Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Japanese photographer. 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" This article is from Wikipedia. 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