SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 van der grinten galerie (the former Büro für Fotos), Cologne
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
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
2003 Casino, Luxembourg
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
2001 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
1996 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
2007 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
2004 True Fictions, Stadtmuseum Hofmeim am Taunus
2003 True Fictions, Stadt Galerie Saarbrucken
True Fictions, Stadtische Galerie Erlangen
Mon Paris, Galerie 21, Tokyo
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
2001 Uncommon Threads, curated by Sean Ulmer, Cornell University
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
History of Modern Photos II, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo
Surface, Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam
Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, MO
SURFACE, contemporary photography and video from Japan’s Nederland foto
institute, Rotterdam
2000 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
1987 Hara Annual, Hara Museum, Tokyo
X-RATED, Neikrug Gallery, New York
1986 Foto '86 Amsterdam, Amsterdam
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Leon, Genevieve, Izima Kaoru, New York Magazine, March 2007, illustration.
2006 Bazer, Gina, Penthouse Rocks, Chicago Social, March, illustration p. 184-185
2005 Hanin, France, Izima Kaoru, Belles a mort, in DITS, 3, 5, winter-spring 2005, p.84-93
Zaleski, Erin, The Picture of Death, Newsweek, July 11, 2005
Femmes fatales, Esquire Magazine, May 2005
Edwards, Charlotte, Art Review, May 2005
Lack, Jessica, Izima Kaoru, I-D Magazine, Vol. II/IV, May 2005
Howgego, Charles, The Big Issue, Snapshot, April 25 – May 1, 2005
McNeill, David, Drop-dead gorgeous, The Japan Times, April 10, 2005
Lack, Jessica, Review: Izima Kaoru, Koike Eido wears Gianni Versace, Guardian Guide,
April 23-29, 2005
Murphy, Siobhan, Metro Life, Photography, Metro, April 28, 2005
2004 Murakami, Ryu, I Am A Novelist, The New Yorker, January 2005, p. 64
Glueck, Grace, New York Times pp 37, November 12, 2004
Shion, Miura, The Amazing & The Immutable “Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse”
Asahi Shinbun, November 2004
Von Lintel Gallery: Izima Kaoru, Gallery Hopper, October 18, 2004
Zeitgenossische Japanese Fotografie, Kunstforum
MADAME, March, 2004
Fondation Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg; & Casino Luxembourg-
Foum d’art contemporain: Luxembourg (A project book for the film: Landscapes with
a Corpse with Tarantula)
2004 Photofile, Winter, 2004
FrankfurtherRundschau, December, 2004
Photofile Winter 2004
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Autumn, 2004
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Summer, 2004
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Spring, 2004
2003 Evans, Caroline, The Death of Beautiful Women, Fashion at the Edge, Yale University
Press New Haven and London
Adbuster
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Autumn, 2003
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Summer, 2003
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Spring, 2003
2002 Izima Kaoru 2000-1, f a projects, London
Townsend, Chris, Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion, Thames and Hudson, 2002
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Winter 2002
Taichi, Matsumoto, The Hypnotic Interview 02 Izima Kaoru, Kohkoku, July & August
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Autumn, 2002
Camera Crazy, Elle, April, 2002
Chapman, Anna, Dead Fashionable, Sleazenation, March, 2002
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Spring, 2002
Restorff, Jörg, Stilsicherer Abgang, Kunstzeitung, February, 2002
Ayar, Afshan, ‘The Morning After…’, Tube Light, January/ February, 2002
2001 Landscapes with a corpse 1999-2000, Verlag Robert Gessler
Surface – Contemporary Photography and Video from Japan, Nederlands Foto Instituut
news, November, 2001
Gierstberg, Frits, SURFACE - Contemporary Photography and Video from Japan,
Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
History of Modern Photos II, Nikon Nikkor Club
Boecker, Susanne, Gespräche Mit Künstlern: Izima Kaoru, Kunstforum International,
Bd. 157 November – December, 2001
Boecker, Susanne, Die Schönheit dient ihm als Faustpfand, Kölner stadt – Anzeiger,
January, 2001
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Winter, 2001
Griffin, Tim, Izima Kaoru Traffic Accident, Artext, no.74 August – October, 2001
Izima Kaoru – New Landscapes, Prinz/Cologne, January, 2001
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Autumn, 2001
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Summer, 2001
Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Prints 21, Spring, 2001
Wenn Schönheit und Grausamkeit für den Augenblick zusammentreffen, Ärzte Zeitung
February 15, 2001
Izima Kaoru, The Village Voice, March 6, 2001
Schwendener Martha, Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse, Time Out New York,
March 1-8, 2001
2001 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Executive Committee,
March, 2001
Siedenberg Sven, Der Tod und das Mädchen, SZ Extra Ausstellungen, April 25, 2001
2000 Curto, Alessio, Izima Kaoru, Juliet Art Magazine, no.99 October – November 2000
Izima Kaoru, Syaberu Kamera, Prints 21, Winter 2000
Izima Kaoru, Zoo, Issue 6, August 2000
Izima Kaoru, Syaberu Kamera, Prints 21, Autumn 2000
D’abord la beauté, Art Actuel, no.8. May – June 2000
Gespräche Mit Künstlern: Izima Kaoru
History of Modern Photos II, Nikon Nikkor Club
Arkhipoff, Elisabeth, Célèbres mais morbides, Nova magazine, May 2000
Izima Kaoru, Syaberu Kamera, Prints 21, Summer 2000
Ono, Philbert, Eye-Ai Japanese Entertainment and Culture Straight from
Tokyo, April 2000, p.19
Kunstforum International, April – June 2000
Böcken, Jörg, Der Tod steht ihr gut, Kultur Spiegel, April 2000
Horny, Tinga, Die Anziehungskraft des Exotischen, Kunstmarkt, February 26, 2000
Best, Cristina, Die ästhetisch – perfekten Todesfälle des Modefotografen Izima Kaoru,
Ärzte Zeitung, February 14, 2000
Kunstmarkt, February 5, 2000
Gockel, Cornelia, Die Eleganz des Todes, Feuilleton, February 1, 2000
People – Abata mo Ekubo, Prints 21, Spring, 2000
Gliewe, Gert, Landschaft mit Leiche, Münchener Abendzeitung, January 2000
Portfolio - The Artist, the body and the clothes, Special Edition Beaux Arts
Magazine-what is fashion (today)? , 2000
Hors-Serie Art, Crash, 2000
Ist die Photographie am Ende? Aktuelle Photo- und Medienkunst, mdv Mitteldeutscher
Verlag, 2000
Ulmer, Sean M., Uncommon threads Contemporary Artists and Clothing,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Regener, Susanne, Verbrechen, Schönheit, Tod, Fotogeschichte no. 78, 2000
Publications
2004 Izima Kaoru 2002-2004, Bijutsu Published
1999 20 Landscapes with a corpse, Korinha Press & Co., Ltd.
1995 New Beauty II - Colored Beauty, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
1994 Hairmode, Bilutsu shuppan-sha Ltd
1993 New Beauty, Pipeline Books
Tamao, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
1992 Color Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
Black and White Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
1990 Color Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd.