Kenro Izu was born in Osaka, Japan in 1949. Izu studied at the Nihon University College of Arts, Tokyo, prior to moving to NYC in 1970, where he has since lived and worked. Izu began working in 14×20-inch large format photography in the 1980s, and has extensively photographed sacred sites in more than thirty countries around the world. He is known for his delicately crafted platinum palladium prints, a medium of which he is considered a master. A visit to Angkor Wat in 1993 made Izu aware of the outstanding number of victimized children struggling with the consequences of Cambodia’s vast minefields. This awareness led Izu to establish a free hospital for children in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and to found the nonprofit organization Friends Without A Border in 1966, that funds medical treatment and healthcare programs for disadvantaged children and their families in Southeast Asia. He has since traveled to locations including India, Laos, Nepal, Indonesia, Bhutan and parts of the Middle East. Izu’s works are collected by major museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rubin Museum of Art, NY; and Kiyosato Photo Art Museum, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, among others. Two monographic exhibitions have been held of Izu’s photography at the Rubin Museum of Art, and four have been held to date at the Kiyosato Photo Art Museum.
Exhibitions at PGI
2023.11.22-2024.01.13 |
BLUE | ||
2021.11.24-2022.01.21 | Mono no Aware |
Related Exhibitions
2024.11.09-11.17 |
LA TERRE, Atelier Cosmos |
2024.06.14-07.07 |
Photosynthesis 8’19”, Gallery OUT of PLACE, Nara |
2023.11.21-12.10 |
Bhutan, Roonee 247 fine arts, Tokyo |
2022.01.05-05.22 |
Sacred Places of Asia: The Platinum Photographs of Kenro Izu, Hanzomon Museum |
2021.11.23-12.05 |
Kenro Izu – Journey without a map, Roonee 247 fine arts, Tokyo |
2021.11.17-11.28 |
Kenro Izu – Unpublished work : Journey without a map, iwao gallery |
2021.08.21-10.03 |
Two Person Exhibition – Sacred Structures, Byrdcliff Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, New York |
2020.11.25-2021.2.13 |
ETERNAL LIGHT, gallery bauhaus, Tokyo |
2020.11.18-12.07 | FUZHOU: FORGOTTEN LAND, FUJIFILM Imaging Plaza Tokyo, Tokyo |
2020.11.13-11.26 |
POMPEII / REQUIEM, Fujifilm Photo Salon, FUJIFILM SQUARE, Tokyo, Tokyo |
2017.2.1-3.25 |
SEDUCTION OF PEAR, gallery bauhaus, Tokyo |
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