About Osamu Kanemura

CV / Exhibition

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 -‘Can I Help Me?’ MEM, Tokyo, Japan.
2022 -‘Sold Out Artist,’ CAVE-AYUMIGALLERY, Tokyo, Japan.
2022 -‘God Only Speed Knows,’ IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2021 -‘Looper Syndicate,’ dieFirma, New York, the USA.
2021 -‘Lead-palsy Terminal,’ Alt_Medium, Tokyo, Japan.
2020 -‘Copyright Liberation Front,’ The White, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 -‘Voodoo Doughnut,’ gallery 176, Osaka, Japan.
2019 -‘Suck Social Stomach,’ IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2018 -‘Marshmallow Brain Wash,’ ‘Killing Agent,’ HIJU GALLERY, Osaka, Japan.
2018 -‘Shrimp Cocktail President,’ The White, Tokyo, Japan.
2018 -‘Do not resuscitate,’ MUNO, Aichi, Japan.
2018 -‘Living Dead Suicide,’ RAINROOTS, Aichi, Japan.
2016 -‘Successive Sliding of Pleasure,’ Only Photography, Berlin, Germany.
2016 -‘Buddha Virus Suicide Attack,’ The White, Tokyo, Japan.
2015 -‘System Crash for Hi-Fi,’ The White, Tokyo, Japan.
2014 -‘Ansel Adams Stardust (You are not alone),’ Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo (Exhibition of the award-winning work of the 39th Nobuo Ina Prize, traveling to Osaka Nikon Salon in 2015), Japan.
2014 -‘Nothing was Delivered,’ Void+, Tokyo, Japan.
2014 -‘Come to life again,’ Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan.
2014 -‘Ansel Adams stardust (You are not alone),’ Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo. Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan.
2014 -‘Eiyou-bunsekihyou,’ The White, Tokyo, Japan.
2013 -‘Hindenburg Omen,’ photographers’ gallery, KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 -‘Howling Smack Wolf,’ photographers’ gallery, KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 -‘HUMAN NOISE AMPLIFIER,’ BLD Gallery, Tokyo.
2011 -‘Kawasaki Brötzmann 2002-2007,’ Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan.
2011 -‘Alice In Butcher Land,’ photographers’ gallery, KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 -‘White Rabbit Opium Dream,’ Broiler Space, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 -‘Korean Route,’ Place M + Mini Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 -‘Uncle Zyanose Meat,’ GALLERY mestalla, Tokyo, Japan.
2010 -‘Butterfly Sandwich,’ Ogu Mag, Tokyo, Japan.
2010 -‘Sunny Side of Suicide,’ Broiler Space, Tokyo, Japan.
2009 -‘China White,’ Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan.
2008 -‘Spider’s Strategy,’ GunGallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
2007 -‘Dante Lobster,’ void+, Tokyo, Japan.
2007 -‘My Name is Shockhammer,’ Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan.
2007 -‘Spider’s Strategy,’ Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, the USA.
2005 -‘Chinese Rocks,’ Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan.
2004 -‘13th Floor Elevator over the Hill,’ Chukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Nagoya, Japan.
2003 -‘Suzy Cream Oil Cheese,’ White Cube Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
2002 -‘Stravinsky Overdrive,’ Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2000 -‘Black Parachute Ears 1999,’ Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo (The 19th Ken Domon Prize Exhibition), Japan.
1999 -‘Colored Air Blood Black 1999,’ Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan.
1999 -‘Black Parachute Ears 1991-1999,’ Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan.
1999 -‘Someday O.K. Prince will Come,’ Gallery Q & Q-S, Tokyo, Japan.
1998 -‘All The Needles on are Red,’ Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan.
1996 -‘Keihin Machine Soul,’ Works H., Kanagawa, Japan.
1995 -‘Tokyo Swing,’ Yoshii Gallery, New York, the USA.
1995 -‘Today’s Japan,’ Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan.
1994 -‘Crashlanding in Tokyo’s Dream,’ Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, Loch Walker Gallery, North Carolina, the USA.
1993 -‘Crashlanding in Tokyo’s Dream,’ Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 -‘Photography Mine,’ Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan.
2023 -‘MOVING IMAGES,’ IG PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan.
2023 -‘The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023,’ Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
2020 -‘imshow,’ Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 -‘DECODE / Events & Materials, The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Industrial Society,’ The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan.
2019 -‘Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography,’ National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
2018 -‘Asama International Photo Festival,’ PHOTO MIYOTA, Nagano, Japan.
2018 -‘Yokohama Museum of Art Collection,’ ARTS MAEBASHI, Tokyo, Japan.
2018 -‘Modern Art Revisited: from the Collection of Fukuoka Art Museum,’ Tottori Prefectural Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Japan.
2017 -‘The Exhibition of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Collection 2016 Part3,’ Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan.
2016 -‘Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, the USA.
2014 -‘The Exhibition of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Collection 2014 Part2,’ Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan.
2013 -‘Unconsciousness of the City,’ The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
2013 -‘Ken Domon & Domon Ken Award Photographers,’ The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan.
2013 -‘Magnetic field,’ Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 -‘Repeat After Me vol.1,’The Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 -‘JAPAN TODAY,’ AMADOR GALLERY, New York, the USA.
2009 -‘Photography Now: Japan, China, Korea,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, the USA.
2009 -‘Art in Busan 2009: Inter-City,’ Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea.
2008 -‘Japanische Fotografie: Takashi Yasumura und Osamu Kanemura,’ Abbt Projects, Zurich, Switzerland.
2007 -‘Views of Water – From Monet and Taikan to the Present,’ Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan.
2006 -‘Cities, Architecture and Society,’ Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2005 -‘Modernology of Osaka,’ Osaka Zokei Center, Osaka, Japan.
2004 -‘Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles,’ Arles, France.
2003 -‘Inside Out: Mechanism of Cityscapes,’ Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
2003 -‘Ken Domon & Domon Ken Award Photographers,’ The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan.
2003 -‘Experience: The Media Rat Race,’ The Netherland Foto Instituut, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2002 -‘Tradition and Presence: Japan, Contemporary Ceramics and Photography,’ Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
2001 -‘Surface: Contemporary Photography, Video, and Painting from Japan,’ Netherland Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2001 -‘Future Perfect,’ Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
2001 -‘The Standard,’ held in the Naoshima island, organized by Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan.
2001 -‘IKIRO/Be Alive: Contemporary Art from Japan, 1980 to the Present,’ Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands.
2000 -‘Osamu KANEMURA,’ Part object Gallery, North Carolina, the USA.
1998 -‘Prix Whanki Exhibition: Seoul-Berlin-Tokyo,’ Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea.
1998 -‘Photography Today: The Absence of Distance,’ National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1997 -‘Absolute Landscape: Contemporary Photography between Illusion and Reality,’ Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan.
1996 -‘New Photography 12,’ The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the USA.
1995 -‘The 3rd International Foto-Triennale Esslingen: Dicht am Laben,’ Esslingen, Germany.
1994 -‘Japan Today,’ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
1994 -‘Japanese Avant-garde,’ Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, North Carolina, the USA.
1992 -‘The 3rd Fotografie Biennale: Waste Land from Now on,’ Rotterdam Waterstad, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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