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About Japanese photographer Osamu KANEMURA (b.1964, in Tokyo)
In the 1980s, after performing as a punk-rock musician, Osamu KANEMURA entered the film school 'Image Forum', Tokyo, where he made several 16 mm experimental films. In 1990 he entered the Tokyo College of Photography, and before graduating in 1993, he was invited to the Photography Biennale, Rotterdam. Since then, he has held numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in various group shows in Japan and abroad. Besides his well-recognized black-and-white photographs of cityscapes, he also continue to work on videos and moving images.
Photo books and -publications by Osamu KANEMURA
- 'Happiness is a Red before Exploding' (2000)
'I can tell' (2001)
'Spider's Strategy' (2001)
'In Between #12. Germany & Finland' (2005)
'My Name Is Shockhammer' (2007)
'German Suplex' (2008)
'Stravinsky Overdrive (ストラビンスキー オーバードライブ, 2010)
'Ectoplasm Profiling' (2014)
'Concrete Octopus' (2017)
'Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura' (2019)
'Marshmallow Brain Wash' (2020)
'Lead Palsy Terminal' (2021)
'God Only Speed Knows' (2022)
Photographs by Osamu KANEMURA are held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Yokohama Museum of Art.