Nobuyoshi ARAKI
Title Colorscapes
Artist Nobuyoshi Araki
Work Date 1991
Materials C-print
Size h: 24 x w: 20 in / h: 61 x w: 51 cm
Title Colorscapes
Artist Nobuyoshi Araki
Work Date 1991 / 2003
Materials C-print
Size h: 24 x w: 20 in / h: 61 x w: 51 cm
Title Tokyo Nude
Artist Nobuyoshi Araki
Work Date 1989
Materials B x W print
Size h: 24 x w: 20 in / h: 61 x w: 51 cm
Title Tokyo Nude
Artist Nobuyoshi Araki
Work Date 1989 / 2003
Materials B x W print
Size h: 24 x w: 20 in / h: 61 x w: 51 cm
Title Pola Eros
Artist Nobuyoshi Araki
Work Date 1999 - 2001
Materials Polaroid
Size h: 4 x w: 3 in / h: 10 x w: 8 cm
Born : 1940 in Tokyo
Lives and works in Tokyo
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002
"Nobuyoshi Araki" Jablonka Galerie, Kln, Germany
"Araki in Venice" Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
"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, Bruxell, 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, Praha
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Koln Germany
"Araki Nobuyoshi" Il Tempo
"Winter Love" Toru Maeshima Gallery, Wakayama
1998
"Tokyo Shijyo" Diechtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"The Past= Photographs 1972-1973" Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen,
Germany
"Nobuyoshi Araki= Tokyo" Stadtisches Kilinikum Fulda, Germany
"Portraits and Flowers" Photographers Gallery, London, England
"Tokyo Nostalsia" GaIleria Photology, Milan, Italy
"A's Life" traveling to Toyama, Yokohama, Sapporo and Fukuoka
"Arakinema: Tokyo Comedy in Vienna, SpiraI Hall
"Arakinema: Taipei" Yomiuri Culture Salon Aoyama; Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
Taiwan
"Arakinema: Erotic Woman in Color" Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Tailand
"Cosmosco" Taka ishii Gallery
"Story portraits"Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Tailand
"A's Paradise" Shinjuku Takashimaya Concourse (outdoor instaIIation)
1997
"A's Life" Kachimai HaIl, Obihiro; Laforet Museum Harajuku
"Nobuyoshi Araki" Galerie Bob van 0rsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
"Shikijyo" Scalo Book Store, Zurich, Switzerland
"Flower Rondo" J. M. Gallery
"Araki Retrographs" Hara Museum Of Contemporary Art
"Arakinema: Retro-Ero" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
"A World of GirIs" II Tempo
"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
"Nobuyoshi Araki" Gallery Starmach, Krakow, Poland
"Nobuyoshi Araki" Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1996
"Faces vs Bodies" SpiraI Garden
"Arakinema: Faces vs Bodies/ Spiral Hall
"Death Reality" Taka lshii Gallery
"The Past 1972-1973" Stadtsparkasse. Milnster, Germany
"FIowers: Life and Death" Nishimura Gallery
"Tokyo Novel" Egg Gallery
"Shadows of Flowers/ Gallery Eve
"Bokuju-kitan" Joblonka Galerie, Koln, Germany
"Arakinema: Novel Photography" Studio Mouris Roppongi
"Arakinema: Flower Rondo ll" Areana Hall, Tamagawa Takashimaya SC
"Fake Love" Ginza Komatsu
"The Face, The Dead" Pace Wildenstein and MacGill, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
"A moment in Time" Espace Tag Heuer
"From Close-range" BIum & Poe, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
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 Catsle,
England; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
"Araki Nobuyoshi" Torch, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
"Journal intime" Fondation Cartier pour I'art contemporain, Paris, France
"The First Year of Heisei" Le Garage, Reims, France
"Nobuyoshi Araki: A-Diary/Sachin and His Brother Mabo" Galerie Chantal
CrouseI,
Paris, France
"Naked Novel" Egg Gallery
"Arakinema: Sentimental Journey/Winter Journey" Sogetsu Hall
"Satchim in Summer" Laforet Museum Harajuku
"Arakinema: Passion in Okinawa" Ryubo Hall, Naha
"Pictures by A Virgin Boy, Daccho-kun" Space Link (drawings)
"Tokyo Novelle" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
"Bokuju-kitan" Jablonka Galerie, Kiln, Germany
"Nobuyoshi Araki: Diario lntimo" Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
1994
"Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991" traveling to Museer 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
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
"State of Things: A Thousand Photographs Exhibited Day by Day"
P3 Art and Envioroment, Tokyo
"Angel's Festival" Parco Gallery
"Car Photographs" Egg Gallery
"Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991" Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria;
traveling to Galerie Fotohof, Mirabellpark, Slzburg, Austria
"Photo-maniac Diary" Egg Gallery
1991
"Winter Journey" Egg Gallery
"A's Nude Exhibition: Lovers" Apt Gallery, Tokyo
"In the Move: The sky where Butterflies Fliter Around" Egg Gallery
"Arakinem: 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
"Skyscapes" Gallery Verita
"Foto Tanz" Shinjuku Konica Plaza, Tokyo
"Tokyo Lucky Hole" apt Gallery, Tokyo
"Towards Winter : Tokyo, A City Heading for Death" Egg Gallery
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 Plaza Shibuya, 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
"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
"Eizo: portraits of descendants" Camp Gallery
"My Scene : 1940-1977" Ginza Cannon Salon, Tokyo
1977
"Tokyo Blues" Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
"This years Photos" Shirakaba Gallery
"Last years Photos" Shirakaba Gallery
1976
"Yoko, My Love" Ginza Nikon Salon
"Private Tokyo '76" Kinokuniya Gallery
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
"Flowers in Ruins" Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo
1970
- 76
"Kitshen-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
1965
"Satchin and Mabo" Shinjuku Station Gallery, Tokyo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 Aspery 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, Frtankfurt,
Germany
"Spiral TV" Spiral Garden (opening live show with Vanessa Beikloft)
"Miyajima, Araki, Sugimoto, Kusama" Studio Cosoll & Studio Guenzani, Milano
"Exposition de la collection de la Fondation Cartier" Centre culture de Belem,
Lisbonne
"Collected Works Contemporary Art since 1968" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Wolfsburg
"Love and Desire" Gailoria Phtoiogy, Molano
"Get together Art as Teamwork" Kunsthalle wien am Karsplatz, Austria
1998
"Filtre" Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
"Love in Winter" Satani Gallery (with Boris Mihailov)
"Araki vs Weegee" GaIIery Ham, Nagoya
"Researching for the Future Photography" EpSite, Epson lmaging Gallery
"Hiroshige and Araki" Japonisme Muesum, Atami
"Sur-everyday-life: Japanese contemporary Art of Seven Artists" Shanghai Art
Museum, Shanghai, China
"1998 Taipei Biennale: Site of Desire" Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"Car Culture in photographs of 20th Century" Kiyosato Museum of
Photographic Arts, Klyosato
"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, the Netherlands
"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
"Fetishes a Fetishism" Passage de Retz, Paris, France
"Life is a Bitch" De AppeI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"The 24th. sao paolo Biennale" Brazil
"Under / Exposed" Tunnelbana Metro U bahn, Stockholm, Sweeden
1997
"The Dead" Horsens Museum, Horsens, Denmark
"SensuaI Flowers" GaIIery Koyanagi (coIlaboration with Yukio Nakagawa)
"Nobuyoshi Araki,Diane Arbus,Nan Goldin" Sammlung Goetz, Munich,
Germany
"Lust and Leere (Desire and Void)" Kunsthalle Mien, Vienna, Austria;
Arken Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Copenhargen, Denmark;
Kunsthalle zu KieI, Kiel, Germany
"The 10th InternationaI Biennale of the Image" Nancy centre culturel, Andre,
Malraux Vandceuvre, Nancy, France
"Amours" Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
"Du construit du paysage" Centre Regional d'art contemporain, Site, France
"Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark" Taka lshii Gallery
"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
"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)
"EIvis + Maliryn: 2 x lmmoraI" Sogo Museum, Yokohama
"Cities on the Move" Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria;
Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; PS-1, New
York, U.S.A.; Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark;
Hayward Gallery, London, England
"The 33rd Artists Today: City Landscapes and Unity in the Plurality" Yokohama
Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama
1996
"Kingdom of Flora" Shoeshine Wayne Gallery, Santa Monka, U.S.A.
"Prospect '96" Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Sex and Crime" SprengeI Museum, Hannover, Germany
"Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Larry Clark"
Kunsthalle BaseI, Basel, Switzerland
"A Girl Floating in the Cosmos" Kochi Prefectural Museum HaIl
(collaboration with Gozo Yoshimasu, Marilia, and Kazutoki Umezu)
"Szenenwechsel X" Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Shiro Kuramata 1934-199l" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
"Araki and Ten Contemorary Tanka Poets" Gallery Eve
"Nobuyoshi Araki and Mkhiko Kon" Center for Photographyic Art, Camel,
U.S.A.
"lmages of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930-1990" Shoto Museum
1995
"My Kind of Town" Gurdian Garden
"The Flowers from the Other World" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands (with painter Erik Andriesse)
"Art in Japan Today 1985-1995" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Ginzabout" The Ginza Art Space
"Texture and Touch: Contemporary Photography from Japan" The Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sidney, Australia
"Vision of Hope and Despair" Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago,
U.S.A.
"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, U.S.A.
"26th ArIes International Photo FestivaI (Des Rencontres lnternationales de la
Photographic), France
"Shibusawa Tatsuhiko Gallery" Nichido Gallery
"Carnegie International 1995" Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
"Blumenstiicke Kunststucke" Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
1994
"Body and memory: Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark" Sara Parpallo, Valencia,
Spain
"Tokyo love" The Ginza Art Space (with Nan Goldin)
"Of the Human condition:Hope and Despair at the End of the Century"
Spiral Garden; Ashiya City Museum Of Art and History, Ashiya
"When the Body Becomes Art: The Organs and Body as Object"
ltabashi Art Museum
"Liquid Crystal Futures" The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, and
travelling to other cities in Europe and Tokyo
"Portraits" Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
"The Nude and the Contemporary Photography" Spiral Garden
"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, Honohllu. Hawaii (until 1995)
1993
"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
1990
"Tokyo : A City Perspective" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography
"Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam "
"Photos de Famille" La Villete, Paris
1989
"Eleven Photographers 1965-75" Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
1986
"Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea" Casa Elizalde, Barcelona
1985
"Die Japanesche Fotografie" Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg,
West Germany
"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 Gallery
1976
"Exhibition selected by 12 photographers" Shiseido The Ginza, Tokyo
1974
"Photographs on Photography" Shimizu Gallery
"From Photo to Photo" Gallery Matto Grosso
"Fifteen Photographers Today" National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1072
"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
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 in Italy, etc.
1976
"Neue Fotografie aus Japan" Kulturhaus der Stadt Graz, Austria; traveling to Vienna,
Austria and Stuggart, West Germany, until 1978
1974
"15 Photographers" National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1971
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10th & 11th "Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan" Tokyo Metropolitan
Art Museum
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Yokohama Museum of Art
BIOGRAPHY
1991
"Sentimental JourneyEWinter Journey" published by Shincho-sha
Wife Yoko passed away
1988
Opened AaT ROOM
1981
Opened Araki Limited Stock Company
1976
Opened Nobuyoshi Araki School
1974
Helped found the Workshop School of Photography
1968
Met Yoko Aoki (1947-90), married in 1971.
1963
- 72
Worked at Dentsu Inc.
1959
- 63
Studied photography and film-making at Chiba University
1940
Born in Tokyo
PRIZES
1994
Japan Inter-Design Forum Grand Prix
1991
7th Higashikawa Prize
1990
Shashin-no-kai Prize from the Photographic Society of Japan
1964
First Taiyo Prize for "Satchin"
