Gentaro Ishizuka

Gentaro Ishizuka（Tokyo, b. 1977）was awarded for the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer’s Award in 2004, and later in2011, he was selected as the member of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists of the Cultural Agency Program. In his early works, Ishizuka explored photography through documentary and artistic approach, and his photobook “PIPELINE ICELAND/ALASKA”（pub. Kodansha）, the compilation of these early works, took the Higashikawa New Photographer Award in 2014. In 2016, he took the grand prize for Steidl Book Award Japan and his photobook “GOLD RUSH ALASKA” will be published from Steidl. He joined the exhibition ‘Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters‘ held in Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan and attracted attention for its installation work that was composed together with the modern paintings by Cézanne and Magritte. Recently, he has been exploring with spatiality of photographic expressions, for example, sculptural work made from a photographic paper exposed in the darkroom and mosaic work that weaves photo- graphic papers in layers, whilst photography has become perceived as a plain code in our social media era. In 2022, Ishizuka participated in the exhibition ‘Latent Scenery,’ Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan; ‘DOMANI: The Art of tomorrow’ Exhibition 2022-23, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. In 2024, his solo exhibition ‘Gold Rush Alaska’ was held at KOTARO NUKAGA Tennoz, Tokyo, Japan.