Kunihiro Shinohara

Photographer Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1948

Biography
1973: Studied under photographer Eiichiro Sakata
1978: Became independent and started working as a commercial photographer

"Apart from commercial work, I have also been the official photographer for world-renowned jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, taking photographs of his concert programs, album covers, and more for the past 20 years."

In 2000, he left his advertising work and started to focus on his work as an artist expressing himself through photography, and released the "COSMIC" series.
2002 The Polaroid Collections and other collections
2004-2018 Part-time lecturer in photo art at J. F. Oberlin University

Solo Exhibitions
1985 Solo Exhibition "Face" – Tokyo
1991 Solo Exhibition "Summer Insects That I Love" – Tokyo
1996 Solo Exhibition "Aging in Photography" – Tokyo
2000 Solo Exhibition "cosmic" – Tokyo
2003 Solo Exhibition "Urban Romantic" – Tokyo
2006 Solo Exhibition "DUO" – Tokyo
2022 Solo Exhibition "Even Beautiful Even When Withered" – Tokyo

Special Exhibition
Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography
https://www.fep-photo.org/exhibitions/the-polaroidproject/
2017 The Polaroid Project Exhibition
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, USA – United States
2018 The Polaroid Project Exhibition
WestLicht. Museum for Photography, Vienna
Museum for Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, C/O Berlin, Germany – Germany
2019 The Polaroid Project Exhibition
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore – Singapore
Musee McCord, Montreal, Canada – Canada
2020 The Polaroid Project Exhibition
MIT Museum, Cambridge MA, USA – United States
2023 The Polaroid Project Exhibition
Fundacion Barrie, La Coruna, Spain – Spain
2024 The Polaroid Project Exhibition
National Taiwan Normal University Museum of Art, Taipei City, Taiwan – Taiwan Collection
2002 Dounforth Museum Boston – USA
2002 The Polaroid Collections in USA – USA