SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, C/O Berlin, Berlin Clouds, Flowers & Nudes Photographs 1975-2005, GALERIE JOHANNES FABER, Vienna Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum “Tokyo, in Autumn, Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo Kayuen, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo Photo-Crazy A, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Tombeau Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki × Guimet Museum, CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo “Kayuen”, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo Kayuen, Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo Photographoary: Photo-Mad Old Man A Turning 77 on 5.25.17, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo THE SOLO EXHIBITION OF NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, Over The Infulence Gallery, Hong Kong KYOTOGRAPHIE “A Desktop Love”, Ryosokuin, Kenninji Temple, Kyoto Photo-Mad Old Man A Araki @ISETAN―Koki Korei Sho―, Isetan Shinjuku Art Gallery, Tokyo “Tokyo Life”, KIDO Press, Tokyo IMSHUN, art space AM, Tokyo Last by Leica, art space AM, Tokyo
2016
ARAKI AMORE, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan A Desktop Paradise, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris, Paris Photo-Mad Old Man A 76th Birthday, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo ARAKI, Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris
2014
ARAKI Ojo Shashu - Photography for the After Life: Alluring Hell, Foam photography museum, Amsterdam Nobuyoshi Araki Ōjō Shashū: Photography for the Afterlife - Eastern Sky, PARADISE, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo Ai No Tabi, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata Love on the Left Eye, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo The Photography Book of Rebirth in the Pure Land / Face, Skyscape, Road, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi Painted Photographs, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
“ARAKI Ojo Shashu - Photography for the After Life: Alluring Hell”, Foam photography museum, Amsterdam “Nobuyoshi Araki Ōjō Shashū: Photography for the Afterlife - Eastern Sky, PARADISE”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo “Ai No Tabi”, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata “Love on the Left Eye”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo “The Photography Book of Rebirth in the Pure Land / Face, Skyscape, Road”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi Painted Photographs, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2013
“Tokyo Blues 1977”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo “EroReal”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2012
“Past tense – Future, 1979 – 2040”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo “Nobuyoshi Araki Photobook Exhibition: Arākī”, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka
2011
“Shakyō Rōjin Nikki “, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo “Film Nostalgia”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo “Theater of Love”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo
2010
“Ai no Jikan”, Leica Ginza Salon, Tokyo “Koki No Shashin : Photographs of A Seventy Year Old”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2009
“2THESKY, my Ender”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo “The Faces of Japan" Project HIROSHIMA by Nobuyoshi Araki”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima “69YK”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2008
“KOSHOKU PAINTING”, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo “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”, The Barbican Art Gallery, 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” Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium “Nobuyoshi Araki” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris “Nobuyoshi Araki” Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris “Nobuyoshi Araki” Damasquine Art Gallery, Bruxelles, 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 “PRIVATE PHOTOGRAPHY”, Jablonka Galerie, Köln
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 “In the Move: The sky where Butterflies Fliter Around” Egg 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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark Art Collection Neue Borse Art Gallery of New South Wales Centre Pompidou, Paris Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto(CAMK) Deutsche Bank Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Centre National des Arts Plastiques Fotomuseum Wintherthur Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Sammlung Goetz, Munich Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo IZU PHOTO MUSEUM Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Maison de la photographie, Paris Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal Museo Civico d’Arte di Modena Museum der Moderne Salzburg Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie Telenor Foundation, Norway Peter Norton Collection (Tate UK) Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sammlung Hoffman Setagaya Art Museum Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Tate The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Modern Art, New York The UBS Art Collection Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum Yokohama Museum of Art Kunsthalle Winterthur
AWARDS
2012
The 54th Mainichi Art Award, Special Award 6th ANGO 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"