Biography

www.arakinobuyoshi.com

Born in Tokyo in 1940

Solo shows
2012 Sentimental Sky, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey / Decadence in Paradise 1971 - 2012, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Past - Tense - Future 1979 - 2040, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
flower - araki nobuyoshi, Aura Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai
Pothos & Polas, Zonca & Zonca, Milan
2011 Shiki - in (Color Eros), Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Higan, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Film Nostalgia, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
It Was Once A Paradise, Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex Amsterdam
Painted Photographs, Faggionato Fine Art, London
2010 Love and Death, Museo d'Arte di Lugano
ShangART Gallery, Shangai
Silent Wishes, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Sentimental Journey, Spring Journey, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Koki No Shashin: Photographs of A Seventy Year Old, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Cologne
Araki: Polaroids, M2 - Metroquadro, Rivoli, Torino
Araki: A Perspective, Prism, West Hollywood, California
World of Girls, Gallery Hashimoto - Space 355, Tokyo
2009 2THESKY, my Ender, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
20th Anniversary Special Exhibition - The Faces of Japan, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Eros. Photographs 1980 - 2000, Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna
POLART 6000, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Bondages, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
69YK, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2008 Photographs, Zonca & Zonca, Milano
CAMK - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
Koshoku, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Silent Wishes, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Kinbaku, Lund Fine Art, Oslo; Galleri Riis, Oslo
Bokuju Kitan, Marvelous Tales of Black Ink, Hamiltons Gallery, London
Flowers and more, Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie, Hinterhof, Hamburg
Hana Kibaku, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Kinbaku, Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
2007 Sex, Life, Death, Kulturhuset Stockholm
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Carte Blanche, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
2006 Araki, Zonca & Zonca, Milano
Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Diaries, West Licht. Schauplatz für Fotographie, Vienna
Araki - À la vie la mort, Musée de la Photographie de Charleroi
Polaroids, Galleria Cà di Frà, Milano
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
Tokyo - Sexteen 1969 - 1973, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Galería La Fábrica, Madrid
2005 Painting Flowers, Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Painting Flowers and Diaries, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Tokyo Flowers, Langhans Galerie, Prague
Arakinema, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Araki, Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London
Sex, Life, Death, Barbican Centre, London
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo
Galerie Rhomberg, Innsbruck
The Faces of Ishikawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2004 Fotos van vrouwen en bloemen, De Hallen, Harlem
From Winter to Spring, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Polanographs, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
Polanographs + Classics, Galerie Møllerwitt, Aarhus C, Denmark
2003 Galería Javier López, Madrid
La Fábrica Galería, Madrid
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
Kirishima Open - Air Museum, Kagoshima
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
2002 Araki Retrospective, a-d Miami, Miami
Suicide in Tokyo, Padigline Italia, Giardini di Castello, Venice
Araki in Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampaglia, Venice
Araki, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Araki, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Araki, Shine Gallery, London
Polanography, La Camera, Tokyo (every month)
Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam
Tokyo Still Life, Tademuseo Tennispalatsi Helsinki
Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Tutte le donne del mondo. The world of Nobuyoshi Araki, Galleria Civica di Modena
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
Art - Tokyo. 1971 - 1991, Camera Austria, Graz
Tokyo Still Life, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Vintage Prints and Early Works, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Il tempo, Tokyo
Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
2000 Sentimental Flowers, Shibuya Mark City, Tokyo
My Kyoto 1971 - 1999, Eki, Isetan Museum, Kyoto
Viaggio Sentimentale, Centro per l' Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Kyoto White Sentiment, Art Complex 1928
Erotos, OP fotogallery, Toronto
Shashin - shijo - shugi, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Porivacy, Nadiff, Tokyo
Photo Poche, La Camera, Tokyo
Voyage Sentimental, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Oeuvres Inédites, Espace II, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Damasquine Art Gallery, Brussels
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Photography of the end of the Century, Institut Franco - Japonais, Tokyo
Fussa Love, Galerie Les Trois Agneaux
1999 Scalo Art Space, New York
Sentimental Journey, Sentimental Life, MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Ryu u Seki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
ALive, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens
Polaroïds, Gandy Gallery, Prague
1973 - 1999, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
CAG - Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Il Tempo, Tokyo
Touren, Toru Maeshima Gallery, Wakayama
1998 Arakinema: Taipei, Yomiuri Culture Salon Aoyama, Tokyo; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Arakinema: Erotic Women in Color, Taipei, Taiwan
Cosmosco, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Story Portraits, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
A's Paradise, Shinjuku Takashimaya concourse (outdoor installation)
Tokyo Shijyo, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
The Past. Fotoarbeiten 1972 - 73, Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich
Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo, Stadtisches Klinikum Fulda
Portraits and Flowers, The Photographers Gallery, London
Tokio Nostalgia, Galleria Photology, London and Milano
A's Life, travelling to Toyama, Yokohama, Sapporo and Fukuoka
Arakinema: Tokyo Comedy in Vienna, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
1997 A's Life, Kachimai Hall, Obihiro; La Forêt Harajuku, Tokyo
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Shikijyo, Scalo Book Store, Zurich
Kakyoku (Flower Rondo", JM Gallery, Tokyo
Araki Retrographs, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
World of Girls, Il Tempo, Tokyo
Tokyo Comedy, Arakinema: Love Secession, Arakinema: Tokyo Paradise, Wiener Secession, Viena
Arakinema: Viena and Tokio Paradise, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Gallery Starmach, Kraków
Studio Guenzani, Milano
1996 Arakinema: Face vs Bodies, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Death Reality, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
The Past 1972 - 1973, Stadtsparkasse Münster, Munich
Flowers: Life and Death, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Tokio Novel, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
Kain (Shadows of Flowers), Gallery Eve, Tokyo
Bokujukitan, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Arakinema: Novel Photography", Studio Mouris Roppongi, Tokyo
Arakinema: Flower Ronda II, Arena Hall, Tamagawa Takshimaya SC
Fake Love, Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo
The Face, The Dead, Pace Wildenstein and Macgill, Los Angeles
A moment in Time, Espace Tag Heuyer, Tokyo
From Close Range, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Private Tokyo, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
1995 Erotos, Gallery Index, Stockholm; Galerie Bang, Oslo; Form Stadtpark, Graz
Torch, Amsterdam
Journale intime, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
The First Year of Heisei, Le Garage, Reims
Nobuyoshi Araki: A Diary' Sachin and his brother Mabo, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Naked Novel, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
Arakinema: Sentimental Journey / Winter Journey, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo
Satchin in Summer, La Forêt Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
Arakinema: Passion in Okinawa, Ryubo Hall, Naha, Okinawa
Pictures of a Virgin Boy, Daccho - kun, Space Link, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki: Diario Intimo, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra
Tokyo Novelle, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Tokio Novel / Kiss of Flower, The Morphe '95, outdoor exhibition in Aoyama district
Bokuju - Kitan (Strange Black Ink Stories), Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
1994 Arakinema: Obscenities, Studio Ebisu, Tokyo
Private Photographs", Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo; Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Sky, Gallery Eve, Tokyo
Arakinema: Arakitronics, Studio Mouris Roppongi
Tokio Nude: Private Diary, Luhring Augustine, New York
Arakinema: Summer Time", Studio Ebisu, Tokyo
Unconscious Tokyo: Tokyo Cube, White Cube - Hoxton Square, London
Obscene Photographs: Bokuju-kitan and Immo - raisan, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Love Affair, Tanimura Furniture Shop, Oume, Tokyo
Portrait, Gallery Samiya Sauma, Paris
1993 Tokyo Fine Days, Gallery Verita, Tokyo
The World of Photo - maniac Diary in Colour, Wonderland, Hiroshima
New World of Love, La Camera, Tokyo
Erotos, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
Araki - Japanbilder, Museum Folkwang Essen
Araki - Art Tokyo, ARGE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano
1992 Photo Maniac Diary, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
Akt - Tokyo: Nobuyoshi Araki 1971 - 1991, Forum Stadtpark, Graz; Galerie Fotohof, Mirabellpark, Salzburg; Gallery Museum Bozen; Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam; Fotografische Samlung im Museum Flokwang, Essen; Fotomuseum im Münchener Stadtmuseum, Munich; Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz; Museum of Art, Rotterdam; Museer fir Fotokunst, Odense; Nordliga Fotocentret, Oulu; Zone Gallery, New Castle; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
The Banquet / Monochrome, Gallery Imagine, Tokyo
Kuruma (voiture) de Tokyo, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
Angel's Festival, Parco Gallery, Tokyo; Sapporo Parco, Hokkaido; Shinsaibashi Parco, Osaka
Arakinema: Angel's Festival, Parco Theater, Tokyo
