1938
On October 10, Daido (Hiromichi) Moriyama is born in Ikeda-cho (now Ikeda-shi), Osaka.
1961
Moriyama moves to Tokyo, to join the eminent photographers` group VIVO in March, whose members include Shomei Tomatsu, but the group is about to dissolve. Eikoh Hosoe takes Moriyama on as an assistant and next year Moriyama assists in the production of Hosoe`s series
Ordeal by Roses
1964
Started his career as a freelance photographer, frequently shot around American base in Yokosuka. Started friendship with Takuma Nakahira this time.
1967
Award
New Artist Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association
1968
Group exhibition
"Pantomime" (with Shin Yanagisawa), Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
Publication
Japan: A Photo Theater, with text of Shuji Terayama, Muromachi Shobo
1970
Publication
First, throw aout verisimilitude, Tabata Shoten
(with Michiaki Amano, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka takanashi and Koji Taki )
Solo exhibition
"Scandal" Plaza Dick, Tokyo.
1971
Visited NewYork for the first time with Tadanori Yokoo.
1972
Publication
Farewell Photography, Shashin Hyouronsha
Hunter, Chuokoronsha Inc
Mayfly, Haga Shoten Document, privately published magazine(July 1972 - June 1973 Vol.5)
1974
Group exhibition
"New Japanese Photography" the Museum of Modern Art, NewYork ; St. Louis Museum of Art ; Minneapolis Institute of Art ; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Kranneert Art Museum of Art in the University of Illinois ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
"From Photography / Towards Photography" Mat Grosso Gallery, Tokyo
"Fifteen Photographers Today" Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Publication
New York : Another Country, Private Publishing
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama Printing Show" Shimuzu Gallery, Tokyo
"Harley Davidson" Gallery jun, Tokyo
"The Tales of Tohno" Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1975
Group exhibition
"A History of Japanese Modern Photography" Seibu Museum, Tokyo
Solo exhibition
"Cherry Bloosoms " Matto Grosso Gallery, Tokyo
"Hunter" Nijuban Hall, Naha, Okinawa
1976
Group exhibition
"Neue Fotografie aus Japan" Stadt Museum Graz, Austria ; the Municipal Museum in Austria ; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Solo exhibition
"Goshogawara" Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama photo exhibition" Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
"Whistle if you need me" CAMP, Tokyo
Publication
Tales of Tohno, Asahi Sonorama Co Ltd.
1977
Solo exhibition
"Tokyo: Meshed World " Ginza Nikon Salon, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo : Osaka Nikon Salon
1978
Publication
Japan: A Photo Theater ll , Asahi Sonorama Co Ltd.
Stayed in Sapporo, Hokkaido, for 3months in Summer
Solo exhibition
"the Tsugaru Strait" CAMP, Tokyo
"Niigata-City" CAMP, Tokyo
1979
Group exhibition
"Japan: A Self-Portrait" International Center of Photography, NewYork , USA
"Venetia '79 La Fotografia" Venetia, Italy
"Japanese Photography 1948-today" Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
1980
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama" Gallery Form , Graz, Austlia
1981
Solo exhibition
"Light & Shadow" Nagai Photo Salon, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition" Zeit-Foto Salon. Tokyo
1982
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama : Calender" CAMP , Toyko
"Light & Shadow: The last chapter " Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Tokyo
Publication
Light & Shadow, Tojusha
1983
Group exhibition
"Photography and Climatology" Miyagi Museum og Art, Miyagi, Japan
Award
Photographer of the Year Award from the Photographic Society of Japan
1984
Group exhibition
"Contemporary 6 photographers by Polaloid 10 x 24 " Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo
Publication
Places in My Memory ; Memories of a Dog , The Asahi Simbun
1985
Group exhibition
"Black Sun; The eyes of Four " Museum of Modern Art of Oxford ; Serpentine Gallery, London ; Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA ; Museum of art, the University of Iowa, USA ; Japan House Gallery, NewYork
"Paris /New York / Tokyo" Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85, Ibaraki
Publication
A Dialogue with Photography, Seikyusha
1986
Group exhibition
"Fotographia Japonese Contemporanea" Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid ; Diputacion de Valencia Sala Parpallo, Valencia ; Casa Elizalde, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao
"Shoji Ueda, Daido Moriyama and Fuyuki Hattori " Zeit-foto salon, Tokyo
1987
Publication
"A journey to Nakaji", Sokyusha, Japan
Opened his private gallery 'room.801'
1988
Group exhibition
"Empathy, Contemporary Japanese Photographers '87 " visual Studies Workshop, Rochester
"Two persons exhibition (with Hiroshi Yamazaki)" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo.
Publication
A jouney to Nakaji (Nakaji Yasui), Sokyusha
Solo exhibition
"Jouney to Nakaji" Chikurin Seija, Sapporo. Freelance, Otaru. Asahi Shimbun Wakayama Brunch ('89). Kashiwazaki Energy Hall, Niigata.
1989
Group exhibition
"Eleven Photographers from 1965 to 1975" The Yamaguchi Prefactural Museum, Japan
"Orientalism in Painting and Photographs" White Museum, World Design Expo '89 Nagoya, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Daimaru Gallery Osaka, Tochigi Prefactural Museum of Fine Arts, Hokkaido Museum of Art Hakodate, The Museum of Modern Art Shiga, The Shoto Museum of Art Tokyo, Shizuoka Prefactual Museum of Art (- '91)
"International FOTO-Triennale" Esslingen, Germany
Solo exhibition
"Marrakech Morocco" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo
"Paris" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo
Publication
Moriyama Daido 1970-1979 ,Sokyusha
1990
Publication
Lettre ・St. Lou, Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Group exhibition
"Fotofest ‘90" Houston, Texas
"Artists Who Love Nature: from Barbizon School to Contemporary Photographers" Green Museum, Osaka; Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum or Art, Hokkaido; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka (- 92)
"Photography Context: Document, Toyama’90" Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
"Tokyo: A City Perspective" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Foto Biennale Rotterdam '90" Rotterdam
"The past and the present of photography" the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo; the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition" Zeit-foto Salon, Tokyo
"Landscape - Thailand" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo
1991
Group exhibition
"14 Photographers in Japan Part II ? Contemporary Photography -" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
"Beyond Japan" Barbican Art Gallery, London
"Japanese Photography in the 1970s: Memories Frozen in Time" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
1992
Group exhibition
"Japanese Pop Art in the 1960’s" (two hundred monochrome prints from "Japan: A Photo Theater" and other works from the late 1960s and 1970s are exhibited. Moriyama is as the only photographer included in this exhibition) Fukui Fine Art Museum
"What photographers have been expressing 1960-1990" Konica Plaza, Tokyo
Closed FOTO DAIDO
1993
Publication
Daido hysteric, no. 4, Hysteric Glamour
Color, Sokyusha
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama: Works through the 1970s" il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo "Daido Moriyama: A Photo Installation" On Sunday’s, Tokyo "Daido Moriyama Photographs" Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
1994
Group exhibition
"Place M opening: Three -Persons Exhibition"(with Masato Seto and Hiroyasu Nakai) Place M, Tokyo.
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama: The works from the latest Book" On Sunday’s, Tokyo.
Joined to the members organizing the private gallery Place M, Shinjuku.
Publication
Daido hysteric, no. 6, Hysteric Glamour
1995
Group exhibition
"Photo City Tokyo" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
"The National Museum of Modern Art and Photography: 1953-1995" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Film Center, Tokyo
"25 photographers’ works in their 20’s" Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi
Solo exhibition
"Peeping Out" Place M, Tokyo
"Imitation" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Publication
A Dialogue with Photography (revised version), Seikyusha
From Photography / Towards Photography, Seikyusha
Imitation, Taka Ishii Gallery
The Times of the Dog, Sakuhinsha
Japan, A Photo Theater (revised version), Shinchosha.
1996
Group exhibition
"Figure" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Produced Seiryu Inoue Exhibition at Konica Plaza, Tokyo, with Koh Inose. Nihon Keizai Shimbun features Moriyama’s photo essay [Women in photographs from autumn].
Solo exhibition
"COLOR 1970-1990" Picture Photo Space, Osaka
"COLOR" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Daido hysteric" Ruth Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
"Paris" il tempo gallery, Tokyo
1997
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama" galerie agathe gaillard, Paris
"OSAKA" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Polaroid Polaroid" Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo.
[Memories of a Dog - Final Chapter] in Asahi Graph magazine from January. PRINTS 21 magazine features Moriyama Daido works. Video Daido Moriyama vs. Nobuyoshi Araki is published, QUEST, Tokyo in December.
Publication
Hunter: For Jack Kerouac (reprinted), Taka Ishii Gallery
Japanese Photographers Vol.37, Iwanami shoten
OSAKA: Daido hysteric No.8, Hysteric Glamour
1998
Publication
"Memories of a Dog", The Asahi Shinbun Company, Japan
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama" Takaishi Gallery", Osaka
1999
Solo exhibition
"PARIS" (inkjet prints) EPSON Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama: stray dog" with Publication of the catalogue daido moriyama: stray dog, San Francisco Modern Museum; Metropolitan Museum and Japan Society in New York (-99); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Fotomuseum Folkwang Essen, Essen (-2000); Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusets; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (-2001)
"Rafflesia" (silk screen works) , Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Tohno Story" Taka Ishii Gallery, Los Angeles
"Tokyo Colors" The Deep Gallery, Paris
Publication
"COLOR 2", Sohkyu-sha
"Dream of the water", Sohkyu-sha
"Passage", Widse Publishing
"Visions of Japan: PARIS", Korinsha Press
2000
Solo exhibition
"Passage" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Publication
"The past is always new, the future is always nostalgic"
(essays and dialogue with Takuma Nakahira), Seikyu-sha
2001
Group exhibition
"M Exhibition" Place M, Tokyo.
"Open City: Street Photographs since 1950" Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; The Lowry Salford Quays, UK; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.
Publication
"Places in My Memory "(revised version), Kawade Shobo Shinsha
"Daido Moriyama 55", Phaidon Press
"Memories of a Dog, Final Chapter" (revised version), Tokyo.
"The Japanese Box "(Facsimile reprint of six rare photographic Publications of the Provoke era), Edition 7L/Steidl
The Documentary film, Near Equal Daido Moriyama Image Forum, Shibuya, Tokyo.
(Now DVD ,"Near Equal Daido Moriyama" is published from B.B.B. co. ltd.).
2002
Group exhibition
"M Exhibition" Place M, Tokyo
"Photonesia" (with the symposium titled “the Memories and Creativity in Photography” by Shomei Tomatsu, Nobuyoshi Araki, Takuma Nakahira and Moriyama) Naha City Public Gallery, Okinawa.
Solo exhibition
"Shinjuku" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Platform, Light and Shadow" Daiwa Radiator Factory, Hiroshima
"‘71-NY" Roth Horwitz, New York
"Daido Moriyama: Shinjuku ? Platform, Light and Shadow ?" the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Aichi
"Inside The White Cube: Antipodes" White Cube, London.
Publication
"transit", eyesencia
"Shinjuku," Getsuyosha Publishing
"‘71-NY", Roth Horwitz
"Platform", Daiwa Radiator
2003
Group exhibition
"Japan: Contemporary Ceramics and Photography" Hambourg
"Mask of Japan" aura gallery, Shanghai
Solo exhibition
"Hunter of Light Daido Moriyama 1965-2003" (retrospective exhibition) Shimane Art Museum, Shimane; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
"Daido Moriyama in Polaroid: Ambivalence" il tempo, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama" Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
"Cop-llage" Nadiff gallery, Tokyo
Award
Mainichi Art Award
Publication
"Daido Moriyama Complete Works vol.1", Daiwa Radiator
2004
Award
Der Kulturpreis (The Cultural Award) der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Photographie
Lifetime Achievement Award from The Photographic Society of Japan
Solo exhibition
"transit" FIFTY ONE fine art photography, Antwerpen
"Daido Moriyama Hysteric" (poster of photogrpaphs/ digital prints) Hysteric Glomour, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama" Maruzen Gallery, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama" Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
"Daido Moriyama" galerie kamel mennour, Paris
Publication
"Memories of a Dog" (essays in English version), Nazraeri Press
"Daido Moriyama Complete Works Vol.2/Vol.3/Vol.4", Daiwa Radiator.
"To Nirvana and Back: Photo Album of Real Lear in Echigo -Tsumari", Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers
"NOVEMBRE", Getsuyousha Publishing
"ROUTE 16", eyesencia
"REMIX", galerie kamel mannour
2005
Group exhibition
"Moriyama/Shinjuku/Araki" (two persons exhibition with Nobuyoshi Araki) Tokyo Operacity Gallery
"Guangzhou Photo Biennale" guangdong Museum of Art
"CHIKAKU: Space and Memory in Japan" Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, Spain
"Shuji Terayama and Daido Moriyama: Aa, KMya" Logos Gallery, Tokyo
Solo exhibition
"Vintage and Modern Prints" Galerie Bob van Oursow, Switzerland
"Daido Moriyama; Buenos Aires" Kyoto University of Art and Design
"Buenos Aires" Epson imaging gallery epSITE, Tokyo
"Buenos Aires" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Takuno" Place M, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama: TOKYO" Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam
Publication
"Moriyama/Shinjuku/Araki", Heibonsha
"Lettre ・St. Lou "(revised version),Kawade Shobo Shinsha
"Takuno", Sokyusha
"Buenos Aires", Kodansha press
"Aa, Koya" (with Shuji Terayama), Parco Publishing
2006
Solo exhibition
"Daido Emotion: Daido Moriyama Collection" Shimane Art Museum, Shimane
"Buenos Aires" Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki
"25:00 Shinjuku, 1973", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"it" Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Publication
"Farewell Photography", revised version, Power Shovel Books, Tokyo
"A Dialogue with Photography and from Photography/Towards Photography", revised version, Seikyusha, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama SHINJUKU 19xx-20xx", Codax Publishers, Zurich
"Lectures at noon/at night", Heibonsha, Tokyo
"it", Rat Hole, Tokyo
"t-82", Power Shovel Books, Tokyo
"Shinjuku Plus", Getsuyosha, Tokyo
2007
Group exhibition
[Other Scenes］(Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles)
Publication
"Kagero & Colors", Powershovel
2008
Group exhibition
"A Quiet Gaze, Echoing Worlds#, Daido Moriyama and Migues Rio Branco", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Solo exhibition
"bye-bye polaroid", TAKA ISHII GALLERY, Tokyo
"Hokkaido", RAT HOLE GALLERY, Tokyo
"S'", RING CUBE, Tokyo
"FAR FROM HOME", Galarie Kamei Mannour, Paris
"Daido Moriyama", reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
"Retrospective 1965-2005 / HAWAII "Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Publication
"Record no.1-5" (revised), akio nagasawa publishing
"ZOO",Power Shovel
"Record no.9", Akio Nagasawa Publishing
"S'", Kodansha Ltd
"To another country", Asahi Shimbun Publications inc.
"Record no.10", Akio Nagasawa Publishing
"Bye-bye polaroid", TAKA ISHII GALLERY
"Hokkaido", RAT HOLE GALLERY
2009
Solo exhibition
"Ginza/DIGITAL", RING CUBE, Tokyo
"Light&Shadow", BLD GALLERY, Tokyo
"Hokkaido", Miyanomori Art Museum Sapporo, Yubari Art Museum, Arte Piazza Bibai, Parco Sapporo
"Around Magazine Work 1965-1974", NADiff a/p/a/r/t/,Tokyo
Publication
"Record No.11" (Akio Nagasawa Publishing)
"Light & Shadow" (Kodansha Ltd.)
"Record No.12" (Akio nagasawa Publishing)
"NORTHERN" (Toshoshimbun)
"NORTHERN PRESS" (Miyanomori Art Museum, Sapporo)
"BUENOS AIRES revised version" (Kodansha Ltd.)
"SAO PAULO revised version" (Kodansha Ltd.)
"Japan, A Photo Thereter - Magazine Works" (Getsuyosha)
"A Journey to something - Magazine Works" (Getsuyosha)
"Record No.13" (Akio nagasawa Publishing)
2010
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama" LUHRING AUGUSTINE
"Hokkaido Vol.2" Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
"NAGISA" BLD GALLERY, Tokyo
"Northern" Six, Osaka
"Record No15 NewYork" artdish, Tokyo
"THE WORLD THROUGH MY EYES" Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy
"SNAP-ROUTE122" artdish, Tokyo
"THE TROPICS" Place M, Tokyo
"route.20"OLYMPUS PHOTO GALLERY, TOKYO & OSAKA
Publication
"NAKAJI"
(KODANSHA Ltd.)
"RECORD NO.14"
(Akio Nagasawa Publishing)
"NAGISA"
(Akio Nagasawa Publishing)
"RECORD NO.15"
(Akio Nagasawa Publishing)
"RECORD NO.16"
(Akio Nagasawa Publishing)
"RECORD NO.17"
(Akio Nagasawa Publishing)
"THE TROPICS"
(KODANSHA Ltd.)
"TSUGARU"
(Taka Ishii Gallery)
2011
Solo exhibition
"Sao Paulo & Buenos Aires" Miyanomori Art Museum, Sapporo
2012
Award
ICP Infinity Award, Lifetime Achievement
2016
Solo exhibition
"DAIDO TOKYO"
Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain
”Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition"
Tokyo Metropolitan Theater
"SCANDALOUS"
AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY
"RECORD"
Place M
"Shangri-la"
Hyogo Prefaectual Museum of Art
Group exhibition
"LAST DANCE" parco gallery, Tokyo
2017
Solo exhibition
"Odasaku"
POETIC SCAPE , Gallery 176
"Record No.33"
A/D Gallery
"DAIDO MORIYAMA"
Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Sapporo
"Pretty Woman & Pantomime"
Visual Arts Gallery, Osaka
"Pretty Woman"
AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY
"Aa, Koya"
B GALLERY
"Tokyo Color"
Luhring Augustine
"DAIDO MORIYAMA ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK"
Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO
2018
Award
L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier
Solo exhibition
"Record No.35+36"
(AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY AOYAMA)
"景"
(NaDiff Gallery)
"RADIATION (color)"
(AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY)
"RADIATION"
(Each Modern, Taipei)
"Ango"
(POETIC SCAPE, Gallery176)
"SCENE"
(HAMILTONS GALLERY, London)
"宇和島"
(AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY AOYAMA)
"Daido Tokyo Color"
(MATE, Lima)
”Daido Moriyama Exhibition in sakata 2018 Light and Shadow”
Dewa Yushinkan
Group exhibition
Sprengel Museum, Hannover "1938"
Barbican Centre Art Gallery, London "Another Kind of Life"
Power Station of Art, Shanghai "Beautiful Elsewhere"
2019
Award
The Hasselblad Foundation, International Award in Photography
Solo exhibition
"Ango Daido"
Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art
"A Diary"
Hasselblad Foundation
"LABYRINTH (Remix)"
AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY
"Record No.42"
AKIO NAGASAWA GALLERY Aoyama
2020
Award
The Asahi Prize
Solo exhibition
”Okinawa s49"
SUPER LABO STORE TOKYO
”Moriyama Daido’ｓTokyo:Ongoing”
TOP Museum
”Silkscreen”
Taka Ishii Gallery
"A Diary"
Foto Colectania, Barcelona
Group exhibition
"Tokyo Curiosity 2020Shibuya"
Bunkamura the museum
"SHINJUKU_RESOLUTION"
Isetan, Shinjuku
2021
Solo exhibition
”Orizuru”
TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS
"DAIDO MORIYAMA"
Stieglitz 19
”Before 1968 DAIDO MORIYAMA’s works from magazines”
NADiff Gallery
”衝撃的、たわむれ”
Shadai Gallery
”Zushi vol.2”
Zushi Art Gallery
"THE FOSSILIZATION of LIGHT"
Tsutaya Ginza
"Travel Notes from Daido Moriyama"
Gallery 101, Taipei
"Moeiyama-Tomatsu Tokyo"
MEP
Group exhibition
"Moriyama-Tomatsu"
MEP, Paris
Art Wall Project,Shinjuku
2022
Solo exhibition
”re:8fleurs"
gallery cafe totonoeru
"Daido Moriyama '71 New York"
Reflex Amsterdam, the Residence