Sohei Nishino (b. 1982) explores the complexity of map-making, fusing the humanism of cartographic history with the informational overload of the digital age. Over several months, Nishino walks through a city armed with a 35 mm camera and a paper map, but with no prescribed route. Back in his darkroom outside Tokyo, he develops hundreds of rolls of film into contact sheets, cuts out the images and pastes them one by one onto a board. It is a painstaking task, done entirely by hand. When the collage is complete, he documents it with a high-resolution digital photograph, effectively erasing the physical traces of his labor.

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Born 1982 in Hyogo, Japan
Lives and works in Kanazawa and Shizuoka, Japan

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2018
New Planet Photo City, Tokyo
New Cartographies, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX

2017
Bricolage, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

2016

Sohei Nishino: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Top Museum, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum


2015
Sohei Nishino: CITIES, Polka Gallery, Paris
Action Drawing, Solo Exhibition, IMA gallery, Tokyo

2014

KYOTOGRAPHY

unseen photo fair

NEW DIORAMAS

2013
A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial

ART ARCH HIROSHIMA

Sohei Nishino "Diorama Maps"

Foam Magazine Talent Exhibition
Of Walking

2012

Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.10
 
Untitled Solo Show, Bergen, Norway
Out Of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London
Elan Photographic, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki
Photo Espana, Madrid 

2011

The Diorama Map Series, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Wandering The Diorama Map

Sohei Nishino Solo Exhibition

2010

EMON SELECTION Vol.1

Sohei Nishino Exhibition

DAEGU PHOTO BIENNALE 2010

2009

Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2009 Part II

TAMA VIVANT 

COLLECTIONS

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Amana photo Collection
Jean Pigozzi Collection
Louis Vuitton
Saatchi Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
Statoil Collection


AWARDS

Sagamihara Newcomer's Award, 2016
Photographic Society of Japan, Newcomer's Award, 2013
Foam Talents Call, 2013
JPS Exhibition Young Eye: JPS Chairman Award, 2005
Canon New Cosmos Photography: Excellence Award, 2005
Osaka University of Arts Senior Show: President's Award, 2004