Michiko has organized many exhibitions focusing on contemporary Japanese photography, including On Your Body (2008), On Landscape (2002), and Kiss in the Dark (2001). Her other exhibitions include American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (2000), Love's Body: Rethinking the Naked and the Nude in Photography (1998), Alfred Stieglitz and His Contemporaries (1997), and Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists (1996). From 2002 to 2006, she worked for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT), where she organized the exhibition Life Actually: The Works of Contemporary Japanese Women (2005). During her tenure at MOT, she was appointed as the commissioner for Japan at the fifty-first Venice Biennale (2005) to curate Ishiuchi Miyako—Mother's 2000–2005: Traces of the Future. Ms. Kasahara was also a guest curator for the Japan Foundation's international traveling exhibition Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary (2004) and for the 2003 City-net Asia project (Seoul Museum of Art, 2003).