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Nobuyoshi ARAKI


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
  • “69YK”, Taka Ishii Gallery , Tokyo
2008
  • “Hana Kinbaku”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
  • "B/W bondage", Jablonka Galerie Berlin, Berlin
2007
  • "ARAKI GOLD", l’Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica - Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Roma
  • “67 Shooting Back”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2006
  • “TOKYO JINSEI”, Edo Tokyo Museum, Tokyo
  • “SHIKI IN ME”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Nobuyoshi Araki “, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico D.F., Mexico
2005
  • 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
  • “From Winter to Spring”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Painting Flower”, epSITE, EPSON IMAGING GALLERY, Tokyo
2003
  • “ARAKI BY ARAKI” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Hana-Jinsei” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  • “Tokyo Still Life” Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2002
  • “Nobuyoshi Araki” Jablonka Galerie, Köln
  • “Suicide in Tokyo” Italian Pavilion, Venice
  • “Shosetsu Seoul” Artium, Fukuoka
2001
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “Nobuyoshi Araki '89: Selected Photographs” Gallery Kosai, Machida, Kanagawa
1987
  • “A Part of Love” Art Space Mirage, Tokyo
  • “Araki-s-m 1967-1987” Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
  • “Puppet Prince” Spiral Hall, Tokyo
1986
  • “Shibuya Street” Doi Photo Plaza Shibuya, Tokyo
  • Slide show “Arakinema : Tokyo-Story” Cinema Rise, Tokyo
  • “A's Erotomania Diary” Zito-Foto Salon
1984
  • “A Balthus Summer” Picture Photo Space, Osaka
  • “A World of Girls” Zeit-Foto Salon
1982
  • “I am Photography”,”Araki's Storm of Love” Doi Photo PlazaShibuya, Tokyo
  • “The 3rd Arakism Maanifesto” Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo
1981
  • “The 2nd Arakism Manifesto” Yamaha Hall, Tokyo
1980
  • “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
  • “First Visit to New York” MINOLTA Photo Space, Tokyo
1978
  • “Actress: A Sentimental Ero-Roman” Horindo Art Space Tokyo
  • “Eizo: portraits of descendants” Camp, Tokyo
  • “My Scene : 1940-1977” Ginza Cannon Salon, Tokyo
1977
  • “Tokyo Blues” Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
  • “This years Photos” Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Last years Photos” Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
1976
  • “Yoko, My Love” Ginza Nikon Salon Tokyo
  • “Private Tokyo '76” Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
1975
  • “Actress: Kisaki Sekimura” Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo
1974
  • “Actresses: with Photos, videos, and Films”, Gallery Matto Grosso, Tokyo
1973
  • “Pseudo-documentary: Photographs of Polluted by Silver-Halogen Compound : Chirring Cicadas in Chorus”, Kinokuniya Gallery Tokyo
  • “Flowers in Ruins” Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo
1970-76
  • “Kitchen-Ramen : Erotic-Realism” Kitchen-Ramen, Tokyo
1970
  • “Sur-sentimentalist Manifest No.2 : The Truth About Carmen Marie” Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo
1967
  • “Ginza”,”Zoo” Mitsubishi Denki Gallery, Tokyo
1966
  • “Subway”,”Middle-aged Women” Mitsubishi Denki Gallery, Tokyo
1965
  • “Satchin and Mabo” Shinjuku Station Gallery, Tokyo

TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS

1985
  • “Die Japanische Fotografie” Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
1983
  • “A scene of Contemporary Japanese Art 2” Miyagi Museum of Art,Sendai
1979
  • “Japan : A Self Portrait” ICP, New York, traveled Italy, etc.
1976
  • “Neue Fotografie aus Japan” Kulturhaus der Stadt Graz, Austria; traveling to Vienna Austria and Stuggart, Germany, until 1978
1974
  • “15 Photographers” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1971-72
  • 10th & 11th “Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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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