Graduated from Kansai Gakuin University (Kobe, Japan), majored in perceptual psychology.

He has been photographing and exhibiting his works in the US with his consistent natural philosophy, since he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council (part of John D. Rockefeller III Fund) in 1990.

Kurita’s work has been exhibited internationally and collected by major museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angels County Museum; the Princeton University Art Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; The Fogg Museum at Harvard University; George Eastman House; La Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum; among others.