Ken Ohara Japanese, b. 1942

1942              Born in Tokyo, Japan

1961-1962    Studied Photography at Nihon University, Tokyo

1962              Relocated to New York City

1963-1966    Studied at Art Students League, New York

1966-1970    Worked with Richard Avedon Studio and Hiro Studio, Inc., New York

1970-1971    Freelance photographer for Harper’s Bazaar

1974-1975    Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography

1973-1983    Technical Director, Menken Seltzer Studios, New York

1983              Established Ohara Studio, New York

1988              Relocated to Glendale, California, established Ohara Studio, Glendale

Solo Exhibitions

2017                            

Ken Ohara Extreme Portraits 1970-1999, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Gallery, New York, NY

2006-2007

Ken Ohara Extended Portrait Studies (Traveling exhibition); Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany; Fotomuseum in Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany

2006                  

with, Stephen Cohen Galley, Los Angeles, CA

2000

Stephen Cohen Galley, Los Angeles, CA

1996

Artgraph Gallery Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1986

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1979

Nikon Salon Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1971

Asahi Pentax Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1970

Sony Building Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2019

A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection , The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Snap + Share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

2012-2013

Thomas Walther Photography Collection, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau-Robau, Germany

2010                 

State of mind, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

2009

Deux temps, Trois mouvements, GwinZegal/ Center for Visual Art, Plouha, France

Shibui: Six Japanese Photographers, 1920s to 2000, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008-2010        

This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs  (Traveling exhibition); Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marina, CA; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

2008                 

Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography (Traveling exhibition); Tate Modern, London, UK; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Kopf an Kopf, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

2005-2006

Self, Craftspace (Traveling exhibition); Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Bury St. Edmunds Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds, UK; Piece Hall Art Gallery, Halifax, UK; McManus Gallery, Dundee, UK

2004

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2002

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2001

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

1999

The Ghost in the Shell, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1997

Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland

1993

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1974

New Japanese Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Traveling exhibition); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; San Francisco Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Collections

Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Hallmark Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA

Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Collection/ Museum, Dessau, Germany

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Kawasaki Municipal Museum, Kanagawa, Japan

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Sahshi-Kosha, Tokyo, Japan

Taschen Verlag, Cologne, Germany

Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Japan

Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

Monographs

Ken Ohara; Extreme Portraits 1970-1999, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, 2017

Ken Ohara; Extended Portrait Studies since 1970, Steidl

with - Ken Ohara, Twin Palms Publishing, 2006

ONE - Ken Ohara - #31 of “One Picture Book”, Nazraeli Press, 2005

one - ken ohara, Taschen Verlag. 1997

ONE -  KEN OHARA, Tsukiji Shokan, 1970

Lectures

New School for Social Research, New York, NY

The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Japan

Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA