IZIMA KAORU | BIOGRAPHY

Born in Kyoto in 1954
Lives and works in Tokyo

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

Von Lintel Gallery, New York
BLD Gallery, Tokyo

2008

Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2007

Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
f a projects, London

2006

Studio la Citta, Verona
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
van der grinten galerie (the former Büro für Fotos), Cologne

2005

Von Lintel Gallery, New York
f a projects, London

2004

Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
f a projects, London
Casino, Luxembourg
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy

2002

f a projects, London
Design Lab, Miami
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
Von Lintel & Nusser, New York
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2000

Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

1999

Hillside Forum, Tokyo
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
Colored Beauty , Shinjuku Park Tower Gallery 1, Tokyo

1995

Colored Beauty, Solaria Plaza "Zephyr", Fukuoka

1993

Tamao, Gallery Verita, Tokyo
Tamao , PRINZ, Tokyo

1984

Pigmo, Tokyo Designer's Space, Tokyo
Pigmo , Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
Pigmo , Pithecantropus Erectus, Tokyo

1980

Kourako no Mori, Shinjukku Nikon Salon, Tokyo

1977

It’s a Beautiful Day, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

Flower Power project, Villa Giulia, Verbania / Italy (upcoming)
Ophelia. Sehnsucht, melancholia and desire for death, Museum for Modern Art in
Arnhem, Austria

2008

The Garden of Eden, Kunsthalle, Emden
Der tödliche Eros oder der erotische Tod, Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel

2007

JUBILEE, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Six Feet Under, Dresden
The Light Fantastic, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Façade-Space-Architecture, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY

2006

Excess, Angel Row Gallery/ Nottingham
Der Kontrakt des Photographen/ The Photographer’s Contract, Akademie der
Kunste/Berlin - Hanseatenweg
Six feet under, Kunstmuseum/Bern
Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo”, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Erblätterte Identitäten” (Foliated Identities), the Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm
Shining, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2005

Things Fall Apart, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Characters, Scene I, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Characters, Scene II, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Selected view on the human portrait, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Haben wir den Ozean verloren? Inszenierte Fotografie, Stadtische Galerie, Gladbeck

2004

The Amazing & The Immutable, University of South Florida, Florida
Paris Photo, Paris
True Fictions, Stadtmuseum Hofmeim am Taunus

2003

True Fictions, Stadt Galerie Saarbrucken
True Fictions, Stadtische Galerie Erlangen
Mon Paris, Galerie 21, Tokyo
Images Against War, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne

2002

Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion 1970-2001, Barbican Center, London
Fashion and Body, Gallery Anne Mörchen, Hamburg
History of Modern Photos II, Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
The World of Polaroid Photography – Beyond Time, Nippon Polaroid
Shoe, f a projects, traveling exhibition, Scotland and England
Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo
Ten Years Phase 1, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
The morning after, Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Constructed Realites, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Kansas City, MO
Formen der Gewalt, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
Der Berg, Galerie Friedrich & Ungar, Munich
Uncommon Threads, curated by Sean Ulmer, Cornell University
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
History of Modern Photos II, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, MO
SURFACE, contemporary photography and video from Japan, Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam

2000

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Bill Owens, Tracey Moffatt, Chris Verene, Izima Kaoru, Rececca Camhi Gallery, Athens Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Is photography at an end? Recent Photo- and Media-Art, organized by The German Society of Photography, Lichtblick Gallery, Halle
Photography 2000, Staatliche Kunsthalle Moritzburg, Halle
Körper, Hüllen, Oberflächen, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
And She Will Have Your Eyes…, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland

1999

Tokyo Shock, Büro für Fotos, Cologne, Germany

1991

High-tech Plants, Gallery Artium, Fukuoka

1990

High-tech Plants, Hankyu Dept. Store, Osaka
Hara Annual, Hara Museum, Tokyo
X-RATED, Neikrug Gallery, New York

1986

Foto '86 Amsterdam, Amsterdam