
Nobuyoshi ARAKI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2009
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- “69YK”, Taka Ishii Gallery , Tokyo
- 2008
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- “Hana Kinbaku”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- "B/W bondage", Jablonka Galerie Berlin, Berlin
- 2007
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- "ARAKI GOLD", l’Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica - Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Roma
- “67 Shooting Back”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- 2006
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- “TOKYO JINSEI”, Edo Tokyo Museum, Tokyo
- “SHIKI IN ME”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- “Nobuyoshi Araki “, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico D.F., Mexico
- 2005
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- Life Like – the World of Photography by Nobuyoshi Araki:“Flowers by Araki”, epSITE, EPSON IMAGING GALLERY, Singapore
- “Wanted: Dead and Alive - Works by the Genius Photo-maniac,
- Nobuyoshi Araki”, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) Singapore
- “NOBUYOSHI ARAKI: Self, Life, Death”, Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, London
- “Nobuyoshi Araki Tokyo Nude”, Yoshii Gallery, New York
- “Kaori”, Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2004
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- “From Winter to Spring”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- “Painting Flower”, epSITE, EPSON IMAGING GALLERY, Tokyo
- 2003
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- “ARAKI BY ARAKI” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- “Hana-Jinsei” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
- “Tokyo Still Life” Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
- 2002
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- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Jablonka Galerie, Köln
- “Suicide in Tokyo” Italian Pavilion, Venice
- “Shosetsu Seoul” Artium, Fukuoka
- 2001
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- “Tokyo Still Life” Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- “Pola”, Low, Los Angeles
- “Shosetsu Seoul” Spiral Hall, Tokyo
- “Shikijo kyo” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- “Flower Shadow” Gallery Artgraph, Tokyo
- 2000
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- “Viaggio Sentimental” Centro Perl'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
- “Arakinema: Kurumado” Pecci, Prato
- “Polaevacy” Nadiff, Tokyo
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Low, Los Angeles
- “Shashin Shijyo Shugi” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Stedellik Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Gent, Belgium
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Damasquine Art Gallery, Bruxelle, Belgium
- 1999
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- “Arakinema: A's Paradise” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- “ARAKI Nobuyoshi Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Scalo Art Space, New York
- “RYUSEKI” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- “ALive” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Grand Gallery, Prague; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
- “Araki Nobuyoshi” Il Tempo, Tokyo
- “Winter Love” Toru Maeshima Gallery, Wakayama
- 1998
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- “Tokyo Shijyo” Diechtorhallen, Hamburg
- “The Past= Photographs 1972-1973” Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen,
Germany
- “Nobuyoshi Araki= Tokyo” Stadtisches Klinikum Fulda, Germany
- “Portraits and Flowers” Photographers Gallery, London
- “Tokyo Nostalsia” GaIleria Photology, Milan
- “A's Life” traveling to Toyama, Yokohama, Sapporo and Fukuoka
- “Arakinema: Tokyo Comedy in Vienna, SpiraI Hall, Tokyo
- “Arakinema: Taipei” Yomiuri Culture Salon Aoyama; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
- “Arakinema: Erotic Woman in Color” Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Thailand “Cosmosco” Taka ishii Gallery
- “Story portraits” Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- “A's Paradise” Shinjuku Takashimaya Concourse (outdoor instaIIation) , Tokyo
- 1997
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- “A's Life” Kachimai HaIl, Obihiro; Laforet Museum Harajuku Tokyo
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
- “Shikijyo” Scalo Book Store, Zurich
- “Flower Rondo” J. M. Gallery, Tokyo
