Hiroshi Sugimoto currently lives and works between New York and Tokyo. His retrospective exhibitions have been presented at prominent institutions worldwide, including the Hayward Gallery in London, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He has also held solo exhibitions at leading international museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and the Centre Pompidou—all of which house his works in their collections. Sugimoto’s artistic achievements have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal, the Isamu Noguchi Award, Japan’s Medal with Purple Ribbon, the Praemium Imperiale, the Hasselblad Award, and the Mainichi Art Prize.