Yoshitomo Nara Born: Hirosaki, Japan, 1959 Lives and works in

Yoshitomo Nara Born: Hirosaki, Japan, 1959
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Education and Awards
1998
Guest Professor at U.C.L.A., USA
1995
Award for Artists, Nagoya City, Japan
1988 - 1993
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
1987
M.F.A. Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute, Japan
1985
B.F.A. Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute, Japan
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2016
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara, Asia Society, Hong Kong Central, China
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Shallow Puddles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Yoshitomo Nara, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Sawada Mansion Gallery, Kochi, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara Greetings from a Place in My Heart, Dairy Art Centre, London
Print Works, Satellite, Okayama, Japan
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Yoshitomo Nara, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
2012 - 2013
a bit like you and me…, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; traveling to
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan and Aomori Musueum of Art, Aomori,
Japan
2012
The Little Little House in The Blue Woods, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY
New Editions, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2011
PRINT WORKS, Roppongi Hills Art ＆ Design Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Yoshitomo Nara: New Editions, PACEPRINTS, New York, USA
Nobody’s Fool, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA (catalogue)
Ceramic works, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
The Crated Rooms in Iceland – Yoshitomo Nara + YNG, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2008 – 2009
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA
2008
ZINK, Munich, Germany
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Cemeti Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia; touring to BALTIC Centre
for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK (catalogue)
2007
NARA + GRAF, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain
Berlin Baracke, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne, Germany
2006
Moonlight Serenade, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa,
Japan
A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Hirosaki, Japan (catalogue)
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
April Song, The Sculpture Garden Museum VANGI MUSEO, Mishima, Japan
2005
Home, graf gm, Osaka, Japan (catalogue)
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Over the Rainbow: Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munich, Germany; toured to the K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
Bridge, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2004
Yoshitomo Nara: New Works 2004, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Yoshitomo Nara-From the Depth of My Drawer, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo, Japan; toured to Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan; Yonago City Museum of
Art, Tottori, Japan; Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Japan; Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South
Korea
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Nowhere Land, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Shallow Puddles, graf gm, Osaka, Japan
Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Somewhere, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany; toured to K21, Düsseldorf,
Germany
2003
Yoshitomo Nara: New Drawings, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
S.M.L., graf, Osaka, Japan
The Good, the Bad, the Average and Unique, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Zink and Gegner, Munich, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland,
Ohio; toured to Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
USA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA; Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St.
Louis, USA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, (Hawaii), USA
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
New Drawings, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Who snatched the babies? Centre National de l'estampe et de l'arte imprime, Chatou,
France (catalogue)
Saucer tales, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
12 Etchings, Space Force, 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; toured to
Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima-city, Japan; Ashiya City Museum
of Art, Ashiya City, Japan; Asahikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan;
Hirosaki Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Japan (catalogue)
Drawing Days, Colette, Paris, France
Clear for Landing, Galerie Michael Zink, München, Germany
In the White Room, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA
2000
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Walk On, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
In the Empty Fortress, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA
1999
Somebody Whispers in Nürnberg, Institut fur Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg,
Germany (catalogue)
Done Did, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Happy Hour, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Pave Your Dreams, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California, USA
Walking Alone, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
No, They Didn't, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Toyko, Japan
In the Floating World, Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA (catalogue)
1997
Yume Ooka Art Project, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA
Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lonesome Puppy, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Drawing Days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Sleepless Night, Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany
Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle Cologne, Germany
