Osamu KANEMURA
1964 Born in Tokyo, Japan.
1993 Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography, Yokohama, Japan.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005 Chinese Rocks, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo.
2004 13th Floor Elevator over the Hill, Chukyo University Gallery C-Square, Nagoya, Japan.
2002 Stravinsky Overdrive, Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2003 Suzy Cream Oil Cheese, White Cube, Kyoto, Japan.
2000 Black Parachute Ears 1999, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo (The 19th Ken Domon Prize Exhibition)
1999 Colored Air Blood Black 1999, Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo.
Black Parachute Ears 1991-1999, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki.
Someday O.K. Prince will Come, Gallery Q & Q-S, Tokyo.
1998 All The Needles on are Red, Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo.
1996 Keihin Machine Soul, Works H., Yokohama.
1995 Tokyo Swing, Yoshii Gallery, New York.
Today's Japan, Konica Plaza, Tokyo.
1994 Crashlanding in Tokyo's Dream, Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, Loch Walker Gallery,
Charlotte, NC.
1993 Crashlanding in Tokyo's Dream, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 10th International Architecture Exhibition: Cities, Architecture and Society, Corderie dell’Arsenale,
Venice. (Venice Architecture Biennale 2006)
C on Cities, Italian Pavilion, Venice. (Venice Architecture Biennale 2006)
2005 Modern Paradise: Japanese and Western Masterpieces from Ohara Museum of Art and The National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Modernology of Osaka, Osaka Zokei Center, Osaka, Japan. (two persons show with Erika Yoshino)
2004 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, Arles, France.
2003 Art in Flux VIII. Inside Out: Mechanism of Cityscapes, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan. (two
persons show with Eiji Ina)
History of Japanese Photography Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX/The Cleveland
Museum of Art, Ohio.
Experience: The Media Rat Race, The Netherland Foto Instituut, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam.
2002 Tradition and Presence: Japan, Contemporary Ceramics and Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2001 Surface: Contemporary Photography, Video and Painting from Japan, The Netherland Foto lnstituut,
Rotterdam.
Future Perfect, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
The Standard, held at various sites in the Naoshima island, organized by Naoshima Contemporary Art
Museum, Naoshima, Japan.
IKIRO/Be Alive: Contemporary Art from Japan, 1980 to the Present, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo,
The Netherlands.
2000 Osamu KANEMURA & Erika YOSHINO, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC.
1998 Prix Whanki Exhibition: Seoul-Berlin-Tokyo, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea.
Photography Today: The Absence of Distance, National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo.
1997 Absolute Landscape: Contemporary Photography between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of
Art, Yokohama.
1996 New Photography 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1995 The 3rd International Foto-Triennale Esslingen: Dicht am Laben, Esslingen, Germany.
1994 Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.
Japanese Avant-garde, Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC.
1992 The 3rd Fotografie Biennale: Waste Land from Now on, Rotterdam Waterstad, Rotterdam.
Publications
2005 In-between 12 Osamu Kanemura: Germany, Finland, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee, Tokyo.
2001 I Can Tell, Haga Shoten, Tokyo.
Spider’s Strategy, Osiris, Tokyo.
2000 Happiness is a Red before Exploding, Wides Shuppan, Tokyo.
1995 Crashlanding, Mole, Tokyo (Mole Unit No.4)
Awards
2000 The 19th Ken Domon Prize.
1997 New Photographer Prize, The Photographic Society of Japan Award.
New Photographer Prize, The 13th Higashikawa International Photography Festival.
Collections
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama. Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Higashikawa Cultural Gallery, Higashikawa, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Domon Ken Photography Museum, Sakata, Japan
Benesse Corporation, Naoshima, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston