Nobuyoshi Araki

Araki, Nobuyoshi

b. 25 May 1940, Tokyo
Lives and works in Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions:

2019
Gekko Shashin, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
Flower Rondeau, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
ARAKI TELLER SHISEI, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
LIFE BY FILM by Nobuyoshi ARAKI, Leica Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
SHIMEN AIKA, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
Effetto Araki, Santa Maria Della Scala, Siena, Italy
SUMMER HAPPINESS, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
Art Bridge 798 Art District, Beijing, China

2018
nehan shoujo, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
Impossible Love – Vintage Photographs, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
AI ELEGY, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
KATA-ME, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Light Society, Beijing
HANA JINSEI (FLOWER - LIFE), Over The Influence, Los Angeles, CA, USA
VINTAGE PRINTS, Taka Ishii Gallery New York, NY, USA
The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death, Museum of Sex, New York, NY, USA

2017
Nobuyoshi Araki-I, Photography, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Clouds, Flowers & Nudes Photographs 1975-2005, GALERIE JOHANNES FABER, Vienna, Austria
27th Month of Photography November 2017 Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
ARAKI: TOKYO, Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
ARAKI, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza, Italy
Sentimental Journey 1971-2017, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, in Autumn, Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo, Japan
Kayuen, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Photo-Crazy A, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kayuen, Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo , Japan
THE SOLO EXHIBITION OF NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, Over The Influence Gallery, Hong Kong
KYOTOGRAPHIE, A Desktop Love, Ryosokuin, Kenninji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Photo-Mad Old Man A Araki @ISETAN―Koki Korei Sho, Isetan Shinjuku Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016
ARAKI AMORE, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
ARAMAME, Morioka Shoten Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
A Desktop Paradise, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris, Paris, France
ARAKI, Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris, France

2015
ARAKI Ojo Shashu - Photography for the After Life: Alluring Hell, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kari Through the Looking Glass, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2014
Love on the Left Eye, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Kirishin, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Solo exhibition, AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong

2013
EroReal, Nobuyoshi Araki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Tokyo Blues 1977, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Someones Wife, Rathole Gallery, Tokyo

2012
Sentimental Sky, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Au Bonheur Des Fleurs, Pavillon Populaire de Montpellier, France
Carpe Diem, Seize the Day, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo

2010
Love and Death, Museo d Arte di Lugano, Switzerland

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, Koln
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 Sentimentale, Centro Per l'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: As 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
As 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
As Paradise, Shinjuku Takashimaya Concourse (outdoor instaIIation), Tokyo

1997
As 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, Koln
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, Koln
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
Angels 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
As 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
As Erotomania Diary, Zito-Foto Salon

1984
A Balthus Summer, Picture Photo Space, Osaka
A World of Girls, Zeit-Foto Salon

1982
I am Photography, Arakis 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

1970-1976
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

Awards:
2008
Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Arts

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


Group exhibitions (selected):

2019
GRADATION Daikanyama, Tenoha Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
Character Study, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA
Japanese Photography – 1930s - 1970s, Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland
The Gaze of Things: Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, València, Spain
PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018
Tokyoscape: Into the City, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Feast for the Eyes, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science; Traveled to: FOAM, Amsterdam
Foreign Bodies, Raster, Warsaw, Poland
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Basically. Forever 2018, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

2017
Japanorama: New vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
MÉMOIRE ET LUMIÈRE: PHOTOGRAPHIE JAPONAISE, 1950-2000, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France

2016
20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [Cat.]
Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960–1975, Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Traveled to: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland; Le Bal, Paris, France; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

2015
Up Close: Erotic Japanese Photography, The Space, Hong Kong
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA; travelling to Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA, and Japan Society, New York, NY, USA
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera Art City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014
Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
unseen existence, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Japon, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac, France

2013
Self (S)sexpression: Unseen Vintages, Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Takahashi Collection, Mindfulness !, Kirishima Open-air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan; Traveled to: Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Hana Shosetsu, Okanoyama Museum of Art, Nishiwaki, Hyogo, Japan
Why not live for Art ? II, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Re-encounters: The Izu Photo Museum Collection, Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan


Public Collections:

ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark
Art Collection Neue Borse
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Deutsche Bank
Fondation Cartier pour l art contemporain
Fonds National d Art Contemporain, Centre National des Arts Plastiques
Fotomuseum Wintherthur
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Maison de la photographie, Paris
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Telenor Foundation, Norway
Peter Norton Collection (Tate UK)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Sammlung Hoffman
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The UBS Art Collection
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Yokohama Museum of Art
Kunsthalle Winterthur