Nobuyoshi Araki
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Biography
Nobuyoshi Araki è nato a Tokyo nel 1940.
PRINCIPALI MOSTRE PERSONALI
2018
Love-Dream, Love-Nothing, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2017
Araki, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza
2016
Araki Amore, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano
Araki, Musée National des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris
Hamiltons Gallery, London
2015
Nobuyoshi Araki, Negaeropolis and Uganbochi, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Eros Diary, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Nobuyoshi Araki: Polaroids, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Nobuyoshi Araki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Men – Naked Face by Araki, Space O, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
2014
ARAKI Ojo Shashu-Photography for the After Life: Alluring Hell, Foam photography museum, Amsterdam
Nobuyoshi Araki Ojo Shashu: Photography for the Afterlife-Eastern Sky Paradise, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
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
2013
Tokyo Blues 1977, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film, Tokyo
Ero Real, Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Bondages, Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Cologne
Nobuyashi Araki, Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, UK
Nobuyoshi Araki, Someone’s Wife, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
2012
Past Tense – Future, 1979 – 2040, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2011
Film Nostalgia, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki, It Was Once A Paradise, Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Painted photographs, Faggionato Fine Arts, London
2010
Nobuyoshi Araki, ShangArt Gallery, Shanghai
Nobuyoshi Araki, Silent Wishes, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Sentimental Journey, Spring Journey, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Koki No Sashin: Photographs of Seventy Year Old, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Araki: Polaroids, M2, Metroquadro, Rivoli (To)
2009
’2THESKY, my Ender’ – Taka Ishii Gallery – Tokyo
20th Anniversary Special Exhibition “The Faces of Japan” Project Hiroshima by Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Eros. Photographs 1980-2000, Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna
Polart 6000, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Bondages, Galerie Daniel Tempion, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki, 69YK, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City, NY
2008
Araki Gold, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Roma
Araki Gold, Villa Remmert, Ciriè
Araki meets Hokusai, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
Nobuyoshi Araki – Kinbaku”, Galerie Jablonka, Berlin
Works, Galerie Aplanat für Fotografie, Hamburg
2007
Araki – A la vie la mort, Musee de la photographie, Chaleroi, Belgium
Nobuyoshi Araki – Diaries, Leica Galerie Wien, Vienna
Nobuyoshi Araki, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Carte Blanche, Nobuyoshi Araki, Kamel Mennour, Paris
67 Shooting Back, Taka Ishii Gallery.com
2006
Tokyo Jinsei (Tokyo Life), Edo Tokyo Museum, Tokyo
“SHIKI IN ME”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Tokyo 1969-1972, 1973, Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich
Japanese Faces: Aomori Faces, Jomon Faces, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
Self, Life, Death, Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Nobuyoshi Araki, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid
Nobuyoshi ARAKI, RATHOLE Gallery, Tokyo
2005
Kaori” Reflex Art Gallery, Amsterdam
The Face of Kanazawa” Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa
Flowers, Studio Guenzani, Milano
2004
Painting Flower”, Epsite Gallery, Tokyo
Polanographs, Galerie Bob van Orsouw
From Winter to Spring, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2003
Japanese Faces,Fukuoka Asia Museum, Fukuoka
Tokyo Still Life, Tampere Art Mueseum, Tampere
Galerie Roth Horowitz, New York
Araki Beauty, Il tempo, Tokyo
Flower Life, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Araki by Araki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Love by Leica, Leica Gallery, Tokyo
Summer Diary, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
ARAKI, MEO, Contemporary Art Center, Budapest?
Nobuyoshi Araki, La Fabrica, Madrid
Nobuyoshi Araki, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
2002
Araki Retrospective, a-d Miami, Miami
Suicide in Tokyo, Padigline Italia, Giardini di Castello, Venezia
Araki in Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampaglia, Venezia
Araki, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Araki, Shine Gallery, London
Polanography, La Camera, Tokyo (every month)
Nobuyoshi Araki, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam
Tokyo Still Life,Tademuseo Tennispalatsi Helsinki
Araki, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Flower Life, Kahitsukan Contemporary Art Muesum, Kyoto
2001
Kaei, Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
Kakyoku, Hanasakan, Kagoshima
Shikijyo kyo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Uen Yanaka Biyori, Gallery J2, Tokyo
Shosetsu Seoul, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
Tokyo Still Life, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Nobuyoshi Araki, Il tempo, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki, Jablonka Galerie, Köln
2000
Sentimental Journey, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
My Kyoto 1971-1999, Eki, Isetan Museum, Kyoto
Sentimental Journey, Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Kyoto White Sentiment, Art Complex1928
Erotos, OP fotogallery, Toronto, Canada
Shashin-shijo-shugi, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Porivacy, Nadiff, Tokyo
Photo Poche, La Camera, Tokyo
Voyage sentimental, Cenre national de la photographie, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst ,Gent
Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki, Damasquine Art Gallery, Brussels
Nobuyoshi Araki,Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Photography of the end of the Century, Institut franco-japonais, Tokyo
1999
Nobuyoshi Araki, Scalo Art Space, New York
Sentimental Journey, Sentimental Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Ryu u Seki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Alive, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens
Gandy Gallery, Praha
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Koeln
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Araki Nobuyoshi, Il Tempo, Tokyo
Touren, Toru Maeshima Gallery, Wakayama
1998
Tokyo Shijo, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
The Past, Fotoarbeiten 1972-73, Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss,
Mossbroich, Germany
Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo, Stadtisches Klinikum, Fulda, Germany
Potraits and Flowers, The Photographers Gallery, London
Tokyo Nostalgia, Galleria Photology, London
Tokyo Nostalgia, Galleria Photology, Milano
A’s Life, travelling to Toyama, Yokohama, Sapporo and Fukuoka
Arakinema: Tokyo Comedy in Vienna, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
Arakinema: Taipei, Yomiuri Culture Salon Aoyama, Tokyo; Taipei F.A.M.
Arakinema: Erotic Women in Color, Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Thailand
Cosmosco, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Story Potraits, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
A’s Paradise, Shinjuku Takashimaya Concourse (outdoor installation)
1997
Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
A’s Life, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
Flower Rondo, JM Gallery, Tokyo
Araki Retrographs, Hara Museum, Tokyo
A World of Girls, Il Temp, Tokyo
Tokyo Comedy, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Studio Guenzani, Milano
Arakinema: Vienna and Tokyo Paradise, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Gallery Starmach, Krakow, Poland
1996
Face vs Nude, Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo
Death Reality, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
The Past 1972-19732, Stadtsparkasse Münster, Münster
Flowers: Life and Death, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Tokyo Novel, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
Sensual Flowers, Gallery Eve, Tokyo
Bukujukitan, Jablonka Gallery, Cologne
Fake Love, Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki: The Face/The Death, Pace Wildenstein McGill, Los Angeles, CA
A Moment in Time, Espace Tag Hoyer, Tokyo
From Close-Range, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Fake Love, Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo
Private Tokyo, Museum fuer Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
PRINCIPALI MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2015
Pipe dream, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera Art City Gallery
In the Wake: Japanese Photographers respond to 3/11, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; travelling to Grey Art Gallery, New York, and Japan Society, New York 2014
Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna
2014
unseen existence, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London
Araki Teller Teller Araki – OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie, Vienna
Japon, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac
Intimität, Galerie der Stadt Remscheld, Remscheld
1 + 1 = 1: When Collections Collide, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Siehe was dich sieth, Franz Graf – 21er Haus, Wien
Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
2013
Flowers and Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne, MdM, Monchsberg, Salzburg
Bijin Ga. Katz Contemporary, Zurich
PHotoEspana 2013, PHotoEspana, Madrid
The Cat Show, White Columns, New York City, NY
Torso, Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Cologne
2012
The Gallery Collection, Jiro Mura Gallery, Tokyo
Junge Menschen, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Con gli occhi, con il cuore, con la testa – La fotografia della collezione Trevisan, MART-Museo d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Carpe Diem – Seize the Day -, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
2011
Yokoama Triennale 2011 OUR MAGIC HOUR, Yokoama Museum of Art
Cross Over - Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
Künstler der Galerie - Jablonka Galerie – Köln, Cologne
Femme objet, Femme sujet - Abbaye St André – Centre d’art contemporain Meymac, Meymac
LONGING FOR IDENTITY: Postwar Japanese Photographers - Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY
Be Alive! - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Group Show - Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York City, NY
Testing Ground - Zabludowicz Collection London, London (England)
2010
Araki / Lipski – galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
El Cuerpo Inventado – TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Human Images of 20th Century: All Photographs are Portraits – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Decadence Now! Visions of Excess – Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Food For Thought – Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Conversations intimes – Musée départemental de l’Oise, Beauvais
DESNUDOS – Galeria Javier López, Madrid
Red – Johyun Gallery – Seoul, Seoul
TWENTY FIVE – Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY
Gardar Eide Einarsson – Standard (Oslo), Oslo
You’ve Gone Too Far This Time – Faggionato Fine Arts, London (England)
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter – Andrew Roth Gallery, New York City, NY
I love you – ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
Random Access – Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si
ah! ah! – araki, höfer – galerie photonet, Wiesbaden
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place – Zabludowicz Collection London, London (England)
Florafiktionen – Florales zwischen Eros und Vereisung – Galerie Erhard Witzel, Wiesbaden
2009
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Primary Information – White Columns, New York City, NY
Ansichten 1 – Florafiktionen – QuadrART Dornbirn, Dornbirn
Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid – Pump House Gallery, London (England)
Mahlzeit! (Essen in der Kunst) – Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
Don’t Panic! I’m Selling My Collection – Rental Gallery, New York City, NY
The Figure and Dr Freud – Haunch of Venison – New York, New York City, NY
Ingres et les modernes – Musée Ingres, Montauban
Nippon Kōbō – Forma – Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan
15_Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg – Gegen den Strich – Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Sammlerfreude / Artothek – Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
Eros Kalos – Mestna galerija / City Gallery Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica
It is natural – Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Nudes – Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
desire aquire – galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
Sale – Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London (England)
2008
Grotto – - Museum 52 – London, London (England) (closed, 2010)
Asian Dub Photography – Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena
Love, Love, Love – Martos Gallery, New York City, NY
diana + actaeon – Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit – Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME: Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar Photography – Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
10 sorings in the fall – Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Darkside – Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Now & New – Gana Art Busan, Busan
Gallery Selections – Hamiltons Gallery, London (England)
Review / Preview: Japanese photographs – Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
REAL. Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ-BANK – Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
FATTO BENE! – Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels – Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Biennale di Alessandria – Shapes of Time – Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria
Street & Studio: an urban history of photography – Tate Modern, London (England)
In voller Blüte – Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
Something for Everyone – Hamiltons Gallery, London (England)
Photographers of Japanese Descent – Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY
Viva Lolita – Maddox Arts, London (England)
Selections from the Hara Museum´s Permanent Collection – Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
araki meets hokusai – Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover
For the Spirit – From the UBS Art Collection – Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Body Work – Le Case d’Arte, Milan
Nouvelles Collections III – Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre d’Art, Biel/Bienne
Read my Lips – Peres Projects – Berlin, Berlin
The Masked Portrait – Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, NY
2007
SWITCHER SEX: Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection – Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
art is uninteresting complete – Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna
Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto – Contemporary Japanese Photography – Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Convection – Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Group Show. “Ten years” – - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008)
Livres de nus, une anthologie – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Eyes Of An Island – Japanese Photography 1945-2007 – Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (England)
Eyes Of An Island – Japanese Photography 1945 – 2007 – Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London (England)
photomonth – East London Photography Festival – alternative arts, London (England)
Stripped Bare . Der entblößte Körper – C/O Berlin, Berlin
Blue Chips – Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna
odd spaces – Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus
Attitude 2007 – Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto – CAMK, Kumamoto
Pale Carnage – Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland)
Les Autres: Nobuyoshi Araki – Peter Christopherson – Eve Fowler – Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Landscapes – Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Into Me, Out of Me – MACRO Testaccio (MACRO Future), Rome
Souvenir dalla Collezione del Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci – Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
spectacular space – galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne – Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna
Fotografie – Galerie Rainer Klimczak, Viersen
Speed #1 – natura naturata – velocidad sin movimiento – IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
Pale Carnage – Arnolfini, Bristol (England)
2006
INTO ME / OUT OF ME – Kunst-Werke Berlin – KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin
EROS in der Kunst der Moderne – Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
Peintres de la vie moderne Modern-life painters – Donation – Caisse des Dépôts’ photograph collection – Centre Pompidou – Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Nous nous sommes tant aimés – Collections de Saint-Cyprien, Saint Cyprien
Suesser Schlummer. Der Schlaf in der Kunst – Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Salzburg
People – Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina – MADRE, Naples
flutter – The Approach, London (England)
Into me / Out of me – MoMA PS1, New York City, NY
Sweet Ecstasy – Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
Why Pictures Now – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MUMOK , Vienna
Flowers in Contemporary Art – Benaki Museum, Athens
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte – Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The Child – Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
Full House – Gesichter einer Sammlung – Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Polamaniacs – Photology, Milan
Boys and Flowers – Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Group Show: A Lover’s Discourse – Peres Projects – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Six Post-War Japanese Photographers – Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hundert Küsse sind besser als einer (Hundred Kisses are better than one) – Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2005
Brutal Ornamental – Galerie Michael Hall (former Galerie Kosak Hall), Vienna rupture des évidences – Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Miradas y conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear – Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
persistence – Aura Gallery – Shanghai, Shanghai
Seven: everything goes to hell – Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo (Florence)
Schamlos – Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim
BIG BANG – Centre Pompidou – Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Rising Sun, Melting Moon – Contemporary Art from Japan – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Private View 1980-2000 – Collection Pierre Huber – Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
The I within you – Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
perdere la testa – Lattuada Studio, Milan
