Shinichi Maruyama
Photographer & Artist
Nude
Using high-speed photography to capture the human body in motion, this series explores the ephemeral beauty of movement frozen in time. Each image compresses thousands of discrete moments into a single frame, revealing forms that exist for only fractions of a second — invisible to the naked eye, yet deeply familiar in their grace.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Water Sculpture
Water, thrown into the air, transforms into sculpture for a fleeting instant. Captured at 1/7,500th of a second, these images reveal the hidden architecture of liquid — forms of extraordinary complexity that emerge from the simplest of gestures and vanish before they can be perceived by the human eye.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Kusho 空書
Kusho — literally "writing in the sky" — captures the invisible gestures of Japanese calligraphy suspended in three-dimensional space. Using long exposure and ink-dipped brushes, each image transforms the calligrapher's movement into ethereal traces that hover between writing and sculpture, language and abstraction.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Light Sculpture
A single drop of liquid falls through a beam of light, splitting into fragments of pure color. Photographed at microsecond exposures, these ephemeral forms become permanent sculptures — the physics of light and fluid transformed into visual poetry.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Gardens
Long exposure studies of the transient nature of gardens — the slow drift of petals, the imperceptible growth of light. These images explore the tension between stillness and movement, between the cultivated and the wild.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Light Sculpture / Rainbow
An extension of the Light Sculpture series, these works capture the full spectrum of refracted light as liquid drops pass through concentrated beams — momentary rainbows suspended in mid-air, each unique and unrepeatable.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Nihonga
Drawing on the tradition of Japanese painting (日本画), this series explores the intersection of classical technique and contemporary photographic practice — pigment, mineral, and light combined into images that exist between painting and photography.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Pole
The human body as architecture. Using the pole as a structural element, this series documents the extraordinary athleticism and grace of the performer — strength and fluidity rendered visible by high-speed photography.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Cloud
Long exposure studies of cloud formations over New Zealand — the sky as a canvas for the slow choreography of water vapor, light, and atmospheric pressure made visible over time.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Landscape / Moon
The landscapes of New Zealand photographed under moonlight — the world rendered in silver and shadow, familiar yet transformed by the nocturnal light that reveals what daylight conceals.
Full portfolio available upon request through Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
My work explores the intersection of time, movement, and perception. Using high-speed photography, long exposure, and various photographic techniques, I seek to reveal moments and forms that exist beyond the threshold of human vision — capturing the beauty that unfolds in fractions of a second, invisible yet ever-present.
Shinichi Maruyama (b. 1968, Nagano, Japan) studied image engineering at Chiba University before working as a freelance photographer in Tokyo from 1993. From 1998 he worked at Hakuhodo Photo Creative before moving to New York in 2003 to pursue his fine art practice. In 2019 he relocated to New Zealand, where he continues to work.
His work has been exhibited internationally at Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, The Armory Show, Paris Photo, and numerous galleries and museums worldwide, including Carnegie Hall (New York), Boghossian Foundation (Brussels), and Blitz Gallery (Tokyo). His photographs are held in permanent collections including The Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA), The Crow Collection (Dallas), and Maison Particulière (Brussels).
He is represented by Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York.
New exhibition at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York. August 17 – October 17, 2023.
A retrospective spanning seventeen years of work, exhibited at Blitz Gallery in Tokyo. May 11 – July 30, 2023.
Presented with Bruce Silverstein Gallery at The Armory Show, September 7–10, 2023, New York.
新・空間縁起 at Informel Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan. July 27 – August 21, 2023.