1940   Born in Tokyo    
       
1959 - 1963   Studied photography and film-making at Chiba University    
       
1963   Graduated from the Department of Engineering at Chiba University; majored in Photography and Film Making    
       
1964   Recipient, First Taiyo Prize for "Satchin"    
       
1963 - 1972   Worked at Dentsu Inc.    
       
1974   Helped found the Workshop School of Photography    
       
1976   Opened Nobuyoshi Araki School    
       
1981   Opened Araki Limited Stock Company    
       
1988   Opened AaT ROOM    
       
1990   Recipient, Shashin-no-kai Prize from the Photographic Society of Japan    
       
1991   Recipient, 7th Higashikawa Prize    
       
1994   Recipient, Japan Inter-Design Forum Grand Prix    
       
2008 A  warded, Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Arts

Lives and works in Tokyo    
       
Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is attested to by the more than 300 books he has published in the last four decades, while his work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death, has drawn critical attention both at home and abroad.    
       
Selected Exhibitions

2012         Flower, aura gallery, Beijing, China(solo)    

2011         It Was Once A Paradise, Galerie Alex Daniels - Reflex Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)    
       
2010 - 2011         Love and Death, Museo d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland    
       
2010         Araki: A Perspective, PRISM, Los Angeles, CA (solo)    
       
2008         Body Work, Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy    
       
2008         Read my Lips, Peres Projects - Berlin, Berlin, Germany    
       
2008         Works, Galerie Aplanat für Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany (solo)    
       
2008         Nobuyoshi Araki - Kinbaku, Galerie Jablonka, Berlin, Germany (solo)    
       
2008         Araki meets Hokusai, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)    
       
2008         Araki Gold, Palais Fontana dei Trevi, Rome, Italy (solo)    
       
2008         Nobuyoshi Araki - Hana Kinbaku, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
   
2008         Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto : Japanische Fotografie der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany    
       
2008         Photographers of Japanese Descent, Galerie Howard Greenberg, New York, NY    
   
2007         Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to now, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK    
       
2007         Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, London, UK    
       
2007         Sus ojos les delatan, Foundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain    
       
2007         Nobuyoshi Araki, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)    
       
2007         Revoir. Nobuyoshi Araki, Carte blanche, Galerie Mennour Kamel, Paris, France (solo)    
       
2007         Nobuyoshi Araki - Diaries, Leica Galerie Wien Westlich, Vienna, Austria (solo)    
       
2007         Araki - A la vie la mort, Musee de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium (solo)    
       
2007         Blue Chips, Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna, Austria    
       
2007         Pale Carnage, Dundee Contemporary Arts - DCA, Dundee, Scotland    
       
2006         Sweet Ecstasy, Nicola von Senger AG, Zurich, Switzerland    
       
2006         Polamaniacs, Photology, Milan, Italy    
       
2006         Polaroids, Galleria Ca di Fra, Milano, Itlaly (solo)    
       
2006         FLUTTER, The Approach, London, England, UK (solo)    
       
2006         EROS in der kunst der moderne, foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland    
       
2006         INTO ME / OUT OF ME, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany    
       
2006         Into me / out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York, NY    
       
2006         Why pictures now, MUMUK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria    
       
2006         Noboyushi Araki, Taka Ishii gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2006         Nobuyoshi Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (solo)    
       
2006         Self.Life.Death, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, UK (solo)    
       
2006         Tokyo/Sexteen 1969-1973, 1973, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (solo)    
       
2006         Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)    
       
2006         Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo Berlin. Die Kunst Zweier Stadte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany    
       
2006         La region humaine, Septembre de la photographie, Lyon, France    
       
2006         Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany    
       
2006         XX - Encontras de Fotografia, CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal    
       
2006         Der Verletzbare Körper, Forum für Fotographie, Cologne, Germany    
       
2005         Blumenmythos-Van Gogh bis Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland    
       
2005         Contemporanea, Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain    
       
2005         Le Confort Moderne, Poitier, France    
       
2005         Awakening, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China    
       
2005         Der fotografierte Mensh, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany    
       
2005         Selections from the Hara Museums permanent collection, Hara Museum of contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2005         The Ancient Sound of the Image, Palazzo Fontana dei Trevi Rome, Italy    
       
2005         Arakinema, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)    
       
2005         Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (performance) (solo)    
       
2005         Araki, Michael Hoppen Photography, London, England, UK (solo)    
       
2005         Nobuyoshi Araki, Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)    
       
2005         Nobuyoshi Araki Tokyo Nude, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY (solo)    
       
2005         Rising Sun, Melting Moon - Contemporary Art from Japan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel    
       
2004         Tokio Comedy, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain    
       
2004         Polanographs, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland    
       
2004         From Winter to Spring, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2004         Nobuyoshi Araki, De Hallen.Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (solo)    
       
2004         Hana Jinsei, Kitano Cultural Center, Nagano, Japan (solo)    
       
2004         Painting Flower, Epson imaging gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2004         Polaraki, Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)    
       
2004         Nobuyoshi Araki, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)    
       
2004         EIJANAIKA! YES FUTURE! - Le Japon post XXe siecle, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France    
       
2004         Akimahen, Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille, France    
       
2003         Wachstum, Schöheit und Vergänglichkeit, Munich, Germany    
       
2003         Nobuyoshi Araki, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain    
       
2003         Nobuyoshi Araki, Zonca&Zonca, Milano, Italy    
       
2003         Nobuyoshi Araki, Krisal Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland    
       
2003         Mon journal - photopainting, galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France (solo)    
       
2003         Nobuyoshi Araki, Il tempo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2003         Tokyo still life, Tampereen Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland (solo)    
       
2003         Nabuyoshi Araki, Refex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)    
       
2003         Araki by Araki: the photographer's personal selection, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2003         Love by Leica, Leica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
   
2002         Araki in Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, Italy            

2002         Seoul Novel-Tokyo Story, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Corea    
       
2002         La nature morte au Japon, Maison de la Photographie, Moscow, Russia (solo)    
       
2002         Araki Retrospective, a-d Miami, Miami, Miami    
       
2002         Oeil pour oeil, figures de l'art contemporain, Le Rectangle, Lyon, France    
       
2001         Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bolzano, Italy; Rupertinum in Salzburg, Austria    
       
2001         The body and the sin, Valencia Biennale, Valencia, Spain    
       
2001         Fact of Love, Hayward Gallery, London, England, UK    
       
2001         Ganjin and photographers from the world, Matsuzakaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2001         See, Take a picture, Express, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2001         Promiscuous Flowers - Robert Mapplethorpe & Nobuyoshi Araki, Niitsu City Museum, Niigata, Odakyu Museum, Shinjuku, Japan    
       
2001         Strategoes-photography of the nineties, Kunsthalle in Kiel, Germany    
       
2001         Kaei, Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2001         Kakyoku, Hanasakan, Kagoshima, Japan    
   
2001         Shikijyo kyo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2001         Shosetsu Seoul, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan    
       
2001         Uen Yanaka Biyori, Gallery J2, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2001         Shosetsu Seoul, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2001         Nobuyoshi Araki, Il tempo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2001         Nobuyoshi Araki, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)    
       
2001         Vintage prints and early works, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland    
   
2001         Tokyo Still Life, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, UK    
       
2000         Nobuyoshi Araki, Griedervonputtkamer Galerie, Berlin, Germany    
       
2000         Voyage sentimental, Centre national de la photographie, Paris, France    
       
2000         Sentimental Journey, Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi, Prato, Italy    
       
2000         Erotos, OP fotogallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)    
       
2000         Shashin-shijo-shugi, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)            

2000         Porivacy, Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2000         Photo Poche, La Camera, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
2000         Nobuyoshi Araki, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium (solo)    
       
2000         Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (solo)    
       
2000         Nobuyoshi Araki, Damasquine Art Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo)    
       
2000         Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France (solo)    
       
2000         Fussa Love, Galerie Les Trois Agneaux, France (solo)    
       
2000         The arsfuturashow, Ars Futura galerie, Zurich, Switzerland    
       
2000         Bourgeois Hero, Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy Rebecca Camhi, Athens, Greece    
       
2000         Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen -Cities of 21st Century, Bauhaus, Germany    
       
2000         Dessau Foundation and Siemens Kultur Programme, Munich, Germany    
       
2000         Copenhagen Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark    
       
2000         Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids 1971-74, New works by Nobuyoshi Araki and Saul Fletcher, Yayoi Kusama Walking Piece 1966, Gallery Asprey Jacques, London, UK    
       
2000         Yume no ato-What remained of the dream..., Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany    
       
2000         Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsiaw, Poland    
       
2000         Racolta della Forografia Contemporanea, Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy    
       
2000         XL Photography, Deutsche Borse AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany    
       
1999         Get Together-Art as Teamwork, Kunsthalle Wien am Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria    
       
1999         Love and Desire, Galleria Photology, Milano, Italy    
       
1999         Spiral TV, collaboration with Vanessa Beecroft, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1999         Miyajima, Araki, Sugimoto, Kusama, Studio Casoli&Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy    
       
1999         Attack, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands    
       
1999         Exposition de la collection de la Fondation Cartier, Centre culturel de Belm, Lisbon, Portugal    
       
1999         Collected Works I: Contemporary Art since 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany    
       
1999         Tachikawa International Art Festival '99, Tachikawa, Japan    
       
1999         Nobuyoshi Araki, Scalo Art Space, New York, NY (solo)    
       
1999         Ryu u Seki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1999         ALive, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)    
       
1999         Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)    
       
1999         Polaroids, Gandy Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic (solo)    
       
1999         1973-1999, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Cologne, Germany (solo)    
       
1999         Nobuyoshi Araki, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)    
       
1999         Araki Nobuyoshi, Il Tempo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1999         Touren, Toru Maeshima Gallery, Wakayama, Japan (solo)    
       
1999         Araki Nobuyoshi Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1999         Nobuyoshi Araki: 1969-1999, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland    
       
1998         Cosmosco, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1998         Shijyo Tokyo: Markt der Gefühle, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany    
       
1998         The Past-Fotoarbeiten 1972-73, Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, Germany (solo)    
       
1998         Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo, Stadtisches Klinikum Fulda, Germany (solo)    
       
1998         Portraits and Flowers, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK (solo)    
       
1998         Tokyo Nostalgia, Galleria Photology, London, UK (solo)    
       
1998         Arakinema: Taipei, Yomiuri Culture Salon Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)    
       
1998         Arakinema: Erotic Women in Color, Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Thailand (solo)    
       
1998         Story Portraits, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)    
       
1998         Filtre, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France    
       
1998         Love in Winter-with Boris Mikhailov, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1998         Nuit Blanche, Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Bergen Billedgalleri Rasmus Meyers Samlinger, Bergen, Norway; Porin TaideMuseo, Pori, Finland; Goeteborgs Konstmuseum, Goeteborg, Sweden    
       
1998         Life, Border, Line - Struth, Penone, Hohenbuchler, Jacobs, Araki, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands    
       
1998         Araki VS. Weegee, Gallery Ham, Nagoya, Japan    
       
1998         Searching for the Future Photography, EpSite, Epson Imaging Gallery, Shinjuku, Japan    
       
1998         Hiroshige and Araki, Japonisme Museum, Atami, Shizuoka, Japan    
       
1998         Printemps de Cahors-Photographie & Arts Visuels, Cahors, France    
       
1998         Fuori Uso: 1998-Mostrato, Assozione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara, Italy    
       
1998         Cho nichijo (Sur-eeryday-life), Shanghai Art Musem, Shanghai, China    
       
1998         1998 Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan    
       
1998         Car Culture in Photographs of 20th Century, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan    
       
1998         Photographic Diaries, Zagreb Art Pavillion, Croatian Photographic Union, Zagreb, Croatia    
       
1998         Illusionary Botanical Garden, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Japan    
       
1998         The Promise of Photography: The DG Bank Collection, Hara Musem of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1998         Fetishes & Fetishism, Passage de Retz, Paris, France    
       
1998         Life is a Bitch, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands    
       
1998         XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo: Roteiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil    
       
1998         Under/Exposed, Tunnelbana Metro U-bahn, Stockholm, Sweden    
       
1997         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, Japan    
       
1997         Elvis+Marilyn:2 x Immortal, Sogo Museum, Yokohama, Japan    
       
1997         The 33rd Artists Today Exhibition: City Landscapes and Unity in the Plurality, Yokohama Citizen's Gallery, Japan    
       
1997         Cities on the Move: WienerSecesion, Vienna, Austria; capc Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; PS1, New York USA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; KIASMA Helsinki, Finland    
       
1997         Kain (Sensual Flowers), with Yukio Nakagawa, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1997         Nobuyoshi Araki, Dianne Arbus, Nan Goldin, Sammlung Goetz Munich, Germany    
       
1997         Lust und Leere (Desire and the Void), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Austria; Arken Museum für Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany    
       
1997         10th International Biennial of the Image, Nancy Center Culturel, Andre Malraux Vandoeuvre, Nancy, France    
       
1997         Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France    
       
1997         Du Construit, du paysage, Centre Regional d'art contemporain, Sete, France    
       
1997         Polaero, with Larry Clark, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1997         Sasame Hiroyuki, c/o Hara, 2nd Floor, 4-3-3 Kita Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Art Tower Mito, Obaragi, Japan    
       
1997         Shashin (Photos), Kobe Fashion Musuem, Kobe; Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan    
       
1997         A's Life, Kachimai Hall, Obihiro; La Foret Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1997         Shikijyo, Scalo Book Store, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)    
       
1997         Araki Retrographs, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1997         Tokyo Comedy, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria (solo)    
       
1997         Arakinema: Love Secession, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria (solo)    
       
1997         Arakinema: Vienna and Tokyo Paradise, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1997         Nobuyoshi Araki, Gallery Starmach, Krakow, Poland (solo)    
       
1997         Nobuyoshi Araki, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy (solo)    
       
1997         Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland    
       
1997         Flower Rondo, JM Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1997         A World of Girls, Il Temp, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1996         Face vs Nude, Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1996         Sensual Flowers, Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1996         A Moment in Time, Espace Tag Heuer, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1996         Death Reality, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         The Past 1972-1973, Stadtsparkasse Münster, Germany (solo)    
       
1996         Flowers: Life and Death, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         Tokyo Novel, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         Kain (Shadows of Flowers), Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         Bokujukitan, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)    
       
1996         Arakinema: Novel Photography, Studio Mouris Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         Arakinema: Flower Rondo II, Areana Hall, Tamagawa Takshimaya SC, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         Fake Love, Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         The Face, The Dead, Pace Wildenstein and Macgill, Los Angeles, CA (solo)    
       
1996         A moment in Time, Espace Tag Heuyer, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1996         From Close Range, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (solo)    
       
1996         Private Tokyo, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)    
       
1996         Kingdom of Flora, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA    
       
1996         Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany    
       
1996         Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany    
       
1996         Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Larry Clark, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland    
       
1996         A Girl floating in the Cosmos, with Gozo Yoshimasu, Marilia and Kazutoki Umezu, Kouchi Prefectural Musuem Hall, Kouchi, Japan    
       
