| Ken Matsubara | |
| Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan | |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | “Utsuroi - A river runs through it” Galerie Eric Mouchet, Brussels. |
| 2023 | “Usugumo” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo. “Utsuroi” POST, Tokyo. |
| 2022 | “Yuragi” Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima. |
| 2020 | “Utsusemi” Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2019 | “Utsusemi” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo. |
| 2018 |
“Spring Steps” Loko Gallery, Tokyo “Repetitión” Galeria Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid |
2017 | “Hou-chou” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo. | 2016 | “Hou-chou” Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris. / “Hou-chou” La Chambre, Strasbourg. “Repetition - Book” Galeria del Paseo, Punta del Este. |
2015 | “Repetition - Book” 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong. | 2014 | “Repetition” Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona / MA2 Gallery, Tokyo / “Repetition - Book” Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto / Art 45, Montreal |
| 2012 | “The Sleeping Water” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo / Jhonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans |
| 2011 | “Winter Dreams” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo / “Winter Dreams - The Story of Water” Spazio Light Box, Venice |
| 2009 | “The Portrait of Fruits” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2008 | “Knife in the Water” eN arts, Kyoto |
| 2006 | “SLEEPWALKER” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1997 | “Transmission, Congulation, Reflection” Gallery αM, Tokyo |
| 1992 | Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York |
| 1990 | “Vertical and Horizontal” PS Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1988 | “Twisted Perspective” PS Gallery, Tokyo / Picture Photo Space, Osaka / Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York |
| 1987 | Light Gallery, New York / Studio 666, Paris / Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1982 | Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo / Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo / Suikatou, Tokyo |
| 1981 | Axis Gallery, Tokyo |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | “And the invader’s fear of memories” Wei-Line Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. |
| 2023 | “Kioku wa tokika” Spiral Garden, Tokyo. “Kioku wa tokika” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo. “Water Light Festival” Water Light Lab, Augustinian Canons’ Monastery of Novacella, Brixen. |
| 2022 | “Tracing Absence” Selected from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation, Whitechapel Gallery, London. “BEEP COLLECTION: ORIGINS” Centre d’Art Cal Massó, Tarragona. |
| 2021 | “KAGERO Mayfly” Ken Matsubara and Shingo Yoshida, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hunburg. |
| 2018 | “LUNA Festival - Media Art Friesland 2018” Nederlands “INTERFERENCE” International Light Art Project, Tunis. “COLLUMINA” International Light Art Project, Cologne. “Recall” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo |
2017 | “Convergence: Digital Media and Technology” Schneider Museum of Art, Oregon. “Sparrow Night: Artist Working with Light” Museum London, Ontario. |
| 2016 | “CALL AND RESPONSE” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon. | 2015 | “Smoke and Mirrors” Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida. “Venice Meeting Point” Navy Officer’s Club, Venice. “Ryuta IIda, Yuko Ozawa, Ken Matsubara” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo. | 2012 | “The End of Everything / A New Beginning” LARM galleri ,Copenhagen |
| 2011 | “Night Scented Stock” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York “The Tiger and the Sunflower” Schroder Romero & Shredder Gallery, New York “Close Encounter” AKI Gallery, Taipei “THE P.2 PROJECTS” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans “Forces” 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2010 | “Archetype of Photography, Froese, Matsubara, Przyborek” The Laznia, Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk |
| 2009 | “6 BIENNALE FOTOGRAFII” Galeria Mejska Arsenal, Poznan |
| 2008 | “The Story Box” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1999 | “Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography” Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco |
| 1994 | “INSIDE OUT: Contemporary Japanese photography” The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte. |
| 1993 | “Breda Fotografica '93” De Beyerd, Breda |
| 1992 | “Photography in Contemporary Art” Walker Hill Art Center, Seuol |
| 1991 | “Compound of The Maniéra" Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Machida ”The 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, 1991” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art |
| 1990 | “The Silent Dialogue, Still Life in the West and Japan” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka “The Imprinted Ideas” Tochigi Prefecturl Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya “Les Fleurs” Studio 666, Paris / Galerie Photographique, Toulouse |
| 1989 | “Rétrospective des Artistes Exposé entre 1986 et 1988” Studio 666, Paris “Group Show” Maoson de La Culture, Annecy |
| 1988 | “Expressions in Photography and Related Media II” Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka |
| 1981 | “The 12th Print Grand-Prix Exhibition” Nichido Salon, Tokyo / “Four Stars” Kado Gallery, Tokyo |
| Selected Public Collections | |
| Christen Sveaas Art Collection, Kistefos. | |
| Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, California | |
| Maison du Livre de L' image et du Son, La Bibliotheque de Villeurbanne, Lyon | |
| Bayly Art Museum, Virginia / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas | |
| Bell Atlantic Corpolation, New York / Readers Digest, New York | |
| Goldman Sachs Corporation, New York. | |
| Nippon Polalroid "Polaroid Corpolation of Japan", Tokyo | |
| International Polaroid Collection, Cambrige, Massachusetts | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo | |
| Deutsche Bank Collection | |
| Bulgari Collection, New York. | |
| Jordan Schntzer Museum of Art / Oregon | |
| Award | |
| 1991 | “Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Award“ The 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, 1991 |