Watanabe made his debut with the photography and text project Moving Plants, in which he searched for Japanese knotweed, a common weed found throughout Japan, in various places and situations in Europe, where it has become an invasive species. Since then, he has continued photographing plants and investigating their hidden histories.
1967 Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
Solo exhbition
2022-3 "毒消草の夢 デトックスプランツ・ヒストリー Contrayerba in dreaming -detox plants-history", Kanzan gallery, Tokyo
2022 "毒消草の夢 デトックスプランツ・ヒストリー Contrayerba in dreaming -detox plants-history", The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2018 "Moving Plants", Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2017 "Moving Plants", Gallery 722, Okayama
2016 "Moving Plants", Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo
2015 "Moving Plants", The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2010 "Moving Plants", The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2009 "Moving Plants : in the thick of itadori", The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2005 "The name of grassland -unknown islands where itadori grows", The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka.
2003 "grassland", The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka.
Group exhbition
2023 Photo city Sagamihara prizewinner photographic exhibition, Sagamihara
2012 "Quiet Boys", Mio Photo Osaka 2012, Osaka
2008 "Comical & Cynical", Gallery Jijihyang, Paju, Korea
2007 "Comical & Cynical", Dawn Center, Osaka
2006 "from the Garden", The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka.
2000 "phantome", SUMISO, Osaka.
Publication
2022 "毒消草の夢 デトックスプランツ・ヒストリー Contrayerba in dreaming -detox plants-history", SEIGENSHA Art Publishing,Inc. Kyoto
2015 Moving Plants", SEIGENSHA Art Publishing,Inc. Kyoto
Award
2023 Photo city Sagamihara prize
Public collection
Sagamihara-city
Other work
2003 Photographs for the poster and the catalogue for "Kiyoshi Kwasaki: Architecture and
Emvironment", National museum of Art, Osaka.
Education
2000 Photography course, Inter Medium Institute, Osaka.
1990 Psychology course, the department of literature, Osaka City University.