Osamu Kanemura

*1964 / Japan

Works

Solo exhibitions

Skeleton Goats Dust Storms

MEM, Tokyo (JP)
21 Mar 2026 – 12 Apr 2026
Can I Help Me?

MEM, Tokyo (JP)
2 Feb 2023 – 26 Feb 2023
Successive Sliding of Pleasure

ONLY PHOTOGRAPHY, Berlin (DE)
30 Apr 2016 – 24 Jun 2017
Hindenburg Omen

Photographers' gallery, Tokyo (JP)
23 Jul 2013 – 9 Aug 2013
Howling Smack Wolf

Photographers' gallery, Tokyo (JP)
6 Nov 2012 – 18 Nov 2012
Alice In Butcher Land

Photographers' gallery, Tôkyô (JP)
8 Nov 2011 – 20 Nov 2011
Alice In Butcher Land

Kula Photo Gallery, Tôkyô (JP)
8 Nov 2011 – 20 Nov 2011
China White

Zeit Foto kunitachi, Tôkyô (JP)
8 May 2009 – 3 Jun 2009
Spider's Strategy

GunGallery, Stockholm (SE)
22 May 2008 – 30 Jun 2008
Spider's Strategy

Amador Gallery, New York (US)
11 Apr 2007 – 2 Jun 2007
Chinese Rocks

Zeit Foto kunitachi, Tôkyô (JP)
4 Nov 2005 – 26 Nov 2005
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Photographic Gallery , Helsinki (FI)
13 Sep 2002 – 6 Oct 2002

Group

So Far and From Now On

TOP 30th Anniversary State of the Artist

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
15 Oct 2025 – 25 Jan 2026

with Aya Fujioka, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kikuji Kawada, Lieko Shiga
Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography (1926-89)

1926

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
11 Oct 2019 – 22 Mar 2020

with Takashi Hamaguchi, Tadahiko Hayashi, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Ihei Kimura, Kineo Kuwabara, Yasumasa Morimura, Koji Morooka, Shibuya Ryukichi
TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 3

20 Year Anniversary - Synchronicity

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
23 Sep 2017 – 26 Nov 2017

with Yoko Asakai, Mikiko Hara, Maiko Haruki, Rinko Kawauchi, Ken Kitano, Mika Ninagawa, Rika Noguchi, Tomoko Sawada, Ryudai Takano, Hiromi Tsuchida, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Tomoko Yoneda
Showa Portraits / The Visual Revolution of the Machine Age

Tracing the People and History of the Showa Era (1926-1989) / Photography and Film between the World Wars

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (JP)
4 Jan 2017 – 28 Feb 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Takashi Hamaguchi, Tadahiko Hayashi, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Ihei Kimura, Kineo Kuwabara, Yasumasa Morimura, Koji Morooka, Dziga Vertov
Le bal － Part 2 － scherzo

Hommage à Etsuro ISHIHARA

Zeit Foto kunitachi, Tokyo (JP)
11 Oct 2016 – 12 Nov 2016

with Shigeo Anzai, Nobuyoshi Araki, Yoko Asakai, Tina Barney, Robert Besanko, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Bernard Faucon, Joan Fontcuberta, Masao Gozu, Shoko Hashimoto, Naoya Hatakeyama …
THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL

New York Photo Festival, New York (US)
12 May 2010 – 16 May 2010

with Eleanor Antin, Christoph Bangert, Christoph Bangert, Jeff Bark, Morton Bartlett, Adam Bartos, Linus Bill, Lucas Blalock, Marcus Bleasdale, Sergey Bratkov, Harry Callahan, Michal Chelbin …
Rencontres de la photographie Arles 2004

Expositions proprosees par, Exhibitions selected by Martin Parr

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
8 Jul 2004 – 19 Sep 2004

with Michael Ackerman, AES+F, Helena Almeida, Keith Arnatt, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Lara Baladi, Brigitte Bauer, Marina Berio, Alain Bizos, GAO Bo, Pascal Bois, Antonin Borgeaud …
EXPERIENCE

Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
14 Mar 2003 – 21 Apr 2003

with Chantal Akerman, Claude Closky, Rineke Dijkstra, Andreas Gursky, Alfredo Jaar, Tara Karpinski, Leonore Mau, Mondophrenetic, Geert Mul, MVRDV, Stefan Römer, Joachim Schmid …
Foto Biënnale Rotterdam

Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
15 Mar 2003 – 21 Apr 2003

with Chantal Akerman, Herman Asselberghs, Claude Closky, Rineke Dijkstra, Andreas Gursky, Alfredo Jaar, Tara Karpinski, Bruce Mau, Geert Mul, MVRDV, Stefan Römer, Joachim Schmid …

Events

Contemporary Japanese Photography

The Roland Angst Collection

Lempertz, Köln (DE)
27 Nov 2025 – 11 Dec 2025

with Emi Anrakuji, Hiroshi Hamaya, Yuichi Hibi, Kenji Hosoe, Tetsuya Ichimura, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Rinko Kawauchi, Ryuji Miyamoto, Yoichi Nagano, Kosuke Okahara, Koji Onaka, Tatsumi Orimoto …
The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2019

The Art of Transposition - <a href="https://www.yebizo.com/en/" target="_blank">www.yebizo.com/en/</a>

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
8 Feb 2019 – 24 Feb 2019

with Razan AlSalah, Basma Alsharif, Ute Aurand, Nika Autor, Karolina Bregula, Satoru Eguchi, Mikhail Karikis, Buster Keaton, Takehito Koganezawa, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Len Lye, Hiroko Okada …
Foto Biënnale Rotterdam

www.fbr.nl

Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
15 Mar 2003 – 21 Apr 2003

with Chantal Akerman, Herman Asselberghs, Claude Closky, Rineke Dijkstra, Andreas Gursky, Alfredo Jaar, Tara Karpinski, Bruce Mau, Geert Mul, Els Opsomer, Stefan Römer, Joachim Schmid …