1964     
Born in Tokyo, Japan
1993     
Graduate Tokyo College of Photography
 
Solo Exhibition
2009     
China White, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2008     
Spider's Strategy, GunGallery, Stockholm
2007     
Dante Lobster, Void+, Tokyo, Japan
My name is Shockhammer, Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan
Spider's Strategy, Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, USA
2005     
Chinese Rocks, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2004     
13th Floor Elevator Over The Hill, Chukyo Univ Art Gallery C-Square, Nagoya, Japan
2003     
Suzy Cream Oil Cheese, White Cube Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2002     
Stravinsky Overdrive, Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2000     
Ken Domon Award Exhibition Black Parachute Ears 1999, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1999     
Colored Air Blood Black 1999, Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
Black Parachute Ears 1991-1999, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Someday O.K. Prince Will Come, Gallery Q&Q-S, Tokyo, Japan
1998     
All The Needles On Are Red, Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
1996     
Keihin Machine Soul, Works H, Yokohama, Japan
1995     
Tokyo Swing, Yoshii Gallery, New York, USA
Today's Japan, Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
1994     
Crashlandind in Tokyo's Dream, Spirit Square Center, North Carolina, USA
1993     
Crashlandind in Tokyo's Dream, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
 
Group Exhibition
2008     
Japanische Fotografie -Takashi Yasumura und Osamu Kanemura-, Abbt Projects, Zurich, Switzerland
The history of arts and cities -Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
2007     
Views of Water - From Monet and Taikan to the Present, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
JAPAN Caught by Camera -Works from the Photographic Art in Japan-,Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2006     
10th international architecture exhibition-Cities, Architecture and Society, Venice, Italy
C on Cities, Venice, Italy
2005     
Modern Paradise, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,Japan
Modernology of Osaka:Osamu Kanemura. Erika Yoshino, Osaka Zokei Center, Osaka, Japan
2004     
Arles International Photographic Festival, Arles, France
2003     
Inside Out: Mechanism of Cityscapes, Photographs by Ina Eiji and Kanemura Osamu,
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cleveland, Boston, USA
Experience: The Media Rat Race, Netherlands Photographic Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2002     
Japan Contemporary Ceramics and Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2001     
Netherlands Photographic Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Future Perfect, Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato, Italy
The Standard, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Be Alive, Contemporary Art from Japan: 1980 until now, Kroller Muller Museum, Netherlands
2000     
Osamu Kanemura. Erika Yoshino, Partobject Gallery, North Carolina, USA
1998     
Prix Whanki: Seoul-Berlin-Tokyo, Whanki Museum, Korea
Photography Today__ The Absence of Distance, The National Museum of Modern Art Film Center, Tokyo, Japan
1997          
Contemporary Photography, Missing Landscape: Between Fantasy and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
1996     
New Photography 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1995     
3rd Esslingen International Photographic Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
1994     
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Japanese Avant-garde, Spirit Square Center, North Carolina, USA
1992     
The 3rd Rotterdam Photographic Biennale Waste Land from Now on, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Publication
2008     
'German Suplex' Osiris
2007     
'My name is Shockhammer' Osiris
2005     
'In-between 12 Osamu Kanemura: Germany, Finland' EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
2001     
'I Can Tell' Haga Shoten
'Spider's Strategy' Osiris
2000     
'Happiness is a Red before Exploding' Wides Shuppan
1999     
'Osamu Kanemura' Yumiko Chiba Associates
1995     
'Mole Unit No.4 Crash landing' Mole
 
Award
2000     
19th Ken Domon Award
1997     
The Photographic Society of Japan, New artist Award
13th Higashikawa international Photographic festival, New artist Award
 
Public Collection
Yokohama Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Benesse Corporation
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Fukuoka Art Museum