KIKUJI KAWADA
(Japanese, b.1933)
CHRONOLOGY
1933 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
1955 Degree in Economics from Rikkyo University in Ikebukuro, Tokyo
1955-59 Staff photographer for Shincho Sha Publishing Company
1959 Co-founds VIVO, a photographers' cooperative, with Ikko Narahara, Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Akira Sato and Akira Tanno
First solo exhibition, The Sea, at Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
1961 Solo exhibition of The Map at Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
1962 VIVO disbands
1965 The Map, designed by Sugiura Kohei, is published by Bijutsu
Shuppan-sha
1967-69 Teaches photography at Tama Art University, Tokyo
1974 One of the 15 artists in the New Japanese Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978 VIVO: Contemporary Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
1979 Cosmos of the Dream King, Ludwig II, published by Asahi Sonorama
Japan: A Self-Portrait, International Center of Photography, New York
1984 Publishes Nude and Ludwig II
1986 Caprichos self-published
Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1995 The Last Cosmology is published
1998 The Globe Theater is published
2009 The Last Cosmology, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2011 Receives lifetime achievement award from the Photographic Society of Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 UNKNOWN 2013
Leica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 2011 - Phenomena
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
2011 Nikko A Parable
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
2010 World's End 2008-2010
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
2009 The Last Cosmology
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Remote Past: Memoir 1951-1966
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
2006 ATLAS 1998-2006
Epsite, Tokyo, Japan
Invisible City
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
2005 Kikuji Kawada: Eureka/ Multigraph
Shadai Gallery, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan
2004 The Map, 1960-1965
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
2003 Kikuji Kawada: Theatrum Mundi
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Eureka
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
1999 The Globe Theater
Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, NL
1998 Car Maniac
P.G.I. Shibaura, Japan
1996 ZENO - The Last Cosmology
P.G.I. Shibaura, Japan
The Last Cosmology
Higashikawa International Photography Festival, Higashikawa, Japan
The Last Cosmology
Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
1995 The Last Cosmology
Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1986 Los Caprichos 1970-80
P.G.I., Japan
1984 Nude Museum and Ludwig II Collection
P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan
1976 Kikuji Kawada Photographs
Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1968 Sacré- Atavism
Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1961 The Map
Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1959 The Sea
Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Forest and Art
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 The Shadow
Vestaellands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2003 The History of Japanese Photography
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA, traveling exhibition
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA,
2001-02 Illusion
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, traveling exhibition
Lunds Konstall, Sweden
Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, traveling exhibition
Brandt ski defabrik, Odense, Denmark
The Country Museum of Joenkoeping, Sweden
Kunstbanken, Hedmark Art Centre, Hamar, Norway
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Norway
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykyavik, Iceland
1999 Contemporary Photographic Art from Japan
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Master Works, Master Photographers
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Exploring Photography: From the Museum CollectionNational Film Center
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Waterproof
Expo '98, Lisbon, Portugal
Corridor of the Gaze / Theatrical Tableaux
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Realism in Postwar Japan 1945-1960
Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
Under / Exposed
Stockholm Photography Festival, Sweden
1995 Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives - Rethinking Modernism Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan
Works by 25 Photographers in Their 20's
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan
1991 Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960's
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Beyond Japan: A Photo Theatre
Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Photographs in Japan 1955-1965
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
1990 Eye of deja-vu
Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Photographie Japonaise
Provincial Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1988 Eight Japanese Photographers
P.G.I. Tokyo, Japan
1986 Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Works with Polaroid 20x24
Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo
1985 Paris, New York, Tokyo
Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Ibaraki, Japan
1979 Japan: A Self-Portrait
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1978 VIVO: Contemporary Photography
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
1976-77 Neue Fotografie aus Japan
Kulturhaus der Stadt, Graz, Austria
1974 New Japanese Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1963 Contemporary Japanese Photographs
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1962 Non
Matsuya Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1959 The Eyes of Ten
Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1958 The Eyes of Ten
Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1957 The Eyes of Ten
Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan