Nobuyoshi ARAKI

Lives and works in Tokyo

1991 \"Sentimental Journey-Winter 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


Solo Exhibitions

2011 \"Muses\", Black & white photographies, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris
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”, 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
“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


Prizes

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\"