State of Things: A Thousand Photographs Exhibited Day by Day, P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo
Love Interrogations / Tokyo Fax / Fucks, Apt Gallery, Tokyo
1991 Winter Journey, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
A's Nude Exhibition: Lovers, Apt Gallery, Tokyo
On the Move: The Sky where Butterflies Filter Around, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
Arakinema Springscapes, Cinema Rise, Shibuya, Tokyo
From Close - range, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo
Jeanne, Shinchosha Art Space, Tokyo; Heartland, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
From Close - range II: Flowers, Nudes and Yamorinskies, Athens Gallery, Osaka
Colorscapes, The Seed Hall, Tokyo / Seikatsu Soko, Nagoya
1990 Chiro, My Love, Ikebukuro Book Center, Tokyo
Arakinema: Skyscapes, Shuppan Club, Tokyo
Skyscapes (painted photographs, videos, silkscreens and paintings), Gallery Verita, Tokyo
Foto Tanz, Shinjuku Konica Plaza, Tokyo
Arakinema: Tokyo Nude, Kinokuniya Hall, Tokyo; Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial, Theater Asbestos
Tokyo Lucky Hole, Apt Gallery, Tokyo
Towards Winter: Tokyo, A City Heading for Death, Egg Gallery, Tokyo
This Month's Three Selected Photos, Fukuiya Coffee Shop, Tokyo
1989 Nobuyoshi Araki '89: Selected Photographs, Gallery Kohsai, Machida, Tokyo
1987 Arakinema 2, Studio Magu, Tokyo
Puppet Prince, (with Saburo teshigawara), Aoyama Spiral Hall, Tokyo
Araki - s - m: 1967 - 1987, Zeit - Foto Salon, Tokyo
A Part of Love, Art Space Mirage, Tokyo
1986 A's Erotomania Diary, Zeit - Foto Salon, Tokyo
Araki Shoots Shibuya Like Atget, K's Bar, Tokyo
Shibuya Streets, Doi Photo Plaza Shibuya, Tokyo; Inax Showroom, Fukuoka
Arakinema: Tokyo - Story, Cinema Rise, Tokyo
1985 Nobuyoshi Araki's Tokyo Photos: An Immoral Woman, K's Bar, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki's Tokyo Photos: A Pseudo - story About Girls, Bar New Dug, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki's Tokyo Photos: Cinephotographic Women", Bar Refrain, Tokyo
Freely Snatced Love, Kitchen Ramen Restaurant, Tokyo
1984 A World of Girls, Zeit - Foto Salon, Tokyo
A Balthus Summer, Picture Photo Space, Osaka
1982 I am Photography, Doi Photo Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Araki's Storm of Love, Doi Photo Plaza, Shibuya, Tokyo
The 3rd Arakism Manifesto, Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo
1981 The 2nd Arakism Manifesto, Yamaha Hall, Tokyo
Rika: Pseudo High-school Girl, Shinjuku Yamiichi Shop, Tokyo
1980 Pseudo - Photos and Recent Photos, Room 301, Harada Building, Tokyo
Zigeunerweisen: Fictitious Truth, Kinokuniya Photo Space, Tokyo
100% of Nai - ron (No Theory", Bar Nylon 100%, Tokyo
Wet Dreams on a Summer Night and the Anniversary of the End of the War, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
The Arakism Manifesto, New York Theater, Tokyo
1979 First Visit to Nueva York, Shinjuku Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo; Obihiro Bldg. Gallery, Obihiro
1978 My Scene: 1940 - 1977, Ginza Canon Salon, Tokyo
Eizo: Portraits of Descendants, Camp Gallery, Tokyo
Actresses: A Sentimental Ero - roman, Horindo Art Space, Tokyo
1977 Last Year's Photos, Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
This Year's Photos, Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
Tokyo Blues, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo; Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
1976 Yoko, My Love, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
Notes on Taeko, Seibu Book Center, Tokyo
Private Tokio '76, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
1975 Actress: Kisaki Sekimura, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo
1974 Actresses by Photos, Videos and Film, Gallery Matto Grosso, Tokyo
1973 Pseudo - documentary: Photographs if Polluted Silver - Hallogen Compound: Chirring Cicadas in Chorus, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
Flowers in Ruins, Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo
1970 Sur - sentimentalist Manifesto No.2: The Truth about Carmen Marie, Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo
A Series of Photo Exhibitions: Kitchen Ramen Ero - realism, Kitchen Ramen Restaurant, Tokyo
1967 Ginza and Zoo, Mitsubishi Denki Gallery, Tokyo
1966 Subway and Middled - aged Women, Mitsubishi Denki Gallery, Tokyo
1965 Satchin and His Brother Mabo, Shinjuku Station Building, Tokyo

Group shows
2013 Language Games, Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
Lichtempfindlich - Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Schaufler, The Schaufler Foundation - SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
2012 A meno di non ricorrere a una fotografia, M & D ARTE, Gorgonzola; Arte Centro, Milan
Religion & Riten, Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt / Main
Body Language. Oeuvres de la Collection du Fotomuseum Winterthur, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Junge Menschen, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Lost Paradise, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar
Au bonheur des fleurs, Le Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier
Road Atlas. Straßenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus
Carpe Diem. Seize the Day, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
Blomster / Flowers / Blumen, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Grandi fotografi a 33 giri, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
Creating with Light. The Manipulated Photograph, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Love and Hope, Iberia Art Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
SØR Rusche Sammlung: Eros & Thanatos, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig
Beauty. Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo
The Gallery Collection, galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
2011 The Lines Of Beauty. Nudes In The Antal - lusztig Collection, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen
Fotógrafos da Cena Contemporânea, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
nAcKT, Museum der Moderne - MdM Mönchsberg, Salzburg
Le Rouge Et Le Noir. Il Piacere Di Puntare Sull’arte, Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Fifteen Years, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Shanghart Gallery Autumn Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Far East, Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Road Atlas, Straßenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim
Our Magic Hour - How Much of the World Can We Know?, Yokohama Triennale, Japan
Slice of Summer, IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, California
Polaroid [Im]Possible, WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna
Magie des Objekts. Photographie aus drei Jahrhunderten, Leopold Museum, Vienna
Streetlife und Homestories - Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Fantômes et Cauchemars, Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Beauvais
Cross Over, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
Portraits, La Conciergerie - Centre d'art contemporain, La Motte - Servolex
Photography Group Exhibition, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Künstler der Galerie, Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Araki & Saudek, Krisal Galerie, Geneva
Femme Objet, Femme Sujet, Abbaye St. André - Centre d’Art Contemporain Meymac, Meymac
Longing for Identity. Postwar Japanese Photographers, Yoshii Gallery, New York
Be Alive!, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Group Show, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York
Japancongo, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
Testing Ground, Zabludowicz Collection London, London
Ukifune. Floating Boat, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
2010 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
Conversations Intimes, Musée Départamental de l’Oise, Beauvais
Twenty - Five, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Gardar Eide Einarsson, Standard, Oslo
You’ve Gone Too Far This Time, Faggionato Fine Arts, London
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
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
Florafiktionen - Florales zwischen Eros und Vereisung, Galerie Erhard Witzel, Wiesbaden
Hiéroglyphes du Plaisir, Galerie 1900 - 2000, Paris
2009 Desnudos, Galería Javier López, Madrid
POL/A, Galerie Nivet - Carzon, Paris
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, selected by Primary Information
Ansichten 1 - Florafiktionen¬, QuadrART Dornbirn, Dornbirn
Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid, Pump House Gallery, London
Mahlzeit! (Essen in der Kunst), Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
Don’t Panic! I’m Selling My Collection, Rental Gallery, New York
The Figure and Dr. Freud, Haunch of Venison, New York
Ingres et les modernes, Musée Ingres, Montauban
Nippon Kobo, 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, Galerie Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo
Desire Aquire, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Sale, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
2008 Grotto, Museum 52, London
Asian Dub Photography, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena
Love, Love, Love, Martos Gallery, New York
Diana + Acteon, Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
For a Language to Come: Provoking Change in Japanese Postrar Photography, Carolina Nitsch, New York
10 sorings in the fall, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Darkside, Photomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Now & New, Gana Art Busan, Busan
Gallery Selections, Hamiltons Gallery, London
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
Shapes of Time, Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria
Street & Studio: an urban history of photography, Tate Modern, London
In voller Blüte, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden - Rot
Something for Everyone, Hamiltons Gallery, London
Photographers of Japanese Descent, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Viva Lolita, Maddox Arts, London
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Haraki Meets Hokusai, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover
For the Spirit - From the UBS Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Body Work, Le Case d’Arte, Milan
Nouvelles Collections III, Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt - Centre d’Art, Biel / Bienne
Read My Lips, Peres Projects - Berlin, Berlin
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2007 Switcher Sex: Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art is Uninteresting Complete, Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna
Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto - Contemporary Japanese Photography, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Convection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
Livres de nus, une anthologie, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Eyes of an Island - Japanese Photography 1945 - 2007, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Photomonth - East London Photography Festival, alternative arts, London
Stripped Bare - Der entblöfte Körper, C/O Berlin, Berlin
Blue Chips, Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna
Odd Spaces, Galerie MollerWitt, Aarhus
Attitude 2007, CAMK - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
Pale Carnage, Visual Research Centre, Dundee, Scotland; Arnolfini, Bristol
Les Autres: Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Christopherson, Eve Fowler, Ratio 3, San Francisco, California
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 von Orsouw, Zurich
Foundation 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
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 - Casse de Dépôts’ photograph collection, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d’Art Moderne
Nous nous sommes tant aimés, Collection de Saint Cyprien, Saint Cyprien
Suesser Schlummer. Der Schlaf in der Kunst, Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Salzburg
People, MADRE - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
Flutter, The Approach, London
Into Me / Out of Me, MoMA PS1, New York
Sweet Ecstasy, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
Why Pictures Now, MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 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 Manheim, Manheim
Polamaniacs, Photology, Milan
Boys and Flowers, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
A Lover’s Discourse, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California
Hundert Küsse sind besser als einer (Hundred Kisses are better than one), Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2005 Brutal Ornamental, Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna
Rupture des Évidences, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Miradas y conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Persistence, Aura Gallery, 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
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
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz
Der fotografiarte Mensch, Nenes Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nüremberg
Europe in Art. A HVB Group Project, MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Contemporánea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Fundación Juan March, Madrid; 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 Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Nature of Artifice. 9 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale Architettura di Venezia, Venice
Wer Bietet Mehr? - Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Deichtorhallen 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, Fellbach
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Beauty of Darkness, Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2003 XXX, Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Berlin, Berlin
Cold Play - Set 1 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; 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, Shangai
In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico, Villa Croce Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Genova
Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst, Neue Galerie – Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Update #6: Monumente der Melancholie, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Cat Show, ACME, Los Angeles, California
JAPAN. Keramik und Fotografie - Tradition und Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Gallery Artists, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Japon 1945 - 1975, Patrimoine Photographique, l’Hotel de Sully, Paris
2002 Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
Trottoirs - Sidewalks [Promenades en Marges], Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Living Room, Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Desire, GAM - Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
Copy, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
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
Asia Photo Biennale, Gallery La Mer, Seoul
PhotoEspaña 02, Madrid
2001 Ganjin and photographers from the world, Matsuzakaya Gallery, Tokyo
See, Take a picture, Express, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo
Promiscuous Flowers - Robert Mapplethorpe & Nobuyoshi Araki, Niitsu City Museum, Niigata, Odakyu Museum, Shinjuku
Strategoes - photography of the nineties, Kunsthalle Kiel; Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bolzano; Rupertinum Salzburg
Floating Chimeras, Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Edsvik
Illusion, Rikustallningar, Stockholm
The Nature of Still Life, GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
Up in the Sky - Himmel in der Kunst der goer Jahre, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen
Update #4: The Dark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal - Unteröwisheim
The body and the sin, I Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
Fact of Life, Hayward Gallery, London
2000 Bourgeois Hero and Racolta della Forografia Contemporanea, Galleria Civica Modena, Modena
Rebecca Camhi, Athens
Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen - Cities of 21st Century, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Siemens Kultur Programme, Munich
Copenhagen Festival, Copenhagen
Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids 1971 - 74, New works by Nobuyoshi Araki and Saul Fletcher, Yayoi Kusama Walking Piece 1966, Gallery Asprey Jacques, London
Yume no ato - Was vom Traum blieb…(What remained of the dream...), Haus am Waldsee, Der Ort Internationaler Gegenwartskunst in Berlin, Berlin
Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsow
XL Photography, Deutsche Borse AG, Frankfurt am Main
Et l’Homme créa la Femme, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
Veronica’s Revenge. Contemporary Perspectives on Photography, MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Contemporary Photography from Japan, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Tokyo Ga, Valentina Moncada - Arte Contemporanea, Rome
1999 Change of Scene XV, Musuem für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt
Spiral TV (collaboration with Vanessa Beecroft), Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Miyajima, Araki, Sugimoto, Kusama, Studio Casoli & Studio Guenzani, Milan
Attack, fotografie op het scherpst van de snede. Holland Festival, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Exposition de la collection de la Fondation Cartier, Centre Culturel de Belém, Lisboa
Collected Works I: Contemporary Art since 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Tachikawa International Art Festival '99, Tachikawa
Get Together - Art as Teamwork, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space Karlsplatz, Vienna
Love and Desire, Galleria Photology, Milan
Johan Korec, Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne
Self Portrait. Loans from the Invisible Museum, Mercer Union - A Centre For Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto, Ontario
Sweet & Sour, Art & Public, Geneva
Veronica’s Revenge - Photographies De La Collection Lac - Suisse, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
1998 Filtre, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Love in Winter - with Boris Mikhailov, Satani Gallery, Tokyo
Nuit Blanche, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Bergen Billedgalleri Rasmus Meyers Samlinger, Bergen; Porin Taide Museo, Pori; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Goteborg
Life, Border, Line - Struth, Penone, Hohenbuchler, Jacobs, Araki, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Araki VS. Weegee, Gallery Ham, Nagoya
Searching for the Future Photography, EpSite, Epson Imaging Gallery, Shinjuku
Hiroshige and Araki, Japonisme Museum, Atami, Shizuoka
Printemps de Cahors - Photographie & Arts Visuels, Cahors
Gesammelte Werke 1. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Fünf Komma Fünf, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Es grunt so grün..., Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Fuori Uso: 1998 - Mostrato, Assozione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara
Cho nichijo (Sur - everyday - life), Shanghai Art Musem, Shanghai
Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Car Culture in Photographs of 20th Century, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato
Photographic Diaries, Zagreb Art Pavillion, Croatian Photographic Union, Zagreb
Private Ficcions, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Waterproof / A Prova de Agua, CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
Illusionary Botanical Garden, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka
The Promise of Photography: The DG Bank Collection" Hara Musem of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Fetishes & Fetishism, Passage de Retz, Paris
Life is a Bitch, De Appel, Amsterdam
Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros, XXIV Bienal de Sâo Paulo
Ander / Exposed, Tunnelbana Metro U - bahn, Stockholm
1997 Kain (Sensual Flowers), with Yukio Nakagawa, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki, Dianne Arbus, Nan Goldin, Sammlung Goetz, Münich
Lust und Leere (Desire and the Void). Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arken Museum für Moderne Kunst, Copenhaguen; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
10th International Biennial of the Image, Centre Culturel Andre Malraux Vandoeuvre, Nancy
Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Du Construit, du paysage, FRAC Languedoc - Roussilon, Montpellier; Centre Régional d'art contemporain, Séte
Polaero (with Larry Clark), Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Sasame Hiroyuki, c / o Hara, 2nd Floor, 4 - 3 - 3 Kita Shinjuku, Shinjuku - ku, Art Tower Mito, Obaragi
Shashin (Photos), Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe; Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka
Floating Images of Women in Art History: From the Birth of Feminism towards the Reconstruction of Gender, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, Sogo Museum, Yokohama
The 33rd 'Artists Today' Exhibition: City Landscapes and Unity in the Plurality, Yokohama Citizen's Gallery
Cities on the Move, Wiener Secession, Vienna; CAPC - Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux; PS1, Nueva York; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Hayward Gallery, London; KIASMA Helsinki
The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
1996 Kingdom of Flora, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Larry Clark, Kunsthalle Basel
A Girl floating in the Cosmos (with Gozo Yoshimasu, Marilia and Kazutoki Umezu), Kouchi Prefectural Musuem Hall, Kouchi
Private Tokyo, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Shiro Kuramata 1934 - 1991, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Araki and Ten Contemporary Tanka Poets, Gallery Eve
Nobuyoshi Araki & Michiko Kon, Center for Photography, Carmel
mages of Woman in Japanese Contemporary Photography 1930 - 1990, Shoutou Museum, Tokyo
Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City
1995 Cities I want to live in, Ginza Guardian Garden, Tokyo
Death of Flowers (with Eric Andriesse), Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Art in Japan Today 1985 - 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Ginzabout, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Texture and Touch: Contemporary Photography from Japan, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Vision of Hope and Despair, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
The VIth Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Todi Palazzo delle Arti, Perugia
L’Immagine Riflessa, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Trame Inquiette (Agli Ordini del Cibo), Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino
The Act of Seeing (Urban Space) - taking a distance, Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels
The Dead, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford,; Horsens Museum, Horsens
Works by 25 Photographers in Their 20s, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato
Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
26th Arles International Photo Festival (Des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie), Arles
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pitttsburgh
Blumenstücke Kunststücke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
1994 Body and Memory: Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark, Sala Parpallo - Palau Scala, Valencia
Tokyo Love (with Nan Goldin), The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century, Spiral Garden, Tokyo; Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo
When the Body Becomes Art: The Organs and Body as Object, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Liquid Crystal Futures. Contemporary Japanese Photography, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; travelling to Europe and Tokyo
Das Bildk Portrait, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
The Nude and Contemporary Photography, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
From the Edge of Nirvana (collaboration with Kazuo Ohno, Gozo Yoshimasu and Marilia), Tokyo Design Center
Photography and Beyond in Japan, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1993 Nobuyoshi Araki, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark and Jack Pierson, Luhring Augustine, New York
Love You Tokyo! The Photographs of Kineo Kuwabara and Nobuyoshi Araki, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Absolute Nudes 2, Harajuku Lafore Museum Espace, Tokyo
Das Bild des Körpers, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt an Main
Contemporary Japanese Photographers, Kunsthaus Zurich
1992 Adam & Eve, Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama
1991 Japanese Photography in the 1970s, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
1990 Tokyo: A City Perspective, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Op: Positions: Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam II, Rotterdam
Photos de Familie, Grand Halle, La Villette, Paris
1989 Eleven Photographers in Japan: 1965 - 1975, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
1986 Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea, Casa Elizalde, Barcelona; travelling to Tokio Theater '86, Sintory Beer Factory, Tokyo
1985 Paris - New York - Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Tsukuba, Ibaraki; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai
Dumont Foto 5: Die Japanische Photographie, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
1983 A Scene of Contemporary Japanese Art: An Encounter with the Sights Around Us, Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art, Sendai
A Woman on 6x7 Films, (with Bill Brandt) Zeit - Foto Salon, Tokyo
1980 The Arguments '80, The Girls / Prostitutes, with Ryudo Uzaki, Sabo Kaikan, Tokyo
1979 Japan: A Self - Portrait, International Center of Photography, New York (travelling in US)
La Photographia, Biennale di Venenezia, Venice
Neue Japanische Photographie, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
1978 Hot Breeze of July: Beloved Women. Works by Araki and 4 Photographers with Gentle Eyes, Camp Gallery, Tokyo
1976 Photographs for Sale. Self Selected Works by Twelve Photographers, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
A Series of Photo Exhibitions: Walking in Tokio, Tokyo
Neue Fotografie aus Japan, Stadtmuseum Graz mit Museumsapotheke; travelling to Vienna, and Stuttgart
1975 One Day Photo Exhibition, The Nanahonmatsu Apartment, Nagoya
Towards an I-Reality, Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo - Thesis exhibition by Araki and the students of his workshop -
1974 Photographs on Photography, Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo
From Photo to Photo, Gallery Matto Grosso, Tokyo
1972 The 11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Choshashin Ensokai (Super - Photographic Concert, collaboration with Shoji Sakamoto, Aoyama Tower Hall, Tokyo
Seikimatsu (Fin de Siécle: Regenitaeration), collaboration with Shiro Tatsumi, Ginza Sony Building, Tokyo
Fifteen Photographers Today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1971 The 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Fukushagaten (Copied Pictures), collaboration with Takashi Fujisawa Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo