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
2027
• Topology, solo exhibition (expected), Kurumaya Museum of Art, Oyama, Japan
2026
• 13/3/1940, solo exhibition, ya-gins, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
2025
• Ichi-e Taisui - connecting the prayers' spots, solo exhibition, Gakurinji Temple, Minakami, Gunma, Japan
2024
• Art Fair Nakanojo, Nakanojo, Gunma, Japan
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, Japan2005
• Aniter No, solo exhibition: 26 Moon Galllery, Tokyo, Japan
• Nostos Algos, solo exhibition: Saishunkan Galllery, Tokyo, Japan
Artist-in-Residence2003
• 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
Honors and Awards2019 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)
Collections2014 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
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston