Eiki Mori Explained

Eiki Mori
Birth Date:	1976
Birth Place:	Kanazawa, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Field:	photography
Training:	Parsons The New School for Design
Movement:	contemporary photography

is a Japanese photographer, known for exploring male sexuality.^[1]

Biography

Eiki Mori was born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1976. Mori graduated from the photography department of Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. In 2011, Mori launched OSSU - the first Japanese magazine to explore male sexuality. He won the 39th Kimura Ihei Award in 2014 for "intimacy" portraits.^[2] Eiki Mori lives and works in Tokyo.

Exhibitions

Solo

• 1998 "Symphonic Flowers", Gallery 888, Kanazawa
• 2006 "A Perfect Morning", Punctum, Tokyo
• 2010 "You See Rainbows" Kaori-za, Tokyo ^[3]
• 2011 "tokyo boy alone" good cho's, mezamashikohi urban, Wombbloc Arts, Taiwan
• 2012 "tokyo boy alone / intimacy" Monash University Prato Centre, Italy^[4]
• 2013 "intimacy" Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo ^[5]
• 2013 "intimacy" chef d'oeuvre, Osaka
• 2014 "intimacy" IMA Books Gallery, Tokyo
• 2014 "The 39th Kimura Ihei Award Exhibition intimacy" Konica Minolta Plaza Gallery C, Tokyo
• 2014 "The 39th Kimura Ihei Award Exhibition intimacy" Kapo Gallery, Kanazawa

Group

• 2009 "I see you" Ithaca Public Art Gallery, Ithaca, Greece
• 2009 "I see you" Melina Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
• 2010 "Brand New Valentine" Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka
• 2010 "Boy BANG Boy" East Gallery, London, UK
• 2011 "Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini" Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo
• 2011 "Obscurite et Lumiere" Impossible Project Space Tokyo, Tokyo
• 2011 "POLAROID (IM)POSSIBLE - The Westlicht collection" WestLicht Photo Museum, Wien, Austria
• 2011 "boy's little worlds" Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo
• 2011 "cum" VZ Gallery, London, UK
• 2012 "triple fantasy" Art Print Gallery, Tokyo
• 2012 "triple fantasy" NEW ACCIDENT, Kanazawa
• 2012 "triple fantasy" WHAT A VIEW mimi space, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2012 "The Polaroid Collection" NRW-Forum, Duesseldorf, Germany
• 2013 "FUORI POSTO(OUT OF PLACE)" Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
• 2013 "edition.nord_exhibition_RE/source" space_inframince, Osaka
• 2014 "Absorption and Explosion" Videotage, Hong Kong, China^[6]
• 2015 "Wedding Politics" chef d'oeuvre, Osaka ^[7]
• 2015 "Kimura Ihei Award 40th Anniversary Exhibition" The Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
• 2016 "Fashioning Identity" Gallery Fleur - Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto

Bibliography

• Book: 2009 . "Crows and Pearls" . Edition Nord, Japan .
• Book: 2011 . "Tokyo boy alone" . Revolution Star Publishing and Creation, Taiwan . 978-4904292150.
• Book: 2013 . "Intimacy" . Nanarokusha Publishing, Japan . 978-4904292396. ^[8]
• Book: 2017 . "Family Regained" . Nanarokusha Publishing, Japan . 978-4904292785.

External links

• OSSU magazine
• Intimacy on Vimeo

Notes and References

1. http://en.fashion-headline.com/article/2014/02/06/2043.html
2. Web site: Gay Japanese photographer wins prize with photo book portraying his daily life. 25 April 2014.
3. Web site: Eiki Mori Exhibition « GUY PERRYMAN.
4. Web site: Eiki Mori . 2 March 2016 . 25 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160325101127/http://www.pdash.com/morieki.html . dead .
5. http://www.zen-foto.jp/web/edm/Eiki%20MORI.pdf
6. Web site: Eiki Mori and Nobumasa Ikemori – Absorption and Explosion | Videotage . 2016-03-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150913074534/http://videotage.org.hk/project/explosion-and-absorption-2/ . 2015-09-13 . dead .
7. Web site: Chef-d'œuvre | OSAKA PHOTO WEEKS | ENGLISH . 2016-03-02 . 2016-07-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160729173548/http://osaka-photo-weeks.org/en/gallery/g06/ . dead .
8. Web site: Intimacy - Eiki Mori- Nanarokusha Publishing - Japan - 森栄喜 - ナナロク社.