Kenro Izu

*1940 / Japan

Works

Solo exhibitions

India: Where prayer echoes

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
22 Jul 2026 – 16 Sep 2026
Mono no Aware

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
27 Sep 2025 – 22 Nov 2025
Blue

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
22 Nov 2023 – 13 Jan 2024
Mono no Aware

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
24 Nov 2021 – 21 Jan 2022
Journey Without a Map

Roonee 247 Photography, Tokyo (JP)
23 Nov 2021 – 28 Nov 2021
Unpublished Works 1975-2016

Journey Without a Map

Iwao Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
17 Nov 2021 – 28 Nov 2021
Requiem for Pompei

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
7 Dec 2019 – 13 Apr 2020
Requiem for Pompei

FMAV - Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena (IT)
7 Dec 2019 – 13 Apr 2020
Seduction

Damiani, Bologna (IT)
22 Mar 2019 – 31 Jul 2019
Eternal Light

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
26 Oct 2017 – 9 Dec 2017
Seduction of Pears

Gallery Bauhaus, Tokyo (JP)
1 Feb 2017 – 25 Mar 2017
Kenro Along The Silk Road

Robert Klein / Ars Libri, Boston (US)
2 Dec 2016 – 23 Dec 2016
Eternal Light

Kiyosato Museum of Photo, Kiyosato (JP)
2 Jul 2016 – 10 Oct 2016
Eternal Light

Zeit Foto kunitachi, Tokyo (JP)
18 Nov 2015 – 19 Dec 2015
Still Life

in camera, Paris (FR)
10 Apr 2014 – 31 May 2014
India

where prayer echoes

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
11 Jan 2013 – 23 Feb 2013
Sacred Places

InCamera Photo Gallery, Pietrasanta (IT)
4 Sep 2012 – 15 Sep 2012
Sacred Places

in camera, Paris (FR)
15 Jun 2012 – 15 Sep 2012
Sacred Places

InCamera Photo Gallery, Pietrasanta (IT)
31 May 2012 – 14 Jul 2012
Sacred India

Persiehl & Heine, Hamburg (DE)
17 Nov 2010 – 12 Jan 2011
Bhutan : Sacred within

Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris (FR)
10 Jun 2010 – 7 Aug 2010
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston (US)
16 Apr 2010 – 22 May 2010
BHUTAN - sacred within

Kiyosato Museum of Photo, Kiyosato (JP)
28 Jun 2008 – 25 Jan 2009
Stillness

Persiehl & Heine, Hamburg (DE)
24 Sep 2008 – 25 Oct 2008
Secred Places

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (US)
9 Jul 2008 – 12 Oct 2008
The Sacred Within

Addison / Ripley Fine Art, Washington (US)
28 Jun 2008 – 31 Jul 2008
Bhutan, the Sacred Within

Rubin Museum of Art, New York (US)
2 Nov 2007 – 18 Feb 2008
Still - Land

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
13 Dec 2007 – 19 Jan 2008
Sacred Places

Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (US)
21 Jul 2007 – 23 Sep 2007
Nudes and Still lifes

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston (US)
8 Sep 2006 – 4 Nov 2006
Sacred Places

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg (US)
3 Apr 2005 – 5 Jun 2005
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CAMERA WORK, Hamburg (DE)
7 Feb 2005 – 26 Mar 2005
Blue: nude and still life

Fondazione Sozzani, Milano (IT)
20 Jan 2005 – 20 Feb 2005
Passage to Himalaya

Rubin Museum of Art, New York (US)
4 Oct 2004 – 7 Jan 2005
Blue

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
16 Sep 2004 – 23 Oct 2004
Sacred Places and Still Lifes

Focus Gallery, London (GB)
28 Apr 2004 – 12 Jun 2004
Sacred places

acte2galerie, Paris (FR)
5 Apr 2004 – 29 May 2004
Passage to Angkor

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
5 Dec 2003 – 17 Jan 2004

Group

BOUND AND UNBOUND

The Photographic Book and the Print

ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
6 Sep 2025 – 8 Nov 2025

with Edward Burtynsky, Jo Ann Callis, William Christenberry, Thomas Demand, Tania Franco Klein, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jim Goldberg, Katy Grannan, Ken Graves, Anthony Hernandez, Hannah Hughes, Rinko Kawauchi …
Black Traces / Sinking Light

Tosa Hakkinshi

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
9 Jul 2025 – 6 Sep 2025

with Yoshihiko Ito, Kikuji Kawada, Mark Sink & Kristen Hatgi, Sarah Moon, Hisako Sakurai, Masanobu Seike, Takeshi Shikama, Kiyoshi Yagi, Satoru Yoshioka
Art of Light Observation and Witness

From the Shudai Gallery Collection

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
10 Jun 2024 – 8 Jul 2024

with Ansel Adams, Caj Bremer, Christopher Burkett, Ernst Haas, Taishi Hirokawa, Michael Kenna, Paul Strand
15th anniversary

in camera, Paris (FR)
12 Oct 2023 – 23 Dec 2023

with Emi Anrakuji, Nobuyoshi Araki, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Jerry Berndt, Philippe Bordas, Alexandra Catiere, Krass Clement, Ananias Leki Dago, Claudine Doury, Stephane Duroy, Sissi Farassat …
BETWEEN ART AND NATURE

Ex Convento Orsoline San Carlo, Como (IT)
16 Sep 2023 – 15 Oct 2023

with Annelies Strba, Tom Baril, Karl Blossfeldt, Edward S. Curtis, Masahisa Fukase, Sarah Moon, Alfred Stieglitz, Dr. Dain L. Tasker
Intimités

in camera, Paris (FR)
15 Jun 2023 – 8 Oct 2023

with Emi Anrakuji, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Jerry Berndt, Alexandra Catiere, Krass Clement, Claudine Doury, Stephane Duroy, Sissi Farassat, Eri Makita, Eva Rubinstein, Laurence Sackmann …
The Stillness of Things

Photographs from the Lane Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
27 Aug 2022 – 27 Feb 2023

with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, William Henry Fox Talbot, Adam Fuss, Robert Heinecken, David Hilliard, Margrethe Mather, Abelardo Morell, Olivia Parker, Charles Jr. Sheeler, Josef Sudek, Edward Weston
Conscious Response

Photographers Changing the Way We See

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (US)
22 Jul 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

with Diane Arbus, Dawoud Bey, Bruce Davidson, Roy DeCarava, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, Mike + Doug Starn, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Millee Tibbs, Corine Vermeulen
Letters to Etsuro Ishihara

Part II 'Air Mail'

Zeit Foto kunitachi, Tokyo (JP)
2 Apr 2022 – 14 May 2022

with Shigeo Anzai, Noe Aoki, Masao Gozu, Mari Ito, Asako Narahashi, Koji Onaka, Yuki Onodera, Tomio Seike, Toshio Shibata, Kunie Sugiura, Ryoko Suzuki, Ryudai Takano …
Japan naked

Japans naakt

Japan Museum - SieboldHuis, Leiden (NL)
15 Mar 2019 – 8 Sep 2019

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Masahisa Fukase, Taichi Gondaira, Koro Honjo, Mayumi Hosokura, Yoshiyuki Iwase, Daido Moriyama, Iwata Nakayama, Sakiko Nomura, Momo Okabe, Photographer Hal, Ryudai Takano
YUMIKO IZU & KENRO IZU

in camera, Paris (FR)
20 Sep 2018 – 24 Nov 2018

with Yumiko Izu
Le bal － Part 3 － adagio cantabile

Hommage à Etsuro ISHIHARA

Zeit Foto kunitachi, Tokyo (JP)
18 Nov 2016 – 22 Dec 2016

with Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Susan Fenton, Lee Friedlander, Hitoshi Fugo, Katsuji Fukuda, Joaquim Gomis, Lyu Hanabusa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kazuo Kitai, Keizo Kitajima, Makiko Koie …
Micellaneous

in camera, Paris (FR)
2 Jul 2016 – 17 Sep 2016

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Edouard Boubat, Robert Longo, Dolores Marat
Photolux Festival 2015 - Sacro e Profano

Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia

Photolux Festival, Lucca (IT)
17 Nov 2015 – 10 Dec 2015

with Michele Borzoni, Joana Choumali, Nicolò Degiorgis, JH Engstroem, Charles Freger, Stanley Greene, Ernst Haas, Andres Serrano, Alice Smeets, Patrick Willocq, Joel Peter Witkin
Five Decades of Photography at the MFA

