Born in 1983 in Saitama Prefecture, He won the Grand Prize at the 2nd 1_WALL Photography Competition in 2010. He also received the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2016 and the 45th Kimura Ihei Photography Award in 2019. Daisuke Yokota has published numerous photo collections in various countries, including Tarachine (Session Press, 2015), VERTIGO (Newfave, 2014), and MATTER/BURN OUT (artbeat publishers, 2016). His major solo and group exhibitions include Site / Cloud (2014) and Matter (2017) at the Foam photography museum, SHAPE OF LIGHT (Tate Modern, 2018), Painting the Night (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2018 – 2019), and Photographs (rin art association, Takasaki,2021).
– Selected solo exhibitions
2025
KYOTOGRAPHIE, Daisuke Yokota x Another Man, The Lombard, Kyoto
2024
Vertigo, Taratine, Paris photo 2024, Stieglitz 19, Paris
2023
multiplication, NACC, Tokyo
2022
Auto-reverse, Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Paris
Untitled Color Works, Kominek Gallery, Berlin
Sludge, Stieglitz 19, Antwerp
Sediments, Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, California
2021
Alluvion, RICOH ART GALLERY, Tokyo
Photographs, rin art association, Gunma
2019
Glass, Kominek Gallery, Berlin
Room. Pt. 1, Guardian Garden, Chou-ku, Tokyo
2018
Taratine, Stieglitz 19, Antwerp
2017
Emergence, Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London
Matter, Foam Museum, Amsterdam
2016
Vertigo, Stieglitz 19, Antwerp
「MATTER / 」G/P gallery Ebisu,G/P gallery Shinonome
2015
Color Photographs, Harper's East Hampton, East Hampton, New York
Vertigo & Corpus & Matter, G/P gallery, Photo London
2014
Site/Cloud, Foam Museum, Amsterdam
Vertigo/Corpus, G/P gallery, Tokyo
2013
Site/Cloud, G/P gallery, Tokyo
2011
1 Wall Photograph Competition “indication” /Grand-prix exhibition, Guardian Garden, Tokyo
– Selected group exhibitions
2025
Tinyvices archive 20th anniversary exhibition, THE HOLE, NY
2024
Another Man & BeGood Studios. At Dover Street Market Paris(Kēizo Kitajima, Daisuke Yokota and Ryu Ika.)
2022
Two People (Futari: Naohiro Utagawa and Daisuke Yokota), Stone falls”, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo
2021
Art Collaboration Kyoto Booth:Taka Ishii Gallery(Mario García Torres, Wade Guyton, and Daisuke Yokota),Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto
Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Prix Pictet Award “Fire”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
The 45th Kimura Ihei Award Exhibition: Mari Katayama and Daisuke Yokota, Nikon Salon The Gallery, Tokyo
2020
Group Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2018
Painting the Night, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, Bankside, London
2017
Foam Talent, Beaconsfield, London
2011
Yokohama Triennale 2011 Related Program BankART Life III, Shinminatopia, Yokohama
– Selected Awards
2019
45th Kimura Ihei Award, Tokyo
2017
Photographic Society of Japan Awards Rookie award
2016
Foam Paul Huf Award, Amsterdam
2015
John Kobal Residency Award, London
2010
1_WALL Grand Prix, Tokyo
2008
New cosmos of photography (31th competition); Color Imaging Contest, Special Award,Tokyo
– Collections
SFMOMA, San Francisco, California
The Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), Paris
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
New York Public Library, New York City, New York
Lois Eskenazi Museum, Sidney
