1958
Born in Iwate/Japan
1981
Graduated from the University of Tsukuba, School of Art & Design, Ibaraki/Japan
1984
Completed postgraduate studies at the University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki/Japan
1996
Resident artist in Djerassi Resident Artists Program, California
1997
22nd Kimura Ihei Memorial Award of Photography
2000
16th Higasikawa Domestic Photographer Prize
2001
42nd Mainichi Award of Art
Resident artist in Light Xchange, Milton Keynes/UK
Lives and works in Tokyo
Öffentliche Sammlungen
Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
Refco Group Ltd., Chicago
AXA Art Versicherung AG, Cologne/Germany
DZ Bank, Frankfurt on Main/Germany
Barbier-Mueller, Genève/Switzerland
Heidelberger Zement AG/Germany
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Texas
Obayashigumi, Japan
Kawasaki City Museum/Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Galleria Civica Modena/Italy
Artothèque de Nantes/France
The National Museum of Art, Osaka/Japan
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg/The Netherlands
Deutsche Bank, Tokyo
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Channel 4 Television, UK
Conoco plc, UK
The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi/Japan
The Swiss Foundation for Photography, Kunsthaus Zürich/Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
1983
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1986
Tokyo University of Art & Design
1987
Photo Interform, Osaka/Japan
1988
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1989
Théâtre d’Hérouville, Caen/France
1990
Artothèque de Nantes/France
Bibliothèque de Falaise/France
Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris
1991
Photo Interform, Osaka/Japan
1994
Gallery NW House, Tokyo
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock/UK
1996
Gallery NW House, Tokyo
Istituto Giapponese di Cultura di Roma, Rome
Centro Iniziative Multimediali Diagonale, Rome
1997
Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo, etc.
1998
Yuki Civic Center, Ibaraki/Japan
Gallery NW House, Tokyo
L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt on Main/Germany
1999
Chukyo University C-Square, Nagoya/Japan
Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo
2000
L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt on Main/Germany
Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2001
Under Construction: Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque. Photography by Naoya Hatakeyama, The AA School, London; Columbia University, New York (with Toyo Ito)
2002
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland/UK
Kunstverein Hannover/Germany
Kunsthalle Nürnberg/Germany
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt on Main/Germany
Winchester Gallery/UK
Impressions Gallery, York/UK
Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art/Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka/Japan
Gruppen Ausstellung
1981
Camera Works, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki/Japan
1985
Paris, New York, Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography 85, Ibaraki/Japan
1986
Fotografía japonesa contemporánea (Touring Exhibition), La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona/Spain, etc.
1988
Contemporary Photographs from Japan, Columbia College, Chicago
Tama Vivant 88, Seed Hall, Tokyo
1989
The 9th Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Orientalism, International Design Exposition, White Museum, Nagoya/Japan
1990
A Selection of Photographs on the Sea, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi/Japan
Japanese Contemporary Photography: Twelve Viewpoints, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Pavillon des Arts, Paris
1991
Vach’image, Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture (MJC), Saint-Gervais, Genève/Switzerland
Miyako Ishuichi, Michiko Kon, Tokihiro Sato and Naoyoa Hatakeyama: Make-Believe (Touring exhibition), The Photographer’s Gallery, London, etc.
1992
Matrix of Photography 3, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa/Japan
1993
In die Felsen bohren sich Zikadenstimmen. Zeitgenössische japanische Photographie, Kunsthaus Zürich/Switzerland
1994
Liquid Crystal Futures (Touring in Europe and Tokyo), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh/Scotland, etc.
Desert of Desires, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Kawasaki Monuments, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa/Japan
1995
Another Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Photography, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa/Japan
1996
Land of Paradox (Touring in USA and Japan, 1996–1998), Photographic Resource Center, Boston/Massachusetts, etc.
Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
New Japanese Photography in the 1990’s: The Resonance of Unconsciousness, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa/Japan
1997
Lazur (with Otani Yoshihisa), Delta Mirage, Tokyo
Lust und Leere. Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart (Touring in Europe, 1997/98), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, etc.
