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Yoshitomo Nara

(Japanese, born 1959)

doggy radio by yoshitomo nara

Yoshitomo Nara

Doggy Radio, 2011

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star island by yoshitomo nara

Yoshitomo Nara

Star Island, 2003

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in the floating world - portfolio of 16 by yoshitomo nara

Yoshitomo Nara

In the Floating World - Portfolio of 16, 1999

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slash with a knife, from 'in the floating world' by yoshitomo nara

Yoshitomo Nara

Slash with a Knife, from 'In the Floating World', 1999

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Biography

Timeline

1959
Born in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
1985 - 1987
Studied Fine Arts, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1985
BFA, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1987
MFA, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1988 - 1993
Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
1993
Completed Meisterschuler from A.R. Penk
2000
Moved to Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Tochigi, Japan

Exhibitions

2017
Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition in 2017:
Yoshitomo Nara: For Better or Worse: Works 1987–2017, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Yoshitomo Nara: Thinker, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition in 2016:
Yoshitomo Nara, Museum of National Taipei University of Education
Yoshitomo Nara: Picture Box, Kato Art Duo, Singapore
Yoshitomo Nara: New Works, Stephen Friedman Gallery
2015
Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition in 2015:
Yoshitomo Nara: Shallow Puddles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara: “stars”, Pace Hong Kong
Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara, Asia Society, Hong Kong
2014
Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition in 2014:
Yoshitomo Nara: Greetings from a Place in My Heart, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK
Yoshitomo Nara, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, LA
2013
Yoshitomo Nara, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - 2013
Pop Art Accrochage, Fluegel-Roncak Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
2012
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (solo)
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
2010
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (solo)
2009
Rites de Passage, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands
Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Crated Rooms for Iceland: Nara + Graf, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo)
2008
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Yoshitomo Nara + Graf, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Yoshitomo Nara + Graf, Cemeti Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia
Encounters, Pace Beijing, China
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collections

Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute
Aomori Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago
British Museum, London
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga
Clematis-no-Oka, Shizuoka
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hirosaki City, Aomori
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Iwate Prefecture Citizen’s Cultural Exchange Center-Aiina, Morioka
Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Neues Museum, Nuremberg
Patong Municipality, Phuket, Thailand
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Shizuoka
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
Tokushima Modern Art Museum
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

Literature

2016
Morse, Trent. Ballpoint Art. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2016: 128–31, illustrated; Horizon that Appears Out of the Sleepy Woods (exhibition catalogue). London: Stephen Friedman Gallery, 2016; Modern Landscape: For the Pleasure of People and Scenery. Nara Yoshitomo Curates the MOMAT Collection (exhibition catalogue). Text by Yoshitomo Nara. Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2016; Once in a Life: Encounters with Nara. Texts by Dominique Chan, Fumio Nanjo, Yeewan Koon, and Mika Kuraya. Hong Komg: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 2016; Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art. 8th edition. Boston, New York and other cities: Pearson, 2016: 49, illustrated; Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose (exhibition catalogue). Virginia Beach: Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016: 68–9, illustrated; Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). London: Stephen Friedman Gallery, 2016.
2015
Yoshitomo Nara: Self-Selected Works—Paintings. Text by Mika Kuraya. Kyoto: Seigensha Art Publishing, lnc, 2015; Yoshitomo Nara: Self-Selected Works—Works on Paper. Text by the artist. Kyoto: Seigensha Art Publishing, lnc, 2015; Yoshitomo Nara: Shallow Puddles (exhibition catalogue). Text by Shigemi Takahashi. Tokyo: Blum & Poe Gallery, 2015; Yoshitomo Nara: stars (exhibition catalogue). Text by Arne Glimcher. Hong Kong: Pace Hong Kong, 2015.
2014
Everything falls faster than an anvil (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dave Hickey. London: Pace London, 2014: illustrated; The 21st-Century Art Book. London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2014: 180, illustrated; Stout, Katharine. Contemporary Drawing: From the 1960s to Now. London: Tate Publishing, 2014: 65, illustrated; Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Text by Masue Kato. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2014.
2013
Art for Baby: Faces. Surrey: Templar Publishing, 2013: illustrated; Brougher, Kerry and Russel Ferguson. Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Scupture Garden, 2013; Chanson, Maxime. 700 Artists’ Processes. Paris: editions jannick, 82; Delong, Lea Rosson, ed. Des Moines Art Center Collects. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2013: 64, 65, illustrated; Everything falls faster than an anvil (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dave Hickey. London: Pace London, 2014: illustrated; Goodman, Abigail Ross, ed. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume I. Winter Park, Florida: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2013: 92–93, illustrated; Moszynska, Anna. Sculpture Now. London: Thames and Hudson, 2013: 56, illustrated; Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Byrne and Arne Glimcher. New York: Pace Gallery, 2013; Yoshitomo Nara Photo Book 2003–2012. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2013.
2012
Yoshitomo Nara: a bit like you and me… (exhibition catalogue). Kyoto: Takei Masakazu (Foil Co. Ltd), 2012; Yoshitomo Nara: Works on Paper. Text by Arne Glimcher. New York: Pace Gallery, 2012.
2011
Collectors' Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections (exhibition catalogue). Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2011; Nara: 48 Girls. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 2011; Print Works (postcard book). Tokyo: Mori Arts Center Museum Shop, 2011; Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 2011.
2010
Ateliers d’artistes (exhibition catalogue). Shizuoka Prefecture: Musée Bernard Buffet, 2010; Ceramic Works. Tokyo: Foil, 2010; Disorder in the House (exhibition catalogue). Brussels: Vanhaerents Art Collection, 2010; Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s (exhibition catalogue). Osaka: National Museum of Art, 2010; Innocence: Art towards Life (exhibition catalogue). Tochigi, Japan: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 2010; Made in Popland, China and Japan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010; Peko-chan World (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Fujiya Ginza Guilding, 2010. (Catalogue); Tokyo Gallery + BTAP: 1950–2010. Tokyo and Beijing: Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, 2010: 280, illustrated; Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Midori Matsui, Miwako Tezuka, Michael Wilson, and Hideki Toyoshima. New York: Asia Society Museum, 2010.
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