1940
Born in Tokyo
1959 - 1963
Studied photography and film-making at Chiba University
1963
Graduates from the Department of Engineering at Chiba University; majored in Photography and Film Making
1964
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
Shashin-no-kai Prize from the Photographic Society of Japan
1991
7th Higashikawa Prize
1994
Japan Inter-Design Forum Grand Prix
2008
Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Arts
Lives and works in Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2009
"69YK", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2008
Nobuyoshi Araki - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto - CAMK, Kumamoto
Nobuyoshi Araki - Silent Wishes - Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Kinbaku - Galleri Riis, Oslo
Nobuyoshi Araki- Kinbaku - Galleri Riis, Oslo
Hana Kibaku - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Untitle, 2007 - Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
KINBAKU - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
2007
Nobuyoshi Araki: Self. Life. Death - Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm
Nobuyoshi Araki - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki - Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Carte Blanche - Nobuyoshi Araki - Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
2006
Nobuyoshi Araki - Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki - Diaries - Leica Galerie Wien Westlicht, Vienna
Araki - Á la vie la mort - Museé de la photographie de Charleroi, Charleroi
Noboyoshi Araki - Polaroids - Galleria Cà di Frà, Milan
Nobuyoshi Araki - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki - Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo - Sexteen 1969-1973, 1973 - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2005
Nobuyoshi Araki - Painting Flowers - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Nobuyoshi Araki - Painting Flower and Diaries - Anton Kern Gallery, New York City, NY
Nobuyoshi Araki - Arakinema - Palais de Tokyo, Paris
ARAKI - Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London (England)
Nobuyoshi Araki - self life death - Barbican, London (England)
Noboyushi Araki - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Araki Nobuyoshi - The Faces of Ishikawa - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa
2004
Nobuyoshi Araki - From Winter to Spring - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki - Polanographs - galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
2003
Araki Nobuyoshi - Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
Nobuyoshi Araki - Araki by Araki - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2002
Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo still life - Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo - Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
Araki Nobuyoshi - Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Tutte le donne del mondo. The world of Nobuyoshi Araki - Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
2001
Nobuyoshi Araki - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo Still Life - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (England)
Nobuyoshi Araki - Vintage Prints and Early Works - galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
2000
Nobuyoshi Araki - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Nobuyoshi Araki - Viaggio Sentimentale - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
1999
Nobuyoshi Araki - galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
Nobuyoshi Araki - CAG - Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1998
Story Portrait by Nobuyoshi Araki - The Art Center - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
1997
Nobuyoshi Araki - Wiener Secession, Vienna
Nobuyoshi Araki - galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
1995
Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo Novelle - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Nobuyoshi Araki - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
1994
Nobuyoshi Araki - Unconscious Tokyo: Tokyo Cube - White Cube, London (England)
1993
Araki - Japanbilder - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
Group Exhibitions
2009
Untitle - Galerie Almine Rech - Brussels, Brussels
2008
Grotto - Museum 52 - London, London (England)
diana + actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit - Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME: Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar Photography - Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
Darkside - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
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
Biennale di Alessandria - Shapes of Time - Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria
Street & Studio: an urban history of photography - Tate Modern, London (England)
In voller Blüte - Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
Photographers of Japanese Descent - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY
Selections from the Hara Museum´s Permanent Collection - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
araki meets hokusai - Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover
For the Spirit - From the UBS Art Collection - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Body Work - Le Case d´Arte, Milan
Nouvelles Collections III - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
Read my Lips - Peres Projects - Berlin, Berlin
The Masked Portrait - Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, NY
2007
SWITCHER SEX: Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection - Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
art is uninteresting complete - Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna
Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto - Contemporary Japanese Photography - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Convection - Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Group Show. "Ten years" - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England)
Livres de nus, une anthologie - Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris
Eyes Of An Island - Japanese Photography 1945-2007 - Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (England)
Eyes Of An Island - Japanese Photography 1945 - 2007 - Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London (England)
Stripped Bare . Der entblößte Körper - C/O Berlin, Berlin
Blue Chips - Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna
Souvenir dalla Collezione del Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
odd spaces - Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus
Attitude 2007 - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto - CAMK, Kumamoto
Pale Carnage - Dundee Contemporary Arts - DCA, Dundee (Scotland)
Les Autres: Nobuyoshi Araki - Peter Christopherson - Eve Fowler - Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Nous nous sommes tant aimés - Collections de Saint-Cyprien, Saint Cyprien
Into Me, Out of Me - MACRO Future, Rome
spectacular space - galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
Fotografie - Benden & Klimczak, Viersen
Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Pale Carnage - Arnolfini, Bristol (England)
2006
INTO ME / OUT OF ME - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Peintres de la vie moderne Modern-life painters - Donation - Caisse des Dépôts' photograph collection - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Suesser Schlummer. Der Schlaf in der Kunst - Residenz Galerie Salzburg, Salzburg
flutter - The Approach, London (England)
Into me / Out of me - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
Sweet Ecstasy - Nicola von Senger AG, Zurich
Why Pictures Now - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , 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 Mannheim, Mannheim
Polamaniacs - Photology, Milan
Boys and Flowers - Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Group Show: A Lover's Discourse - Peres Projects - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Hundert Küsse sind besser als einer (Hundred Kisses are better than one) - Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2005
Rising Sun, Melting Moon - Contemporary Art from Japan - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Brutal Ornamental - Galerie Michael Hall (former Galerie Kosak Hall), Vienna
rupture des évidences - Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Miradas y conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear - Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
persistence - Aura Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai
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, Salzburg
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz
Der fotografierte Mensch - Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Europe in Art - A HVB Group Project - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
Contemporánea - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Contemporánea-Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - 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 the Senses - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Wer bietet mehr? - Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
El somni eròtic - Centre d’Art la Panera, Lérida
Kurzdavordanach - SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
Nature of Artifice - 9. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura - Biennale Architettura di Venezia, Venice
Rose c'est la vie - On Flowers in Contemporary Art - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach - Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Beauty of Darkness - Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
Instant instincts - Galleria In Arco, Turin
2003
Mask Of Japan -- Japanese Contemporary Photography
XXX - Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Berlin, Berlin
Cold Play - Set 1 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection - 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, Shanghai
In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
"Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst" - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Update #6: Monumente der Melancholie - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Cat Show - ACME, Los Angeles, CA
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, CA
2002
Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
T R O T T O I R S - S I D E W A L K S [ PROMENADES EN MARGES ] - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Living Room - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Keine Kleinigkeit - Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Desire - Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
Oeil pour oeil: Collection Privée de Lyon - Le RECTANGLE - Centre d´Art de la Ville de Lyon, Lyon
OPEN / INVITED e v+ a 2002 - ev+a, Limerick
Im Sucher - Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
Botanique - PKM GALLERY - Seoul, Seoul
2001
The Nature of Still Life - Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
Update #4: The Dark - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Desire - Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
I Bienal de Valencia - The Body of Art - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
2000
Et l'homme créa la femme - Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
Veronica's Revenge - Contemporary Perspectives on Photography - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Contemporary Photography from Japan - Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Yume no Ato - Was vom Traum blieb ... - Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1999
Get Together - Kunst als Teamwork - Kunsthalle Wien (Karlsplatz), Vienna
Johann Korec - Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne
Self Portrait, Loans from the nvisible Museum - Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
Gesammelte Werke 1; Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968 - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Attack, fotografie op het scherpst van de snede - Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
SWEET & SOUR - Art & Public, Geneva
Veronica's Revenge - Photographies De La Collection Lac-Suisse - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
1998
Fünf Komma Fünf - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Es grünt so grün... - Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Taipei Biennial 1998 - Site of desire - Taipei Biennial, Taipei
Private ficcions - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Exposition de Groupe - Photographie - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris
1997
Cities on the move - Wiener Secession, Vienna
The 90s: a family of man? - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
Desire & Void: Contemporary Japanese photography - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Du construit, du paysage - FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
Amours - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Lust und Leere. Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna
1994
Liquid Crystal Futures - Contemporary Japanese Photography - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
1993
Love You Tokyo! The Photographs Of Kineo Kuwabara And Nobuyoshi Araki - Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
1992
Adam & Eve - Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama
Selected Publication
1971
sentimental journey privately published
1978 The camera between men and women byakuya-shobo tokyo
yoko my love asahi sonorama tokyo
1981
theory of photography tojusha tokyo
photo-theatre: tokyo elegy tojusha tokyo
sniper-shot:arakin-z mirion shuppan tokyo
1982
a ten-year sentimental journey tojusha tokyo
1984
a world of girls byakuya-shobo tokyo
tokyo autumn sanseido tokyo
1989
tokyo nude ota shuppan
tokyo story heibonsha tokyo
1990
the first year of heisei IPC photo tanz
tokyo lucky hole ota shuppan tokyo
towards winter: tokyo a city heading for death magazine house tokyo
1991
sentimental journey / winter journey shinchosha tokyo
skyscrapes / close-range-scapes shinchosha tokyo
colorscapes magazine house tokyo
1993
postwar: august 16 - september 3 1973 art room tokyo
1994
first person photography asahi shinbun tokyo
