For his exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Ryan McGinley will present color photographs chronicling the summer road trips he has taken with groups of models across the United States. McGinley places his naked subjects in unusual and breathtaking situations, photographing them against the backdrop of the vast and varied American landscape.

At Shibuya Hikarie, selections from McGinley's recent color studio portraits of nude models and animals will be on display. The artist visited various sanctuaries, zoos, and rescue establishments across the U.S., erecting a mobile studio wherever he could. The Artsit says “When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings. It was fun for m e to watch; the p eople were really just p rops for the anim als to climb on.” (Interview by Marcuse Chang, The New York Times Magazine, May 12,2012.)There exists both tension and tenderness between the models and wild animals, as they claw, clutch, nibble, and hug one another.

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McGinley's photographs are included in the collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., and many others. The 34 year-old artist has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art and MoMA PS1 in New York, MUSAC in Madrid, and the Kunsthalle Vienna. Last year McGinley had solo exhibitions in London and Amsterdam. Earlier this year a monograph on his work was released by Twin Palms Press. A long-awaited book surveying his career from 1999 through the p resent, with essays by Chris Kraus and John Kelsey as well as an interview with Gus Van Sant, was published this summer by Rizzoli.

opening reception 9.01. sat. 6:00 - 8:00pm