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Nobuyoshi ARAKI


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
  • “Asian Dub Photography”, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy
  • “Dark side”, Fotomuseum, Zurich
  • "the art of japan | past - present - future araki meets hokusai & kumi machida", kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
  • “ART IS FOR THE SPIRIT: Works from The UBS Art Collection”, MORI ART CENTER, Tokyo
  • “READ MY LIPS” (Curated by Dean Sameshima) Peres Projects Berlin, Berlin
2007
  • “EYES OF AN ISLAND, A survey of Japanese photography, 1945-2007”, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
  • “Les Autres”, Ratio 3, San Francisco
  • ¿Qué pasa con las flores?, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid
2006
  • “A Lover's Discourse” (Curated by Dean Sameshima) Peres Projects Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2005
  • “RISING SUN, MELTING MOON, Contemporary Art in Japan”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • “ANOHI ANOTOKIO”, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
  • “Children of the World: Witness for Tomorrow”, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
  • “MORIYAMA・SHINJUKU・ARAKI”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Daido MORIYAMA + Nobuyoshi ARAKI ‘Contact・Shinjuku・Trimming’”, NADiff, Tokyo
2004
  • “IN BED Images from a Vital Stage”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
  • “Club Paradiso JAMMING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY” Kiyosato Museum of
  • Photographic Arts
  • “The 9. International Exhibition of Architecture METAMORPH”, Venice
  • “Flower as Image-From Monet to Jeff Koons”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
  • “Rose c’est la vie: On Flowers in Contemporary Art”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
  • “10 Year Anniversary Exhibition” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Osaka・Art・Kaleidoscope”, Osaka Contemporary Art Center/Contemporary Art Space Osaka
  • “The Beauty of Darkness”, Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
  • “I, ASSASSIN”, Wallspace Gallery, New York
2003
  • “Happiness: a survival guide for art and life”, Mori Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Tokyo
2001
  • Valencia Biennale Valencia, Spain
2000
  • “Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids 1971-74, New works by Nobuyoshi Araki and Saul Fletcher, Yayoi Kusama Walking Piece 1966” Gallery Asprey Jacques “GENDAI-Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space” Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1999
  • “SzenenwechseI XV” Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
  • “Spiral TV” Spiral Garden (opening live show with Vanessa Beikloft), Tokyo “Miyajima, Araki, Sugimoto, Kusama” Studio Cosoll & Studio Guenzani, Milan
  • “Exposition de la collection de la Fondation Cartier” Centre culture de Belem, Lisbonne
  • “Collected Works Contemporary Art since 1968” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
  • “Love and Desire” Galleria Photology, Milan
  • “Get together Art as Teamwork” Kunsthalle wien am Karsplatz, Austria
1998
  • “Filtre” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
  • “Love in Winter”, Satani Gallery (with Boris Mihailov) Tokyo
  • “Araki vs Weegee” GaIIery Ham, Nagoya
  • “Researching for the Future Photography” epSITE, Epson lmaging Gallery Tokyo
  • “Hiroshige and Araki” Japonisme Muesum, Atami
  • “Sur-everyday-life: Japanese contemporary Art of Seven Artists” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
  • “1998 Taipei Biennale: Site of Desire” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • “Car Culture in photographs of 20th Century” Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato
  • “Nuit blanche” Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France; traveling to Norway, Finland and Sweeden
  • “Life Border Line: Strruth, Pernone, Hohenbuchier, Jacobs, Araki” Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
  • “Fuori Uso: 1998 Mostrato” Associazione CuIturale Arte Nova Pescara, Italy
  • “Photo Diary” Art Pavillion, Zagreb, Croatia
  • “Illusionary botanical Garden” Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka
  • “The Promise of Photography: The DG Bank Collection” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • “Fetishes a Fetishism” Passage de Retz, Paris
  • “Life is a Bitch” De AppeI, Amsterdam
  • “The 24th. Sao Paulo Biennale” Brazil
  • “Under / Exposed” Tunnelbana Metro U bahn, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
  • “The Dead” Horsens Museum, Horsens, Denmark
  • “SensuaI Flowers” GaIIery Koyanagi (coIlaboration with Yukio Nakagawa), Tokyo
  • “Nobuyoshi Araki,Diane Arbus,Nan Goldin” Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
  • “Lust and Leere (Desire and Void)” Kunsthalle Mien, Vienna, Austria; Arken
  • Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhargen, Denmark; Kunsthalle zu KieI, Kiel, Germany
  • “The 10th InternationaI Biennale of the Image” Nancy center culturel, Andre Malraux Vandceuvre, Nancy, France
  • “Amours” Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
  • “Du construit du paysage” Centre Regional d'art contemporain, Site, France
  • “Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark” Taka lshii Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Sasame Hiroyuki, c/o Hara, 2nd Floor, 4-3-3 Kita-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku” Art Tower Mito, Mito
  • “Shashin (Photos)” Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe; Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka PrefecturaI Museum of Art, Fukuoka
  • “Floating lmages of Women in Art History=From the Birth of Feminism towards the Reconstruction of Gender” Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya
  • “Special Arakinema: Nobuyoshi Araki vs Daido Moriyama” Yomiuri culture Salon Aoyama (Arakinema showing, with Daido Moriyama), Tokyo
  • “EIvis + Marilyn: 2 x lnmoraI” Sogo Museum, Yokohama
  • “Cities on the Move” Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria; Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; PS-1, New York.; Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London
  • “The 33rd Artists Today: City Landscapes and Unity in the Plurality” Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama
1996
  • “Kingdom of Flora” Shoeshine Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
  • “Prospect '96” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
  • “Sex and Crime” SprengeI Museum, Hannover
  • “Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Larry Clark”, Kunsthalle BaseI
  • “A Girl Floating in the Cosmos” Kochi Prefectural Museum HaIl, Kochi(collaboration with Gozo Yoshimasu, Marilia, and Kazutoki Umezu)
  • “Szenenwechsel X” Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
  • “Shiro Kuramata 1934-199l” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo
  • “Araki and Ten Contemorary Tanka Poets” Gallery Eve, Tokyo
  • “Nobuyoshi Araki and Mkhiko Kon” Center for Photographic Art, Camel, U.S.A.
  • “lmages of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930-1990” Shoto Museum, Tokyo
1995
  • “My Kind of Town” Guardian Garden, Tokyo
  • “The Flowers from the Other World” Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, (with painter Erik Andriesse)
  • “Art in Japan Today 1985-1995” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • “Ginzabout” The Ginza Art Space Tokyo
  • “Texture and Touch: Contemporary Photography from Japan” The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney
  • “Vision of Hope and Despair” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • “the 6th Biennale lnternazionale de Fotografia: Trame inquiette (Agli Ordini del Cibo),'Todi Palazzo De- Arte, Perugia, Italy; Promotrice delle BelIe Arts, Trino, ltaly
  • “The Act of Seeing (Urban Space), Taking a Distance” Fondation pour I'Architecture, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • “The Dead” National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, England
  • “Works by 25 Photographers in Thief 20s” Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato
  • “Sites of Being” ICA Boston
  • “26th ArIes International Photo FestivaI (Des Rencontres lnternationales de la Photographic), France
  • “Shibusawa Tatsuhiko Gallery” Nichido Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Carnegie International 1995” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  • “Blumenstiicke Kunststucke” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
1993
  • “Body and memory: Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark” Sara Parpallo, Valencia,Spain
  • “Tokyo love” The Ginza Art Space,Tokyo (with Nan Goldin)
  • “Of the Human condition:Hope and Despair at the End of the Century” Spiral Garden, Tokyo; Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya
  • “When the Body Becomes Art: The Organs and Body as Object” ltabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
  • “Liquid Crystal Futures” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, and travelling to other cities in Europe and Tokyo
  • “Portraits” Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
  • “The Nude and the Contemporary Photography” Spiral Garden, Tokyo
  • “From the Edge of Nirvana/ Tokyo Design Center (collaboration with Kazuo Ohno, Gozo Yoshimasu and Marilia)
  • “Photography and Beyond in Japan” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; travelling to Museo de Arte Contemporaneo International, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. Hawaii (until 1995)
  • “Love You Tokyo” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (with Kineo Kuwabara)
  • “Contemporary Japanese Photography” Kunsthaus Zurich
  • “Das Bild des Korpers” Frankfurter Kunstverein
1991
  • “Japanese Photography in the 1970s” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo
1990
  • “Tokyo : A City Perspective” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo
  • “Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam“
  • “Photos de Famille” La Villete, Paris
1986
  • “Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea” Casa Elizalde, Barcelona
  • “Die Japanesche Fotografie” Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
  • “Paris, Tokyo, New York” Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85, Tsukuba; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai
1983
  • “A Woman on 6x7 Films” Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo (with Bill Brandt)
  • “A Scene of Contemporary Japanese Art II” Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai
1978
  • “Hot Wind in July: My Sweet Women; works by Araki and 4 Photographers with Gentle Eyes” Camp, Tokyo
1976
  • “Exhibition selected by 12 photographers” Shiseido The Ginza, Tokyo
1974
  • “Photographs on Photography” Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo
  • “From Photo to Photo” Gallery Matto Grosso, Tokyo
  • “Fifteen Photographers Today” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1972
  • “The 11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1971
  • “The 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
  • “Copied Pictures” Kinokuniya Gallery Tokyo
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Nobuyoshi Araki
"Hana Kinbaku", 2008
Unique colour photograph & colour positive
Dimensions variable
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Nobuyoshi Araki
"Hana Kinbaku", 2008
Unique colour photograph & colour positive
Dimensions variable
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Nobuyoshi Araki
“67 Shooting Back”, 2007
colour photograph
59.5 x 47cm
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Nobuyoshi Araki
“From winter to Spring”, 2004
B & W print