Lonesome Puppy, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hothouse Fresh, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
Empty Surprise, Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
Cup Kids, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
1995
Cup Kids, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA
In the Deepest Puddle, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Nothing Gets Me Down, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Oil on Canvas, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
Project for Gunma, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
1994
Lonesome Babies, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
Hula Hula Garden, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Christmas For Sleeping Children, Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka, Japan (catalogue)
1993
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Be Happy, Galerie Humanite Nagoya, Nagoya, Aichi; toured to Galerie Humanite Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
1992
Loft Gallery, Deventer, The Netherlands
Drawings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
1991
Harmlos, Galerie im Kinderspielhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany
Cogitationes Cordium, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara: Paintings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1990
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989
Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart, Germany
1988
Innocent Being, Galerie Humanite, Galerie Humanite Nagoya, Nagoya; toured to Galerie
Humanite Tokyo, Tokyo and Goethe-Institut, Dusseldorf, 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 (selected)
2016
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer,
Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, Queens Museum, New York, NY;
travels to The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Revalue Nippon Project: Hidetoshi Nakata’s Favorite Japanese Kogei, Panasonic
Shiodome Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Bow Wow Wonderful I Want to Meet That Dog, Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art, Sapporo,
Japan
Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
To the North, From Here: Naoki Ishikawa + Yoshitomo Nara, Watari-um, Tokyo, Japan
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Dual | Nature: Selections from the Chaney Family Collection, Pearl Fincher Museum of
Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, USA
Forever Young, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2014
Everything Falls Faster Than an Anvil, Pace Gallery, London, UK
Carte Blanche, Pace Gallery, Chesa Büsin, Zuoz, Switzerland
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
This Is Not A Toy, Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada
Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan;
traveling to Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; Okinawa Prefectural Museum &
Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan; and Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
2013
Neo Japon, Kumquat Gallery, Hong Kong , China
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Flowers: Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Towada Art Center, Aomori,
Japan
The Magic of Ceramics: Artistic Inspiration, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
Re: Quest - Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea
Why not live for Art? II, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Wonderful My Art, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
2012-2013
Alone Together, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
2012
Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections, Asia Society, Texas Centre, Texas, USA
DOKI DOKI, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
Everywhere and nowhere, Reydan Weiss Collection, Oberstdorf, Germany
Print/Out: Multiplied Art in the Information Era, 1990 – 2010, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, USA
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow,
Russia
WE LOVE KOKESHI !, Nishida Kinenkan, Fukushima, Japan
10th Anniversary Exhibition; To Wander a Garden,The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum,
Shizuoka, Japan
MOT Collection, New Acquisitions | Anish Kapoor, Yutaka Sone, Yoshimoto Nara,
Nobuya Hitsuda, Mami Kosemura, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo,
Japan
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C., USA
A Curator’s Message, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Masahiko Kuwahara, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Tomio Koyama Gallery,
Singapore
The Art of Cooking, Royal/T, Los Angeles, USA
2011
Collection Exhibition: Floating Boat, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Aichi, Japan
Collectors' Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Singapore Art
Museum, Singapore
Work by Nara Yoshitomo in Yokohana Museum of Art Collection, Yokohana Museum of
Art Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
The Most Requested Top 30 / 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, TABLOID GALLERY,
Tokyo, Japan
Zenkyo-an x FOIL, Kennin-ji Zenkyo-an Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA
Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, USA
Future Pass ーFrom Asia to the World Collateral Event of the 54th International Art
Exhibition ー la Biennale di Venezia, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo MangilliValmarana, Venice, Italy
Invisibleness is Visibleness, MOCA TAIPEI: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Taguchi Art Collection, Global New Art, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of
Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Most Requested Top 30, 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Takahashi Collection
Hinode Opening Exhibition (Part 2), TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
CAFE in Mito 2011, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
New Works in ceramics, Japan 2011, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi,
Japan
Bye Bye Kitty!!!: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society,
New York, USA
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art
Institute, Dayton, OH, USA
The 53 Stations of Tokaido: From Hiroshige to Artists of Our Days, Musée Bernard Buffet,
Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
2010 – 2011
El Bab Gallery, Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, 12th International Cairo Biennale,
Cairo, Egypt
Made in Popland, CHINA AND JAPAN, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,
Korea
Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las
Vegas, USA
2010
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London,
England
Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection,
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The National Arts Club, New York, USA
Self Portrait – Others as Myself, Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Tokyo, Japan
Collection 2010 - 2 Memory/Memorial – for the summer of the 65th Hiroshima Memorial
Day, Hiroshima MOCA: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima,
Japan
Trans-Cool Tokyo, Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection, Bangkok Art and
Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Garden of Painting – Japanese Art of the 00s, NMAO: The National Museum of Art, Osaka,
Japan
Zenkyo-an x FOIL: Get Up, Even If by Yourself Alone, Kennin-ji Zenkyo-an Temple,
Kyoto, Japan
INNOCENCE-ART towards LIFE, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi,
Japan
Artist studio, Musee Bernard Buffet, Shizuoka, Japan
Collection of Aomori Museum of Art; idol3, Shiko Munakata, Toru Narita, Yoshitomo
Nara, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Collection, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Yoshitomo NARA x Ei-Q, Departure of an artist at age 24, Gallery TOKI NO
WASUREMONO / WATANUKI INC., Tokyo, Japan
Collection Exhibition: Floating Boat, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Teruhisa Kitahara’s Astounding Contemporary Art, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo,
Japan
2009 – 2010
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane,
Australia
2009
Prospective atrium, Mitubishi Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
Rites de Passage, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands
Walking in My Mind, The Hayward Gallery, London, England
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San
Diego, San Diego, USA
It’s a Little Playground, Aichi Triennale Pre-event, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito,
Tamami Hitsuda, Masako Ando, Mika Kato, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi,
Japan; toured to Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
STAGES: Lance Armstrong Foundation launch a global art exhibition to raise funds and
awareness in the fight against cancer, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Walking in my Mind, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Rites de Passage, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, The Netherlands
From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, The Museum of Modern Art,
Wakayama, Japan
2008 - 2010
Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air
Museum, Kagoshima, Japan; toured to Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan; The Niigata
Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita,
Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; The Museum of Art EHIME Ehime,
Japan and Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2008 – 2009
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Musee d’art contemporain de
Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2008
Encounters, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Order. Desire. Light. An exhibition of contemporary drawings, Irish Museum of Modern
Art, Dublin, Ireland
MOT Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing, The National Museum of
Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; toured to The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto,
Japan
YNG: Yoshitomo Nara + graf KITA!! : Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia Cemeti Art House,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
TOMYAM PLADIB, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Selected Works from The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Gunma Museum of Art,
Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan
My Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
20th Anniversary Memorial Collection + Hibikiau Oto, Iro, Katachi (Sympathize with
Sound, Color and Shape), Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Neoteny japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection, KIRISHIMA
OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, Kagoshima, Japan; toured to Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan;
The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; Akita Museum of
Modern Art, Akita, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan and The Museum
of Art EHIME, Ehime, Japan
Collection II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love, with Yoshitomo Nara+graf,
Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Shiko Munakata, Tohru Narita, Yoshitomo Nara: The Icons of the Time, Oita Art
Museum, Oita, Japan
2007 - 2008
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever; An Exhibition of the Zabludowicz
Collection at BALTIC, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, USA
2007
Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery, London, England; toured to New Art Gallery, Walsall;
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, england; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England;
Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth, Wales and Tullie House, Carlisle, England
Pretty Baby, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
The Door into Summer, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Bernard Vuffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Silly Adult, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Portrait Session, NADiff, Tokyo; toured to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hiroshima, Japan
RED HOT: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, USA