Surface Exposed: Photography in the Art of the 90s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Art is Fun: Ways of (Re)production, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Gunma/Japan
1998
Photography Today: The Absence of Distance, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
À prova de água, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
Asia City, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
Speed, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
Et Maintenant? Donai Yanen!, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
1999
Wohin kein Auge reicht, Triennale der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg/Germany
The Locus of Kimura Ihei Memorial Award of Photography 1975–1999, Kawasaki City Museum/Japan
Modena per la fotografia 1999, Galleria Civica di Modena/Italy
Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen/Germany
2000
-scape, Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo
Serendipity: Photography, Video, Experimental Film and Multimedia Installation from Asia, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
Yume No Ato. Was vom Traum blieb – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden/Germany
The 16th Higasikawa Awards Exhibition, Higasikawa Cultural Gallery, Hokkaido/Japan
Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Landesmuseum Oldenburg/Germany
2001
Fast and Slow, the 49th Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavilion, Venice/Italy
Out of Japan, Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
La espiritualidad del vacio, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia/Spain
Monet’s Vermächtnis. Serie – Ordnung und Obsession, Hamburger Kunsthalle/Germany
Urban Pornography, The Artist Space, New York
New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt on Main/Germany
Bauart. Die Kunstsammlung der Heidelberger Zement AG, Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg/Germany
1982
“Naoya Hatakeyama: Contour Line,” in: Camera Works, 9, Tokyo
1988
Kazuko Sehji, Tama Vivant 88, exh. cat., Tokyo: Seed Hall
“New Wave,” in: Complete Collection of Japanese Photography, 12, Tokyo: Shogakukan
1989
Jacques Py, Contour Line, exh. cat., Caen: Ardi
1990
Fuminori Yokoe, “Naoya Hatakeyama,” in: Japanese Contemporary Photography: Twelve Viewpoints, exh. cat., Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography
1991
David Chandler and Ruth Charity, Miyako Ishuichi, Michiko Kon, Tokihiro Sato and Nayoa Hatakeyama: Make-Believe, exh. cat., London: The Photographer’s Gallery
1993
Masafumi Fukagawa and David Streiff, Contemporary Japanese Photography, exh. cat., Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Culture Foundation
1994
Osamu Hiraki, Kawasaki Monuments, exh. cat., Kawasaki: Kawasaki City Museum
Yuko Hasegawa, Liquid Crystal Futures, exh. cat., Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery Publications
1995
Masafumi Fukagawa, Another Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Photography 1995, exh. cat., Kawasaki: Kawasaki City Museum
1997
Noriko Fuku, Land of Paradox, exh. cat., Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.
Naoya Hatakeyama, “Lime Works: Blasting,” in: New Japanese Photography in the 1990’s: The Resonance of Unconsciousness, exh. cat., Kanagawa: Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
Lime Works: Naoya Hatakeyama, Tokyo: Synergy Inc.
Peter Weiermair and Gerald Matt (ed.), Lust und Leere. Japanische Photographie, exh. cat., Zürich: Edition Stemmle
Watanabe Yohko and Hayashi Yoko, Surface Exposed: Photography in the Art of the 90s, Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art
1998
Photography Today: The Absence of Distance, exh. cat., Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art
1999
Peter Weiermair, “Naoya Hatakeyama. La singolarita di Hatakeyama,” in: Modena per la Fotografia 1999. Uno sguardo sul giappone, exh. cat., Modena: Galleria Civica Modena
2000
Underground: Naoya Hatakeyama, Tokyo: Media Factory Inc.
2001
K. Berkemann, B. Dümpelmann and B. A. Matukiewicz, “Naoya Hatakeyama,” in: BauArt. Die Kunstsammlung der Heidelberger Zement AG, exh. cat., Heidelberg: Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg
Matthias Bärmann, “Naoya Hatakeyama,” in: La espiritualidad del vacio, exh. cat., Valencia: Fundación Bancaja
Naoya Hatakeyama & Toyo Ito: Under Construction, Tokyo: Kenchiku Shiryo Kenkyusha
Christoph Heinrich, “Naoya Hatakeyama. Untitled, 1989–1997,” in: Monets Vermächtnis. Serie – Ordnung und Obsession, exh. cat., Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers
Visionaire 36 Power, New York: Visionaire Publishing
La Biennale di Venezia. 49. exposizione internazionale d’arte, Milano: Electa
2002
Marc Haworth-Booth, “Slow Glass and Still Life,” in: Slow Glass: Naoya Hatakeyama, Light XChange and the Winchester Gallery, Southampton/UK
Philippe Forest, “Tokyo Mythologies: Araki et Hatakeyama,” in: Artpress, 275, Paris
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, "Baustellen Zivilisation:
Naoya Hatakeyamas epische Fotografen," in
Frankfurter Rundschau, 11. May 2002, Frankfurt