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Japanese photographer
Nobuyoshi Araki was born 1940 in Tokyo. Entered Chiba Univ. in 1959,
majoring in photography and cinema. After graduating in 1963, employed as an
advertising photographer at Dentsu Inc., a major advertising company.
Married co-worker Yoko (1947-1990) in 1971.
Father was a geta clog maker from Minowa. Took his first
photograph (of the Nikko Toshogu Shrine) while in the 6th grade on a school
trip to Nikko with a camera lent by his father. After graduating from
college in 1963, employed as an advertising photographer at Dentsu Inc., a
major advertising company. In 1965, produced a movie titled, "Satchin and
His Brother Mabo" which brought him attention with the Taiyo Prize. The
still photos were also featured in Camera Geijutsu magazine (edited by
KUWABARA Kineo) in April 1964. He becomes good friends with KUWABARA Kineo.
In 1971, married AOKI Yoko (b. 1947) who died on Jan. 27, 1990. Quit Dentsu
in 1972. In 1988, opened his own office called Aat Room with two others,
TAMIYA Shiro and ANSAI Nobuhiko. Accused of showing obscene photos in the
exhibit titled, "Photo-maniac Diary" in 1992. Fined 300,000 yen. In November
1993, the National Police Agency arrested several people at the Parco
Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo for selling Araki Nobuyoshi's photo book "Erotos"
which was deemed obscene. The police confiscated copies of the book. The
book was a record of works from Araki's AKT-TOKYO photo exhibit which was
held in Austria in 1992. The Austrian publisher of "Erotos" was puzzled by
the move since the book had received high acclaim in New York and other
places. Araki is a prolific producer of photo books and Japan's most famous
photographer. He is also sometimes controversial. Nudes, genitalia, sado-masochist
nudes, and nudes of young girls have provoked more than the police. He has a
loyal following of photographer groupies called "Araki-zoku" (Araki Tribe).
People either love him or hate him (or his work). Personality-wise, he is a
very jolly good fellow and fun to be with. His "mad professor" hairstyle
also adds to his unique persona. A recent movie, titled "Himawari," was also
made about his life with wife Yoko.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002 "Nobuyoshi Araki" Jablonka Galerie,
K?n, Germany "Araki in Venice" Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy "Shosetsu
Seoul" Artium, Fukuoka 2001 "Tokyo Still Life" IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
"Pola", Low, Los Angeles "Shosetsu Seoul" Spiral Hall, Tokyo "Shikijo kyo"
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo "Flower Shadow" Gallery Artgraph, Tokyo 2000 "Viaggio
Sentimental" Centro Perl'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy "Arakinema:
Kurumado" Pecci, Prato "Polaevacy" Nadiff, Tokyo "Nobuyoshi Araki" Low, Los
Angeles "Shashin Shijyo Shugi" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo "Nobuyoshi Araki"
Stedellik Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Gent, Belgium "Nobuyoshi Araki"
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris "Nobuyoshi Araki" Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
"Nobuyoshi Araki" Damasquine Art Gallery, Bruxell, Belgium 1999 "Arakinema:
A's Paradise" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "ARAKI Nobuyoshi Sentimental
Photography, Sentimental Life" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "Nobuyoshi
Araki" Scalo Art Space, New York "RYUSEKI" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo "ALive"
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Grand
Gallery, Praha Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Koln Germany "Araki Nobuyoshi" Il
Tempo "Winter Love" Toru Maeshima Gallery, Wakayama 1998 "Tokyo Shijyo"
Diechtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany "The Past= Photographs 1972-1973"
Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany "Nobuyoshi Araki= Tokyo" Stadtisches
Kilinikum Fulda, Germany "Portraits and Flowers" Photographers Gallery,
London, England "Tokyo Nostalsia" GaIleria Photology, Milan, Italy "A's
Life" traveling to Toyama, Yokohama, Sapporo and Fukuoka "Arakinema: Tokyo
Comedy in Vienna, SpiraI Hall "Arakinema: Taipei" Yomiuri Culture Salon
Aoyama; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan "Arakinema: Erotic Woman in Color"
Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Tailand "Cosmosco" Taka ishii Gallery "Story
portraits"Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Tailand "A's Paradise" Shinjuku
Takashimaya Concourse (outdoor instaIIation) 1997 "A's Life" Kachimai HaIl,
Obihiro; Laforet Museum Harajuku "Nobuyoshi Araki" Galerie Bob van 0rsouw,
Zurich, Switzerland "Shikijyo" Scalo Book Store, Zurich, Switzerland "Flower
Rondo" J. M. Gallery "Araki Retrographs" Hara Museum Of Contemporary Art "Arakinema:
Retro-Ero" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art "A World of GirIs" II Tempo
"Tokyo Comedy" Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria "Arakinema: Love Secession"
Wiener secession, Vienna, Austria "Arakinema: Tokyo Paradise" Wiener
Secession, Vienna, Austria "Arakinema: Vienna and Tokyo Paradise" Hara
Museum of Contemporary Art "Nobuyoshi Araki" Gallery Starmach, Krakow,
Poland "Nobuyoshi Araki" Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy 1996 "Faces vs
Bodies" SpiraI Garden "Arakinema: Faces vs Bodies/ Spiral Hall "Death
Reality" Taka lshii Gallery "The Past 1972-1973" Stadtsparkasse. Milnster,
Germany "FIowers: Life and Death" Nishimura Gallery "Tokyo Novel" Egg
Gallery "Shadows of Flowers/ Gallery Eve "Bokuju-kitan" Joblonka Galerie,
Koln, Germany "Arakinema: Novel Photography" Studio Mouris Roppongi "Arakinema:
Flower Rondo ll" Areana Hall, Tamagawa Takashimaya SC "Fake Love" Ginza
Komatsu "The Face, The Dead" Pace Wildenstein and MacGill, Los Angeles,
U.S.A. "A moment in Time" Espace Tag Heuer "From Close-range" BIum & Poe,
Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1995 "Erotos" Gallery lndex, Stockholm, Sweden; GalIery
Bang, Oslo, Norway; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria "Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi
Araki 1971-1991" traveling to Zone Gallery, New Catsle, England; Galerie Bob
van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland "Araki Nobuyoshi" Torch, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands "Journal intime" Fondation Cartier pour I'art contemporain,
Paris, France "The First Year of Heisei" Le Garage, Reims, France "Nobuyoshi
Araki: A-Diary/Sachin and His Brother Mabo" Galerie Chantal CrouseI, Paris,
France "Naked Novel" Egg Gallery "Arakinema: Sentimental Journey/Winter
Journey" Sogetsu Hall "Satchim in Summer" Laforet Museum Harajuku "Arakinema:
Passion in Okinawa" Ryubo Hall, Naha "Pictures by A Virgin Boy, Daccho-kun"
Space Link (drawings)
"Tokyo Novelle" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
"Bokuju-kitan" Jablonka Galerie, Kiln, Germany "Nobuyoshi Araki: Diario
lntimo" Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal 1994 "Akt-Tokyo:
Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991" traveling to Museer for Fotokunst, odense,
Denmark; Nordliga Fotocentret, Oulu Finland "Private Photography" Yurakucho
Asahi Gallery, Tokyo "Sky" Gallery Eve, Tokyo "Tokyo Nude/Private Diary"
Luhring Augustine, New York "Unconscious Tokyo : Tokyo Cube" White Cube,
London "Obscene Photographs" Taka Ishii Gallery 1993 "Akt-Tokyo: Nobuyoshi
Araki 1971-1991" traveling to Galerie Museum, Bozen, Italy; Kunsthal,
Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Fotomuseum im Munchener Standmuseum, Munich,
Germany; Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria "Fine Tokyo Days" Gallery
Verita, Tokyo "New World of Love" La Camera, Tokyo "Erotos"Parco Gallery,
Tokyo 1992 "Love interrogations: Tokyo Fax./Facks" Apt Gallery "State of
Things: A Thousand Photographs Exhibited Day by Day" P3 Art and Envioroment,
Tokyo "Angel's Festival" Parco Gallery "Car Photographs" Egg Gallery "Akt-Tokyo:
Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991" Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; traveling to
Galerie Fotohof, Mirabellpark, Slzburg, Austria "Photo-maniac Diary" Egg