Summer Show, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mindscape Museum, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection Shinagawa, Hara Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
LET'S GO TO THE MUSEUM! HOW TO ENJOY THE MODERN ART, TOGETHER WITH
DICK BRUNA, Bernard Bugget Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
HOP, STAMP, HANGA! CHILD PRINT ART MUSEUM, Bernard Buffet Museum,
Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
ShContemporary 2007 Shanghai in Art, Best of Artists, Shanghai Exhibition
Center, Shanghai, China
3L4D – 3rd Life 4th Dimension, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum,
Denver, USA
Kiss Kiss, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
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 art 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, England
Talking Pictures, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Sapporo Artpark, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA
2005 - 2006
Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005
Yokohama International Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,
Japan
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Japan Society Gallery, New York,
USA
Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Unheimlich Jung, Stadtische Galerie, Sonderborg, Denmark
JaPan PoP, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Kotaro Terada Collection, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
YOKOHAMA 2005 International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
UNHEIMLICH JUNG, Stadtische Galerie, Sonderborg, Denmark
New Acquisition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Kiss Kiss, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Kotaro Terada Collection, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Baby Shower, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004
Somewhere, Nara and Sugito, Galerie Zink and Gegner, Munich, Germany
Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Funny Cuts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Fiction Love - Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
Non-sect Radical, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Dog Days of Summer, California University Museum of Photography, USA
Why not live for art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Unusual Combination, + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Onkochishin, White Cube Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan
Super Nova Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, USA
New works, SPACE FORCE, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito: New Prints, Space Force, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Ninos, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, USA; toured to The Japanese Experience-Inevitable, Ursula Blickle
Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany (catalogue)
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, USA (catalogue)
Opening Exhibition, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
My Room Somehow Somewhere, gm, Osaka, Japan
Best Collection, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Collection, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Room Air, It-Park, Tapei, Taiwan
Your Dog is Orange County, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
FOIL, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nichijyou Seikatsu, Speak For, Tokyo, Japan
Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Galleries Show 2003, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Painting In Our Time, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Trauer/Grief, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria
Hope - do for the future, Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Art de Zoo, The Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan
Ukiyo-E Avant-Garde, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
I bambini siamo noi, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MARS- ART AND WAR, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
Supernova: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco, CA Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
2002
JAM: London–Tokyo, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Galleries Show 2002, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Emotional Site, Sagacho Shokuryo Building, Tokyo, Japan
The Japanese Experience-Inevitable Ursula, Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Pop! Pop! Pop!, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan
Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Soul, South Korea
Fragile Figures, Palette School, Tokyo, Japan
Weiche Brüche.Japan, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany
The Doraemon, Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka; toured to Sogo Museum of Art,
Yokohama, Japan; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Japan; Matsuzakaya
Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan; Shimane Art Museum,
Matsue, Shimane, Japan; Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita, Japan; Takaoka Art
Museum, Takaoka, Japan; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan and
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan
Bokura No Hero and Heroine, Otaru City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Emotional Site, Shokuryo Building, Tokyo, Japan
Monalisa Mammon, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Contemporary Art from Japan to Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Drawing Days, Backspace, Galerie Michael Zink, Germany
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, Queens, New York, USA
Pressing, objectif, Antwerp, Belgium
Comic Relief, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA, USA (travels to The Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA, The Univeristy of
North Texas Gallery, Denton, TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA)
2001
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Takashi Murakami/ Yoshimoto Nara, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jap in the Box, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Trading Views, Stadtgalerie Saarbruken, Saarbruken, Germany; toured to Sttische
Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany and Stedelijk Museum De lakenhal, Leiden, The
Netherlands
Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany;
toured to Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future of Sculpture, University Art Museum, Tokyo,
Japan
National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Super Flat, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angels, USA; traveled to Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, USA and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA (catalogue)
Forms of Human Figures from the Terada Collection, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
Aichi Prefectural University of Art Collection, Haruhi Museum, Aichi, Japan
SENRITSUMIRAI Arte Attuale dal Giappone, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci,
Prato, Italy
My Reality-Contemporary art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art
Center, Iowa, USA (catalogue)
Tsunami Raiders, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
Jam: Tokyo London, Barbican Centre, London, England
Suichoku no Jikan, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Silence of the City, Gwanju Art Museum, Korea
Neo Tokyo-Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Camera Works, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibition, Gallerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2000
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from Logan Collection, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (catalogue)
Super Flat, The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, USA
Trading Views, Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Super Flat, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; toured to Nagoya and other cities in Japan
(catalogue)
Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
Yshitomo Nara and Hana Hashimoto – The Amazing Garden, Takayama Memorial Art
Museum, Shichinohe, Aomori, Japan
Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Hakuyosha, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Tokushima Collection 2000, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
Presumed Innocent, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France; toured to
Hayward Gallery, London, England
Cultural Ties Exhibition, Westzone Gallery Space, London, England
Erlangen/Muncipal, MuseumDe Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
Gendai, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Kids World Aomori 2000, Aomori Prefectural Museum, Aomori, Japan
Gose Abe Ando His Influences, Namioka Town Hall, Aomori, Japan
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, USA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
Kinder des 20ten Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg/
Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Works on Paper, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshimoto Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan
1999
Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
New Modernism for a New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Vergiss den Ball und Spiel Weiter, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
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
Tendances, Abbaye Saint-Andre Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Something Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center,
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
It’s an Animal World, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Art/Domestic, Temperature of the Time, Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
(catalogue)
Yoshimoto Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
KunstRai, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998
The Manga Age, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Voor herhaling vatbaar: Henk Visch, Yoshitomo Nara, Peter Archer, Galerie d’Eendt,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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, The Netherlands
Galerie & Ediciones Ginkgo, Madrid, Spain
VOCA, The Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
BOX-ITS COSMOS, Galerie Humanite Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka City, Japan (catalogue)
Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists, The Miyagi Museum of Art,
Miyagi, Japan (catalogue)
Kind of Blue, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan
Sunny Side Up, Gallery NAYUTA, Yokohama, Japan
Drawings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Drawing Chat, 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
Hon to Bunchin (Book and Paperweight), Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan
POSITIV, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Dusseldorf-andere Ort, Orangerie Schlos Brake, Lemgo, Germany
The Future of Paintings ‘95, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Takeoffs, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, USA
Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Gunma Biennale, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuks Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan
1994
My Room is Your Room, 7th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Gallery,
Nagoya, Japan
Harvest ’94, Haus Bickdorf, Kempen, Germany
Harvest Kempen-Nagoya, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Art Against AIDS, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Project For Gunma '95 Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
Ironic Fantasy, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
1993
Partners, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Harvest ’93, Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany
In Situ, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Belgium
Artomatic, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992
Tijdelijk Asiel, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991
4th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Electricity Museum Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan
Pack, SA-IN Gallery, Pusan, Korea
1990
Brille, Galerie Pentagon, Cologne, Germany
