971 to 1974 Nomoto taught at Gifu College of Education (now Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University); since 1994 he has been teaching at Joshibi University of Art and Design.^[2]

• Gallery Stratford, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and elsewhere in North America, 1994–2000^[2]
• "Fūkei to no kōkan: Komoto Akira ten", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts 1998^[2]
• "Komoto Akira ten", Minokamo City Museum 2004^[2]
• "60 nendai to genzai: Komoto Akira ten", Eizō & Tōichi Katō Memorial Art Museum, 2005^[2]
• "Shizen to no kōkan",　Komoto Akira ten", Hekinan-shi Tetsugaku-taiken-mura Mugaen, 2008^[2]
• "Shizen e / shizen kara", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, 2008.^[2]

• "Gendai bijutsu no dōkōten", National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1965^[2]
• "Gendai bijutsu ni okeru shashinten", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1983^[2]
• Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 2000/2003^[2]

Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris);^[2] Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art;^[2] Kunsthalle Düsseldorf;^[2] Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo;^[2] Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu;^[2] Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama;^[2] National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto;^[2] National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;^[2] Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography;^[1] Victoria and Albert Museum (London);.^[2]

• Photographs by Komoto