Gallery 1991 "Winter Journey" Egg Gallery "A's Nude Exhibition: Lovers" Apt
Gallery, Tokyo "In the Move: The sky where Butterflies Fliter Around" Egg
Gallery "Arakinem: Springscapes" Cinema Rise Shibuya, Tokyo "From
Close-range" Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo "Jeanne" Shinchosha Art Space; Heartland,
Hamamatsu "From Close-range : Yamorinskies like Flower and Nude" Athens
Gallery, Osaka "Colorscapes" Seed Hall, Tokyo 1990 "Chiro, My Love"
Ikebukuro Book center Libro "Skyscapes" Gallery Verita "Foto Tanz" Shinjuku
Konica Plaza, Tokyo "Tokyo Lucky Hole" apt Gallery, Tokyo "Towards Winter :
Tokyo, A City Heading for Death" Egg Gallery 1989 "Nobuyoshi Araki '89:
Selected Photographs" Gallery Kosai, Machida, Kanagawa 1987 "A Part of Love"
Art Space Mirage, Tokyo "Araki-s-m 1967-1987" Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo "Puppet
Prince" Spiral Hall, Tokyo 1986 "Shibuya Street" Doi Photo Plaza Shibuya,
Tokyo Slide show "Arakinema : Tokyo-Story" Cinema Rise, Tokyo "A's
Erotomania Diary" Zito-Foto Salon 1984 "A Balthus Summer" Picture Photo
Space, Osaka "A World of Girls" Zeit-Foto Salon 1982 "I am
Photography","Araki's Storm of Love" Doi Photo Plaza Shibuya, Tokyo "The 3rd
Arakism Maanifesto" Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo 1981 "The 2nd Arakism
Manifesto" Yamaha Hall, Tokyo 1980 "The Arakism Manifesto" new York Theatre,
Tokyo "Wet dreams on midsummer Night and the Anniversary of the End of the
War" Kinokuniya Gallery "Zigeunerweisen : Fictitious Truth" Kinokuniya
Gallery, Tokyo 1979 "First Visit to New York" MINOLTA Photo Space, Tokyo
1978 "Actress: A Sentimental Ero-Roman" Horindo Art Space "Eizo: portraits
of descendants" Camp Gallery "My Scene : 1940-1977" Ginza Cannon Salon,
Tokyo 1977 "Tokyo Blues" Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo "This years Photos"
Shirakaba Gallery "Last years Photos" Shirakaba Gallery 1976 "Yoko, My Love"
Ginza Nikon Salon "Private Tokyo '76" Kinokuniya Gallery 1975 "Actress:
Kisaki Sekimura" Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo 1974 "Actresses: with Photos,
videos, and Films" Gallery Matto Grosso, Tokyo 1973 "Pseudo-documentary :
Photographs of Polluted by Silver-Halogen Compound : Chirring Cicadas in
Chorus" Kinokuniya Gallery "Flowers in Ruins" Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo 1970
-76 "Kitshen-Ramen : Erotic-Realism" Kitchen-Ramen, Tokyo 1970 "Sur-sentimentalist
Manifest No.2 : The Truth About Carmen Marie" Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo 1967 "Ginza","Zoo"
Mitsubishi Denki Gallery, Tokyo 1966 "Subway","Middle-aged Women" Mitsubishi
Denki Gallery 1965 "Satchin and Mabo" Shinjuku Station Gallery, Tokyo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2001 Valencia Biennale
Valencia, Spain 2000 "Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids 1971-74, New works by
Nobuyoshi Araki and Saul Fletcher, Yayoi Kusama Walking Piece 1966" Gallery
Aspery Jacques "GENDAI-Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space"
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 1999 "SzenenwechseI
XV" Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frtankfurt, Germany "Spiral
TV" Spiral Garden (opening live show with Vanessa Beikloft) "Miyajima,
Araki, Sugimoto, Kusama" Studio Cosoll & Studio Guenzani, Milano "Exposition
de la collection de la Fondation Cartier" Centre culture de Belem, Lisbonne
"Collected Works Contemporary Art since 1968" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Wolfsburg "Love and Desire" Gailoria Phtoiogy, Molano "Get together Art as
Teamwork" Kunsthalle wien am Karsplatz, Austria 1998 "Filtre" Galerie Almine
Rech, Paris, France "Love in Winter" Satani Gallery (with Boris Mihailov)
"Araki vs Weegee" GaIIery Ham, Nagoya "Researching for the Future
Photography" EpSite, Epson lmaging Gallery "Hiroshige and Araki" Japonisme
Muesum, Atami "Sur-everyday-life: Japanese contemporary Art of Seven
Artists" Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China "1998 Taipei Biennale: Site of
Desire" Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan "Car Culture in photographs
of 20th Century" Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Klyosato "Nuit
blanche" Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France; traveling to
Norway, FInland and Sweeden "Life Border Line: Strruth, Pernone,
Hohenbuchier, Jacobs, Araki" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands "Fuori Uso: 1998 Mostrato" Associazione CuIturale Arte Nova
Pescara, Italy "Photo Diary" Art Pavillion, Zagreb, Croatia "Illusionary
botanical Garden" Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka "The Promise of
Photography: The DG Bank Collection" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
"Fetishes a Fetishism" Passage de Retz, Paris, France "Life is a Bitch" De
AppeI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "The 24th. sao paolo Biennale" Brazil
"Under / Exposed" Tunnelbana Metro U bahn, Stockholm, Sweeden 1997 "The
Dead" Horsens Museum, Horsens, Denmark "SensuaI Flowers" GaIIery Koyanagi (coIlaboration
with Yukio Nakagawa) "Nobuyoshi Araki,Diane Arbus,Nan Goldin" Sammlung
Goetz, Munich, Germany "Lust and Leere (Desire and Void)" Kunsthalle Mien,
Vienna, Austria; Arken Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Copenhargen, Denmark;
Kunsthalle zu KieI, Kiel, Germany "The 10th InternationaI Biennale of the
Image" Nancy centre culturel, Andre, Malraux Vandceuvre, Nancy, France
"Amours" Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France "Du
construit du paysage" Centre Regional d'art contemporain, Site, France
"Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark" Taka lshii Gallery "Sasame Hiroyuki, c/o
Hara, 2nd Floor, 4-3-3 Kita-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku" Art Tower Mito, Mito "Shashin
(Photos)" Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe; Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum, Tokyo;
Fukuoka PrefecturaI Museum of Art "Floating lmages of Women in Art History=
From the Birth of Feminism towards the Reconstruction of Gender" Tochigi
Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya "Special Arakinema: Nobuyoshi
Araki vs Daido Moriyama" Yomiuri culture Salon Aoyama (Arakinema showing,
with Daido Moriyama) "EIvis + Maliryn: 2 x lmmoraI" Sogo Museum, Yokohama
"Cities on the Move" Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria; Musee d'art
contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; PS-1, New York, U.S.A.;
Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London,
England "The 33rd Artists Today: City Landscapes and Unity in the Plurality"
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama 1996 "Kingdom of Flora" Shoeshine Wayne
Gallery, Santa Monka, U.S.A. "Prospect '96" Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany "Sex and Crime" SprengeI Museum, Hannover,
Germany "Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Larry Clark"
Kunsthalle BaseI, Basel, Switzerland "A Girl Floating in the Cosmos" Kochi
Prefectural Museum HaIl (collaboration with Gozo Yoshimasu, Marilia, and
Kazutoki Umezu) "Szenenwechsel X" Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany "Shiro Kuramata 1934-199l" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
"Araki and Ten Contemorary Tanka Poets" Gallery Eve "Nobuyoshi Araki and
Mkhiko Kon" Center for Photographyic Art, Camel, U.S.A. "lmages of Women in
Japanese Contemporary Art 1930-1990" Shoto Museum 1995 "My Kind of Town"
Gurdian Garden "The Flowers from the Other World" Galerie Paul Andriesse,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands (with painter Erik Andriesse) "Art in Japan Today
1985-1995" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "Ginzabout" The Ginza Art Space
"Texture and Touch: Contemporary Photography from Japan" The Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sidney, Australia "Vision of Hope and Despair" Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. "the 6th Biennale lnternazionale
de Fotografia: Trame inquiette (Agli Ordini del Cibo),'Todi Palazzo De-
Arte, Perugia, Italy; Promotrice delle BelIe Arts, Trino, ltaly "The Act of
Seeing(Urban Space), Taking a Distance" Fondation pour I'Architecture,
Bruxelles, Belgium "The Dead" National Museum Of Photography, Film &
Television, Bradford, England "Works by 25 Photographers in Thief 20s"
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato "Sites of Being" ICA Boston,
U.S.A. "26th ArIes International Photo FestivaI (Des Rencontres
lnternationales de la Photographic), France "Shibusawa Tatsuhiko Gallery"
Nichido Gallery "Carnegie International 1995" Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, U.S.A. "Blumenstiicke Kunststucke" Kunsthalle Bielefeld,
Bielefeld, Germany 1994 "Body and memory: Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark"
Sara Parpallo, Valencia, Spain "Tokyo love" The Ginza Art Space (with Nan
Goldin) "Of the Human condition:Hope and Despair at the End of the Century"
Spiral Garden; Ashiya City Museum Of Art and History, Ashiya "When the Body
Becomes Art: The Organs and Body as Object" ltabashi Art Museum "Liquid
Crystal Futures" The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, and
travelling to other cities in Europe and Tokyo "Portraits" Galerie Samia
Saouma, Paris, France "The Nude and the Contemporary Photography" Spiral
Garden "From the Edge of Nirvana/ Tokyo Design Center (collaboration with
Kazuo Ohno, Gozo Yoshimasu and Marilia) "Photography and Beyond in Japan"
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; travelling to Museo de Arte
Contemporaneo International, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Vancouver Art
Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles; Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; The
Contemporary Museum, Honohllu. Hawaii (until 1995) 1993 "Love You Tokyo"
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo(with Kineo Kuwabara) "Contemporary Japanese
Photography" Kunsthaus Zurich "Das Bild des Korpers" Frankfurter Kunstverein
1991 "Japanese Photography in the 1970s" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography 1990 "Tokyo : A City Perspective" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography "Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam " "Photos de Famille" La Villete,
Paris 1989 "Eleven Photographers 1965-75" Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of
Art 1986 "Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea" Casa Elizalde, Barcelona 1985
"Die Japanesche Fotografie" Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, West
Germany "Paris, Tokyo, New York" Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85 ,
Tsukuba; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai 1983 "A Woman on 6x7 Films" Zeit-Foto
Salon, Tokyo (with bill Brandt) "A Scene of Contemporary Japanese Art II"
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai 1978 "Hot Wind in July: My Sweet Women; works
by Araki and 4 Photographers with Gentle Eyes" Camp Gallery 1976 "Exhibition
selected by 12 photographers" Shiseido The Ginza, Tokyo 1974 "Photographs on
Photography" Shimizu Gallery "From Photo to Photo" Gallery Matto Grosso
"Fifteen Photographers Today" National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1072 "The
11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1971 "The 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan", Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Museum "Copied Pictures" Kinokuniya Gallery
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS 1985 "Die Japanische Fotografie"
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 1983 "A scene of Contemporary Japanese
Art 2" Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai 1979 "Japan : A Self Portrait" ICP, New
York, traveled in Italy, etc. 1976 "Neue Fotografie aus Japan" Kulturhaus
der Stadt Graz, Austria; traveling to Vienna, Austria and Stuggart, West
Germany, until 1978 1974 "15 Photographers" National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo 1971 ,72 10th & 11th "Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan" Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography Yokohama Museum of Art
PRIZES 1994 Japan Inter-Design Forum Grand Prix 1991 7th
Higashikawa Prize 1990 Shashin-no-kai Prize from the Photographic Society of
Japan 1964 First Taiyo Prize for "Satchin"
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