November 7, 2019 - March 1, 2020

Works from Osamu James Nakagawa's series, Kai, are featured in the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s exhibition of 51 works by 45 artists—all of which were acquired in the past five years, Re/New: Recent Acquisitions by Contemporary Artists.

One of the images on view at the Eskenazi museum, is the image Morning Light. This image is featured in the 5th edition of Naomi Rosenblum's A World History of Photography, she says: "To counter Tolstoy: all families are different– whether happy or unhappy– and their intimacies and complexites are unique when seen through the eyes of different photographers … Osamu James Nakagawa, [has] conducted indefatigable, loving, unsentimental studies of their children in the process of growing up." (Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography: 5th Edition Reprint Edition, 2019)

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Re/New: Recent Acquisitions by Contemporary Artists
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
Bloomington, Indiana, USA

October 1 – November 24, 2019

Osamu James Nakagawa ‘s works will be on display alongside works by Kitano Ken, Shiga Lieko, Fiona Tan, & Gerhard Richter in the exhibition, from the cave.

”The use of a ‘cave’ as a motif to explore the origins of our cognition has an unexpectedly wide application. In his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ the philosopher, Plato, hinted at the fundamental problem of ‘the virtual image and reality’ that underlies our perception of images. The religious scholar, Mircea Eliade, pointed out that caves are employed as places in which to reestablish one’s relationship with the outside world and re-assess oneself at a fundamental level.”

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from the cave
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Yebisu Garden Place
1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-0062
Japan

August 31 - December 30, 2018

Osamu James Nakagawa's Banta series will be featured in the Brandts Museum for Kunst & Visuel Kultur in Copenhagen for the Photography Biennale 2018. He will be showing prints from Banta that are larger and "hyper real"  than previously exhibited images. The Pho­tog­ra­phy Bi­en­nale 2018's title, Photography to End All Photography, focuses on "post-pho­to­graphic pho­tography." The par­tic­i­pat­ing artists all cre­ate amaz­ing pho­tographs that are al­most impossi­ble to dis­tin­guish from re­al­ity. But on closer in­spec­tion, the pho­tos re­veal the most sur­pris­ing de­tails that make us doubt whether we can en­tirely trust our own eyes.

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Brandts Museum for Kunst & Visuel Kultur
TORV 1
5000 Odense, Copenhagen
Denmark

October 13th - November 16th, 2017

Osamu James Nakagawa's work will be on view at A Shared Elegy at the Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University Bloomington, in conjunction with the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art. A 112-page book accompanying the exhibition will be published and distributed through Indiana University Press.

A Shared Elegy presents the work of four photographers connected by family ties. Osamu James Nakagawa and his uncle, Takayuki Ogawa, and Elijah Gowin and his father, Emmet Gowin, present unique but overlapping visions recording family histories.

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Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University
IU Eskenazi Museum of Art

July 13 - August 1, 2015

Recent works from the Gama – Caves series as well as his latest body of work Yami – Darkness will be on view.

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The Photograph: What You See & What You Don’t #02
The University Art Museum at the Tokyo University of the Arts
Tokyo

April 25, 2015, 6-8:30 pm

As part of “Shashin: Photography from Japan,” sepiaEYE will be hosting a launch of the limited edition portfolio of piezography prints from Gama Caves, titled Yami – Darkness, that was created for Paris Photo by Atelier Boba. “Shashin: Photography from Japan“ is a multi-institution, city-wide program aimed to raise awareness of photography from Japan in New York.

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Osamu James Nakagawa, Yami – Darkness
sepiaEYE, New York City

March 19, 2015

A selection of works from Osamu James Nakagawa’s Banta will be featured in the inaugural opening exhibition of Ibasho gallery in Antwerp, Belgium. Link to Event Page (Link)
Ibasho Gallery
Antwerp

November 14, 2014, 7-10 pm

In conjunction with the start of Paris Photo and to celebrate Nakagawa’s book, Gama Caves, Atelier Boba has created a set of piezography prints for the artist’s limited edition portfolio, Darkness. Signed copies of Gama Caves will be also be available at Bookshop M (Stand: EE10, Paris Photo). Nakagawa’s work will also be on exhibit at Photo Off via Gallery Tanto Tempo.

An Evening with Osamu James Nakagawa
Atelier Boba
Paris

September 10, 2014

The city of Sagamihara (Kanagawa Prefecture) launched a photo festival in 2001 to celebrate photography as a witness of the past as well as a modern artistic means of expression. Each year, it awards honors to acclaimed photographers in Japan and Asia. It has become one of the most prestigious photo awards in Japan alongside the Ken Domon Award and the Higashikawa Photo Award. Past winners of the Sagamihara prize include: Hiroo Kikai, Seiichi Furuya, Shisei Kuwahara and Lieko Shiga.

April 18 & 24, 2014

Gama Caves by Osamu James Nakagawa, sepiaEYE’s inaugural exhibition was reviewed in the art blog Arte Fuse, and Slate magazine’s photography blog, Behold.

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“Gama Caves” Photos by Osamu James Nakagawa at sepiaEYE by Daniel Gauss
arte fuse

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Japan’s Mysterious and Beautiful Caves by Jordan G. Teicher
Slate: Behold, The Photo Blog

November 8, 2013 - February 2, 2014

War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath presents types of photographs repeatedly made during the many phases of war— regardless of the size or cause of the conflict, the photographers’ or subjects’ culture or the era in which the pictures were recorded. The exhibition features Nakagawa’s photographs from Gama (Caves).

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War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath
Brooklyn Museum

July 2 - September 23, 2012

Osamu James Nakagawa has been nominated for the prestigious Les Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award 2012. One of fifteen finalists, Nakagawa will have a solo exhibition this summer in Arles, France as a part of the 2012 Les Rencontres d'Arles Interational photography festival, where he will exhibit photographs from Banta (Cliffs) and Gama (Caves).

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Artist Presented by Tadashi Ono: Osamu James Nakagawa
Atelier de la Mecanique
Les Rencontres de la Photography
Arles