page_title: Hiroh Kikai
section_title: Selected solo exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Hiroh Kikai / Exhibitions / Selected solo exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance to the exhibition "Tokyo Portraits" (東京ポートレイト) by Hiroh Kikai (鬼海弘雄) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (東京都写真美術館), 12 August 2011
context_page_description: Hiroh Kikai is a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for four series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India and Turkey. He has pursued each of these for over two decades, and each has led to one or more book-length collections.
  Although previously a respected name in Japanese photography, Kikai was not widely known until 2004, when the first edition of his book Persona, a collection of Asakusa portraits, won both the Domon Ken Award and Annual Award of the PSJ. In 2009, the ICP and Steidl copublished Asakusa Portraits for an international market.
context_section_description: "Nagi: Machinaka no kōkei" (凪：町中の光景, Calm: Town scenes). [S] Konishiroku Photo Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August–September 1983.
  "Indo kikō" (インド紀行, India travelogue). [I] Doi Photo Plaza Shibuya (Shibuya, Tokyo), August 1984; Art Plaza (Fukuoka), August 1984; Gallery Antomeru (Sendai), September 1984; Yamagata, 1984.　
  "Ōtachi no shōzō (Sensōji keidai)" (王たちの肖像(浅草寺境内), Portraits of kings [in the grounds of Sensō-ji]). [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), September 1988.　
  "Dai-13 Ina Nobuo shō jushō sakuhinten: Kikai Hiroo 'Ōtachi no shōzō (Sensōji keidai)' " (第13伊奈信男賞受賞作品展・鬼海弘雄「王たちの肖像(浅草寺境内)」, Exhibition of works winning the 13th Ina Nobuo Award: Hiroh Kikai, Portraits of kings [in the grounds of Sensō-ji]). [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo); Osaka; Kyoto; etc., 1988–89.
  The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona. 1989.　
  "Dai-13-kai Ina Nobuo shō jushō sakuhinten: Kikai Hiroo 'Kanshō: Machi no katachi' " (第13回伊奈信男賞受賞作品展・鬼海弘雄「観照：町のかたち」, Exhibition of works winning the 13th Ina Nobuo Award: Hiroh Kikai, Meditation: Town shapes). [S] Osaka Nikon Salon, February 1990; Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), March 1990; Kyoto; etc., 1990.　
  "Ecce Homo". [A] Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco), 1993.　
  "Indo kikō" (インド紀行, India travelogue). [I] Shōmeidō Gallery (Kodaira), 1998.
  "Persona (1)". [A] Centrum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej "Manggha" (Kraków), 1999.
  "Shashin to insatsu hyōgen" (写真と印刷表現, Photographs and printing expression). [S] Mitsumura Art Plaza (Ōsaki, Tokyo), February–March 2000.
  "Persona (2)". [A] Centrum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej "Manggha" (Kraków), November–December 2002.
  "Persona". [A] The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka), October 2003.
  "Persona". [A] Domon Ken Photography Museum (Sakata), September–November 2004.　
  "Persona". [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo); Osaka, 2004.　
  "Persona". [A] Galeria Fotografii PF, Centrum Kultury "Zamek" (Poznań), February–March 2005.
  "Persona". [A] Shōmeidō Gallery (Kodaira) January 2005.
  "Perusona" (ぺるそな). [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), February–March 2006; Osaka Nikon Salon (Osaka), April 2006.
  "Tōkyō mutan" (東京夢譚, Tokyo dreams). [S] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), September 2007; Osaka Nikon Salon (Osaka), October 2007.
  "Tokyo Labyrinth". [S] Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York City), September–October 2008.
  "Jinsei gekijō" (人生劇場, Human theatre). [A] Gallery Raku, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, March 2009.
  "Persona". [A] Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York City), May–July 2009.
  "Asakusai portrék". [A] Liget Gallery (Budapest), November–December 2010.
  "Anatoria e no purosesu" (アナトリアへのプロセス). [T] Aoyama Book Center (Omotesandō, Tokyo), January 2011.
  "Tōkyō pōtoreito" (東京ポートレイト) / "Tokyo portraits". [A, S] Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), August–October 2011.
  "Anatoria" (アナトリア). [T] M2 (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August 2011.
  "Persona". [A, S, I, T] Yamagata Museum of Art (Yamagata), December 2011 – January 2012.
  "Tokyo Labyrinth". [S] Zen Foto Gallery (Roppongi, Tokyo), May 2013.
  "Persona" / "Perusona" (ペルソナ). [A] 14th Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, August–September 2013.
  "Asakusa Portraits (1973–2008) et India (1982–2008)". [A, I] In between Gallery (Paris), November 2013.
  "India 1982–2011". [I] Canon Gallery S (Shinagawa, Tokyo), May–June 2014.
  "Retratos de Asakusa". [A] Tabacalera, Promoción del Arte (Madrid), September–November 2014.
  "India 1982–2011". [I] The Museum of Art, Ehime (Matsuyama, Ehime), September–October 2014.
  "Tôkyô: voyage à Asakusa". [A, S] Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Paris 6. October 2015.
  "India 1979–2016" [I]  Fujifilm Photo Salon (Tokyo), May–June 2017.
  《人物》鬼海弘雄的肖像摄影. [A] See+ Art Space / Gallery (Beijing), December 2017 – February 2018.
  "Persona". [A] Photo Gallery Blue Hole (Katagami, Akita), August 2018 – January 2019.
  "Persona". [A] Kihoku town office (鬼北町役場庁舎), Kihoku, Ehime, February 2019.
  "Persona". [A] Sagae City Museum of Art, Sagae, Yamagata, April–June 2019.
  "Persona: The Final Chapter" / "Pe
caption: Entrance to the exhibition Tokyo Portraits at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 12 August 2011
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