Nobuyoshi Araki is Japan's best-known photographer and its most controversial cultural export. Documenting Tokyo he captures its obscene energy and inhuman emptiness in the sex clubs and entertainment district, crowded streets, buildings and skies. His work is infused with an intense sexuality. Renowned for clashing with the authorities, in 1988 police ordered the removal from sale the magazine Shashin Jidai, which featured Araki's photographs; obscenity charges were levelled against the artist during a 1992 exhibition and 1993 saw the arrest of a gallery curator who dared to display Araki's graphic nudes. One gets the sense that Araki is a rebel bucking the system. Araki has been working as a photographer since the 1960s and has published over 200 books and exhibited extensively worldwide, including Tokyo, London, and Paris.
| 1940 | born in in Minowa, Tokyo |
| lives and works in Tokyo | |
Exhibits (Selection)
| 2006 | Nobuyoshi Araki Pinakothek der Moderne, München |
| 2005 | Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 Art Basel Miami Beach |
| BLUMENSTÜCK Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen | |
| Boost in the Shell // De Bond Aeroplastics, Brüssel | |
| Die sinnliche Linie Museum der Moderne Salzburg | |
| Corpus 05 Brügge Musea Brugge, Brügge | |
| fotografia 2005 fotografia Roma | |
| Coleccion Helga de Alvear Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano, Badajoz | |
| Der fotografierte Mensch Neues Museum Nürnberg | |
| Europe in Art National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest | |
| Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Fundacion Juan March, Madrid | |
| CANTOS Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg | |
| 2004 | COLD PLAY Fotomuseum Winterthur |
| 15 Jahre Deichtorhallen Deichtorhallen, Hamburg | |
| In Bed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi | |
| The Flower as Image Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek | |
| Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach 2004 Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach | |
| 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo | |
| Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life Mori Art Museum, Tokyo | |
| Nobuyoshi Araki Zonca & Zonca, Mailand | |
| Colección Sandretto Re Rebaudengo IVAM Valencia | |
| Strange Days Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | |
| La vita delle forme Galleria Civica Modena | |
| Female Turbulence Aeroplastics, Brüssel | |
| Works Seldom Seen at ShanghART ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai | |
| 2003 | Fables de l´identité Jeu de Paume, Paris |
| Phantom der Lust Neue Galerie, Graz | |
| update #6 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg | |
| short cuts Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
| 2002 | Keine Kleinigkeit Kunsthalle Basel |
| Trottoirs - Sidewalks Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris | |
| Open City Hirshhorn Museum, Washington | |
| Desire Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna | |
| Retrospektive a-d Miami, Miami; Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris; Moscow House of Photography, Moskau; Shine Gallery, London | |
| 2001 | Kunsthalle Kiel; Ikon Gallery, London; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; Jablonka Galerie, Köln; Galerie Almine Rech, Paris |
| Contemporary Photography from Japan De Pont, Tilburg | |
| Desire Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal | |
| 2000 | Centre National de la Photographie, Paris; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Ars Futura, Zürich; Asprey Jacques, London; Gallerie Kamel Mennour, Paris |
| 1999 | Kunsthaus Bregenz; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo: "Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life"; Egg Gallery, Tokyo; Art & Public, Genf |
| 1998 | Private ficcions Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
| Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; De Appel, Amsterdam: ""Life Is A Bitch"; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo: "COSMOSCO" | |
| 1996 | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Basel; Jablonka Galerie, Köln |
| 1995 | Fondation Cartier, Paris; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg |
| 1994 | Luhring Augustine, New York |
| 1990 | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt |
| 1981 | Veröffentlichung "Photograph novel" Fotosammlung und Essay |
| 1972 | Performance: "Super Photo Concert" |
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