Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
2022
2021
2019
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Flower Rondeau ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong ,Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Effetto Araki ,Museum Santa Maria Della Scala Museum, Siena Mayority Institution ,Siena, Italy
- Nobuyoshi Araki ,Galeria Javier López & Fer Frances (La Florida) ,Madrid, Spain
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Umegaoka Elegy ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2018
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Impossible Love 鈥� Vintage Photographs ,C/O Berlin ,Berlin, Germany
- Araki: Monstrous Paradise ,RuArts Gallery ,Moscow, Russia
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Kata-Me ,Rat Hole Gallery ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Araki: I, Photography ,Anton Kern Gallery ,New York, USA
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Love-Dream, Love-Nothing ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Hana Jinsei (Flower - Life) ,Over the Influence, Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Nobuyoshi Araki: The Eros Demon ,De Primi Fine Art ,Lugano, Switzerland
- The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki ,Museum of Sex ,Murray Hill, New York, USA
2017
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo ,Pinakothek der Moderne ,Munich, Germany
- Araki Nobuyoshi: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017 ,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Kayuen ,Rat Hole Gallery ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Araki Nobuyoshi ,Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery ,Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Photographoary: Photo-Mad Old Man A Turning 77 on 5.25.17 ,Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nobuyoshi Araki ,Over the Influence, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2016
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki Amore ,Fondazione Sozzani, Milan (Como) ,Milan, Italy
- Araki ,Hamiltons ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Nobuyoshi Araki ,Kurimanzutto, Mexico City ,Mexico City, Mexico
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Photo-Mad Old Man A 76th Birthday ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Araki ,Musée Guimet National des Arts Asiatiques ,16e, Paris, France
2015
2014
2013
2011
2010
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Silent Wishes ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Koki No Shashin: Photographs of A Seventy Year Old ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nobuyoshi Araki ,Jablonka Galerie, Berlin ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
- Nobuyoshi Araki ,Jablonka Galerie, Cologne ,Cologne, Germany
2008
- Nobuyoshi Araki Silent Wishes ,Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Altstadt (Rupertinum) ,Salzburg, Austria
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Bokuju Kitan / Marvellous Tales Of Black Ink. ,Hamiltons ,London, UK
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Kinbaku ,Jablonka Galerie, Berlin ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
- Nobuyoshi Araki 鈥� Kinbaku ,Jablonka Galerie, Cologne ,Cologne, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- TOP 30th Anniversary TOP Collection: Continuity and Change ,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Blumen ,Take Ninagawa ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- How Wondrous the Other Through the Artist鈥檚 Glance ,Gallery Fifty One ,Antwerp, Belgium
- Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture ,Saatchi Gallery ,London, UK
2024
- Viewing Room ,PILEVNELI, Dolapdere ,Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
- The Here and Now. Performance Unfolded ,Museum Santa Maria Della Scala Museum, Siena Mayority Institution ,Siena, Italy
- Group Exhibition ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyobashi ,Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Artists of the Gallery ,Christophe Guye Galerie ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Flowers of Romance ,Lodovico Corsini ,Brussels, Belgium
- A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection ,Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ,Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Beauties, Ghosts and Samurai ,National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (LNMA) ,Vilnius, Lithuania
- Outside Inside ,Michael Hoppen Gallery ,London, UK
- Material Provocativo Para Pensar: Fotografía Japonesa Contemporánea: Colección José Luis Soler Vila ,Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga ,Malaga, Spain
- Once upon鈥� a photo ,Rebecca Camhi Gallery ,Athens, Greece
- Worlds in Motion. 30 Years Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Wolfsburg, Germany
- Coleccion: Muestra Colectiva De Fotografía. Vol. II ,Galeria Enrique Guerrero ,Mexico City, Mexico
- A Bouquet Of Flowers: Transient Beauty ,Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Okashi ,Michael Hoppen Gallery ,London, UK
- Composition for the Left Hand. With Works from the Kagge Collection ,Kode, Rasmus Meyer ,Bergen, Norway
- Elliott Erwitt & Many Others: In Love With... ,OstLicht Gallery ,Vienna, Austria
2023
- Carta Canta ,Umberto Di Marino ,Naples, Italy
- Walking in the Wild ,Christophe Guye Galerie ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Les Belles de Nuit ,Forum für Fotografie ,Cologne, Germany
- This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection ,Museum Brandhorst ,Munich, Germany
- 15th Anniversary ,In Camera Galerie ,7e, Paris, France
- Visual Worlds of Everyday Life ,Städel Museum ,Frankfurt, Germany
- Food for Thought ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Maebashi ,Gunma, Japan
- Flowers: I Fiori Ci Guardano ,Photo & Contemporary ,Torino, Italy
- The Flower Show ,Purdy Hicks Gallery ,London, UK
- ONLINE: Nude Photography in Black & White ,Christophe Guye Galerie ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Open Books A Project Photo Elysée X Epfl+Ecal Lab ,Photo Elysée ,Lausanne, Switzerland
- Intimités ,In Camera Galerie ,7e, Paris, France
- Y艒jo - Jeremy Stigter & The IBASHO Collection ,IBASHO ,Antwerp, Belgium
- Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy ,International Center of Photography (ICP) ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Empyrean ,Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (avenue Matignon) ,Paris, France
- Mostly Nude ,Hamiltons ,Mayfair, London, UK
- 100 Faces ,Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) ,Wheelers Hill, Australia
- Safe Space ,Rebecca Camhi Gallery ,Athens, Greece
- More Than Meets The Eye ,Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen ,Xiamen, China
- Araki Nobuyoshi and Nakahira Takuma: Okinawa ,Each Modern ,Taipei, Taiwan
2022
- 25 AÑOS ,Galeria Enrique Guerrero ,Mexico City, Mexico
- Nobuyoshi Araki & Daido Moriyama: 400 Polaroids ,Ratio 3 ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Photographie ,Galerie 1900-2000 ,6e, Paris, France
- More Than Meets The Eye: 10 Years Of Three Shadows +3 Gallery ,Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing ,Chaoyang, Beijing, China
- Hortus Magicus ,Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich ,Munich, Germany
- Pilevneli Yalikavak ,PILEVNELI, Yalikavak ,Bodrum, Turkey
- Body & Soul ,Maruani Mercier, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
- TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death ,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Balancing Act ,MASSIMODECARLO, Milan ,Milan, Italy
- Love Songs. Photography and intimacy ,MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie ,4e, Paris, France
- Amalgamation: Celebrating 10 Years of Shin Gallery ,Shin Gallery ,New York, USA
- Unique ,Atlas Gallery ,London, UK
2021
- L'arte e la città / Art and the city ,Centro Pecci ,Prato, Italy
- In Absentia ,Olivier Malingue Gallery ,London, UK
- Sante D'Orazio: Priests ,Hall Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg ,Holle, Germany
- Tales of Manhattan ,Anton Kern Gallery ,New York, USA
- Unearthed: Photography's Roots ,Dulwich Picture Gallery ,London, UK
- Closer ,Blindspot Gallery ,Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
- Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography ,The Polygon Gallery ,North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- My Flower ,Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2020
- On Everyone鈥檚 Lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman ,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Wolfsburg, Germany
- Tokyo: Before, After ,Cressman Center for Visual Arts ,Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Golden Age: Five Masters Of Japanese Photography ,Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen ,Xiamen, China
- Group Show ,Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (avenue Matignon) ,Paris, France
- Photobook and Print ,La Galerie Paris 1839 ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- The City - The Countryside. Japanese photography of the 1960s and 1970s from the collection of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg ,Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Altstadt (Rupertinum) ,Salzburg, Austria
- Femininity ,Natalia Hug Gallery ,Cologne, Germany
- Gathering ,Larsen Warner ,Stockholm, Sweden
- Shaping Dialogues ,Reflex Amsterdam ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
- Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography ,The Photographers' Gallery ,London, UK
- Look At Me! The Body In Art From The 1950s Up To Today ,Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection ,Locarno, Switzerland
- Character Study ,Ratio 3 ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survived! ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Neko Project ,IBASHO ,Antwerp, Belgium
- My Garden of Eden ,Christophe Guye Galerie ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Now Is The Time: 25 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Wolfsburg, Germany
- Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s. Part I ,BLUM, Los Angeles ,Palms, Los Angeles, California, USA
- All the World's a Stage ,Reflex Amsterdam ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Through the Looking Glass ,Torch Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
- The Portrait: Gstaad ,Galeria Javier López & Fer Frances (La Florida) ,Madrid, Spain
- Feast for the Eyes ,Foam Museum ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Faces | People ,Rebecca Camhi Gallery ,Athens, Greece
- Salm Modern #1: Dimensions of Dialogue ,National Gallery Prague, Salm Palace ,Prague, Czech Republic
- Camera Austria International: Laboratory for Photography and Theory ,Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg ,Salzburg, Austria
- Time Frames: East Asian Photography ,Baltimore Museum of Art ,Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- No Time ,McEvoy Foundation for the Arts ,Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA
- Shashin: are-bure-boke ,Michael Hoppen Gallery ,London, UK
- Mask ,Galerie Kamel Mennour, London ,London, UK
- The Polaroid Project: The History of a Medium ,C/O Berlin ,Berlin, Germany
- Mask ,Galerie Kamel Mennour, London ,London, UK
- Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- I Still Believe In Miracles. Works from Selvaag Art Collection ,Astrup Fearnley Museet ,Oslo, Norway
- Körperzeichen II ,Galerie Ruberl ,Vienna, Austria
- Foreign Bodies ,Raster Gallery ,Warsaw, Poland
- I-Photo. Japanese Photography 1960-1970 from the Collection ,Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Altstadt (Rupertinum) ,Salzburg, Austria
- My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection. Part II ,Hara Museum of Contemporary Art ,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- New Beginnings ,Reflex Amsterdam ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
- Total Records. Vinyl & photography ,Fundació Foto Colectania ,Barcelona, Spain
- The Polaroid Project ,WestLicht ,Vienna, Austria
- Mémoire Et Lumière. Photographie Japonaise, 1950-2000 ,MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie ,4e, Paris, France
- Blow - up ,Il Ponte Contemporanea ,Rome, Italy
- Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather ,Freymond-Guth Fine Arts ,Basel, Switzerland
- New Contemporary Group Exhibition ,Michael Hoppen Gallery ,London, UK
- Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960鈥�75 ,The Art Institute of Chicago ,Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Acts of Intimacy: The Erotic Gaze in Japanese Photography ,The Walther Collection Project Space, New York ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2016
- Total Records ,C/O Berlin ,Berlin, Germany
- Desire ,Jeffrey Deitch, New York (Wooster Str) ,Miami, Florida, USA
- TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO ,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Masters of Japanese Photography ,Sainsbury Centre ,Norwich, UK
- Implosion 20 ,Anton Kern Gallery ,New York, USA
- Black Sun/Red Moon: Pictures from Japan ,Ratio 3 ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now ,SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ,San Francisco, California, USA
- In the Cage of Freedom ,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Wolfsburg, Germany
- Exposure: The Female Nude in Photography ,Museum of Sonoma County ,Santa Rosa, California, USA
- Miscellaneous ,In Camera Galerie ,7e, Paris, France
- Fetich: Objects of Desire ,Holstebro Kunstmuseum ,Holstebro, Denmark
- Provoke Between Protest and Performance: Photography in Japan 1960鈥�1975 ,Fotomuseum Winterthur ,Winterthur, Switzerland
- Shikijo: Eroticism in Japanese photography ,Blindspot Gallery ,Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
- In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 ,Japan Society Gallery ,Murray Hill, New York, USA
- I An Abundance of Sei 锛� Life, Vigor, Thrive, and Spirit ,Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art ,Hiroshima, Japan
- Nobuyoshi Araki / Hiroshi Sugimoto ,Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Photography Re-Imagined V: The Artist鈥檚 Hand, International Juried Show- One of a Kind Mixed-Media Photography Imagery. ,Tilt Gallery ,Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2015
- Gardens in Progress ,Rebecca Camhi Gallery ,Athens, Greece
- Après Eden: The Walther Collection ,La Maison Rouge ,12e, Paris, France
- Studio Guenzani, Milano 1986-2016: Molto-Tutto ,Studio Guenzani ,Milan, Italy
- When we share more than ever ,MK&G Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Edouardo Boubat: Méditerranée ,In Camera Galerie ,7e, Paris, France
- The Pistil's Waltz ,Gallery Fifty One ,Antwerp, Belgium
- The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection ,The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm ,Neu Ulm, Germany
- In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 ,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ,Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- The Body Exposed ,Photo & Contemporary ,Torino, Italy
2014
- Unseen Existence: Dialogues with the Environment in Contemporary Art ,Hong Kong Arts Centre ,Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- X-Mas-Mix from Araki to Zangaki ,Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich ,Munich, Germany
- The Hara Museum Collection At 35 ,Hara Museum of Contemporary Art ,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Other Portraits ,Galerie Daniel Blau, London ,London, UK
- Trains ,Night Gallery South ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Gazing at the Contemporary World: Japanese Photography from the 1970s to the Present ,Hong Kong Arts Centre ,Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Franz Graf: See What Sees You ,Lower Belvedere ,Vienna, Austria
- Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited ,Galerie Rudolfinum ,Prague, Czech Republic
2013
- Exposición 93 ,CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea ,Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- Flowers & Mushrooms ,Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg ,Salzburg, Austria
- Why Not Live for Art? II ,Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery ,Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Portrait, Landscape & Still life ,Zonca & Zonca ,Milan, Italy
2011
- Nackt: Newton & Araki ,Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg ,Salzburg, Austria
- Nobuyoshi Araki and Shiro Tsujimura: Work in Progress ,Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne ,Cologne, Germany
- JAPAN 4 ,Priska Pasquer, Cologne ,Cologne, Germany
- FaR EasT ,Zonca & Zonca ,Milan, Italy
- JAPANCONGO ,Garage Museum of Contemporary Art ,Moscow, Russia
- Japancongo ,Magasin CNAC ,Grenoble, France
- Images from a Floating World ,Fredericks & Freiser ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2010
- Another Mise-en-scène ,Country Club, Cincinnati ,Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Decadence Now! Visions of Excess ,Galerie Rudolfinum ,Prague, Czech Republic
- The Lucid Evidence ,MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt ,Frankfurt, Germany
- Food For Thought ,Jessica Silverman Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Food For Thought ,Jessica Silverman Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Accrochage ,Galerie Mikael Andersen ,Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009
2008
- For A Language To Come ,Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art ,Soho, New York, USA
- Maddox Arts Summer Show ,Maddox Gallery, London (Maddox Street) ,Mayfair, London, UK
- First Step... Towards a Collection of Western Contemporary Art ,NMK, National Museum in Krakow ,Krakow, Poland
- Viva Lolita ,Maddox Gallery, London (Maddox Street) ,Mayfair, London, UK
Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer who was born in 1940. His work is currently being shown at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo have featured Nobuyoshi Araki's work in the past.Nobuyoshi Araki's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 191,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 191,000 USD for From Close to Range, sold at Phillips New York in 2014. In the past 12 months, his prints & graphic art have averaged 3,327 USD, while his photographs have sold for an average of 1,758 USD.Nobuyoshi Araki has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Dazed and Confused in April 2025.
Artist's alternative names: Araki, Araki Nobuyoshi
Artist's alternative names: Araki, Araki Nobuyoshi