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Yoshitomo Nara

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born 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan
1985 graduates from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1987 attends graduate school at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1988 moves to Germany
1993 completes Meisterschüler course at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 receives the award for artists from Nagoya City, Japan
1998 teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles as a guest instructor
2000 moves to Japan
lives and works in Tokyo

solo exhibitions (selection)

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2010 Nobody's Fool, Asia Society, New York, USA
Ceramics, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Crated Rooms for Iceland - Nara + Graf, Hafnarhus Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Castle of the Baltic. Seagull House, Baltic, Newcastle, Great Britain
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Tower of Malaga, CAC Malaga, Spain
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, The Hague Seagull House, GEM, The Hague, Netherlands
Yositomo Nara + graf, berlin baracke, Galerie Zink Berlin
2006 Yoshitomo Nara + graf A to Z, Harappa, Hirosaki, Japan
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Great Britain
2005 Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (together with Hiroshi Sugito)
Nothing ever Happens, Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, USA
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, D / K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (together with Hiroshi Sugito)
Somewhere..., Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany (together with Hiroshi Sugito)
Nothing ever Happens, Institut of Contemporary Art, San José, USA / Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
From the Depth of my Drawer, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, J Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Japan
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2003 Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Great Britain
Nothing ever happens, Contemporary Art Center Cleveland / Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis / Institut of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
2002 saucer tales, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
who snatched the babies?, CNEAI, Chatou, France
2001 in the white room, Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
I don't mind, if you forget me, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, J / Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hiroshima City, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, J / Asahikawa Museum of modern Art, Japan
Clear for Landing, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
Drawing Days, Colette, Paris, France
2000 Walk On, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA
in the empty fortress, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Great Britain
1999 Walking Alone, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
No they didn‚t, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
in the floating world, Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan
Somebody whispers in Nuremberg, Institut für moderne Kunst in der SchmidtBank-Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany
Pave Your Dreams, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Done Did, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Happy Hour, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
1998 Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
1997 Lonesome Puppy, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Sleepless Night, Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany
Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Empty Surprise, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
Hothouse Fresh, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Lonesome Puppy, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 in the deepest puddle, SCAI the bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Nothing gets me down, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan
Oil on canvas, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan
Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Project for Gunma, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Takasaki, Japan
Cup Kids, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
1994 lonesome babies, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Hula Hula Garden, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Christmas for sleeping children, Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka, Japan
1993 Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Be Happy, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan / Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Drawings, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991 Harmlos, Kinderspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
cogitationes cordium, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan
Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, NL
1990 Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, NL

group exhibitions (selection)

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2010 Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, Mancherster, Great Britain
Garden of painting, Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The library of Babel / In and out of Place, 176, Zabludowicz Collection, London, Great Britain
2009 Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
2008 Collection II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Traces of Siamese Smile. Art + Faith + Politics + Love, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Oita Art Museum, Oita,Japan
A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Emotional Drawing, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Emotional Drawing, Kyoto, Japan
15 year Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen, Danmark, Germany
Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel), Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2007 Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brüssel, Belgium
2006 Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai, Bangkok, Thailand
Long Live Sculpture!, Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Middelheim, Belgium
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
2005 The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Little Boy, Japanapanese Society Gallery, New York
Japan Pop, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FInland
2004 The Myth of Childhood in the 20th Century Art, Museo Cantonale d‘Arte, Lugano, I / Chiostro des Bramante, Rome, Italy
The Japanese Experience, Rupertinum, Salzburg / Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Fiction Love, MOCA Taipeh, Taiwan
Funny Cuts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
2003 Supernova, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Ninos, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Trauer/Grief Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria
M_ARS - Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
FOIL, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 The Japanese Experience, Ursula Blickle-Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Weiche Brüche - Japan, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
drawing now-eight propositions, NY MOMA, New York, USA
2001 Superflat, The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA / Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
JAM: London-Tokyo, Barbican Gallery, London, Great Britain
Arte attuale dal Giappone, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Neo Tokyo: Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2000 Trading Views, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, D / Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany / Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
Drawn from Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Germany
Aschaffenburg, Germany / Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Super Flat, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, J / Nagoya and other cities, Japan
Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Présumés Innocents, capc Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
The Darker Side of Playland, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
GENDAI, Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Tsunami Riders, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
1999 Art/Domestic, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
New Modernism for a New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1999, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Tendances, Abbaye Saint-André Centre d‚Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish or Both, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
Sometimes Warm and Fuzzy ˆ Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Spellbound, Karen Loveglove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Vergiß den Ball und spiel weiter, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
It's animal world, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1998 The Manga Age, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Little Creatures, Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany
1997 Dream of Existence, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Drawing Show (with Henk Visch), Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
VOCA ‚97, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
1996 Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Japan
Ironic Fantasy, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
1995 Drawing Chat (with Katsushige Nakahashi), Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
The Future of Paintings ‚95, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
TAKEOFFS, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA
1994 Harvest ‚94, Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany
Harvest Kempen-Nagoya, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Art against Aids, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1993 Partners, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Harvest ‚93 (with Shiro Matsui), Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany
in Situ, Theater aan Vrijthof, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1992 Teijdelijk Asiel, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991 Pack, Sain Gallery, Pusan, South Korea
1990 Brille, Galerie Pentagon, Cologne, Germany
1989 Mensch und Technik, Nixdorf AG, Düsseldorf, Germany
1988 Feeling House, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
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