Chronos – - Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed)
Blumenstück – Künstlers Glück – Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Boost in the Shell – AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels
Die Sinnliche Linie – Japanischer Holzschnitt, Klimt, Schmalix, Araki, Takano – Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear – Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz
Der fotografierte Mensch – Neues Museum – Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Europe in Art – A HVB Group Project – National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
Contemporánea – Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg – Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Contemporánea-Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg – Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca
Cantos – Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2004
Araki – Kabakov – Masi – Schnabel – Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Realm of the Senses – James Cohan Gallery – New York, New York City, NY
Nature of Artifice – 9. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura – Biennale Architettura di Venezia, Venice
Wer bietet mehr? – Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
El somni eròtic – Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida
Kurzdavordanach – SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
Eijanaika Yes Future – Collection Lambert, Avignon
Rose c’est la vie – On Flowers in Contemporary Art – Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
9. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach – Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition – Taka Ishii Gallery – Tokyo, Tokyo
Beauty of Darkness – Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Instant instincts – Galleria In Arco, Turin
2003
XXX – - Galleria Davide Di Maggio – Berlin, Berlin (closed, 2008)
Cold Play – Set 1 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur – Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Happiness – A Survival Guide for Art and Life – Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection – Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection – IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
La vita delle forme – Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
Female Turbulence – AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels
Works Seldom Seen at ShanghART – ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico – Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
“Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst” – Neue Galerie Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Update #6: Monumente der Melancholie – Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Cat Show – ACME, Los Angeles, CA
JAPAN – Keramik und Fotografie – Tradition und Gegenwart – Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Gallery Artists – Taka Ishii Gallery – Tokyo, Tokyo
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection – Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
SEX – Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts – Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
T R O T T O I R S – S I D E W A L K S [ PROMENADES EN MARGES ] – Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Living Room – Jablonka Galerie – Köln, Cologne
Keine Kleinigkeit – Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Desire – Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna – GAM, Bologna
COPY – Andrew Roth Gallery, New York City, NY
Oeil pour oeil: Collection Privée de Lyon – Le RECTANGLE – Centre d´Art de la Ville de Lyon, Lyon
Cadaver Exquis – Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
OPEN / INVITED e v+ a 2002 – ev+a, Limerick
Im Sucher – Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
Botanique – PKM GALLERY – Seoul, Seoul
2001
The Nature of Still Life – Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna – GAM, Bologna
Up in the Sky-Himmel in der Kunst der 90er Jahre – Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen
Update #4: The Dark – Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Desire – Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
I Bienal de Valencia – The Body of Art – Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
2000
Et l’homme créa la femme – Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
Veronica’s Revenge – Contemporary Perspectives on Photography – Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney – MCA, Sydney, NSW
Contemporary Photography from Japan – Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Yume no Ato – Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Yume no Ato – Was vom Traum blieb … – Haus am Waldsee – Der Ort internationaler Gegenwartskunst in Berlin, Berlin
Tokyo Ga – Valentina Moncada – Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Made in Japan – - Kantor Gallery – LA, Los Angeles, CA (closed, 2010)
1999
Get Together – Kunst als Teamwork – Kunsthalle wien project space karlsplatz, Vienna
Johann Korec – Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne
Self Portrait, Loans from the nvisible Museum – Mercer Union – A Centre For Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto, ON
Attack, fotografie op het scherpst van de snede – Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
SWEET & SOUR – Art & Public, Geneva
Veronica’s Revenge – Photographies De La Collection Lac-Suisse – Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
1998
Gesammelte Werke 1; Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968 – Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Fünf Komma Fünf – Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Es grünt so grün… – Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Taipei Biennial 1998 – Site of desire – Taipei Biennial, Taipei
Private ficcions – Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Waterproof/A Prova de Agua – Centro Cultural de Belém – CCB, Lisbon
Exposition de Groupe – Photographie – Galerie Almine Rech – Paris, Paris
1997
Cities on the move – Wiener Secession, Vienna
The 90s: a family of man? – Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Desire & Void: Contemporary Japanese photography – ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj
Du construit, du paysage – FRAC – Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
Amours – Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Lust und Leere. Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart – Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna
Nobuyoshi Araki – Diane Arbus – Nan Goldin – Sammlung Goetz, Munich
1996
Exposure – Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY
Intangible Childhood – Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City
1995
L’immagine riflessa – Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
1994
Liquid Crystal Futures – Contemporary Japanese Photography – Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
When The Body Becomes Art – Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
1993
Love You Tokyo! The Photographs Of Kineo Kuwabara And Nobuyoshi Araki – Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Jack Pierson, Barry X Ball – Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY
1992
Adam & Eve – Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama
1979
Neue japanische Photographie – Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
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, Shizuoka
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
M+, Hong Kong
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
Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art
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”