Yoshitomo Nara
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Sprout the Ambassador, 2007
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The little star dweller, 2006
acrylic and glitter on canvas
228.0 x 182.0cm
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After the Acid Rain, 2006
acrylic on canvas
227.0 x 182.0cm
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installation view from "Yokohama Triennale, 2005
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installation view from Yokohama Triennale, 2005
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installation view from "Yokohama Triennale, 2005
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opened big eyes, 2005
acrylic on canvas
194.0x130.5cm
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wink away your tears, 2005
acrylic on canvas
194.0x130.5cm
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You're a Voyager, 2004
color pencil and envelope
22.7x16.0cm
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installation view from Fiction Love, 2004
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green mountain, 2003
acrlic and color pencil on paper
137.0 x 134.5cm
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girl, 2003
color pencil and acrlic on paper
68.5 x 82.0cm
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am Tisch, 2003
color pencil on envelope
26.0 x 33.0cm
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my girl, 2003
color pencil and ink on envelope
24.5x17.5cm
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mountain sisters, 2003
color pencil on envelope
47.8 x 32.0cm
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Hawker's Glance, 2003
color pencil on envelope
17.8 x 23.0cm
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flower soldier, 2003
color pencil on envelope
25.0 x 35.2cm
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CLAP, 2003
color pencil on peper
11.0 x 16.5cm
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Sorry couldn't deaw your left eye, 2003
acrylic on paper
137.0 x 100.0cm
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MARSHALL, 2003
color pencil on envelope
21.0 x 29.7cm
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Power Plant, 2003
color pencil on envelope
22.7 x 16.7cm
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Untitled, 2002
ektachrome print
28.8x19.0cm
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Untitled, 2002
ektachrome print
28.8x19.0cm
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Untitled, 2002
ektachrome print
28.8x19.0cm
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Untitled, 2002
color toning print
51.2 x 39.0cm
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from Drawing for ARGENTINE HAG, 2002
acrylic and color pencil on fablic
26.9 x 29.0cm
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Installation view of Dog from Your Childhood, 2001
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installation view of YOUR CHILDHOOD, 2001
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installation view from "I DON'T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME, 2001
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installation view from I DON'T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME, 2001
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Princess of Snooze, 2001
acrylic on canvas
288.0x182.0cm
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The Little Judge, 2001
acrylic on canvas
194.3x162.2cm
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Little Ramona, 2001
acrylic on cotton
130.0x97.0cm
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Too Young To Die, 2001
acrylic on cotton mounted on FRP
diam.180.0 x 26.0cm
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Little Ramona, 2001
acrylic on cotton mounted on FRP
diam.180.0x26.0cm
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My Little Sister, 2001
acrylic on paper
72.6x51.7cm
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OH! MY GOD! MISS YOU, 2001
acrylic on paper
51.6x36.4cm
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installation view of "Three Pairs from Three Triplets, 2001
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Fountain of Life, 2001
FRP
175.0 x diam.180.0cm
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Keep Your Chin Up, 2001
acrylic on canvas
194.0 x 259.3cm
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from Life of Hinagiku, 2000
color pencil and pencil on paper
36.4x22.7cm
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Missing In Action, 1999
acrylic on canvas
180.0x145.0cm
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Drawing for "Hard-boiled/Hard Luck, 1999
acrylic and color pencil on paper
36.0x25.8cm
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Drawing for "Hard-boiled/Hard Luck, 1999
acrylic and color pencil on paper
26.0x18.0cm
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installation view from No, they didn't, 1999
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Hura Hura Dancing, 1998
acrylic on canvas
190.0x180.0cm
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mumps, 1998
acrylic and color pencil on paper
36.0x22.5cm
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sheep from your dream, 1997
acrylic, lacquer and coton on FRP
45.7x50.8x28.0cm
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Grinning Little Bunny, 1997
acrylic, lacquer and cotton on FRP
61.0 x 58.0 x 35.5cm
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Sleepless Night, 1997
acrylic on canvas
120.0 x 110.0cm
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Mumps, 1996
acrylic on canvas
120.0 x 110.0cm
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Abandoned Puppy, 1995
acrylic on canvas
120.0x110.0cm
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The Longest Night, 1995
acrylic on canvas
116.0 x 123.0cm
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Harmless Kitty, 1994
acrylic on canvas
150.0 x 140.0cm
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In the Deepest Puddle II, 1995
acrylic on canvas
125.0 x 115.0cm
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untitled, 1994
acrylic on canvas
90.0 x 130.0cm
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1959 Born in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
1987 Completed the Graduate School of Aichi Prefectual University of Art (M.A.)
1988 -1993 Studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany
1993 Completed Meisterschuler from A.R Penk
1995 Award for Artists from Nagoya City, Japan
1998 Guest Professor for Postgraduate course of painting at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000 Moved to Tokyo, Japan
2005 Moved to Tochigi, Japan
Solo exhibition
2010
"ceramic works" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, U.S.A. (Feb.28 - Mar.28)
"Crated Rooms for Iceland" Hafnarhus, The Reykjavik Art Museum、Reykjavik, Iceland
2008
Galerie Zink Munich, Munich, Germany
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
"Yoshitomo Nara + graf" BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, England (Jun. 14 - Oct. 26)
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, U.S.A.(Dec.20, 2008 - Feb.7, 2009)
2007
"berlin Baracke"(+graf) Galerie Zink Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"Yoshitomo Nara + graf" GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag,The Nederlands
"Torre de Malaga (Tower of Malaga)"(+graf) CAC malaga, Malaga, Spain
Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne, Germany
2006
"Yoshitomo Nara + graf" Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, U.K.
"Yoshitomo Nara + graf A to Z" Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
"Moonlight Srenade" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2005
(+graf) Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Home" (+graf) graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
2004
"new works 2004" Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
"From the Depth of My Drawer" (Toured in Japan and Korea until 2005) Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo /Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui / Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori / Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki / Rodin Gallery, Seoul
"Somewhere..."(together with Hiroshi Sugito) Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
"Nowhere Land" Johnen+Schottle, Cologne, Germany
"Shallow Puddles" (+graf) graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
"Over the Rainbow : Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito" (Toured until 2005) Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / K21, Dusseldor, Germany
2003
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Germany
"Nothing Ever Happens" (Toured in USA until 2005) Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH / ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA / San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA / Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO / Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
"new drawings" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"the good, the bad, the average…and unique" Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"S.M.L." (+graf) graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
2002
"who snatched the babies?" CNEAI, Chatou, France
"Saucer Tales" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"12 etchings" Space Force, Tokyo, Japan
2001
"in the white room" Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
"Drawing days" Colette, Paris, France
"Clear For Landing" Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
"I don't mind, if you forget me." (Toured in Japan until 2002) Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama / Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Hyogo / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima / Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Hokkaido / Hirosaki Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Japan
2000
"Walk On" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, U.S.A.
"Lullaby Supermarket" Santa Monica Museum of Art, U.S.A.
"in the empty fortress" Galerie Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, U.K.
1999
"Walking alone" The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
"No they didn't, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
"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, U.S.A.
"happy hour" Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"done did" Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
1997
"Yume Ooka Art Project" Yokohama, Kanagawa,Japan
"Lonesome Puppy" Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi,Japan
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
"sleepless night" Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany
"Drawing Days" Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Screen Memory" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996
"Empty Surprise" ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
"Hothouse Fresh" Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Johnen+Schottle, Cologne, Germany
"Cup Kids" Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi,Japan
"Lonesome Puppy" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995
"In the Deepest Puddle" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
"Nothing Gets Me Down" Galerie Humanite Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"Oil on Canvas" Galerie Humanite Nagoya, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Pacific Babies" Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
"Cup Kids" Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
1994
"Lonesome Babies" Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Hula Hula Garden" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
"Christmas for sleeping children" Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka, Japan
1993
Gallerie Johnen+Schottle, Cologne, Germany
"Be Happy" Galerie Humanite Nagoya, Nagoya, Aichi / Galerie Humanite Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Loft Gallery, Deventer, The Netherlands
"Drawings" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
1991
"Harmlos" Kinderspielhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany
"cogitationes cordium" Galerie Humanite Nagoya, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1990
Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1989
Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart, Germany
1988
"Innocent being" Galerie Humanite Nagoya, Nagoya / Galerie Humanite Tokyo, Tokyo / Goethe-Institut, Dusseldorf, Germany
1985
"Recent Works" Space to Space, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1984
"Wonder Room" Space to Space, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"It's a Little Wonderful House" Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Group exhibition
2010
Garden of painting―Japanese Art of the 00s NMAO: The National Museum of Art, Osaka、Osaka, Japan
"Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection" Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
"Zenkyo-an x FOIL : Get Up, Even If by Yourself Alone" Kennin-ji Zenkyo-an Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2009
"prospective artium" Mitubishi Jisho Artium、Fukuoka, Japan
"Rites de Passage", Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands
"Walking in My Mind", The Hayward Gallery, London, England (Yoshitomo Nara +YNG)
"STAGES Lance Armstrong Foundation launch a global art exhibition to raise funds and awarness in the fight against cancer", Turenne, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
"In the Little Playground -Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrouding students-" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art、Aichi, Japan / Nagoya City Art Museum、Aichi, Japan
