Education
1950-1954 Aichi University, Nagoya

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Shinjuku Turmoil, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Tomatsu Shomei. Okinawa Photographs – Love Letter to the Sun, Okinawa Perfectual Museum & Art Museum, Naha, Japan
2010 TOMATSU SHOMEI: PHOTGRAPHS, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
2009 Nagasaki 11:02, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki
2007 Tomatsu Shomei: Tokyo Mandala Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Aichi Mandala: Tomatsu Shomei’s Landscape Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2003-4 Shomei Tomatsu: Three Decades in Color, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2002 Okinawa Mandala, Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa
2000 Nagasaki Mandala, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012-13 Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
2012 Busan Biennale 2012 – Garden of Leaning –, The Busan Biennale 2012, Busan, Korea
2011 Breaking News – Fukushima and the consequences –, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, German
2008-09 Ryukyu, Okinawa Two People Exhibition Higa Yasuo Ritual of Ryukyu: Tomatsu Shomei Chewing Gum and Chocolate, Canon Gallery S, Tokyo; Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa
2003 Japan 1945-1975: A photographic Renewal, Patrimonie Photographique, Paris, France
The History of Japanese Photography, Museum Fine Arts, Houston Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
2000 How You Look at it: Photographs of the Twentieth Century, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany