Jun Itoi is / was

2017 Artist, and resident of Nakanojo, Gunma
2009 Artist in residence (grant by the Agency for Japan Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Japan) at Kemijarvi, Finland
2002 Artist, and resident of Tokyo, Japan
2001 Visiting Assistant Professor: Indiana University Bloomington, Fine Arts, Photography / Graphic Design
2001 MFA of Photography: University of North Texas, Denton, TX
1998 Freelance Photographer: Microsoft Chicago Sidewalk, Chicago, IL
1997 Photojournalist / Illustrator: Copley Newspaper Syndicate, Naperville, IL
1997 BFA of Photography: Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN

 

Selected Exhibitions

2023
What are You Looking at, solo exhibition, River to River Art Festival, Hirosegawa Museum of Art, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Nakanojo Art Biennale, selected exhibition, Gunma, Japan
Exomania, solo exhibition, Gallery Utatane, Nakanojo, Gunma, Japan

2022
TOP Collection - Light as Medium, selected group exhibition, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
20ish UNT MFAs from the early aughts, group exhibition, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

2021
Borderline - Mt.Akagi, solo exhibition, ya-gins, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
A4 Self-Restraint / Self-Body, selected group exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Down Art, selected group exhibition, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Nakanojo Art Biennale, selected exhibition, Gunma, Japan

2020
Lapland Exhibition, two-person exhibition with Hitomi Kuwada, Denemon Tokiwa, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
Nandonale III, juried exhibition, Nando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019
The Ecology of Expression - Remaking Our Relations with the World, selected exhibition, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Lapland - Light and Shadow in the Life at 66 degrees North, selected exhibition, Luomu Forest Gallery, Kita Karuizawa, Gunma, Japan
Nakanojo Art Biennale, selected exhibition, Gunma, Japan
Soma, solo exhibition, Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Topology, solo exhibition, Viento Arts Gallery, Takasaki, Japan
Drifting over the Border, selected exhibition, ONOMA Gallery, Fiskars, Finland

2018
Twi Light, solo exhibition, Nando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cantos Familia / Kaamos, solo exhibition, Kolin Ryynanen, Koli, Finland
Dear Sirs, I Have Moved in, group exhibition, Gunma, Japan
Light Weaver, solo exhibition, Gallery Saoh, Tokyo, Japan

2017
Nakanojo Art Biennale, selected exhibition, Gunma, Japan
Smash.Hit.Repeat, selected exhibition, Old Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland

2015
Art x Bike, selected exhibition, Gallery Kobo Chika, Hiroo, Tokyo, Japan
Yogyakarta Art Biennale, selected exhibition, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Nakanojo Art Biennale, selected exhibition, Gunma, Japan
Nakanojo Biennale Preview, selected exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Correspondence / Landscape, selected exhibition, Gallery Kobo Chika, Hiroo, Tokyo, Japan
Cantos Familia, solo exhibition, University of Mainland, Texas City, Texas, USA
Sight-Seeing, group exhibition, Crans-Montana, Switzerland

2014
Discovery of Fotofest, selected exhibition, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
Discovery of Fotofest, Fotofest, Houston, Texas, USA

2013
Domani, the Art of Tommorow, group exhibition, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Cantos Familia, solo exhibition, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Cantos Familia, solo exhibition, Miyukino Art Village, Kijimadaira, Japan
Touch is Love, selected exhibition, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Nakanojo Art Biennale, selected exhibition, Nakanojo, Japan

2012
Cantos Familia, solo exhibition, Kurumaya Museum of Art, Oyama, Japan
Snail Mail, selected exhibition, Houston Museum of Art, Houston, Texas, USA

2011
Cantos Familia, solo exhibition, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Cantos Familia, solo exhibition, Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan
Kaamos, solo exhibition, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Cantos Familia, solo exhibition, Photography Gallery Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, Finland
Stand the Test of Time, solo exhibition, Gendai Heights Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tove's Island, solo exhibition, Gendai Heights Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Between Photography and Paintings, juried group exhibition, Gallery Aband, Osaka, Japan
Correspondence / Landscape - Retrospective, curated exhibition, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo, Japan
GinEn, group exhibition, Tokyo Art Museum, Sengawa, Tokyo, Japan

2009
Revisited, solo exhibition, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Landscape Invitational, juried exhibition, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

2008
Tokyo Story, solo exhibition, Gendai Heights Gallery ST, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Empty Sky, solo exhibition, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoe - Pictures Swirl, two-men-exhibition, Gallery Huit, Tokyo, Japan

Aspects of Memory, group exhibition, Upfield Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kako je bilo u Srbiji?, juried exhibition, Gendai Heights Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2006
New Year's Card by Japanese Artists, juried exhibition, Galerija SKC, Beograd, Serbia
Here You Are, solo exhibition: Gendai Heights Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005
Aniter No, solo exhibition: 26 Moon Galllery, Tokyo, Japan
Nostos Algos, solo exhibition: Saishunkan Galllery, Tokyo, Japan

2003
Room of Remembrance, group exhibition: Chamtse Ling Temple, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Group Azuma, group exhibition: Higashikawa Photo Festival, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

2002
Fellowship Exhibition, juried exhibition: Houston Center of Photography - Juried by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Houston, Texas, USA
The March for Tibet's Independence, solo exhibition: Indianapolis Musuem of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Group Azumaa group exhibition: Higashikawa Photo Festival, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

2001
Walk for Tibet, solo exhibition: IUPUI Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Group Azuma, group exhibition: Higashikawa Photo Festival, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
American Photography Institute Fellowship Exhibition, New York University, New York, USA
Where I am from, thesis exhibition: University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
Images of Tibet, juried exhibition: Himalayan Research Center, Portland University, Portland, Oregon, USA

 

Artist-in-Residence

2019 Fiskars, Finland (3 weeks - with the exchange program of Nakanojo Biennale)
2018 Koli, Finalnd (1 month)
2015 Yogyakarta, Indonesia (10 days)
2015 Crans-Montana, Switzerland (1 month as an assitant of Prof. Tokihiro Sato, Tokyo University of Arts)
2009 Kemijarvi, Finland (1 year)
2008 Fiskars, Finland (2 montsh)

 

Honors and Awards

2014 City of Oyama, Tochigi, Japan: Recipient of Grants for Emerging Artist
2009 Agency for Japan Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Tokyo, Japan: Recipient of Grants for Emerging Artists
2001 American Photography Institute, New York University, New York, NY: Fellowship
2001 Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX: Fellowship

 

Collections

- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

- Museum of Fine Arts Houston

 

 

 

 

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