"Inaugural Exhibition" Blum & Poe、Los Angeles, CA, USA
"The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art" Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art、Brisben, Australia
2008
"The Masked Portrait" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"TOMYAM PLADIB" The Jim Thompson Art Center、Bangkok, Thailand
YNG : Yoshitomo Nara + graf "KITA!! : Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia" Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"Selected Works from The Tokushima Modern Art Museum" Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi、Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan
"My Museum" Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
"neoteny japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection" KIRISHIMA OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, Kagoshima, Japan [touring Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan, 2008-09 / The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art、Niigata, Japan 2009 / Akita Museum of Modern Art、Akita, Japan 2009 / Yonago City Museum of Art、Tottori, Japan 2009-2010 / The Museum of Art EHIME、Ehime, Japan 2010 ]
Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
"Order. Desire. Light. An exhibition of contemporary drawings" Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
"20th Anniversary Memorial Collection + Hibikiau Oto, Iro, Katachi (Sympathize with Sound, Color and Shape)" Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
"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 [touring The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto Japan]
"Collection II" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara+graf; "Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love" Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan
2007
"The Door into Summer" ART TOWER MITO, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
MINDSCAPE MUSEUM, Okazaki, Aichi
"Pretty Baby" Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA
"Disorder in the House" Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
"LET'S GO TO THE MUSEUM! HOW TO ENJOY THE MODERN ART, TOGETHER WITH DICK BRUNA" Bernard Bugget Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
"Silly Adult" Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
"HOP, STAMP, HANGA! CHILD PRINT ART MUSEUM" Bernard Buffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
" Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
"Summer Show" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 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
"Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai" Bangkok, Thailand
"Long Live Sculpture! " Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Middelheim, Belgium
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
"a magical art life" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
"10th Anniversary" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Sapporo Artpark, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2005
"THE ELEGANCE OF SILENCE : CONTEMPORARY ART FROM EAST ASIA" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Little Boy" Japan Society, New York
"JaPan PoP" Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
"Kotaro Terada Collection" Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
"YOKOHAMA 2005 International Triennale of Contemporary Art" Yokohama
"UNHEIMLICH JUNG" Stadtische Galerie, Sonderborg, Denmark
"New Acquisition" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
"Kiss Kiss" c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
"Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan" Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2004
"Super Nova Art from the 1990s from the Logan Collection" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Sprit" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Onkochishin" White Cube Osaka, Osaka
"UNUSUAL COMBINATION" + Gallery, Nagoya
"Why not live for art?" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Dog Days of Summer" California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
"Non-sect Radical" Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
"new works" SPACE FORCE, Tokyo
"Fiction. Love - Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art" MOCA Taipei : Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
"FUNNY CUTS" Staats galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
"Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito: New Prints" Space Force, Tokyo
2003
"Opening Exhibition" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"MY ROOM SOMEHOW SOMEWHERE" graf gm, Osaka
"M_ARS - ART AND WAR" Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
"Collection" Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
"FOIL" Little More Gallery, Tokyo
"Best Collection" Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
"Hope -do hope for the future" Laforet Museum, Tokyo
"Painting in our time" Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
"NINOS" Centro de Arte de Salamanco, Salamanca, Spain
"I bambini siamo noi" Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
"Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation" Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
"Trauer / GRIEF" Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria
"Nichijyou Seikatsu" Speak For, Tokyo
"Girls Don't Cry" Parco Museum Shibuya, Tokyo
"Art de Zoo" Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
"Ukiyo-E Avant-Garde" Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
"Happiness" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Room Air" It-Park, Taipei, Taiwan
"Your Dog is Orange County" Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA
"The Japanese Experience-Inevitable" Das Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2002
"JAM: London - Tokyo" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Fragile Figures" Palette Club, Tokyo
"Drawing Now-Eight Proposition" Museum of Modern Art, New York
"The Galleries Show 2002" Royal Academy of Arts, London
"BABEL 2002" National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
"Pop! Pop! Pop!" Museum of Modern Art, IBARAKI, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"Weiche Briiche, Japan" Kustraum Insbruck, Austria
"The Doraemon" (Toured in Japan until 2006) Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka / Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama /Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa / Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya / Oita Art Museum, Oita /Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Shimane / Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita / Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, Toyama /Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu / Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto
"Bokura no Hero and Heroine" Otaru City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
"Monalisa Mammon" Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka
"Contemporary Art From Japan to Finland 2002" Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
"Drawing Days" Backspace, Galerie Michael Zink, Germany
"Emotional Site" Sagacho Shokuryo Building, Tokyo
"The Japanese Experience - Inevitable" Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
2001
"Forms of Human Figures from the Terada Collection" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Tsunami Raiders" Galerie Michael Zink, Munich
"Superflat" MOCA Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angels / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN /Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"My Reality - Contemporary art and the Culture of Japanese Animation" (Toured in USA until 2004) Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines / Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY / Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH /Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL / Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH /Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL / Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA / Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Public Offerings" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"JAM: London - Tokyo" Barbican Gallery, London
"Camera Works" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music Collection" Haruhi Museum, Nishikasugai, Aichi
"SENRITSUMIRAI - Arte Attuale dal Giappone" Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
"MURAKAMI/NARA NARA/MURAKAMI" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future of Sculpture" Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo
"Silence of The City" Gwanju Art Museum, Gwanju, Korea
"Neo Tokyo - Japanese Art Now" Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2000
"Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Children and Contemporary Art" (Toured in USA, Canada and Spain until 2002)
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA / Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ /P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York / Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain / Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA /Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, Canada
"Drawn From Life" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Trading Views" Stadtgalerie Saarbruken, Saarbruken, Germany / Sttische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany /Stedelijk Museum De lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
"Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts" Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany /Mittelrhein - Museum, Koblenz, Germany
"Super Flat" Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya
"Tokushima Collection 2000 " Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima
"Continental Shift" Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
"Work on Paper" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"Dark Mirrors of Japan" De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
"Presumes Innocents" capc Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
Hakutosha, Nagoya
"Yoshitomo Nara and Hana Hashimoto - The Amazing Garden" Uichi Takayama Memorial Art Museum, Shichinohe, Aomori
"Drawings 2000" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Kids World Aomori 2000" Aomori Prefectural Museum, Aomori
"The Darker side of Playland" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Gose Abe and His Influences" Namioka Town Hall, Aomori
"GENDAI" Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Cultural Ties" Westzone Gallery, London
1999
"Art / Domestic Temperature of the Time" Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
"New Modernism for a New Millennium" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s", Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
"Art is fun 10: Angelic, Devilish or Both" Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Gunma
"Something Warm and Fuzzy - Children and Contemporary Art" Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
"Vergiss den Ball und Spiel Weiter" Nurnberg Kunsthalle, Germany
1998
"The Manga Age" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1997
"BOX - ITS COSMOS" Galerie Humanite Tokyo, Tokyo
"Dream of Existence" Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
"Drawing Show" (with Henk Visch) Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
Galeria & Ediciones Ginkgo, Madrid, Spain
"VOCA '97" Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
"Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition" National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1996
"Intangible Childhood" Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Mie, Japan
"Tokyo Pop" Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa
"Sunny Side Up" Gallery NAYUTA, Yokohama
"Ironic Fantasy" Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
"Kind of Blue" Hakutosha, Nagoya
1995
"Drawing Chat" (with Katsushige Nakahashi) Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
"The Future of Paintings '95" Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
"JYUGEM -Endless Happiness" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo,Japan
"TAKE OFFS" Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, U.S.A.
"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 - anderer Orte" Orangerie Schloss Brake, Lemgo, Germany
1994
"my room is your room" The 7th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Harvest '94" Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany
"Harvest Kempen '94- Nagoya" (with Shiro Matsui) Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Art Against AIDS", Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
"Project For Gunma '95" Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
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 hat Vrijthof, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1992
"Tijdelijk Asiel" Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991
"Pack" Sain Gallery, Pusan, Korea
1990
"Brille" Galerie Pentagon, Cologne, Germany
"Acqua Strana' Galerie Ulla Sommers, Dusseldorf, Germany
1989
"Mensch und Technik" Nixdorf AG, Dusseldorf, Germany
1988
"Feeling House" Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Mie, Japan
1987
"New Artists in Nagoya" Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1986
"Each Person's Expression of Space" Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu, Japan
"Present '86" Gallery NAF Nagoya, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1985
"Sense of Vision and Touch" Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Gonin Bayashi (Five Person's Musical Band) " Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1984
"Paranoia" Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Yoshitomo Nara, Kooji Miura" Gallery Denega, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
Public collection
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
Hirosaki city, Aomori, Japan
The British Museum, London, England
Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Japan
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, U.S.A.
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, U.S.A.
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Thailand
Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, NY, U.S.A.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain
Takahashi Collection
Flowerman Collection
- Yoshitomo Nara
- 1959 Born in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara :Archives
- Exhibitions
- Gallery & Artist News
- INNOCENCE - ART towards LIFE, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 2010
- Zenkyoan X FOIL : Get Up, Even If by Yourself Alone, 2010
- Neoteny Japan, The Museum of Art Ehime, 2010
- Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection , 2010
- Garden of painting―Japanese Art of the 00s The National Museum of Art, Osaka 2009



























































