Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)

2024 a faraway shining star, twinkling in hand, Fotografiska, Berlin
2024 At the Edge of the Everyday World, Arnolfini, Bristol
2024 a faraway shining star, twinkling in hand, Fotografiska, Tallinn
2024 a faraway shining star, twinkling in hand, Fotografiska, Stockholm
2023 Rinko Kawauchi, Ametsuchi – Illuminance – Aila – Utatane, PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, Paris
2023 Rinko Kawauchi, M/E, Fondazione Sozzani – Photo Days, Paris
2023 Rinko Kawauchi, Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, UK
2023“Rinko Kawauchi: M/E ―On this sphere Endlessly interlinking” Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga
2022“Rinko Kawauchi – A Retrospective” Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
“Rinko Kawauchi: M/E ―On this sphere Endlessly interlinking” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga
2021“Under the same sky” MA2 Gallery, Tokyo,
“as it is” Gallery Trax, Yamanashi,
“M/E” MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo, “A DROP” TEATON, Ishikawa
2020 Rinko Kawauchi, as it is, POST, Tokyo / Raurauji Gallery, Osaka
2019 Rinko Kawauchi, When I was seven., agnès b. galerie boutique, Tokyo
2019 Rinko Kawauchi, Days about Atelier Yamanami, HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO (GALLERY 9.5), Kyoto
2018 Rinko Kawauchi, A New Day, POST, Tokyo and Orange, Kumamoto, Japan
2018 Rinko Kawauchi, Halo, foto-forum, Bolzano
2017 Rinko Kawauchi, Halo, POST, Tokyo / Morioka Shoten, Tokyo
2017 Rinko Kawauchi, Halo, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
2016 Rinko Kawauchi, The river embraced me, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
2016 Rinko Kawauchi, The rain of blessing, Gallery 916, Tokyo
2016 Rinko Kawauchi, The river embraced me, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
2016 Rinko Kawauchi, Someday for sure, Orange, Kumamoto / gallery trax, Yamanashi
2016 Rinko Kawauchi, Till The Day, NOMA t.d. store, Tokyo
2015 Rinko Kawauchi, Let’s sing a song our bodies know, Gucci,Tokyo
2015 Rinko Kawauchi, Illuminance, Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna
2014 Rinko Kawauchi, Light and Shadow, Colissimo, Hyogo
2014 Rinko Kawauchi, “Rinko Kawauchi – Ametsuchi + Illuminance”, FotoMuseum, Antwerp
2013 Rinko Kawauchi, “Ametsuchi”, Galerie Priska Parquer, Cologne
2013 Rinko Kawauchi, “Light and Shadow”, KAGIYA Building 4F Gallery, Hamamatsu
2013 Rinko Kawauchi, “Ametsuchi”, Aperture Gallery, New York
2013 Rinko Kawauchi, “Light and Shadow”, msc Gallery, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto
2013 Rinko Kawauchi, “Ametsuchi”, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica
2013 Rinko Kawauchi, “Illuminance”, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
2012 Rinko Kawauchi, “Illuminance, Ametsuchi, Seeing Shadow”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2011 Rinko Kawauchi, “Illuminance”, Gallery at Hermès, New York
2011 Rinko Kawauchi, “A Glimmer in Silence”, FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadtforum. Innsbruck, Austria
2010 Rinko Kawauchi, “the eyes, the ears”, Kunstverein Augsburg, Germany
2010 Rinko Kawauchi, “A Glimmer in Silence”, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2010 Rinko Kawauchi, “Iridescence”, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
2010 Rinko Kawauchi, “Rinko Kawauchi: Transient Wonders, Everyday Bliss － Photography, Video & Slides 2001-2009”, ARGOS Center for Art & Media, Brussels
2009 Rinko Kawauch, Mountain Fold Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Rinko Kawauchi, Rinko Kawauchi “a pause “, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan
2008 Rinko Kawauchi, Rinko Kawauchi presente par Antoine de Vilmorin 77 rue des Archives.Paris.75003, Paris, France
2008 Rinko Kawauchi, “Semear”, Foil Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Rinko Kawauchi, “Utatane”, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
2008 Rinko Kawauchi, “Cui Cui”, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Sizuoka, Japan
2007 Rinko Kawauchi, MAM Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brasil
2007 Rinko Kawauchi, “Aila + the eyes, the ears”, Fotografins Hus, Skeppsholmen, Sweden
2007 Rinko Kawauchi, “Aila + the eyes, the ears”, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden
2006 Rinko Kawauchi, “Aila + the eyes, the ears”, Fotografisk Center, Kopenhagen, Sweden
2006 Rinko Kawauchi, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2006 Rinko Kawauchi, “Aila, The eyes the ears”, Galleria CarlaSozzioni, Mailan, Italy
2006 Rinko Kawauchi, Photographers´ Gallery, London, GB
2005 Rinko Kawauchi, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Rinko Kawauchi, Quarter, Florenz, Italy
2005 Rinko Kawauchi, “Aila” Cohan and Lesile, New York, USA
2005 Rinko Kawauchi, “Aila”, Kanez Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
2005 Rinko Kawauchi, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
2004 Rinko Kawauchi, Cohan and Lesile, New York, USA
2004 Rinko Kawauchi, “Aila”, California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, USA
2004 Rinko Kawauchi, Rocket, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Rinko Kawauchi, Colette, Paris, France
1999 Rinko Kawauchi, “Hitoiki,” Light Works, Yokohama, Japan

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

2025 BUTSUDORI The Photographic Expression of “Objects”, Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga
2025 Each View, KENKYO, Tokyo
2024 LIFE THAT REVEALS ITSELF, Japan House, São Paulo
2024 Forest festival of the arts Okayama, GREENable HIRUZEN|Hiruzen area, Maniwa City
2024 I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, The Rencontres d’Arles, France
2023 CAMK Collection Exhibition vol.7 : MEMORY STORAGE FOR THE FUTURE, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
2023 Collection Exhibition 1 It knows : When Forms Become Mind, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2023 Wabi Sabi, Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, Netherlands
2023 I have not loved (enough or worked), The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Australia
2022 Art & New Ecology, THE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM / The 5th Floor, Japan
2022 20th anniversary of opening Exhibition “Flower of Life”, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Japan
2022 The Ateliers of Wonders, HOMO FABER, Italy
2022 Rinko Kawauchi and Yamanami Kobo, umi no schole, Japan
2021 Thailand Biennale 2021, Thailand
2021 Past and Present, Positions of Japanese Photography, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany
2020 Our Duty is to Experiment – 20 years Galerie PRISKA PASQUER, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
2020 The Sense of Wonder into another garden, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, Japan
2020 Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2019 Lianzhou Foto Festival 15th Edition, China
2019 TOP Collection, Reading Images: The Time of Photography, TOP MUSEUM, Tokyo
2019 Miffy’s Field of Flowers: The World of Dick Bruna Picture Books, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, Japan
2019 CAMK Collection Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2018 TAYLOR WESSING PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE 2018, National Portrait Gallery, London
2018 Incognito: The Eye in Search, The 6th SIPF 2018 Festival, Singapore
2018 25th Anniversary, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
2018 A Beautiful Moment, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
2018 Asama International Photo Festival, Nagano
2018 A Matter of Light, PALAZZO REALE, Milan
2018 Forever (and again), IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka
2017 Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz
2017 Prix Pictet, V&A Museum, London (Touring CAMERA, Turino and other places)
2017 Seize the Uncertain Day, Chinretsukan Gallery (The University Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), Tokyo
2017 Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, URANO, Tokyo
2016 Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now, SF MOMA, San Francisco
2016 Genius loci – The Higashikawa Awards –, Towada Art Center, Aomori
2015 NOW AND THEN, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
2015 The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
2015 In the Wake Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2014 BIWAKO Biennal, Shiga
2014 Paraty en Foco en festa, Brazil
2014 Landskrona Fotofestival 2014, Landskrona, Sweden
2014 Photography will be, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
2014 Gift, Exhibition with Terri Weifenbach, IMA gallery, Tokyo
2014 “Rinko Kawauchi×NOMA t.d. ” gallery trax, Yamanashi / TRAUMARIS, Tokyo / rizm, Hyogo
2014 VIVID MEMORIES, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
2013 Exhibition of the 29th Higashikawa Award Winners, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido
2013 The Aesthetics of Photography – Five Elements Collection Exhibition 2013, Tokyo
2013 Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2013 Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2012 Daegu Photo Biennale 2012, Daegu, Korea
2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012, The Photographers’ Gallery, London;  c/o 2012 Berlin, Berlin
2012 To Wander a Garden, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2012 Visible / Invisible, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2011 “Mizu no Oto” (The sound of water). Fotografia. Festival Internazionale di Roma
2011 “The Eye is a lonely Hunter”, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, Germany
201 “Illuminance”, Le Mois de La Photo à Montréal, Canada
2010 “Murmuration” (Strange & Familiar: Three Views of Brighton). Brighton Photo Biennale  Brighton, England
2009 “Touch the World” Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan
2009 “Photography Now China, Japan, Korea” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2009 “FotoFrafia Festival International of Roma” Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy
2009 “Vendure!: New Acquisitions and Related Works of the Collectilon” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2008 “Blooming Brazil-Japan Where you are” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2008 “Urban Future #2″ Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 Curator’s Choice ’07: Mueseum Dialogues” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography, Tokyo, Japan
2006 YOSHITOMO NARA ＋ graf A to Z, Aomori, Japan
2006 Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
2006 “Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain”, Museum Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “AILA & Utatane” Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2004 “Lonely Planet” Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center, Ibaraki, Japan
2003 “Love Planet”, The 41st Okayama City Arts Festival Program (with Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Jeanne Dunning, Tatsuo Miyajima and Rikrit Tiravanija et al), Okayama, Japan
2003 “HOPE” Laforet Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2003 “FOIL” Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 “Kimura Ihei Award Winnes Exhibition” Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2000 “Hinata Kanata”  Landmark Tower Gallery, Kanagawa. Japan

Auszeichnungen
2023 Sony World Photography Award
2013 The 29th Higashikawa Award, Domestic Photographer Award
2013 Art Encourage Prize for New Artist from the Ministry of Education
2012 The Royal Photographic Society: Honorary Fellowship
2009 25th Annual Infinity Award/ Category Art, by the International Center of Photography ICP, New York, USA
2002 Winner of the 27th Kimura Ihei Award, Japan
2002 The Photographic Society of Japan, the Rookie of the Year award, Japan
1997 Grand Prix Prize, The Guardian Garden’s 9th Hitotsuboten Exhibition, Japan