Founded in Ginza, Tokyo in 1981 by Michiko Nakamura, Kamakura Gallery is one of the most important and well known contemporary art galleries in Japan. It exhibited many of Japan’s first conceptual artists and minimalists, and also introduced Korean artists such as Lee Ufan and Ha Chong-Hyun. The gallery also hosted exhibitions by the Mono-ha (Enokura Koji, Haraguchi Noriyuki, Koshimizu Susumu, Lee Ufan, Narita Katsuhiko, Sekine Nobuo, Suga Kishio, Takayama Noboru, Yoshida Katsuro), a leading contemporary art group of the 1970’s. In 1999, the gallery moved to Kamakura and continues to operate in its own space.