Nobuyoshi Araki is a contemporary Japanese photographer known for his erotic imagery and preoccupation with his hometown. He is one of Japan's best-known photographers. In addition to city scenes of Tokyo, he is particularly interested in portraying women of all social classes. His nude photography has repeatedly led to controversy and made Araki the enfant terrible of the Japanese art world. Similar to Helmut Newton, Araki is interested in subversive themes in the provocative staging of female nudes - such as bondage in the Japanese kinbaku style.
Born on 25 May 1940 in Tokyo, Araki studied photography at Chiba University and, after graduating in 1963, worked first as an advertising photographer and later as a freelance photojournalist. Araki eventually gave up press photography, concentrated on nudes and published numerous illustrated books.
Araki regards photography as some kind of visual diary. The series "Sentimental Journey" for example is the documentation of his honeymoon with his wife Yoko, which, by his own admission, made him a photographer. The subjective sensation and perception of the world plays a decisive role in his art. After the death of his wife, love became the principal theme in his works. Therefore the photographs of artfully tied-up women can be read as the intimate expression of himself, beeing tangled up in his yearning and past. "I tie womens bodies up becaus I know their souls cant be tied. Only the physical self can be tied. Putting a rope round a women is like putting an arm round her.", he explains. Shibari is the erotic art of binding, Araki exposes on his photographs. It is derived from the traditional military art of tying up, called Hoj jutsu. Hence his "Bondage" series is much more than mere provocation or pornography. It refers to traditions of Japans cultural history, like the Shunga, erotic paintings of the 18th and 19th century, linking them to the artists subjective world view.
Araki lives in Tokyo, the city whose vibrancy remains a source of constant inspiration for him to this day.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
“Gekko Shashin”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“Flower Rondeau”, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
“ARAKI TELLER SHISEI”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“LIFE BY FILM by Nobuyoshi ARAKI”, Leica Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
“SHIMEN AIKA”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“Effetto Araki”, Santa Maria Della Scala, Siena, Italy
“SUMMER HAPPINESS”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
"Art Bridge798" Art District, Beijing, China
“Umegaoka Elegy”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Reian Toushun”, art space AM, Tokyo,Japan
“Summer Xu”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
2018
“nehan shoujo”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“Impossible Love –Vintage Phoroagphs”, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
“AI ELEGY, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“KATA-ME”, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“78 sai no shamanatsu”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“Shikimou Rojin P”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“Love-Dream, Love-Nothing”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“Qing Se Hua Fu”, Light Society, Beijing
"HANA JINSEI (FLOWER -LIFE)", Over The Influence, Los Angeles, CA, USA
“VINTAGE PRINTS”, Taka Ishii Gallery New York, NY, USA[Cat.]
“The Passport to the Paraside”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death”, Museum of Sex, New York, NY, USA“ASHARA”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
2017
“Nobuyoshi Araki-I, Photography”, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
“IMPOSSIBLE LOVE”, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
“Clouds, Flowers & Nudes Photographs 1975-2005”, GALERIE JOHANNES FABER, Vienna, Austria
“27th Month of Photography November 2017 Bratislava”, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Bunka Shashin”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“ARAKI. TOKYO”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
“ARAKI”, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza, Italy
“Shashinka no Natsu no Musei”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Tokyo, in Autumn”, Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo, Japan
“Kayuen”, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Photo-Crazy A”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Tombeau Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki × Guimet Museum”, CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo, Japan
“Kayuen”, Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo, Japan
“Photographoary: Photo-Mad Old Man A Turning 77 on 5.25.17”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
“THE SOLO EXHIBITION OF NOBUYOSHI ARAKI”, Over The Influence Gallery, Hong Kong
KYOTOGRAPHIE “A Desktop Love”, Ryosokuin, Kenninji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
“Photo-Mad Old Man A Araki @ISETAN―Koki Korei Sho―”, Isetan Shinjuku Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Tokyo Life”, KIDO Press, Tokyo, Japan
“IMSHUN”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
“Lastby Leica”, art space AM, Tokyo, Japan
2016
ARAKI AMORE”, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
“ARAMAME”, Morioka Shoten Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
“A Desktop Paradise”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris, Paris, France
“Photo-Mad Old Man A 76th Birthday”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
“ARAKI”, Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris, France
2015
Men Naked Face by Araki”, OmotesandoHills SPACE O, Tokyo, Japan
“ ”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
“ARAKI Ojo Shashu-Photography for the After Life: Alluring Hell”, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
“Nobuyoshi Araki Ōjō Shashū: Photography for the Afterlife -Eastern Sky, PARADISE”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Ai No Tabi”, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