- “Araki Retrographs” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- “Arakinema: Retro-Ero” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- “A World of GirIs” II Tempo, Tokyo
- “Tokyo Comedy” Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
- “Arakinema: Love Secession” Wiener secession, Vienna, Austria
- “Arakinema: Tokyo Paradise” Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
- “Arakinema: Vienna and Tokyo Paradise” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Gallery Starmach, Krakow, Poland
- “Nobuyoshi Araki” Studio Guenzani, Milan
- 1996
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- “Faces vs Bodies” SpiraI Garden, Tokyo
- “Arakinema: Faces vs Bodies/ Spiral Hall, Tokyo
- “Death Reality” Taka lshii Gallery Tokyo
- “The Past 1972-1973” Stadtsparkasse. Muenster, Germany
- “FIowers: Life and Death” Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
- “Tokyo Novel” Egg Gallery, Tokyo
- “Shadows of Flowers/ Gallery Eve Tokyo
- “Bokuju-kitan” Jablonka Galerie, Köln
- “Arakinema: Novel Photography” Studio Mouris Roppongi, Tokyo
- “Arakinema: Flower Rondo ll” Areana Hall, Tamagawa Takashimaya SC Tokyo
- “Fake Love” Ginza Komatsu Tokyo
- “The Face, The Dead” Pace Wildenstein and MacGill, Los Angeles
- “A moment in Time” espace TAG Heuer, Tokyo
- “From Close-range” BIum & Poe, Los Angeles
- 1995
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- “Erotos” Gallery lndex, Stockholm, Sweden; GalIery Bang, Oslo, Norway; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
- “Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991” traveling to Zone Gallery, New Castle, England; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
- “Araki Nobuyoshi” Torch, Amsterdam
- “Journal intime” Fondation Cartier pour I'art contemporain, Paris
- “The First Year of Heisei” Le Garage, Reims, France
- “Nobuyoshi Araki: A-Diary/Sachin and His Brother Mabo”, Galerie Chantal CrouseI, Paris
- “Naked Novel” Egg Gallery, Tokyo
- “Arakinema: Sentimental Journey/Winter Journey” Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
- “Satchin in Summer” Laforet Museum Harajuku Tokyo
- “Arakinema: Passion in Okinawa” Ryubo Hall, Naha
- “Pictures by A Virgin Boy, Daccho-kun” Space Link, Tokyo (drawings)
- “Tokyo Novelle” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
- “Bokuju-kitan” Jablonka Galerie, Köln
- “Nobuyoshi Araki: Diario lntimo” Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
- 1994
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- “Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991” traveling to Museet for Fotokunst,
Odense, Denmark; Nordliga Fotocentret, Oulu Finland
- “Private Photography” Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo
- “Sky” Gallery Eve, Tokyo
- “Tokyo Nude/Private Diary” Luhring Augustine, New York
- “Unconscious Tokyo : Tokyo Cube” White Cube, London
- “Obscene Photographs” Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
- 1993
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- “Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991” traveling to Galerie Museum, Bozen,
Italy; Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Fotomuseum im Munchener Standmuseum, Munich, Germany; Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
- “Fine Tokyo Days” Gallery Verita, Tokyo
- “New World of Love” La Camera, Tokyo
- “Erotos”Parco Gallery, Tokyo
- 1992
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- “Love interrogations: Tokyo Fax./Facks” Apt Gallery, Tokyo
- “State of Things: A Thousand Photographs Exhibited Day by Day” P3 Art and
Environment, Tokyo
- “Angel's Festival” Parco Gallery, Tokyo
- “Car Photographs” Egg Gallery, Tokyo
- “Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991” Forum Stadtpark, Graz,
Austria;traveling to Galerie Fotohof, Mirabellpark, Salzburg, Austria
- “Photo-maniac Diary” Egg Gallery, Tokyo
- 1991
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- “Winter Journey” Egg Gallery Tokyo
- “A's Nude Exhibition: Lovers” Apt Gallery, Tokyo
- “Arakinema: Springscapes” Cinema Rise Shibuya, Tokyo
- “From Close-range” Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo
- “Jeanne” Shinchosha Art Space; Heartland, Hamamatsu
- “From Close-range: Yamorinskies like Flower and Nude”, Athens Gallery, Osaka
- “Colorscapes” Seed Hall, Tokyo
- 1990
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- “Chiro, My Love” Ikebukuro Book Center Libro, Tokyo
- “Skyscapes” Gallery Verita, Tokyo
- “Foto Tanz” Shinjuku Konica Plaza, Tokyo
- “Tokyo Lucky Hole” apt Gallery, Tokyo
- “Towards Winter : Tokyo, A City Heading for Death” Egg Gallery Tokyo
- 1989
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- “Nobuyoshi Araki '89: Selected Photographs” Gallery Kosai, Machida,
Kanagawa
- 1987
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- “A Part of Love” Art Space Mirage, Tokyo
- “Araki-s-m 1967-1987” Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
- “Puppet Prince” Spiral Hall, Tokyo
- 1986
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- “Shibuya Street” Doi Photo Plaza Shibuya, Tokyo
- Slide show “Arakinema : Tokyo-Story” Cinema Rise, Tokyo
- “A's Erotomania Diary” Zito-Foto Salon
- 1984
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- “A Balthus Summer” Picture Photo Space, Osaka
- “A World of Girls” Zeit-Foto Salon
- 1982
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- “I am Photography”,”Araki's Storm of Love” Doi Photo PlazaShibuya, Tokyo
- “The 3rd Arakism Maanifesto” Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo
- 1981
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- “The 2nd Arakism Manifesto” Yamaha Hall, Tokyo
- 1980
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- “The Arakism Manifesto” New York Theatre, Tokyo
- “Wet dreams on midsummer Night and the Anniversary of the End of the War”, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
- “Zigeunerweisen : Fictitious Truth” Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
- 1979
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- “First Visit to New York” MINOLTA Photo Space, Tokyo
- 1978
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- “Actress: A Sentimental Ero-Roman” Horindo Art Space Tokyo
- “Eizo: portraits of descendants” Camp, Tokyo
- “My Scene : 1940-1977” Ginza Cannon Salon, Tokyo
- 1977
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- “Tokyo Blues” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
- “This years Photos” Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
- “Last years Photos” Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
- 1976
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- “Yoko, My Love” Ginza Nikon Salon Tokyo
- “Private Tokyo '76” Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
- 1975
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- “Actress: Kisaki Sekimura” Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo
- 1974
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- “Actresses: with Photos, videos, and Films”, Gallery Matto Grosso, Tokyo
- 1973
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- “Pseudo-documentary: Photographs of Polluted by Silver-Halogen Compound : Chirring Cicadas in Chorus”, Kinokuniya Gallery Tokyo
- “Flowers in Ruins” Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo
- 1970-76
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- “Kitchen-Ramen : Erotic-Realism” Kitchen-Ramen, Tokyo
- 1970
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- “Sur-sentimentalist Manifest No.2 : The Truth About Carmen Marie” Kunugi
Gallery, Tokyo
- 1967
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- “Ginza”,”Zoo” Mitsubishi Denki Gallery, Tokyo
- 1966
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- “Subway”,”Middle-aged Women” Mitsubishi Denki Gallery, Tokyo
- 1965
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- “Satchin and Mabo” Shinjuku Station Gallery, Tokyo
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
- 1985
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- “Die Japanische Fotografie” Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
- 1983
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- “A scene of Contemporary Japanese Art 2” Miyagi Museum of Art,Sendai
- 1979
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- “Japan : A Self Portrait” ICP, New York, traveled Italy, etc.
- 1976
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- “Neue Fotografie aus Japan” Kulturhaus der Stadt Graz, Austria; traveling to Vienna Austria and Stuggart, Germany, until 1978
- 1974
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- “15 Photographers” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- 1971-72
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- 10th & 11th “Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

- Nobuyoshi Araki
"Hana Kinbaku", 2008
Unique colour photograph & colour positive
Dimensions variable

- Nobuyoshi Araki
"Hana Kinbaku", 2008
Unique colour photograph & colour positive
Dimensions variable

- Nobuyoshi Araki
“67 Shooting Back”, 2007
colour photograph
59.5 x 47cm

- Nobuyoshi Araki
“From winter to Spring”, 2004
B & W print