Acqua Stana, Galerie Ulla Sommers, Düsseldorf, Germany
1989
Mensch und Technik, Nixdorf A.G., Düsseldorf, Germany
1988
Feeling House, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, 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, Hirsaki, Japan
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Publications
2015
20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery,
London, England (catalogue)
2011
Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Chronicle Books
Collectors' Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Singapore Art
Museum
Nara: 48 Girls, Chikuma Shobo
Print Works (postcard book), Mori Arts Center Museum Shop
2010
Ateliers d’artistes, Shizuoka Prefecture, Musée Bernard Buffet
Ceramic Works, Foil
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection
Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s, National Museum of Art
Innocence: Art towards Life, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Made in Popland, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art
Peko-chan World, Fujiya Ginza Guilding
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, Texts by Midori Matsui, Miwako Tezuka, Michael
Wilson, and Hideki Toyoshima, Asia Society Museum
2009
From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, The Museum of Modern Art
In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and His Surrounding Students - Masako Ando,
Mika Kato, Tamami Hitsuda, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Text by Yoshitomo Nara,
Aichi Triennale Office, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya City Art Museum, Chunichi Shimbun
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Text by Nicholas Chambers,
Queensland Art Gallery
Stages, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Walking in my Mind, Texts by Stephanie Rosenthal, Mami Kataoka, Susan Blackmore,
Helen Luckett, Brian Dillon, Hayward Publishing
2008
Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Museum of Art
Guglielmino, Giorgio, How to Look at Contemporary Art: (-- and Like It): 66 Works From
1970 to 2008, Umberto Allemandi & Co., cover, pp.233–234
Happy Mother. Happy Children, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from The Collection of the Tokushima
Modern Art Museum, Gunma Museum of Art
KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia, Japan Foundation
Many Animals!! What? Art?, Towada Art Center
Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection, Bijutsu
Shuppan-Sha
A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing, National Museum of Modern
Art
Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern
Art
20th Anniversary Memorial Collection + Hibikiau Oto, Iro, Katachi (Sympathize with
Sound, Color and Shape), Takamatsu City Museum of Art
Wonderland: Japanese Contemporary Art, Opera Gallery
Yoshitomo Nara + graf: Torre de Málaga, Text by Fernando Francés and Hyunsun Tae,
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga
2007
The Age of Micropop: The New Generation of Japanese Artists, Parco Publishing
Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from An Alumna’s Collction (Martina Yamin, Class
of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop, Parco Publishing
Let’s Go to The Museum! How to Enjoy the Modern Art, Together with Dick Bruna, Musée
Bernard Buffet
Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Mindscape Museum
Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Show Me Thai, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture
Surrealism and Art, Utsunomiya Museum of Art
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Texts by Dominic Molon, Bob
Nickas, Richard Hell et al, Museum of Contemporary Art, pp.246–247
3L4D: 3rd Life 4th Dimension, Metaphysical Art Gallery
Yoshitomo Nara: Moonlight Serenade, Text by Chieko Kitade, 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art
2006
Yoshitomo Nara + graf A to Z, Foil Co. Ltd.
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum
The Child, Seigensha
Cult Fiction: Art and Comics, Text by Paul Gravett, Hayward Publishing
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art collection: Kono 20nen no 20 no art = 20
Artworks From the Past 20 Years, Sapporo Artpark
The Scene of Family: A Review to the Japanese Family, The Museum of Modern Art
Long Live Sculpture!, Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum
Nara, Yoshitomo, Jacques Prevert, and Isao Takahata, Tori Eno Aisatsu, Pia
6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum
2005
From the Depth of My Drawer, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition
Hirosaki Committee
From the Depth of My Drawer, Texts by Yoshitomo Nara and Noriko Miyamura, Foil
From the Depth of My Drawer, Texts by Hyunsun Tae and Takashi Azumaya, Rodin
Gallery
Chairs and Japanese Design, Museum of Modern Art
Drawing File, Foil
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum
Chairs and Japanese design, Saitama Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan
Japan Pop: Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art, Helsinki City Art Museum
Murakami, Takashi, ed. Little Boy: the Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Japan
Society and Yale University Press
Slash with a Knife: Yoshitomo Nara, Rev. ed., Foil
Well Done: the Art of Design World, Museum of Contemporary Art
Yokohama Triennial 2005, Organizing Committee for the Yokohama Triennale
Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow, Texts by Doris Krystof and
Bernarhart Schwenk, Hatje Cantz
2004
Cheap Sex, Blueprint Films
Yoshitomo Nara & Hiroshi Sugito; Over the Rainbow, Hatje Cantz
This is a Time of... S.M.L., + graf, Seigensha Art Publishing Inc.
Coatzee, Mark, Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection, Phaedon Press,
Fiction. Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, Taipei Contemporary Art
Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art
Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporay Art, Texts by Ulrich Pfarr and Andreas
Schalhorn, Kerber
The Little Star Dweller, Texts and illustrations by Yoshitomo Nara, Rockin’ On;
Reprinted: Locus Publishing, 2004; Seoul: Sigongsa, 2005; Shanghai: Motie Culture
Development Co., Ltd., 2010.
New Prints: Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito, Space Force
Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photograpy III, Yokohama Museum of Art
Oh! My God! I Miss You (postcard book), Chronicle Books
This Is a Time of...S.M.L., Texts by Hisako hara, Seigensha
2003
Studio Portrait. A Documentary of Artist Yoshitomo Nara, Goliga Books
Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Perceval Press
Sanders, Mark, Reflex: Contemporary Japanese Self-Portraiture, London Trolley Limited
Art de Zoo, The Akita Museum of Modern Art
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University
Girls Don’t Cry, Nanjo and Associates
The Good, the Bad, the Average...and unique, Little More Gallery
Happiness, Mori Art Museum
Moving energies #02, Museum Folkwang Essen
Nothing Ever Happens, Texts by John Doe et al., Museum of Contemporary Art
Painting In Our Time, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum
Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of comics in Contemporary Art, Texts by Roger Sabin and
Bernard Welt, Contemporary Arts Museum
Studio Portrait: A Document of Artist Yoshitomo Nara, Texts by Ivan Varitanian and
Noriko Miyamura, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha; Reprint as, Birth and Present: A Studio Portrait
of Yoshitomo Nara, Corte Madera, Gingko Press, 2003
Super Nova Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art
Takeshita, Miyako, ed., Emotional Site, Emotional Site Executive committee
Ukiyo-E Avant-Garde, Tokyo Station Gallery
2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Laura Hoptman, The Museum of Modern
ArtArgentine Hag, Banana Yoshimoto, Rockin’ On Inc.
Who Snatched the Babies?, Paris, Cneai
Our Hero and Heroine, Otaru City Museum of Art
The Doraemon, The Doraemon Exhibition Production Committee
Hoptman, Laura J., Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, The Museum of Modern Art
The Japanese Experience: Inevitable, Hatje Cantz
Schwabsky, Barry, Vitamen P: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press
Teruhisa Kitahara Art Collection, Sogo Museum of Art
Traces, Imprints and Tales: Japanese Contemporary Art Draws from Tradition, Finish
Artists Association
The 20th Century. Art Recognized Virtual Images: Between Monalisa and Mammon,
Hiratsuka Museum of Art
Weiche Brüche, Japan, Texts by Markus Neuwirth and Elisabeth Thoman-Oberhofer,
Kunstraum Insbruck
2001
Public Offerings, Matsui Midori, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Thames and
Hudson
I Don’t Mind, If You Forget Me, Taro Amano, Nara Yoshitomo Exhibition Committee
Lullaby Supermarket, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Painting At The Edge Of the World, Matsui Midori, The Walker Art Center
My life as a dog, Stephan Trescher, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Kadokawa
Shoten
Nobody Knows, Little More Co. Ltd.
Babel 2002, Seoul National Museum of Contemporary Art
Dialogue with Nature: Graduation Works from the Collection of Aichi Prefectural
University of Fine Arts and Music, Haruhicho Board of Education
Jam: Tokyo London, Edited by Liz Farelly, Booth- Clibborn
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Texts by Jeff
Fleming, Susan Lubowsky Talbot, and Takashi Murakami, Des Moines Art Center,
Independent Curators Incorporated
Nara Note, Text and illustrations by Yoshitomo Nara, Chikumashobo; Reprint, Seoul
Hongsi Communication
Neo Tokyo: Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art
Nobody Knows, Little More; Reprint, Foil, 2005
Pop! Pop! Pop! ‘50s–‘00s Pos Art Show, The Museum of Modern Art
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art
Silence of the City, Gwanju Art Museum
Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future of Sculpture, The University Art Museum, Tokyo
National University of the Arts
Yoshitomo Nara: Naïve Wonder World, KTC Chuo Shuppan
2000
Trading Views, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
Continental Shift, Modo
Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel Foundation
The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imager from the Logan Collection, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
From the Collection of Amori Museum of Art, Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum
Gendai, Warsaw Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
Kids Art World Aomori 2000, Edited by the Borard of Education Museum Services and
Art Park Project, Aomori Prefectural Folk Museum
A Muse Land 2000: It’s Animal World, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
One Heart, One World: Internation Exhibition of the Heart, NHK Japan Broadcasting
Corporation, NHK Public Welfare Organisation, NHK Service Centre
Presumed Innocent, Bordeaux CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain
Superflat, Edited by Takashi Murakami, Madra
Works from the Tokushima Modern Art Museum Collection 2000, The Tokushima
Modern Art Museum
Yoshitomo, Banana, Hinagiku no jinsei [The Life of Hinagiku], Drawings by Yoshitomo
Nara, Rockin’ On
Yoshitomo Nara, Text by Nobuyuki Konishi, Stadtgalerie Saarbrüken
1999
Lonesome Puppy, Magazine House
UKIYO, Little More Co. Ltd.
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center
Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Time, Text by by Takashi Azumaya, Setagaya Museum
of Art
Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish, or Both, Hara Museum ARC
Kaiga hyogen no katsudanso [An Active Fault in Painting], Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery
Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s, The Japan Foundation Forum
Platform 99: 70 Young Visual Artists form Asia and Latin America, Canvas Foundation
Somebody Whispers in Nuremberg (exhibition leaflet, Institut für moderne Kunst in der
SchmidtBank-Galerie
Ukiyo: Yoshitomo Nara, Photographs by Takashi Homma, Little Moore
Yoshitomo Nara: Puddle Flowers (postcard book), 4 vols, Kadokawa Shoten
1998
Yoshitomo Nara, (inova) University of Wisconsin
Slash with a Knife, Little More Co. Ltd.
From the Collections of Aomori Museum of Art (exhibition leaflet), Tokiwa Furusato
Innocent Minds, Text by Nobuyuki Konishi, Aichi Perfectural University of Fine Arts and
Music, Aichi Prefectural Museum
The Manga Age, Museum of Contemporary Art
Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition floppy disc; leaflet), Text by Marilu Knode, Institute of
Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin
1997
In the Deepest Puddle, Kadokawa Shoten
Dream of Existence, Museum Kiscelli-Municipal Picture Gallery
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Texts by Eun-Ju Choi, Shigeo Chiba, and Kazuo
Yamawaki, The National Museum of Contemporary Art
VOCA ’97: Vision of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum
1996
Hothouse Fresh (exhibition pamphlet), Text by Midori Matsui, Gallery Hakutosha
Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists, The Miyagi Museum of Art
Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art
1995
Cup Kids, Museum of Contemporary Art
The Future of Paintings ’95 (exhibition pamphlet), Osaka Contemporary Art Center
In the Deepest Puddle / Nothing Gets Me Down, Text by Eriko Osaka, SCAI The
Bathhouse, Galerie Humanité Tokyo
Oil on Canvas (exhibition pamphlet), Galerie Humanité Nagoya
Project for Gunma ’95, Text by Katsutoshi Taniuchi, Museum of Modern Art Gunma
1994
Christmas for Sleeping Children (exhibition pamphlet), Itoki Crystal Hall
Harvest ’94: shiro Matsui, Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition pamphlet), Hakutosha
In the Deepest Puddle / Nothing Gets Me Down (exhibition leaflet), Text by Eriko Osaka,
SCAI The Bathhouse, Galerie Humanité Tokyo
Lonesome Babies (exhibition pamphlet), Hakutosha
1993
Be Happy (exhibition pamphlet), Galerie Humanité Tokyo
1991
Cogitationes Cordium, Galerie Humanité Nagoya
1988
Innocent Being (exhibition leaflet), Galerie Humanité Nagoya
1984
Yoshitome Nara / Koji Miura (exhibition pamphlet), Gallery Denega
Film and Video
2007
Nara: Travelling With Yoshitomo Nara, documentary directed by Koji Sakabe for
Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Public Collections
Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute, Japan
The British Museum, London, England
Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), Paris, France
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Soul, Korea
Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Japan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England