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Master of sensual provocationNobuyoshi Araki is a living legend in the world of photography. He has been active for decades, changing the way we see the world through his work. His consistent desire… Read more
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1940 | born in Tokyo, Japan |
1963 | graduated from the Department of Engineering at Chiba University; majoring in photography and film-making |
1974 | co-founder of the Workshop Photography School and Magazine, Tokyo |
1976 | opened Nobuyoshi Araki School, Tokyo |
1988 | published Aat ROOM Magazine |
1990 | recipient, Shashin-no-kai Prize from the Photographic Society of Japan |
2008 | awarded Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Arts |
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan |
2021 | Araki, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria Nobuyoshi Araki: Polaroids, Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, China Nobuyoshi Araki: Arakiss, Ostlicht Gallery, Vienna, Austria |
2020 | ARAKI Grand Diary of a Photo Maniac, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK |
2019 | Gekko Shashin, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan Flower Rondeau, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, China 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 Bridge798 Art District, Beijing, China |
2018 | Impossible Love –Vintage Photogragphs, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany KATA-ME, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Qing Se Hua Fu, Light Society, Beijing, China HANA JINSEI (FLOWER -LIFE), Over The Influence, Los Angeles, USA The Passport to the Paraside, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death, Museum of Sex, New York, USA |
2017 | Nobuyoshi Araki-I, Photography, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan 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 Photo-Crazy A, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Tombeau Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki × Guimet Museum, CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo, Japan Kayuen, Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo, Japan Photographoary: Photo-Mad Old Man A Turning 77 on 5.25.17, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan THE SOLO EXHIBITION OF NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, Over The Influence Gallery, Hong Kong, China KYOTOGRAPHIE, A Desktop Love, Ryosokuin, Kenninji Temple, Kyoto, Japan Tokyo Life, KIDO Press, Tokyo, Japan Lastby Leica, art space AM, 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 | Men Naked Face by Araki, OmotesandoHills SPACE O, Tokyo, Japan ARAKI Ojo Shashu-Photography for the After Life: Alluring Hell, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2014 | Ai No Tabi, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Love on the Left Eye, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Photography Book of Rebirth in the Pure Land /Face, Skyscape, Road, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
2013 | Tokyo Blues 1977, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | Nobuyoshi Araki Photobook Exhibition: Arākī, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka, Japan |
2011 | Shakyō RōjinNikki, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | Nobuyoshi Araki "Koki No Shashin: Photographs of a seventy years old, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA |
2008 | Nobuyoshi Araki: Photographs, Zonca & Zonca, Milan, Italy Nobuyoshi Araki - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, CAMK, Kumamoto, Japan Nobuyoshi Araki - Silent Wishes, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria KINBAKU, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
2007 | Nobuyoshi Araki: Self. Life. Death, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden |
2006 | Nobuyoshi Araki - Diaries, Leica Galerie Wien Westlicht, Vienna, Austria Araki - Á la vie la mort, Museé de la photographie de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium Noboyoshi Araki - Polaroids, Galleria Cà di Frà, Milan, Italy Nobuyoshi Araki Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany |
2005 | Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 Art Basel Miami Beach |
BLUMENSTÜCK Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen | |
Boost in the Shell // De Bond Aeroplastics, Brüssel | |
Die sinnliche Linie Museum der Moderne Salzburg | |
Corpus 05 Brügge Musea Brugge, Brügge | |
fotografia 2005 fotografia Roma | |
Coleccion Helga de Alvear Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano, Badajoz | |
Der fotografierte Mensch Neues Museum Nürnberg | |
Europe in Art National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest | |
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Fundacion Juan March, Madrid | |
CANTOS Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg | |
2004 | COLD PLAY Fotomuseum Winterthur |
15 Jahre Deichtorhallen Deichtorhallen, Hamburg | |
In Bed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi | |
The Flower as Image Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek | |
Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach 2004 Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach | |
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo | |
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life Mori Art Museum, Tokyo | |
Nobuyoshi Araki Zonca & Zonca, Mailand | |
Colección Sandretto Re Rebaudengo IVAM Valencia | |
Strange Days Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | |
La vita delle forme Galleria Civica Modena | |
Female Turbulence Aeroplastics, Brüssel | |
Works Seldom Seen at ShanghART ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai | |
2003 | Fables de l´identité Jeu de Paume, Paris |
Phantom der Lust Neue Galerie, Graz | |
update #6 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg | |
short cuts Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
2002 | Keine Kleinigkeit Kunsthalle Basel |
Trottoirs - Sidewalks Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris | |
Open City Hirshhorn Museum, Washington | |
Desire Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna | |
Retrospektive a-d Miami, Miami; Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris; Moscow House of Photography, Moskau; Shine Gallery, London | |
2001 | Kunsthalle Kiel; Ikon Gallery, London; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; Jablonka Galerie, Köln; Galerie Almine Rech, Paris |
Contemporary Photography from Japan De Pont, Tilburg | |
Desire Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal | |
2000 | Centre National de la Photographie, Paris; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Ars Futura, Zürich; Asprey Jacques, London; Gallerie Kamel Mennour, Paris |
1999 | Kunsthaus Bregenz; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo: "Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life"; Egg Gallery, Tokyo; Art & Public, Genf |
1998 | Private ficcions Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; De Appel, Amsterdam: ""Life Is A Bitch"; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo: "COSMOSCO" | |
1996 | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Basel; Jablonka Galerie, Köln |
1995 | Fondation Cartier, Paris; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg |
1994 | Luhring Augustine, New York |
1990 | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt |
1981 | Veröffentlichung "Photograph novel" Fotosammlung und Essay |
1972 | Performance: "Super Photo Concert" |
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