Osamu Kanamura

Received the Japan Photographic Society Rookie of the Year Award in 1997

Received the 13th Higashikawa Award for New Artist in 1997

Received the 19th Domon Ken Award in 2000

Received the 39th Ina Nobuo Award in 2014

2026 “SKELETON GOATS DUST STORMS” MEM, Tokyo

2026 “Dynamite Skinship” IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo

2025 “FORMALIN FRESH” FLOTSAM BOOKS, TOKYO

2023 “Can I Help Me?” MEM, Tokyo

2022 “Sold Out Artist” CAVE-AYUMIGALLERY, Tokyo

2022 “God Only Speed Knows” IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo

2021 “Looper Syndicate” DieFirma, New York, USA

2021 “LEAD-PALSY TERMINAL” ALT_MEDIUM, TOKYO

2020 “Copyright Liberation Front” The White, Tokyo

2019 “Voodoo Doughnut” gallery 176, Osaka

2018 “Suck Social Stomach” IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo

2018 “Marshmallow Brain Wash” “Killing Agent” HIJU GALLERY, Osaka

2018 “Shrimp Cocktail President” The White, Tokyo

2018 “Do Not Resuscitate” MUNO, Aichi

2018 “Living Dead Suicide” RAINROOTS, Aichi

2016 “Successive Sliding of Pleasure” Only Photography, Berlin, Germany

2016 “Buddha Virus Suicide Attack” The White, Tokyo

2015 “System Crash for Hi-Fi” The White, Tokyo

2014 “Ansel Adams Stardust (You Are Not Alone)” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo (39th Nobuo Ina Award Winning Works Exhibition, toured to Osaka Nikon Salon in 2015)

2014 “Nothing was Delivered” Void+, Tokyo

2014 “Come to Life Again” Gallery Q, Tokyo

2014 “Ansel Adams Stardust (You Are Not Alone)” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo/Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka

2014 “eiyou-bunsekihyou” The White, Tokyo

2013 “Hindenburg Omen” Photographers' Gallery, KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo

2012 “Howling Smack Wolf” Photographers' Gallery, KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo

2012 “HUMAN NOISE AMPLIFIER” BLD Gallery, Tokyo

2011 “Kawasaki Brötzmann 2002-2007” Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa

2011 “Alice In Butcher Land” Photographers' Gallery, KULA PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo

2011 “White Rabbit Opium Dream” Broiler Space, Tokyo

2011 “Korean Route” Place M+ Mini Gallery, Tokyo

2011 “Uncle Zyanose Meat” GALLERY MESTALLA, TOKYO

2010 “Butterfly Sandwich” Ogu Mag, Tokyo

2010 “Sunny Side of Suicide” Broiler Space, Tokyo

2009 “China White” Zeit Photo Salon, Tokyo

2008 “Spider's Strategy” GunGallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2007 “Dante Lobster” void+, Tokyo

2007 “My Name is Shockhammer” Port Gallery T, Osaka

2007 “Spider's Strategy” Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, USA

2005 “Chinese Rocks” Zeit Photo Salon, Tokyo

2004 “13th Floor Elevator over the Hill” Chukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Nagoya

2003 “Suzy Cream Oil Cheese” White Cube Gallery, Kyoto

2002 “Stravinsky Overdrive” Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2000 “Black Parachute Ears 1999” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo (19th Domon Ken Award Winning Works Exhibition)

1999 “Colored Air Blood Black 1999” Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo

1999 “Black Parachute Ears 1991-1999” Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa

1999 “Someday O.K. Prince Will Come” Gallery Q & Q-S, Tokyo

1998 “All The Needles on Are Red” Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo

1996 “Keihin Machine Soul” Works H., Kanagawa

1995 “Tokyo Swing” Yoshii Gallery, New York, USA

1995 “Today's Japan” Konica Plaza, Tokyo

1994 “Crashlanding in Tokyo's Dream” Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, Loch Walker Gallery, North Carolina, USA

1993 “Crashlanding in Tokyo's Dream” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo

2026 “Museum Collection I Musashino Photography/Photographer Mukai Junkichi” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

2026 “Paintings and Drawings by 5 Photographers” soda, Kyoto

2025 “The Future of Photographers” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

2025 “Spider's Strategy” Cologne Japanese Cultural Center, Cologne, Germany

2025 “ART × SHORT FILM GALLERY” Saison Daikanyama, Tokyo

2024 “Gate Hack Eden, Kanamura Osamu + ori.studio” CAVE-AYUMIGALLERY, Tokyo

2023 “Photography Mine” Sprout Curation, Tokyo

2023 “MOVING IMAGES” IG PHOTO GALLERY, TOKYO

2023 “15th Ebisu Film Festival 2023" Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

2020 “imshow” Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo

2019 “DECODE/Events and Records-Art in Post-Industrial Societies” Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

2019 “Hanran: 20 Years Japanese Photography” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

2018 “Asama International Photo Festival 2018” PHOTO MIYOTA, NAGANO

2018 “Yokohama Museum of Art Collection” Arts Maebashi, Gunma

2018 “Fukuoka Art Museum Collection: Modern Art Revisited” toured the Tottori Prefectural Museum/Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art/Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art/Yokosuka Museum of Art

2017 “Yokohama Museum of Art Collection Exhibition 2016 3rd Term” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

2016 “Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA

2014 “Yokohama Museum of Art Collection Exhibition 2014 2nd Term” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

2013 “Urban Unconsciousness” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2013 “Domon Ken and Domon Ken Award Photographers” Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

2013 “Magnetic Field” Gallery Q, Tokyo

2012 “Repeat After Me vol.1” The Gallery, Tokyo

2011 “JAPAN TODAY” AMADOR GALLERY, NEW YORK, USA

2009 “Photography Now: Japan, China, Korea” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA

2009 “Art in Busan 2009: Inter-City” Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea

2008 “Japanische Fotografie: Takashi Yasumura und Osamu Kanemura” Abbt Projects, Zurich, Switzerland

2007 “Looking at Water: Monet, From Taikan to the Present,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

2006 “Cities, Architecture and Society” Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, Arsenale, Venice, Italy

2005 “Osaka Kougengaku” Osaka Zokei Center, Osaka

2004 “Arles International Photography Festival” Arles, France

2003 “Inside Out: Urban Mechanisms” Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

2003 “Domon Ken and Domon Ken Award Photographers” Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

2003 “Experience: The Media Rat Race” Dutch Institute of Photography, Rotterdam Biennale of Photography, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2002 “Tradition and Presence: Japan, Contemporary Ceramics and Photography” Deichtter Hall, Hamburg, Germany

2001 “Surface: Contemporary Photography, Video, and Painting from Japan” Dutch Institute of Photography, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2001 “Future Perfect” Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato, Italy

2001 “The Standard” Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa

2001 “iKiro/be Alive: Contemporary Art from Japan, 1980 to the Present” Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands

2000 “Osamu KANEMURA” Part Object Gallery, North Carolina, USA

1998 “Prix Whanki Exhibition: Seoul-Berlin-Tokyo” Hwanki Art Museum (Hwange Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea

1998 “Photography Today: Absence of Distance” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Film Center, Tokyo

1997 “Absolute Scenery - Illusion and Reality in Contemporary Photography” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

1996 “New Photography 12” New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

1995 “The 3rd International Foto-Triennale Esslingen: Dicht am Laben” Esslingen, Germany

1994 “Japan Today” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebeck, Denmark

1994 “Japanese Avant-Garde” Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, North Carolina, USA

1992 “The 3rd Fotografie Biennale: Waste Land from Now On” Rotterdam, Netherlands

Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa)

New York Museum of Modern Art (USA)

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo)

Higashikawa Culture Gallery (Hokkaido)

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Domon Ken Memorial Hall (Yamagata)

Benesse Corporation (Kagawa)

Houston Museum of Art (Texas, USA)

Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (California, USA)

Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois, USA)

Amana Collection (Tokyo)

Tate Modern (London, England)

New York Public Library (New York, USA)