GOTO AKI   
Born in Kawasaki City, Japan. While a student in the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics at Sophia University, his journey around the world (1993–94) sparked his interest in photography. After graduating Sophia, he joined Marubeni Corporation and was engaged in natural gas pipeline logistics operations. He later left the company and enrolled in the Photographic Art Secondary Department at Tokyo College of Photography, studying under Kiyoshi Suzuki and Norio Kobayashi. He began working as a photographer in 1999. In 2020, he received the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer’s Award. Published photobooks: LAND ESCAPES (2010), LAND ESCAPES -FACE- (2015) (both traviaggio publishing); and terra (Akaaka Art Publishing, 2019). His notable solo exhibitions include: terra (Canon Gallery S; 2019); event horizon (Fugensha, 2021); TERRA 2024 —BODY & SPACE (Canon Gallery, 2024); TABI/GORI—nonlinear landscape (Fugensha, 2025). Notable group exhibitions: Tokyo Curiosity (Bunkamura the Museum, 2020); Where do photographers come from? Where are they going? —Photos that walk the world and transform the earth— (two-man exhibition with Sohei Nishino, Gallery Forest, 2021); among others. He was part-time instructor at the Imaging Arts and Sciences Department, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University (2017–25), and the Department of Photography, Nihon University College of Art (2021–23); he is now associate professor at Nihon University College of Art since 2024.
 Solo Exhibitions 
2026 " terra | Landscape Topologies " Kosha Kosha, Tokyo


2025 " TABI/GORI - nonlinear landscape " Fugensha Gallery, Tokyo 
2024 " TERRA 2024 - Body and Space " Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka
2023 " TERRA 2023 " Dojidai Gallery, Kyoto
2022 " terra " Kabe Gallery Concent, Tokyo


2021 " event horizon " Fugensha Gallery, Tokyo 
2021 " Voice of  terra " Nihonbashi-Takashimaya, Tokyo 


2019 " TERRA 2019 [Face of the Earth] " MYD Gallery, Tokyo
2019 " terra " Canon Gallery S, Tokyo
2016 " Earthscape " Gallery Iwao, Oita
2016 " LISTEN " Ushio Garo Gallery, Tokyo
2015 " LAND × FACE " Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Fukuoka 
2014 " element - TIME & LIGHT - " Canon Open Gallery, Tokyo 
2013 " LAND ESCAPES - Japan - " Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka
2010 " LAND ESCAPES " Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka 
2002 " ambient " Hokari Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo
2001 " speakeasy " LAS CHICAS D ZONE, Tokyo
2000 " Mirror Site " Shinjyuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo      
1999 " journey on life" Shinjyuku Nikon Salon Juna 21, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2025 "forest threshold " Nonohana Tsukasa Gallery, Tokyo
2024 "Faculty Exhibition SKY VII," College of Art, Nihon University　Sony Imaging Gallery, Tokyo
2024 "The 45th SSP Exhibition 2024–2025"　Fuji Film Photo Salon (Tokyo / Osaka / Sapporo), Toyama 
Science Museum, Akashi Municipal Planetarium, and other 
venues (10 locations in total)
2024 Special Exhibition: "Why Always EOS R SYSTEM?" Canon Open Gallery, Tokyo
2024 "The 5th" Jam Photo Gallery Exhibition Jam Photo Gallery, Tokyo
2021 " Where Do Photographers Come From, and Where Are They Going? " – Traveling the World, 
Transforming the Earth through Photograph 
 (Two-person exhibition with Sohei Nishino)
2021 " Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer Award" Exhibition
2020 " your EOS. " Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka


2020 " Tokyo Curiosity 2020 " Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo
2020 " into the lights " Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka
2020 " Self-Portrait " Jam Photo Gallery, Tokyo
2020 " Tokyo 2020 spring with corona "  Fugensha Gallery Tokyo
2020 " SSP - Society of Scientific Photography " Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo and other 7 cities in Japan 
2015 " The Photographers 2 " Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka
2012 " Art Photograph Group Show " recto verso gallery, Tokyo 
Video Installations
2013 " circulation " Zushi Media Art Festival, Kanagawa  / Osumi Art Festival, Kagoshima
2012 " water silence " IID, Tokyo / Zushi Media Art Festival, Kanagawa  / Osumi Art Festival
 Kagoshima  /  Saga Castle, Saga  /  Taketa Art Culture, Oita  /  Art Center, Miyazaki  　　　　　　　　　
Publications
2026   new photobook is coming soon.
2019 " terra " AKAAKA Art Publishing
2015 " LAND ESAPES FACE " traviaggio publishing
2012 " LAND ESCAPES " traviaggio publishing
Awards
2020 – Newcomer Award, Photographic Society of Japan
2005 – Hummingbird Prize, 7th Itaru Hirama Photography Prize
1999 – Selected for Nikon Juna 21 (Emerging Photographers Program)