Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
2023
- Yoshitomo Nara: From Hokkaido, From Taiwan ,Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshitomo Nara: The Bootleg Drawings 1988 - 2023 ,Pace Geneva ,Geneva, Switzerland
- Yoshitomo Nara: Ceramic Works ,Pace Seoul ,Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Yoshitomo Nara: Woodcuts, 2010 – 2022 ,Pace Prints ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Yoshitomo Nara: All My Little Words ,Albertina Museum ,Vienna, Austria
- Nara Yoshitomo: Dog-o-rama ,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kanazawa, Japan
- Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon, Even If We Can't ,Art Gallery of Western Australia ,Perth, Australia
2022
2021
- Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca ,Pace London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Yoshitomo Nara ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Yoshitomo Nara: I Forgot Their Names and Often Can't Remember Their Faces but Remember Their Voices Well ,Dallas Contemporary ,Dallas, Texas, USA
2020
2018
2015
2014
2010
2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
- Eastern Exposure: Meaning & Materiality in Contemporary Asian Art ,Sundaram Tagore, London ,London, UK
- Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection ,Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ,Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- MOT Collection ,Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ,Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Trio: Modern Art Collections from Paris, Tokyo & Osaka ,The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- If I Must Die, You Must Live ,Wako Works of Art ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nothing Still About Still Lifes: Three Centuries of Floral Compositions ,Deji Art Museum ,Nanjing, China
- Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood ,BLUM, Tokyo ,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Collection III: 2023 ,Toyota Municipal Museum of Art ,Toyota, Japan
- Portraits Go Pop! ,Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood ,BLUM, Los Angeles ,Palms, Los Angeles, California, USA
2023
- Walking in the Wild ,Christophe Guye Galerie ,Zürich, Switzerland
- We Love Korea Ⅱ ,Whitestone Gallery, Seoul ,Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Food for Thought ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Maebashi ,Gunma, Japan
- The Monaco Masters Show 2023 ,Opera Gallery, Monaco ,Monaco, Monaco
- We Love China: Part 2 ,Whitestone Gallery, Beijing ,Chaoyang, Beijing, China
- Collection1 80/90/00/10 ,National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan) ,Osaka, Japan
- We Love China: Part 1 ,Whitestone Gallery, Beijing ,Chaoyang, Beijing, China
- MOMAT Collection ,The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Artists for Artists Space ,Artists Space ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- La Cité Universitaire de Jean Prouve ,Perrotin, Paris (8 Av Matignon) ,8e, Paris, France
2022
- Perrotin Dubai ,Perrotin, Dubai ,Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Je Veux: Vienna 1975–2022 ,Galerie Meyer Kainer ,Vienna, Austria
- Home Is Where The Art Is ,Kunsthal Rotterdam ,Rotterdam, Netherlands
- New Editions ,Pace Prints ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Figuration: Now and Then ,Sotheby’s East Hampton ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Art Encounters: Ally is a Verb ,Rollins Museum of Art ,Winter Park, Florida, USA
2021
- Little Things: Parts I & II ,Pace Geneva ,Geneva, Switzerland
- Present Tense: New Prints, 2000–2005 ,Print Center New York ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- „tomodachi to“. With friends ,Kunsthalle Düsseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- The Cornerstone ,Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- A Nexus of Rainbows: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections ,Hara Museum ARC ,Gunma, Japan
2020
- Stars: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World ,Mori Art Museum ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- ONLINE: Group Exhibition ,Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow ,Moscow, Russia
- ONLINE: Group Exhibition ,Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow ,Moscow, Russia
- VISION part 1: On Light / Light On: in the celebration of 25th Anniversary of the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art ,Toyota Municipal Museum of Art ,Toyota, Japan
- J'ai Réarrangé La Collection ,Centre National de l'Estampe et de l'Art imprimé ,Chatou, Paris, France
- 1.Color 2.Hole and 3.Joke. Selected works on paper ,Galerie Meyer Kainer ,Vienna, Austria
2019
- Cards for the Holidays ,Pace New York (540 West 25th Street) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Klasse A. R. Penck. Blue is hot and red is cold ,Kunsthalle Düsseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Conversations: Contemporary Asian Art ,Hermitage Museum & Gardens ,Norfolk, Virginia, USA
- The Life of Animals in Japanese Art ,National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. ,Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
2018
- Collection Highlights & Special Feature: Like a Face ,Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art ,Hiroshima, Japan
- Lolo's Entanglements ,De Warande ,Turnhout, Belgium
- Collection Highlights / The Century with Mushroom Clouds / Prayer ,Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art ,Hiroshima, Japan
- PAIRS ,Pace/MacGill Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Yokohama Museum of Art Collection ,Yokohama Museum of Art ,Kanagawa, Japan
- My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection. Part II ,Hara Museum of Contemporary Art ,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Made in Asia ,Opera Gallery, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Gallery Collection: Spring ,Whitestone Gallery, Taipei Neihu ,Taipei, Taiwan
- Gallery Collection ,Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong (Hollywood Road) ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2017
- Gallery Collection ,Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong (Hollywood Road) ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara & Ayako Rokkaku ,Whitestone Gallery, Karuizawa ,Nagano, Japan
- Beheaded ,Richard Heller Gallery ,Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
- An Occasion for Contemplating Ceramics and Sculpture: Seeds Sown in Shigaraki ,Kaikai Kiki Gallery ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Chewing Gum II ,Pace Hong Kong (30 Queen's Road) ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2016
- Man, The Unknown ,Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery ,Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- On Paper ,Gana Art Busan ,Busan, South Korea
- Winter Exhibition 2016 ,Gould Galleries ,South Yarra, Australia
- Horizon That Appears Out of The Sleepy Woods ,Stephen Friedman Gallery, London ,London, UK
- Autumn 2016 ,Gould Galleries ,South Yarra, Australia
- Works from the Stockroom ,Gould Galleries ,South Yarra, Australia
2015
- Summer Group Show ,Pace New York (32 East 57th Street) ,57th Street, New York, USA
- A Window to the World - Asia’s New Trend ,Soka Art Center, Taipei ,Taipei, Taiwan
- Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition ,Stephen Friedman Gallery, London ,London, UK
- Do or Diz: Editions du Cneai ,Galerie Alain Gutharc ,3e, Paris, France
2014
- Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 ,Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum ,Graz, Austria
- Art Multiples ,313 Art Project, Seongbuk ,Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 ,Mudam Luxembourg ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection ,Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ,Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Everything Falls Faster Than an Anvil ,Pace London, Lexington Street ,London, UK
- Study from the Human Body ,Stephen Friedman Gallery, London ,London, UK
- Carte Blanche ,Pace Chesa Büsin ,Zuoz, Switzerland
2013
2012
- Alone Together ,Rubell Museum Miami ,Miami, Florida, USA
- Make it Work: Material Matters in Art and Design ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Collection ,National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan) ,Osaka, Japan
- Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde ,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kanazawa, Japan
- Recent Editions ,Pace Prints, 57th Street ,57th Street, New York, USA
- Asia Week at Pace Prints ,Pace Prints, 57th Street ,57th Street, New York, USA
- Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan ,Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street ,Moscow, Russia
- New Editions ,Pace Prints, 57th Street ,57th Street, New York, USA
2011
- Takashi Murakami: New Day, Artists for Japan ,Gagosian, New York (980 Madison Avenue) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Melodymania ,RH Gallery ,Tribeca, New York, USA
- Trans-Cool Tokyo: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection ,Taipei Fine Arts Museum ,Taipei, Taiwan
- Artists of Hawai‘i 2011 ,HoMA, Honolulu Museum of Art ,Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Zwei Sammler - Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Paul Clay ,Salon 94 Bowery ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art ,Japan Society Gallery ,Murray Hill, New York, USA
- Goldmine: Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold ,Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum ,Long Beach, California, USA
- Be Alive ,Hara Museum of Contemporary Art ,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2010
2009
- The Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Jr. ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Stages Lance Armstrong Foundation launch a global art exhibition to raise funds and awarness in the fight against cancer ,Perrotin, Paris (Turenne) ,3e, Paris, France
- Walking in My Mind ,Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery ,London, UK
2008
YOSHITOMO NARA
Born:
Hirosaki, Japan, 1959
Education:
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, B.F.A., Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, M.F.A., Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture,
Japan
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
One-Person Exhibitions
2008
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2007
NARA + GRAF, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain
Berlin Baracke, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany
2006
Moonlight Serenade, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,
Ishikawa,Japan
A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Hirosaki, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Home, graf gm, Osaka, Japan
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Over the Rainbow: Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich,
Germany (travelling to the K21, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Bridge, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan )
2004
Yoshitomo Nara, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Keiner & Meyer, Wien, Austria
Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara: new works 2004, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
(travelling to Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA, Contemporary Art Museum St.
Louis, MO, San Jose Museum of Art, NM, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
throughout 2004/2005)
S.M.L., Graf Media GM, Osaka, Japan
Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
New Drawings 2003, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
The Good, the Bad, the Average.... and Unique, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stephen Friedman, London, UK
2002
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Who Snatched the Babies, cneai, Chatou, France
12 Etchings, Spaceforce, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Nara Yoshitomo: in those days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
I Don’t Mind, If You Forget Me, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Japan (travels to
Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Ashiya City Museum of Art, Asahikawa
Prefectural Museum of Art, Aomori Museum of Art) (cat.)
Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings, Collette, Paris, France
Clear For Landing, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
In the White Room, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
In the Empty Fortress, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Koln, Germany
Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Walk on, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999
Done Did, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Happy Hour, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Somebody, Whispers in Nurnberg, Institut fur Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg,
Germany (cat.)
Pave Your Dreams, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Walking Alone, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
In the Floating World, Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
No, They Didn’t, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (cat.)
1997
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lonesome Puppy, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Drawing Days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany
1996
Galerie Johnen & Schottle (with Karen Kilimnik), Koln, Germany
Lonesome Puppy, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hothouse Fresh, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
Empty Surprise, Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
1995
Cup Kids, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
In The Deepest Puddle, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Nothing Gets Me Down, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Oil on Canvas, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
Project for Gunma, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
1994
lonesome babies, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
Hula Hula Garden, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christmas For Sleeping Children, Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka, Japan (cat.)
1993
Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Koln, Germany
Be Happy, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1992
Loft Gallery, Deventer, Netherlands
Drawings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991
Harmlos, Galerie im Kinderspielhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany
cogitationes cordium, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1990
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1989
Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart, Germany
1988
innocent being, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo, Japan
Goethe Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany
1985
Recent Works, Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya, Japan
1984
Wonder Room, Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya, Japan
It’s a Little Wonderful House, Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2007
Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition, New Art Gallery, Walsall; touring to
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Aberystwyth Art Gallery,
Aberystwyth; Tullie House, Carlisle
Pretty Baby, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
The Door into Summer, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Bernard Vuffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Silly Adult, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Portrait Session, NADiff, Tokyo; touring to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hiroshima, Japan
Summer Show, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Kiss Kiss, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum,
Denver, CO, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan
Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai, Bangkok, Thailand
Long Live Sculpture!, Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Middelheim, Belgium
A Magical Life, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
10th Anniversary, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
35 40’ N 139 45’ E Tokyo, Archeus, London
Talking Pictures, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2005
Yokohama International Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Little Boy: Pop Culture in Japan, Japan Society, New York, NY (curated by Takashi Murakami)
(cat.)
Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2004
Art Cologne 2004: over the rainbow: Yoshitomo Nara and Horoshi Sugito, galerie zink &
gegner, Munich, Germany
Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Somewhere…Yoshitomo Nara and Horoshi Sugito, galerie zink & gegner, Munich, Germany
Hirsohi Sugito and Yoshitomo Nara, Museum of Art Den Haage, Den Haage, Netherlands
2003
Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Supernova: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco, CA Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Nichijyou Seikatsu, Speak For, Tokyo, Japan
FOIL, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Painting in Our Time, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Kids Are Us, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Trauer/GRIEF, Atelier Augarten Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen
Galerie Belvedere Wien, Austria
girls don’t cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ninos, Centro de Art de Salamanca, Spain
M_ARS- ART AND WAR, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, TX (curated by Valerie Cassel) (travels) (cat.)
The Japanese Experience - Inevitable, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim,
Germany
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh (curated by Vicky Clark and Barbara Bloemink) (cat.)
2002
Weiche Bruche. Japan, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany
BABEL 2002, National Museum of Conetemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
JAM: TOKYO - LONDON, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Fragile Figures, Palette School, Tokyo, Japan
The Doraemon, Suntory Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Bokura no Hero and Heroine, Otaru City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Backspace Drawing Days, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, Queens, New York
2001
Neo-Tokyo Japanese Art Now, MCA, Australia
Mr., Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito, Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Masahiko Kuwahara,
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Takashi Murakami/Yoshitomo Nara, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
JAM: TOKYO - LONDON, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
My Reality: My Reality and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Des
Moines, IO (curated by Jeff Fleming) (cat.)
Superflat, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA (curated by Takashi Murakami)
(travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle) (cat.)
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, P.S.1, Center for Contemporary
Art, New York, NY (traveled to Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
2000
The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection, San Francisco
Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, CA (cat.)
Presumed Innocent, Capc, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
Trading Views, Stadtgalerie Saarbruecken, Germany / stadtische Galerie, Erlangen/
Municipal Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands
Kinder des 20.jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg / Mittelrhein-
Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
WA (traveled to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ)
‘00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Dark Mirrors of Japan, de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
Gendai, Center For Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Superflat, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (curated by Takashi Murakami) (cat.)
Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Viewing Path, Saarbrucken Staatgalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
1999
Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Forget about the ball and get on with the play, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
New Modernism for a New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo,
Japan
Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish, or Both, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Des
Moines, IO
Tendance, Abbaye Saint-Andre Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France
It’s an animal world, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Art/Domestic, Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (curated by Takashi Azumaya), (cat.)
1998
The Manga Age, Museum of Contemporary Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1997
Dream of Existence, Municipal Museum of Art, Budapest, Hungary
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,
Korea
Drawing Show, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands (with Henk Visch)
Galerie & Ediciones Ginkgo, Madrid, Spain
VOCA, The Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka City, Japan (cat.)
Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists, The Miyagi Museum of Art,
Miyagi, Japan (cat.)
Kind of Blue, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan
1995
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Drawing Chat (with Katsuhige Nakahashi), Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Endless Happiness, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Art x = @, SAM Museum, Osaka, Japan
That Figures, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Book and Weight, Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan
POSITIV, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Düsseldorf-anderer Ort, Orangerie Schloss Brake, Lemgo, Germany
the future of paintings, 1995, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Takeoffs, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
1994
Gunma Biennale, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
my room is your room, 7th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya,
Japan
Harvest ‘94, Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany
Harvest Kempen-Nagoya (with Shiro Matsui), Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Art Against AIDS, Art Cologne, Koln, Germany
1993
Partners, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands
Harvest ‘93 (with Shiro Matsui), Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany
In Situ, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Belgium
1992
Tijdelijk Asiel, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991
4th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Electricity Museum Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan
Pack, SA-IN Gallery, Pusan, Korea
1990
Brille, Galerie Pentagon, Koln, Germany
Acqua Strana, Galerie Ulla Sommers, Düsseldorf, Germany
1989
Mensch und Technik, Nixdorf A.G., Düsseldorf, Germany
1988
Feeling House, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
1987
New Artists in Nagoya, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1986
Each Person’s Expression of Space, Gifu Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
Present ‘86, Gallery NAF, Nagoya, Japan
1985
Sense of Vision and Touch, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Five Person’s Musical Band, Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1984
Paranoia, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Two Person Show, Gallery Denega, Hirosaki, Japan
Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan
The Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Art and Design, Nurnberg, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan