Ken Domon

♂ *1909-1990 / Japan

Works

Solo exhibitions

To Die and To Live

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
17 Oct 2026 – 17 Jan 2027
The Beauty of Drapery, from Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
4 Sep 2026 – 7 Nov 2026
The Love Photographed

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
17 Apr 2026 – 12 Jul 2026
Snapshots!

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
4 Apr 2025 – 7 Jun 2025
Ken Domon's Matiere!

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
26 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Landscape of Prayer

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
15 Apr 2024 – 1 Jun 2024
A Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
18 Mar 2023 – 14 May 2023
KOJI-JUNREI

A Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
11 Apr 2022 – 1 Jun 2022
Tokyo 1936–1967

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
9 Mar 2020 – 20 May 2020
Fujimori, Takeshi the Buddha

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
8 Oct 2016 – 25 Dec 2016
Two Perspectives

FujiFilm Square, Tokyo (JP)
1 Oct 2014 – 2 Feb 2015

Group

Scènes, signes, sensations

Photographies japonaises de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Bibl. Nationale France, Paris (FR)
30 Sep 2026 – 31 Jan 2027

with Yukari Chikura, Shigeo Gocho, Hiroshi Hamaya, Yu Hirai, Eikoh Hosoe, Rinko Kawauchi, Ihei Kimura, Mami Kiyoshi, Eriko Koga, Satoru Kondo, Eri Makita, Daido Moriyama …
The Postwar Never Ends

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
8 Sep 2025 – 5 Nov 2025

with Shoko Ahagon, Kikuji Kawada, Ihei Kimura, Daido Moriyama, Yoshitaka Nakatani, Takeyoshi Tanuma, Yoshihiro Tatsuki
Photography as Storytelling

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
11 Jul 2025 – 26 Oct 2025

with Shomei Tomatsu
Folklore Through the Lens

Between Ritual and Routine

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
24 Jan 2025 – 30 Mar 2025

with Masatoshi Naito
New Japanese Photography in New Light

T3 Photo Festival Tokyo 2024

Tokyo Institut of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
5 Oct 2024 – 27 Oct 2024

with Ryoji Akiyama, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Tetsuya Ichimura, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Bishin Jumonji, Kikuji Kawada, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Ikko Narahara, Ken Ohara, Shomei Tomatsu …
In the Dunes

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
5 Apr 2024 – 15 Jul 2024

with Shoji Ueda
Yōjo

vintage Japanese photography in confrontation with Dutch photographer Jeremy Stigter

IBASHO, Antwerp (BE)
3 Jun 2023 – 6 Aug 2023

with Werner Bischof, Akira Sato, Jeremy Stigter, Issei Suda, Keiichi Tahara, Shoji Ueda, Ed van der Elsken, Yukichi Watabe
In Search of Social Photography

Ken Domon Museum Photo, Sakata (JP)
6 Apr 2023 – 9 Jul 2023

with Yonosuke Natori
Occupation and Peace

From Shodai Gallery Collection

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
9 Sep 2022 – 2 Nov 2022

with Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Akira Tanno
Japanese Photograpy 1930s ‐ 1970s

with Taka Ishii Gallery

Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich (CH)
7 Jun 2019 – 3 Aug 2019

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Ei-Q, Masahisa Fukase, Hiroshi Hamaya, Minoru Hirata, Eikoh Hosoe, Seiryu Inoue, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Kineo Kuwabara, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira …
War and Postwar: The Prism of the Times

Organized by Izu Photo Museum and the Japan Camera Industry Institute

Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka (JP)
18 Jul 2015 – 31 Jan 2016

with Shunkichi Kikuchi, Ihei Kimura, Yonosuke Natori, Yosuke Yamahata
Conflict, Time, Photography.

Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
10 Apr 2015 – 5 Jul 2015

with Indre Serpytyte, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Jules Andrieu, Pierre Antony-Thouret, Nobuyoshi Araki, George N. Barnard, Margaret Bourke-White, Frank Breuer, Rene Burri, Hermann Claasen, Luc Delahaye, Chloe Dewe Mathews …
Single Photo

rom some of the leading photographers in the history of Japanese photography

FujiFilm Square, Tokyo (JP)
17 Jan 2014 – 5 Feb 2014

with Shinzo Fukuhara, Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Hayashi, Ueno Hikoma, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Ihei Kimura, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Kishin Shinoyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Yoshihiro Tatsuki
Die Metamorphose Japans nach dem Krieg

Fotografie 1945-1964

Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Köln (DE)
27 Jun 2012 – 29 Sep 2012

with Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Hayashi, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Ihei Kimura, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shomei Tomatsu, Takeyoshi Tanuma
Metamorphosis of Japan after the War

Photography 1945 – 1964

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
9 Mar 2012 – 17 Jun 2012

with Tadahiko Hayashi, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Keisuke Katano, Kikuji Kawada, Ihei Kimura, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikko Narahara, Shomei Tomatsu, Takeyoshi Tanuma, Yosuke Yamahata
VISIONS OF FUJI: A Portrait of the Japanese People as Seen Through Mt. Fuji

Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka (JP)
9 Jun 2011 – 4 Sep 2011

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Felice Beato, Shinya Fujiwara, Hiroshi Hamaya, Shinzo Hanabusa, Kimbei Kusakabe, Taiji Matsue, Daido Moriyama, Rika Noguchi, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Shomei Tomatsu
Szenen der Kindheit - 60 Jahre Nachkriegsjapan

Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Köln (DE)
12 Sep 2008 – 31 Oct 2008

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Ihei Kimura, Kazunari Shirai
Children of the World: Witness for Tomorrow

Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tôkyô (JP)
5 Feb 2005 – 21 Mar 2005

with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ihei Kimura, Sebastiao Salgado, Kyoichi Sawada
New Japanese Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
27 Mar 1974 – 19 May 1974

with Ryoji Akiyama, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Tetsuya Ichimura, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Bishin Jumonji, Kikuji Kawada, Naito Masatoshi, Daido Moriyama, Ikko Narahara, Ken Ohara, Shomei Tomatsu …

Events

T3 Photo Festival Tokyo 2024

Tokyo Institut of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
5 Oct 2024 – 27 Oct 2024

with Ryoji Akiyama, Masahisa Fukase, Kohei Fukushima, Takata Fuyuhiko, Eikoh Hosoe, Mayumi Hosokura, Tetsuya Ichimura, Hisae Imai, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Bishin Jumonji, Shingo Kanagawa, Kikuji Kawada …
24.39 Classic Photography Fair

Photo Discovery the Fair! becomes 24.39

24-39 / Photo Discovery, Paris (FR)

with Anonymous, Charles Hippolyte Aubry, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, Emil Otto Hoppe, Kimbei Kusakabe, Franco Pinna, August Sander, Tazio Secchiaroli, Alfred Stieglitz, Josef Sudek, Burk Uzzle