Born in Ibaraki Prefecture, 1933.
Founder member of “VIVO", photographers' agency (1959-1961).
Received the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize, 2004.

Selected Recent One-Person Exhibition
1995
“The Last Cosmology", Tower Gallery, Yokohama
1996
“ZENO - The Last Cosmology", Photo Gallery International [P.G.I.], Tokyo
1998
“Car Maniac", P.G.I., Tokyo
2001
“Eureka", P.G.I., Tokyo
2003
“Kikuji Kawada: Theatrum Mundi", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2004-05
“The Map 1960-1965", P.G.I., Tokyo
2005
“Kikuji Kawada: Eureka/ Multigraph", Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
2006
Polytechnic University, Tokyo“Invisible City", P.G.I., Tokyo
2006-07
“ATLAS 1998-2006", Epsite, Tokyo
2008
“Remote Past: Memoir 1951-1966" P.G.I., Tokyo

Selected Group-Exhibitions
1974
“New Japanese Photography", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
“Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2003
“The History of Japanese Photography", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas