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BIOGRAPHY
Geboren 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan.
1985–87 Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, M.F.A
1988 Umzug nach Deutschland
1988–93 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1995 Künstlerpreis der Stadt Nagoya, Japan
1998 Lehrauftrag als Gastprofessor an der University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2000 Umzug nach Japan
Lebt und arbeitet in Tokyo, Japan
Einzelausstellungen / Solo Shows
2010
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, Asia Society, New York
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2009
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Crated Rooms for Iceland – Nara + Graf, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Yoshitomo Nara + Graf, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Cemeti Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007
NARA + GRAF, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague
Berlin Baracke, Galerie Zink, Berlin
Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne
2006
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
A to Z, Hirosaki Brew House, Hirosaki
Moonlight Serenade, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2005
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Home (+graf) graf media gm, Osaka
2004
Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
From the Depth of My Drawer, The Hara Museum, Tokyo (traveling exhibition in Japan and Korea: Fukui Kanaz Forest of Creation; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, 2005; Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
Shadow Puddles, graf media gm, Osaka
Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne Kunst, Munich
Somewhere, collaboration with Hiroshi Sugito, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich
Nowhere Land, Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien, A
2002
Yoshitomo Nara – who snatched the babies?, Centre National de l’estampe et de l’arte imprimè, Chatou, F
2001
I don’t mind if you forget me, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama / Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima / Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa / Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, JP
2000
Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Musuem of Art, Santa Monica, USA
Walk On, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
1999
Somebody whispers in Nürnberg, Institut fur Moderne Kunst in der SchmidtBank-Galerie, Nürnberg, D, Katalog
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, kuratiert von Marilu Knode, Katalog
1995
Cup Kids, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, JP
in the deepest puddle, SCAI the bathhouse, Tokyo, JP, Katalog
Project for Gunma, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Takasaki, JP
Gruppenausstellungen / Group Shows
2010
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
2009
Rites de Passage, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands
Walking in My Mind, The Hayward Gallery, London, Yoshitomo Nara with installation by YNG
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Tamami Hitsuda, Masako Ando, Mika Kato, Aichi Triennale Pre-event, It's a Little Playground, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan (traveled exhibition-Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan)
2008
Encounters, Pace Beijing, Beijing
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, curated by Midori Nishizawa
2007
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever; An Exhibition of the Zabludowicz Collection at BALTIC, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
RED HOT – Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Pretty Baby, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
The Door into Summer, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Mindscape Museum, Okazaki, Aichi
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Bernard Bugget Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Silly Adult, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagan
Let's Go To The Museum! How To Enjoy The Modern Art, Together With Dick Bruna, Bernard Buffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Hot, Stamp, Hanga! Child Print Art Musuem, Bernard Buffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
ShContemporary 2007 Shanghai in Art, Best of Artists Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
3L4D – 3rd Life 4th Dimension, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai, Bangkok
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
A Magical Life, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
10th Anniversay, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2005
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Little Boy – The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, Japan Society, New York
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art From East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Japan Pop, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
Unheimlich Jung, Stadtische Galerie, Sonderborg, Denmark
New Acquisition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Kotaro Terada Collection, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Kiss Kiss, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Fiction Love, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Supernova, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Non–sect Radical, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
The Myth of Childhood, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
Funny Cuts: Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenösischen Kunst, Stadtgalerie, Stuttgart
2003
Your Dog, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (through 2004)
M_ARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum, Austria
Painting in our time, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Ninos, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
I bambini siamo noi, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Trauer/GRIEF, Atelier Augarten, Vienna
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Room Air, It–Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2002
Pop! Pop! Pop!, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
Fragile Figures, Palette School, Tokyo
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Japanese Experience–Inevitable, Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
Contemporary Art from Japan to Finland 2002, Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki
2001
Murakami / Nara, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. (touring exhibition: Brooklyn Museum, New York; Florida, Tampa Museum of Art; Chicago Culture Center, Chicago; Akron Art Museum of Art, Akron; The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville; Independent Curators International, New York)
Tsunami Raiders, Galerie Michael Zink, München, Germany
Public Offering, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
JAM! – London Tokyo, Barbican Gallery,London (2002)- Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Arte Attuale dal Giappone, Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Neo Tokyo–Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Camera Works, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Sichoku no Jikan, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Silence of The City, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea
Super Flat, The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis / Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Neo Tokyo – Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUS
2000
Super Flat, The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood (touring exhibition:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle)
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Super Flat, Parco Gallery, Tokyo (catalogue published)
Presumed Innocent, Capc Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
Dark Mirror from Japan, De Appel, Netherlands
Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Trading Views, Saarbrücken Staatgalerie, Saarbrücken (touring exhibition: Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany; Stedelijk museum De Lakenhal Lieden, Holland)
Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Works on Paper, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
The Darker Side of Playland, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
GENDAI, Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Présumé Innocents, capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, F
Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg / Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz, D
The Darker Side of Playland, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1999
Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott and Lea Rosson Delong
Vergiss den Ball und spiel weiter, Nürnberger Kunsthalle, Nürnberg, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Tendance, Abbaye Saint–Andre Centre d'art Contemporain, Meymae
Art/ Domestic, Temperature of the Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990's, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish, or Both, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, JP
It’s animal world, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, JP
Art/Domestic, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
New Modernism for a New Millenium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1998
The Manga Age, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
1997
Dream of Existence, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, H
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Contempoary Art, Seoul, Korea
VOCA 97, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, JP
1996
Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuka, The Royal Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, JP, Katalog
Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, JP
Ironic Fantasy, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, JP
1995
Endless Happiness, SCAI The Bathouse, Tokyo, JP
Art x = @, SAM Museum, Osaka, JP
POSITIV, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, D
Gunma Biennale, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, JP
1988
Feeling House, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, JP
1986
Each Person’s Expression of Space, Gifu Prefectural Art Museum, JP
