Izima Kaoru
Born in Kyoto, Japan, 1954
Lives and works in Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2007
f a projects, London
von lintel Gallery, New York
2006
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne
2005
f a projects, London
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2004
Von-Lintel Gallery, New York
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
2003
Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia
2002
f a projects, London
designlab.miami, Miami
2001
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
Von Lintel & Nusser, New York
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2000
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia
Galerie Andeans Binder, Munich
1999
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
Hillside Forum, Tokyo
1996
Colored Beauty, Shinjuku Park Tower Gallery 1, Tokyo
1995
Colored Beauty, Solaria Plaza 'Zephyr', Fukuoka, Japan
1993
Tamao, Gallery Verita, Tokyo
Tamao, Prinz, Kyoto
1984
Pigmo, Tokyo Designer's Space, Tokyo
Pigmo, Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
Pigmo, Pithecanthropus Erectus, Tokyo
1980
Kouraku no Mori, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1977
It's a Beautiful Day, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
Der Contract des Photographen, Touring to Akademie der Künste, Berlin
(Hanseatenweg) Museum; Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Excess, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Six feet under, Kunstmuseum Bern
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Der Contract des Photographen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
Erblätterte Identitäten, Stadthaus Ulm
Shining, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2005
Characters, Scene I and II, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan
Things Fall Apart, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Haben wir den Ozean verloren? Inszenierte Fotografie, Städtische Galerie, Gladbeck
Selected view on the human portrait, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2004
The Amazing & The Immutable, University of South Florida
Paris Photo, Paris
Mirror, mirror, Reflections On Beauty, Touring to National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne ;National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2003
True Fictions, touring Stadtische Galerie Erlangen, Stadt Galerie Saarbrucken,
Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus
Mon Paris, Galerie 21, Tokyo
Images Against War, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
Open Art, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2002
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion 1970-2001, Barbican Centre, London
Fashion and Body, Gallery Anne Mörchen, Hamburg
Shoe The City Gallery, Leicester
History of Modern Photos II, Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
The World of Polaroid Photography – Beyond Time, Nipppon Polaroid Kabushiki Kaisha,Tokyo
Ten Years Phase 1, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Constructed Realities, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Kansas City
The morning after, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam/Rotterdam
Formen der Gewalt, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
der berg, Galerie Friedrich & Ungar, Munich
2001
Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithica, NY
History of Modern Photos II, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
Tokyo Pop, Jewish Museum, Kansas
SURFACE - contemporary photography and video from Japan, nederlands foto instituut, Rotterdam
1999
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
Is photography at an end? Recent Photo and Media Art, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
Bill Owens, Tracey Moffatt, Chris Verene, Izima Kaoru, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
Köper, Hüllen, Oberflächen, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
And She Will Have Your Eyes…, Analix Forever,Geneva
Tokyo Shock, Büro für Fotos, Cologne
1991
High-tech Plants, Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
1990
High-tech Plants, Hankyu Department Store, Osaka
1987
Hara Annual, Hara Museum, Tokyo
X-Rated, Neikrug Gallery, New York
1986
Foto '86 Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Bibliography
2007
Rox Exley, 'Izima Kaoru', Flash Art, May - June 2007
Jesse Alexander, ‘Izima Kaoru: Erin O’Connor wears Vivienne Westwood’, Hotshoe, February-March
Kate Melhuish, ‘ON/OFF at LFW’, Daily Mail, Monday 12th February
Fleur Britten, ‘The Sunday Times Style Magazine, 28 January
2006
‘Excess’, The Guardian Guide, 18 November- 24 November
Mark Patterson, 'Excess All Areas', Evening Post, 10 November La Santa Cultural Visual, First Edition, March
2005
‘New Beauty’, Photography Now 2.05
Katie Kitamura, pluk, Issue 25 July/August
Erin Zaleski, ‘The Picture of Death’ Newsweek International, 11 July
Frankfurter Allgemeine, 18 July 2005
Siobhan Murphy, ‘Metro Life, Photography’, Metro, 28 April
Charles Howgego, ‘Snapshot’, The Big Issue, 25 April – 1 May
Charlotte Edwards, ‘Death Becomes Her’, ArtReview, May
Jessica Lack, ‘Izima Kaoru’, I-D Magazine, Vol.II/IV May
Jessica Lack, ‘Preview: Izima Kaoru, Koike Eiko wears Gianni Versace’,Guardian Guide, 23-29 April
Esquire Magazine, ‘Femmes fatales’, May
2004
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, The Amazing & The Immutable
Miura Shion, ‘Dokusho Nikki: sanshirou ha sorekara mon wo deta’, Asahi Shinbun, November
Grace Glueck, ‘Art in Review’, New York Times, November
Izima Kaoru 2002 – 2004, Bijutsu Publisher
’eitgenossische Japanese Fotografie’, Kunstforum
MADAME, March
Izima Kaoru, Fondation Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg; and Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain: Luxembourg (a project with Tarantula for the film and exhibition Landscapes with a Corpse)
Photofil,e Winter 2004
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Winter
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Spring
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Summer
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Autumn
2003
Caroline Evans, ‘The death of Beautiful Women’, fashion at the edge, Yale
University Press: New Haven and London
Adbuster
FrankfurtherRundschau, Dec
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Autumn
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Summer
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Spring
2002
Izima Kaoru 2000 – 2001, f a projects
Chris Townsend, Rapture Art’s Seduction by Fashion, 2002, Thames & Hudson
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Winter
Matsumoto Taichi, ‘The Hypnotic Interview 02 Izima Kaoru’, Kohkoku, July-August
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Autumn
‘Camera Crazy’, Elle, April
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Summer
Anna Chapman, ‘Dead Fashionable’,Sleazenation, March
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Spring
Jörg Restorff, ‘Stilsicherer Abgang’, Kunstzeitung, February
Afshan Ayar, ‘The Morning After…’, Tube Light, January-February
2001
Landscapes with a corpse 1999-2000, Edition Lintel & Nusser, Verlag Robert Gessler
‘Surface – Contemporary Photography and Video from Japan’, NFI news, Nederlands Foto Instituut, November
Frits Gierstberg SURFACE - Contemporary Photography and Video from Japan Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
History of Modern Photos II, Nikon Nikkor Club
Susanne Boecker, ‘Gespräche Mit Künstlern: Izima Kaoru’, Kunstforum International, No. 157, November – December
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Winter
Tim Griffin, ‘Izima Kaoru Traffic Accident’Artext, No.74, August – October
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Autumn
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Summer
Sven Siedenberg, ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’, SZ Extra Ausstellungen, 25 April
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Executive Committee, March 2001
Martha Schwendener, ‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Time Out New York, 1-8 March
‘Izima Kaoru’, The Village Voice, 6 March
‘Wenn Schönheit und Grausamkeit für den Augenblick zusammentreffen’Ärzte Zeitung, 15 February
‘Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse’, Prints 21, Spring
‘Izima Kaoru – New Landscapes’, Prinz/Cologne, January
Susanne Boecker, ‘Die Schönheit dient ihm als Faustpfand’, Kölner stadt – Anzeiger , January
2000
Alessio Curto, 'Izima Kaoru', Juliet art magazine, No.99, October – November
‘Izima Kaoru, Syaberu Kamera’, Prints 21, Winter
‘Izima Kaoru’, Zoo, Issue 6, August
‘Izima Kaoru, Syaberu Kamera’, Prints 21, Autumn
‘D’abord la beauté’, Art Actuel, No.8 May - June
Elisabeth Arkhipoff, ‘Célèbres mais morbides’, Nova, May
‘Izima Kaoru, Syaberu Kamera’, Prints 21, Summer
Philbert Ono, Eye-Ai Japanese Entertainment &Culture straight from Tokyo, April
Kunstforum International, April – June
Jörg Böcken, 'Der Tod steht ihr gut', Kultur Spiegel, April
Tinga Horny, ‘Die Anziehungskraft des Exotischen’, Kunstmarkt, 26 February
Cristina Best, ‘Die ästhetisch – perfekten Todesfälle des Modefotografen Izima Kaoru’, Ärzte Zeitung, 14 February
Kunstmarkt, 5 February
Cornelia Gockel, 'Die Eleganz des Todes', Feuilleton, 1 February
‘People – Abata mo Ekubo’, Prints 21, Spring
Gert Gliewe, ‘Landschaft mit Leiche’, Münchener Abendzeitung, January
‘Portfolio - The Artist, the body and the clothes', Beaux Arts Magazine, Special Edition: What is fashion (today)?
Crash, Hors-Serie Art 2000
Ist die Photographie am Ende? Aktuelle Photo- und Medienkunst 2000, (catalogue), mdv Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Sean M. Ulme, Uncommon threads Contemporary Artists and Clothing, (catalogue) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Susanne Regener, ‘Verbrechen, Schönheit, Tod’, Fotogeschichte, no. 78
1999
20 Landscapes with a corpse, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd.
Hirosi Oosima, ‘Izima Kaoru, Death of Death’, European Photography, no.66 Fall/Winter
zyappu, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.21, natu go
zyappu, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.20, haru go
1998
zyappu, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.19, huyu go
zyappu, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.18, aki go
zyappu , Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.17, natu go
zyappu, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.16, haru go
1997
zyappu, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.15, huyu go
zyappu , Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.14, aki go
zyappu, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.13, natu gou
zyappu , Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, No.12, haru gou
1996
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 3, Number 1, Winter
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 3, Number 10, Autumn
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 3, Number 9, Summer
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 3, Number 8, Spring
1995
Beauty II - Colored Beauty, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd.
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 2, Number 7, Winter
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 2, Number 6, Autumn
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 2, Number 5, Summer
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 2, Number 4, Spring
1994
Hairmode Bijutsu Shuppan-sha Ltd.
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume, 1 Number 3, Autumn
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, Volume 1, Number 2, Summer
Jap Magazine, Korinsha Press & Co Ltd, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring
1993
New Beauty, Pipeline Books
Tamao, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd.
1991
Color Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd.
Black and White Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd.