1954 born in Kyoto, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Van Der Grinten, Cologne, Germany
One Sun, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Kudlek Van Der Ginten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
f a projects, London, UK
Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
van der grinten galerie (the former Büro für Fotos), Cologne, Germany
2005 Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
f a projects, London, UK
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Büro für Fotos, Cologne, Germany
f a projects, London, UK
Casino, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
f a projects, London, UK
Design Lab, Miami, Florida
Büro für Fotos, Cologne, Germany
Von Lintel & Nusser, New York, NY
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Büro für Fotos, Cologne, Germany
Colored Beauty, Shinjuku Park Tower Gallery 1, Tokyo, Japan
Colored Beauty, Solaria Plaza "Zephyr", Fukuoka, Japan
Tamao, Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan
Tamao,PRINZ, Tokyo, Japan
Pigmo, Tokyo Designer's Space, Tokyo, Japan
Pigmo, Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Pigmo,Pithecantropus Erectus, Tokyo, Japan
Kourako no Mori, Shinjukku Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
It's a Beautiful Day, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Ambitious, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier, From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Barbican Art Centre, London, UK; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Grand Palais, Paris, France; Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany
gulf, Center Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY
Highlights from the collection of Gunter Sachs, Museum Villa Stuck,
Munich, Germany
Carpe diem, Seize the day, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan
No Fashion, Please!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Brave New World: From the Perspective of Mudam Collection,
Mudam Luxembourg
Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
BASARA, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Rund-Form, Grenze, Körper, Erscheinung, Gesellschaft für Kunst & Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany
Flower Power project, Villa Giulia, Verbania / Italy
Ophelia. Sehnsucht, melancholia and desire for death, Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem, Austria
The Garden of Eden, Kunsthalle, Emden, Germany
Der tödliche Eros oder der erotische Tod, Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel, Germany
JUBILEE, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Six Feet Under, Dresden, Germany
The Light Fantastic, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Façade-Space-Architecture, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY
Excess, Angel Row Gallery/ Nottingham, UK
Der Kontrakt des Photographen/ The Photographer's Contract, Akademie der
Kunste/Berlin - Hanseatenweg, Germany
Six feet under, Kunstmuseum/Bern, Switzerland
Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Erblätterte Identitäten (Foliated Identities ), the Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Shining, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
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, Germany
Haben wir den Ozean verloren ? Inszenierte Fotografie, Stadtische Galerie, Gladbeck, Germany
The Amazing & The Immutable, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Paris Photo, Paris, France
True Fictions, Stadtmuseum, Hofheim am Taunus, Germany
True Fictions, Stadt Galerie Saarbrucken, Germany
True Fictions, Stadtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
Mon Paris, Galerie 21, Tokyo, Japan
Images Against War, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion 1970-2001, Barbican Center, London, UK
Fashion and Body, Gallery Anne Mörchen, Hamburg, Germany
History of Modern Photos II, Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan
The World of Polaroid Photography – Beyond Time, Nippon Polaroid
Shoe, f a projects, traveling exhibition, Scotland and England
Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, Japan
Ten Years Phase 1, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
The morning after, Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Constructed Realites, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Kansas City, MO
Formen der Gewalt, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne, Germany
Der Berg, Galerie Friedrich & Ungar, Munich, Germany
Uncommon Threads, Curator Sean Ulmer, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
History of Modern Photos II, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, MO
SURFACE, contemporary photography and video from Japan, The Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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, Germany
Photography 2000, Staatliche Kunsthalle Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
Körper, Hüllen, Oberflächen, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
And She Will Have Your Eyes…, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Tokyo Shock, Büro für Fotos, Cologne, Germany
High-tech Plants, Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
High-tech Plants, Hankyu Department Store, Osaka, Japan
Hara Annual, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
X-RATED, Neikrug Gallery, New York, NY
Foto '86 Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aram, Kim. “Izima Kaoru.” Blink Magazine (April 2014).
"Izima Kaoru's Landscapes With A Corpse," Huffington Post (May 28, 2013).
Kondo, Hidenori and Shintaro Maki, eds. "6 Keywords for the work of Izima Kaoru."
2012 Carpe Diem, Seize the Day. Exhibition catalogue. Toyota City: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2012.
Viola, Eugenio and Peter Weiermair. No Fashion, Please! Exhibition catalogue. Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2011.
Riveau, Cedric. "Recontre avec Izima Kaoru. Photographe." NEON magazine (November 18, 2011).
Phillips, Ian. "60m²." Architectural Digest China (September 2011): ill.
Fritsch, Lena. "The Body as a Screen: Japanese Art Photography of the 1990s." (2011).
"Review: Izima Kaoru." The New Yorker (September 27, 2010): 14.
"Critic's Picks: Photography: Izima Kaoru, One Sun." Time Out New York, issue 780 (September 9—15, 2010): 58, ill.
Jordan, Betty Ann. "Art Smart." Fashion Magazine Canada, volume 45, issue 3 (April 2010): 126, ill.
Larson, Michael. "We Are Living Through Postmillennial Tension." Adbusters, issue 88 (April 2010): ill.
"Review: Izima Kaoru." The New Yorker (April 6, 2009): 13.
Silberman, Lucy. "Death Becomes Her." Interview Magazine online (January 28, 2009): ill.
Stappert, Elke. "New York Culture Club: Izima Kaoru." Tout va Bien (January—March 2009): 66, ill.
Grossenick, Uta. "Photoart: Photography in the 21st Century." Aperture (2007): 210-213, ill.
Genevieve, Leon. "Izima Kaoru." New York Magazine (March 2007): ill.
Bazer, Gina. "Penthouse Rocks." Chicago Social March 2006): 184-5, ill.
Hanin, France. "Izima Kaoru, Belles a mort." DITS, vol. 3, no. 5 (Winter-Spring 2005): 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).
Murakami, Ryu. "I Am A Novelist." The New Yorker (January 2005): 64.
Glueck, Grace. New York Times (November 12, 2004): 37.
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).
Luxembourg: Fondation Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg & Casino Luxembourg-Foum d'art contemporain, 2004.
(A project book for the film: Landscapes with a Corpse with Tarantula)
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).
Evans, Caroline. "The Death of Beautiful Women." Fashion at the Edge New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
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
Izima Kaoru 2000-1, f a projects, London, 2003
Townsend, Chris. Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002.
"Izima Kaoru, Landscapes with a Corpse." Prints 21 (Winter 2002)
Taichi, Matsumoto. "The Hypnotic Interview 02 Izima Kaoru." Kohkoku (July and August 2002).
"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).
Landscapes with a corpse 1999-2000. Berlin: Verlag Robert Gessler, 2002.
"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 (2001).
"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).
"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).
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." (2000).
"History of Modern Photos II." Nikon Nikkor Club (2000).
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): 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 (2000).
Regener, Susanne. "Verbrechen, Schönheit, Tod." Fotogeschichte, no. 78 (2000).
Izima Kaoru: One Sun, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Izima Kaoru – Landscapes with a Corpse, essays by Roy Exley, Yuko Hasegawa and Peter Weierman, Hatje Kantz
Izima Kaoru 2002-2004, Bijutsu Publisher
20 Landscapes with a corpse, Korinha Press & Co., Ltd.
New Beauty II - Colored Beauty, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
Hairmode, Bilutsu shuppan-sha Ltd
New Beauty, Pipeline Books
Tamao, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
Color Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
Black and White Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd
Color Photographs, Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd.