The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art originally opened in 1933 as the Kyoto Enthronement Memorial Museum of Art. In 2019, it marked 86 years as a leading Japanese public art museum. The inaugural exhibition commemorating the opening of the renovated Museum in 2020 is a comprehensive survey of Kyoto Art. It presents an unprecedented number of masterpieces from the Museum collection and from a number of other collections in Japan.

Taking as its key words ruri, jodo, and opticks, this first major exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto at a Kyoto museum will reexamine his unique practice that has developed from photography through the intersection of religious, scientific and artistic inquiry, and simultaneously take a fresh look at the state of the Japanese soul amid centuries of longing for the jodo (pure land) in its myriad incarnations.