Osamu James Nakagawa

♂ United States

Solo exhibitions

Kai: Following the Cycle of Life

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland (US)
4 Sep 2025 – 27 Sep 2025
Witness Trees

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
17 May 2023 – 1 Jul 2023
Eclipse

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
31 Oct 2018 – 22 Dec 2018
Kai Series

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
30 Mar 2018 – 2 Jun 2018
Gama Caves

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
6 Jun 2014 – 19 Jul 2014
Osamu James Nakagawa

Gama Caves

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
11 Apr 2014 – 31 May 2014
Gama

pictura gallery, Bloomington (US)
6 Sep 2013 – 26 Oct 2013
remains 2001-2009

Gallery Tosei, Tôkyô (JP)
1 Jun 2010 – 30 Jun 2010
Ma- Between the Past

Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago (US)
13 May 2005 – 19 Jun 2005
Kai Series

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
24 Jan 2003 – 12 Apr 2003

Group

CURRENCY: PHOTOGRAPHY BEYOND CAPTURE

8th Triennal of Photography Hamburg 2022

Haus der Photographie, Hamburg (DE)
20 May 2022 – 18 Sep 2022

with Akinbode Akinbiyi, Claudia Andujar, Ziad Antar, Vartan Avakian, Ragnar Axelsson, Edson Chagas, Oroma Elewa, rana elnemr, Anne-Marie Filaire, Lyle Ashton Harris, Leslie Hewitt, Alfredo Jaar …
from the cave

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
1 Oct 2019 – 24 Nov 2019

with Ken Kitano, Gerhard Richter, Lieko Shiga, Fiona Tan
Women -through the lens-

TKB Bldg. 3F

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
12 Jul 2018 – 1 Sep 2018

with Takashi Arai, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Imogen Cunningham, Elliott Erwitt, Louis Faurer, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Andre Kertesz …
Bounce

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
20 Oct 2017 – 2 Dec 2017

with Atul Bhalla, Bhupendra Karia, Qiana Mestrich, Rebecca Norris-Webb, Beatrice Pediconi, Nandita Raman, Raghubir Singh, Pamela Singh, Vivan Sundaram, Alex Webb
A Shared Elegy

Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington (US)
13 Oct 2017 – 16 Nov 2017

with Emmet Gowin, Elijah Gowin, Takayuki Ogawa
After Photoshop

Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
25 Sep 2012 – 27 May 2013

with Nancy Davenport, Filip Dujardin, Kota Ezawa, Tom Friedman, Beate Guetschow, Debbie Grossman, Craig Kalpakjian, Maria Marshall, Robert Polidori, Matthew Porter, Thomas Ruff, Jason Salavon
SUPERNATUREAL

Photography exploring landscape subjects.

MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Gallery, New York (US)
15 Dec 2011 – 28 Jan 2012

with Ingo Günther, Terry Taylor, Yu Yamauchi
17th Noordlicht Photofestival 2010: Land - Country Life in the Urban Age

Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
5 Sep 2010 – 31 Oct 2010

with Evan Abramson, Benoit Aquin, Pablo Balbontin Arenas, George Awde, Tessa Bunney, Alexandra Demenkova, Laura El-Tantawy, Eva Gjaltema, Brigitte Grignet, Robin Hammond, Katharina Hesse, Sohrab Hura …
Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection

FOTOFEST 2010 BIENNIAL

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
21 Feb 2010 – 9 May 2010

with Vito Acconci, Shimon Attie, Chan-Hyo Bae, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Oliver Boberg, Christian Boltanski, Guenter Brus, Edward Burtynsky, James Casebere, Robert Cumming …
C O U R S E

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
22 Mar 2008 – 3 May 2008

with Atul Bhalla, Jaye Rhee
Traces and Omens

Noorderlicht 2005. Kurátor: Wim Melis

Langhans Galerie Praha, Praha (CZ)
7 Jun 2006 – 20 Aug 2006

with HAI Bo, Kai Bornhoeft, Larry Fink, Gladys, Gladys, Helen Kudrich, Owen Logan, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Christien Meindertsma, Anoek Steketee, Ali Taptik, Annet van der Voort …
7. Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen - Contemporary American Photography

BildForum e.V., Mannheim (DE)
16 Jun 2005 – 10 Jul 2005

with Steven Benson, Paul Berger, Marilyn Bridges, Vincent Cianni, Jeff Dunas, Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Benedict J. Fernandez, Larry Fink, John Ganis, Bruce Gilden, Arlene Gottfried, Lauren Greenfield …
2004 Print Auction Exhibition

Houston Center Photography, Houston (US)
16 Jan 2004 – 8 Feb 2004

with Ruth Bernhard, Peter Brown, Dan Burkholder, Paul Caponigro, Keith Carter, f&d Cartier, Flor Garduno, Kimberly Gremillion, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Michael Kenna, Jerry N. Uelsmann

Events

2026 FOTOFOCUS BIENNIAL: The Long View

FotoFocus Cincinnati, Cincinnati (US)
1 Oct 2026 – 31 Oct 2026

with Marco Anelli, Widline Cadet, Mitch Epstein, Julie Renee Jones, Stacy Kranitz, Kent Krugh, Kimbei Kusakabe, Heesoo Kwon, Sean McFarland, Kazumasa Ogawa, Trevor Paglen, Gordon Parks …
Paris Photo 2025 - Group show

PGI - Photo Gallery, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Narumi Hiramoto, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yoshihiko Ito, Kikuji Kawada, Michiko Kon, Yurie Nagashima , Asako Narahashi, Yuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Takenouchi, Tokuko Ushioda
Paris Photo 2025 - Booksignings

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Edouard Elias, Laia Abril, Michael Ackerman, Rhiannon Adam, Hoda Afshar, Juliette Agnel, Albarran Cabrera, David Alekhuogie, Jean-Michel André, Ljubodrag Andric, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek, Jane Evelyn Atwood …
Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2019

Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Tbilisi (GE)
3 May 2019 – 1 Jun 2019

with Niels Ackermann, Mariam Amurvelashvili, Jonas Bendiksen, Patrick Biénert, Julia Borissova, Sanne de Wilde, Marco Gualazzini, Dato Koridze, Benedicte Kurzen, Kate Mellor, Marc Riboud, Igor Samolet …
Kyotographie Festival 2019 - VIBE

Kyotographie , Kyoto (JP)
13 Apr 2019 – 12 May 2019

with Ismail Bahri, Alfred Ehrhardt, Weronika Gesicka, Kenryou Gu, Teppei Kaneuji, Alberto Diaz Korda (Guttierrez), Vik Muniz, Kosuke Okahara, Rene Pena, Paolo Pellegrin, Kishin Shinoyama, Albert Watson
PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE 2018

Photography to end all Photography

BRANDTS, Odense (DK)
31 Aug 2018 – 31 Dec 2018

with Lykke Andersen, Thomas Bangsted, Kelli Connell, Keith Cottingham, Filip Dujardin, Jeannette Ehlers, Peter Funch, Beate Guetschow, Niklas Goldbach, Craig Kalpakjian, Gerhard Mantz, Robert Overweg …
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 - A french School

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
2 Jul 2012 – 23 Sep 2012

with Grégoire Alexandre, Jean-Christophe Bechet, Sylvia Ballhause, Sammy Baloji, Brigitte Bauer, Edouard Beau, Massimo Berruti, Olivier Cablat, Sophie Calle, Sébastien Calvet, James Casebere, Alexandra Catiere …