1996         Private Tokyo, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany    
       
1996         Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1996         Araki and Ten Contemporary Tanka Poets, Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1996         Nobuyoshi Araki & Michiko Kon, Center for Photography, Carmel, CA    
       
1996         Images of Woman in Japanese Contemporary Photography 1930- 1990, Shoutou Musuem, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1995         The VIth Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Todi Palazzo delle Arti, Perugia, Italy    
       
1995         Trame Inquiette (Agli Ordini del Cibo), Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy    
       
1995         The Act of Seeing (Urban Space) taking a distance, Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium    
       
1995         The Dead, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK; Horsens Museum, Horsens, Denmark    
       
1995         Works by 25 Photographers in Their 20s, Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan    
       
1995         Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA    
       
1995         26th Arles International Photo Festival, Des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France    
       
1995         Carnegie International 1995, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pitttsburgh, PA    
       
1995         Blumenstücke Kunststücke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany    
       
1995         Cities I want to live in, Ginza Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1995         Death of Flowers, with Eric Andriesse, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands    
       
1995         Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan    
       
1995         Ginzabout, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1995         Texture and Touch: Contemporary Photography from Japan, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia    
       
1995         Vision of Hope and Despair, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL    
       
1995         Journal intime, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France (solo)    
       
1995         Nobuyoshi Araki: A- Diary, Sachin and his brother Mabo, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)    
       
1995         Arakinema: Sentimental Journey/Winter Journey, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1995         Satchin in Summer, La Foret Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1995         Arakinema: Passion in Okinawa, Ryubo Hall, Naha, Okinawa, Japan (solo)    
       
1995         Nobuyoshi Araki: Diario Intimo, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal (solo)    
       
1995         Tokyo Novelle, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)    
       
1995         Tokyo Novel/Kiss of Flower, organized by The Morphe '95, outdoor exhibition in Aoyama district, Japan (solo)    
       
1995         Bokuju-Kitan, Strange Black Ink Stories, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)    
       
1995         Erotos, Gallery Index, Stockholm, Sweden    
       
1995         Nobuyoshi Araki, Torch, Amsterdam, the Netherlands    
       
1995         The First Year of Heisei, Le Garage, Reims, France    
       
1995         Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Zone Gallery, Newcastle, UK    
       
1995         Naked Novel, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1995         Dactcho-kun, A Virgin Boy, Space Link, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1994         Private Photography, Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1994         Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Nordliga Fotocentret, Oulu, Finland    
       
1994         Sky, Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1994         Tokyo Cube: Unconscious Tokyo, White Cube, London, UK    
       
1994         Obscene Photographs, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1994         Nobuyoshi Araki: Private Photography, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne    
       
1994         Body and Memory: Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark, Sala Parpallo Palau Scala, Valencia, Spain    
       
1994         Tokyo Love, with Nan Goldin, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1994         Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Tokyo Fine Day, Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1993         The World of Photo-maniac Diary in Colour, Wonderland, Hiroshima, Japan (solo)    
       
1993         New World of Love, La Camera, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1993         Erotos, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1993         Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, the Netherlands    
       
1993         Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Fotografische Sammlung im Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany    
       
1993         Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria    
       
1992         Photo Maniac Diary, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1992         Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991 , Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria    
       
1992         Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Galerie Fotohof, Mirabellpark, Salzburg, Austria    
       
1992         Car Photographs, Tokyo, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1992         State of Things: A Thousand Photographs Exhibited Day by Day , P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1992         Photo Maniac Diary, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1992         Kuruma (voiture) de Tokyo, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1992         Angel's Festival, Parco Gallery, Tokyo; Sapporo Parc Hokkaido;Shinsaibashi Parco, Osaka, Japan (solo)    
       
1992         Arakinema: Angel's Festival, Parco Theater, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1992         Love Interrogations / Tokyo Fax./Fucks, Apt Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1991         Arakinema Springscapes, Cinema Rise, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1991         From Close-range, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1991         Jeanne, Shinchosha Art Space, Tokyo; Heartland, Hamamatsu, Japan (solo)    
       
1991         From Close-range II: Flowers, Nudes and Yamorinskies, Athens Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)    
       
1991         Colorscapes, The Seed Hall, Tokyo / Seikatsu Soko, Nagoya, Japan (solo)    
       
1991         Winter Journey, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1991         On the Move, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1990         Chiro My Love, Ikebukuro Book Center Libro, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1990         Arakinema: Skyscapes, Shuppan Club, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1990         Skyscapes, Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1990         Foto Tanz, Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1990         Tokyo Lucky Hole, Apt Gallery Tokyo, Japan    
       
1990         Towards Winter: Tokyo, A City Heading for Death, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1990         Arakinema: Tokyo Nude, Kinokuniya Hall, Tokyo, Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Theater Asbestos, Japan (solo)    
       
1990         Tokyo Lucky Hole, Apt Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1990         Towards Winter: Tokyo, A City Heading for Death, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1990         This Month's Three Selected Photos, Fukuiya Coffee Shop, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1988         Araki-s-m 1967-1987, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1987         Arakinema 2, Studio Mag, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1987         Puppet Prince, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1987         ARAKI-S-M: 1967-1987, Zeit -Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1987         A Part of Love, Art Space Mirage, Tokyo, Japan (solo)    
       
1986         Tokyo Erotomania Diary, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1986         Araki Shoots Shibuya Like Atget, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1986         Shibuya Street, Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo; Inax Showroom, Fukuoka, Japan    
       
1986         Photo Live: Tokyo Theater '86, Sapporo Beer Factory, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1986         Arakinema: Tokyo Story, Cinemarise, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1985         An Immoral Woman, K�es Bar, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1985         A Pseudo-Story About Girls, Bar New Dug, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1985         Cinephotographic Woman , Bar Refain, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1985         Freely Snatched Love, Kitchen Ramen, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1984         A World of Girls, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1984         A Balthus Summer, Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japan    
       
1982         I am Photography, Doi Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1982         The Third Arakism Declaration, Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1981         The Second Arakism Declaration, Yahama Hall, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1981         Rika: Pseudo High-School Girl, Shinjuku Yamiichi Shop, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1980         Pseudo-Photos, Room 301, Harada Building, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1980         Recent Photos, Room 301, Harada Building, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1980         Fictitious Truth: Zigeunerweisen, Kinokuniya, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1980         100% of Nairon, Bar Nylon, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1980         Wet Dreams on a Midsummer Night and the Anniversary of the End of the War, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1980         Arakism Declaration, New York Theater, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1979         First Visit to New York, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo; Obihiro Building Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan    
       
1978         My Scene: 1940-1977, Canon Salon, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1978         Portraits of Descendants, Camp Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1978         Actresses: A Sentimental Ero-Roman, Horindo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1977         Tokyo Blues, Nikon Salon, Tokyo; Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan    
       
1976         Yoko, My Love, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1976         Notes on Taeko, Seibu Book Center Libro, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1975         Actress: Kisaki Sekimura, Matto Grosso, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1974         Actresses by Photos, Videos and Film, Gallery Matto Grosso (solo)    
       
1973         Mail Photographs Exhibition, Unpeel Me, Heat Me, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1973         Pseudo-Documentary: Photographs Polluted by Silver-Halogen Compound: Chirring Chirring Cicadas in Chorus, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1973         Flowers in Ruins, Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1972         Mail Photographs Exhibition, Miami's truth, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1970         Sur-Sentimentalist Manifesto No. 2: The Truth about Carmen Marie, Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1970         Kitchen Ramen Ero-Rearism, Kitchen Ramen, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1967         Ginza, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1967         Zoo, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1966         Subway, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1966         Middled-Aged Women, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan    
       
1965         Satchin and His Brother Mabo, Shinjuku Station Building, Tokyo, Japan