Featuring the Dandrew-Drapkin Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (US)
20 Jun 2015 – 4 Oct 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Edouard Baldus, Ilse Bing, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Hine, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange …
Platinum

A.Galerie, Paris (FR)
27 Mar 2015 – 30 May 2015

with Nick Brandt, David McDermott & Peter McGough, Jean de Pomereu, Patrick Demarchelier, Elliott Erwitt, Irving Penn, Hamid Sardar-Afkhami, Mark Seliger, Takeshi Shikama, Albert Watson
Platinum

Contemporary Photography

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
10 Jan 2015 – 5 Apr 2015

with Lois Conner, Scott B. Davis, Andrea Modica
An Enduring Vision

Photographs from the Lane Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
9 Jul 2013 – 30 Mar 2014

with Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, William Henry Fox Talbot, Irving Penn, Charles Jr. Sheeler, Edward Weston, Francesca Woodman
En Foco/In Focus

Selected Works from the Permanent Collection

Light Work, Syracuse (US)
1 Sep 2011 – 31 Jan 2012

with Adál , Sama Alshaibi, Don Gregorio Anton, Chuy Benítez, Louis Carlos Bernal, Dawoud Bey, Gerald Cyrus, Ana de Orbegoso, Luis Delgado, Dean Dempsey, Myra Greene, Muriel Hasbun …
NUDES - Positions of Nude Art Photography

NUDES - Positionen der Aktphotographie

CAMERA WORK, Berlin (DE)
3 Jul 2010 – 28 Aug 2010

with Lola Alvarez Bravo, Guido Argentini, Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Werner Bischof, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bill Brandt, Josef Breitenbach, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Frantisek Drtikol, Ralph Gibson …
Sacred Sights

photographs in India

The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai (AE)
5 Jan 2010 – 5 Feb 2010

with Bruno Barbey, Werner Bischof, Edouard Boubat, Margaret Bourke-White, Bourne & Shepherd, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, William Gedney, Ernst Haas, Betsy Karel, Leon Levinstein, Mary Ellen Mark …
Photographers of Japanese Descent

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
14 Mar 2008 – 3 May 2008

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe, Michiko Matsumoto, Seiju Toda, Shoji Ueda, Iwao Yamawaki
The Body Exposed in Fine Art Photography

ArteF, Zürich (CH)
26 Aug 2006 – 30 Sep 2006

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Lillian Bassman, Andreas H. Bitesnich, William Carter , Roger Corona, Mario Cravo Neto, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Bruce Davidson, Frantisek Drtikol, Jeff Dunas, Franco Fontana …
R A N D O M

Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas (US)
11 Aug 2006 – 26 Aug 2006

with Luis Gonzalez Palma, Horst P. Horst, William Rittase
The Body Familiar: Current Perspectives of the Nude

Griffin Museum Photography, Boston (US)
12 Jan 2006 – 19 Mar 2006

with Elinor Carucci, Charles Cohen, John Coplans, Robert Flynt, Henry Horenstein, Mona Kuhn, Gary Schneider, Vee Speers
From the Collection: Platinum Prints - The Allurement of Light II

Kiyosato Museum of Photo, Kiyosato (JP)
29 Oct 2005 – 19 Feb 2006

with Edward S. Curtis, Edward Steichen, Roman Vishniac
A Selection of Vintage and Contemporary Photographs

From Edward S. Curtis to David LaChapelle

ArteF, Zürich (CH)
16 Nov 2005 – 7 Jan 2006

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Max Baur, Edouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mario Cravo Neto, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Frantisek Drtikol, Mario Giacomelli, David LaChapelle, Tina Modotti, Albert Renger-Patzsch …
Mask of Japan

Contemporary Japanese Photography

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (CN)
8 Jun 2004 – 4 Jul 2004

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Akane Asaoka, Naoya Hatakeyama, Fuyuki Hattori, Miyako Ishiuchi, Youmei Kawai, Kazuo Kitai, Kisei Kobayashi, Makiko Koie, Taiji Matsue, Ryuji Miyamoto, Yasumasa Morimura …
Mask of Japan

Aura Gallery, Shanghai (CN)
12 Dec 2003 – 12 Jan 2004

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Akane Asaoka, Naoya Hatakeyama, Fuyuki Hattori, Miyako Ishiuchi, Youmei Kawai, Kazuo Kitai, Hideo Kobayashi, Makiko Koie, Taiji Matsue, Ryuji Miyamoto, Yasumasa Morimura …
Invito alla Fotografia

Fondazione Sozzani, Milano (IT)
13 Dec 2003 – 31 Dec 2003

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Felice Beato, Karl Blossfeldt, Edouard Boubat, William Carter , Larry Clark, William Claxton, Roger Corona, Raul Corrales, Mario Cravo Neto, Edward S. Curtis, Alfred Eisenstaedt …
La vita delle forme - Fotografie, disegni e grafiche

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
19 Sep 2003 – 9 Nov 2003

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Edouard Boubat, Robert Capa, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Franco Fontana, Joan Fontcuberta, Luigi Ghirri …

Events

Art Paris 2026

ART PARIS, Paris (FR)
9 Apr 2026 – 12 Apr 2026

with Laurence Aegerter, Laia Abril, Michael Ackerman, Bryan Adams, Peter Aerschmann, Juliette Agnel, Aassmaa Akhannouch, Albarran Cabrera, Kristoffer Albrecht, Toni Amengual, Sarfo Emmanuel Annor, Nobuyoshi Araki …
MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas 2026

Galleria13, Milano (IT)
19 Mar 2026 – 22 Mar 2026

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Michael Kenna, Daido Moriyama
Paris Photo 2024 - Group show

Booth

IBASHO, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Kenshichi Heshiki, Eikoh Hosoe, Sayuri Ichida, Kenji Ishiguro, Miho Kajioka, Takako Kido, Daido Moriyama, Naoyuki Ogino, Tokyo Rumando, Osamu Shiihara, Kishin Shinoyama …
Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
17 Oct 2022 – 19 Oct 2022

with Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Felice Beato, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward S. Curtis, Max Dupain, Francis Frith, Peter Hujar, Arthur Lavine, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Richard Mosse …
Modern & Contemporary Art

VERITAS, Lisbon (PT)
2 Nov 2019 – 6 Nov 2019

with Helena Almeida, Vasco Araujo, Art & Language , Daniel Blaufuks, Joan Fontcuberta, Margarida Gouveia, Edgar Martins, Jorge Molder, Vik Muniz, José Luís Neto, Paulo Nozolino, Luís Palma …
Photographs

Christie's New York, New York (US)
30 Sep 2018 – 4 Oct 2018

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lewis Baltz, Peter Beard, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lynn Davis, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, William Eggleston, Elger Esser, Fernand Fonssagrives, Robert Frank …
photo basel 2018

photo basel, Basel (CH)
12 Jun 2018 – 17 Jun 2018

with Annelies Strba, Albarran Cabrera, Juan Carlos Alom, Carolle Benitah, Tom Benson, Stefania Beretta, Sonja Braas, Balthasar Burkhard, Rene Burri, Edward Burtynsky, Robert Capa, Renato D'Agostin …
photo basel 2018

Persiehl & Heine, Basel (CH)
12 Jun 2018 – 17 Jun 2018

with Sarah Moon, Gregor Toerzs
art KARLSRUHE 2017

KMK Karlsruher Messe, Rheinstetten (DE)
16 Feb 2017 – 19 Feb 2017

with Bernd Arnold, Guillaume Barth, Nomi Baumgartl, Edward Burtynsky, Francois Delebecque, John Dominis, Elliott Erwitt, Mindaugas Gabrenas, Gilbert Garcin, Manfred Hamm, Thomas Hoepker, William Klein …
Cologne Fine Art 2016

Cologne Fine Art, Köln (DE)
17 Nov 2016 – 20 Nov 2016

with Boris Becker, Jim Dine, Robert Lebeck, Sarah Moon, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Blue

The Photographers - The Lecture Series

School of ICP International Center of Ph, New York (US)
Passage to Angkor

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
CPW AWARDS & BENEFIT AUCTION

CPW, Kingston (US)

with Berenice Abbott, Corey Arnold, Margaret Bourke-White, Cornell Capa, Elinor Carucci, Jack Delano, Alinka Echeverria, Connie Imboden, William Klein, David LaChapelle, Arthur Leipzig, Leon Levinstein …