“Love on the Left Eye”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“The Photography Book of Rebirth in the Pure Land /Face, Skyscape, Road”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2013
“Tokyo Blues 1977”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
“EroReal”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
“Sentimental Sky”, Rat Hall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Past tense –Future, 1979 –2040”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Nobuyoshi Araki Photobook Exhibition: Arākī”, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka, Japan
2011
Theater of Love”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
“Film Nostalgia”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Shakyō RōjinNikki”, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Nobuyoshi Araki, Jablonka Galerie, Köln, (from May 5th until June 25th)
Nobuyoshi Araki "Koki No Shashin: Photographs of a seventy years old", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo ( from May 8th until June 5th)
2009
Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Bondages, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2008
Nobuyoshi Araki: Photographs, Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Nobuyoshi Araki - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, CAMK, Kumamoto
Nobuyoshi Araki - Silent Wishes, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Kinbaku, Galleri Riis, Oslo
Nobuyoshi Araki, Kinbaku, Galleri Riis, Oslo
Hana Kibaku, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Untitle, 2007, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhague
KINBAKU, Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Cologne
2007
Nobuyoshi Araki: Self. Life. Death, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm
Nobuyoshi Araki, Taka Ishii Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Carte Blanche, Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
2006
Araki, Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Nobuyoshi Araki, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki - Diaries, Leica Galerie Wien Westlicht, Vienne
Araki - Á la vie la mort, Museé de la photographie de Charleroi, Charleroi
Noboyoshi Araki - Polaroids, Galleria Cà di Frà, Milan
Nobuyoshi Araki, Taka Ishii Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo - Sexteen 1969-1973, 1973, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2005
Nobuyoshi Araki - Painting Flowers, Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Nobuyoshi Araki - Painting Flower and Diaries, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Nobuyoshi Araki - Arakinema, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
ARAKI, Michael Hoppen Contemporary, Londres (Angleterre)
Nobuyoshi Araki - self life death, Barbican, Londres (Angleterre)
Noboyushi Araki, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Araki Nobuyoshi - The Faces of Ishikawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa
2004
Nobuyoshi Araki - From Winter to Spring, Taka Ishii Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki - Polanographs, galerie bob van orsouw, Zürich
2003
Araki Nobuyoshi, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima
Nobuyoshi Araki - Araki by Araki, Taka Ishii Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo
2002
Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo still life, Tennis Palace, Helsinki
Araki Nobuyoshi, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Tutte le donne del mondo. The world of Nobuyoshi Araki, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
2001
Nobuyoshi Araki, Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo Still Life, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (Angleterre)
Nobuyoshi Araki - Vintage Prints and Early Works, galerie bob van orsouw, Zürich
2000
Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Nobuyoshi Araki - Viaggio Sentimentale, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
1999
Nobuyoshi Araki, galerie bob van orsouw, Zürich
Nobuyoshi Araki - CAG, Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1998
Story Portrait by Nobuyoshi Araki, The Art Center - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
1997
Nobuyoshi Araki, Wiener Secession, Vienne
Nobuyoshi Araki, galerie bob van orsouw, Zürich
1995
Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo Novelle, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Nobuyoshi Araki, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
1994
Nobuyoshi Araki - Unconscious Tokyo: Tokyo Cube, White Cube, Londres (Angleterre)
1993
Araki - Japanbilder, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Untitle, Galerie Almine Rech - Brussels, Bruxelles
Desire aquire, galerie bob van orsouw, Zürich
2008
Grotto, Museum 52, London, Londres (Angleterre)
Asian Dub Photography, Fondazione Casssa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena
Diana + actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME: Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar Photography, Carolina Nitsch, New York, NY
Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Now & New, Gana Art Busan, Busan
Review / Preview: Japanese photographs, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
REAL. Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ-BANK, Städel Museum, Francfort-sur-le-Main
FATTO BENE!, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne
Biennale di Alessandria - Shapes of Time, Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria
Street & Studio: an urban history of photography, Tate Modern, Londres (Angleterre)
In voller Blüte, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
Photographers of Japanese Descent, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Selections from the Hara Museum´s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Araki meets hokusai, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover
For the Spirit - From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Body Work, Le Case d´Arte, Milan
Nouvelles Collections III, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
Read my Lips, Peres Projects, Berlin, Berlin
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2007
SWITCHER SEX: Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection, Slought Foundation, Philadelphie, PA
Art is uninteresting complete, Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienne
Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto, Contemporary Japanese Photography, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Convection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Pékin
Group Show. "Ten years", Emily Tsingou Gallery, Londres (Angleterre) (closed, 2008)
Livres de nus, une anthologie, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Eyes Of An Island - Japanese Photography 1945-2007, Michael Hoppen Gallery, Londres (Angleterre)
Eyes Of An Island - Japanese Photography 1945 - 2007, Michael Hoppen Contemporary, Londres (Angleterre)
Stripped Bare . Der entblößte Körper, C/O Berlin, Berlin
Blue Chips, Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienne
Souvenir dalla Collezione del Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Odd spaces, Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus
Attitude 2007, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto - CAMK, Kumamoto
Pale Carnage, Dundee Contemporary Arts, DCA, Dundee (Écosse)
Les Autres: Nobuyoshi Araki - Peter Christopherson - Eve Fowler - Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Nous nous sommes tant aimés, Collections de Saint-Cyprien, Saint Cyprien
Landscapes, Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO Future, Rome
Spectacular space, galerie bob van orsouw, ZürichFondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienne
Fotografie, Benden & Klimczak, Viersen
Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento - IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol (Angleterre)
2006
INTO ME / OUT OF ME - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V., KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
EROS in der Kunst der Moderne, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Peintres de la vie moderne Modern-life painters - Donation, Caisse des Dépôts' photograph collection, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Suesser Schlummer. Der Schlaf in der Kunst, Residenz Galerie Salzburg, Salzburg
Flutter - The Approach, Londres (Angleterre)
Into me / Out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
Sweet Ecstasy, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich
Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienne
Flowers in Contemporary Art, Benaki Museum, Atenas
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The Child, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
Full House, Gesichter einer Sammlung, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Polamaniacs - Photology, Milan
Boys and Flowers, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Group Show: A Lover's Discourse, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Hundert Küsse sind besser als einer (Hundred Kisses are better than one), Krinzinger Projekte, Vienne
2005
Rising Sun, Melting Moon - Contemporary Art from Japan, The Israel Museum, Jérusalem
Brutal Ornamental, Galerie Michael Hall (former Galerie Kosak Hall), Vienne
Rupture des évidences, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Miradas y conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Persistence, Aura Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai
Seven: everything goes to hell, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo (Florence)
Perdere la testa, Lattuada Studio, Milan
Chronos - Cesac, Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed)
Blumenstück - Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
AEROPLASTICS contemporary Boost in the Shell, AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Bruxelles
Die Sinnliche Linie – Japanischer Holzschnitt, Klimt, Schmalix, Araki, Takano, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz
Der fotografierte Mensch, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nürnberg
Europe in Art - A HVB Group Project, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bukarest
Contemporánea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Contemporánea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca
Cantos - Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2004
Araki - Kabakov - Masi - Schnabel, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York, NY
Wer bietet mehr?, Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Hambourg
El somni eròtic, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lérida
Kurzdavordanach, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
Nature of Artifice - 9. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale Architettura di Venezia, Venise
Rose c'est la vie - On Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach
Year Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Tokyo
Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex New Art Gallery, Beauty of Darkness, Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
Instant instincts, Galleria In Arco, Turin
2003
XXX, Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Berlin, Berlin
Cold Play - Set 1 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
La vita delle forme, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Female Turbulence, AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Bruxelles
Works Seldom Seen at ShanghART, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico, Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genes
Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Update #6: Monumente der Melancholie, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Cat Show, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
JAPAN - Keramik und Fotografie, Tradition und Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen, Hambourg
Gallery Artists, Taka Ishii Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
SEX, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
T R O T T O I R S - S I D E W A L K S [ PROMENADES EN MARGES ], Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Living Room, Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
Kunsthalle Basel, Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Desire, Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologne
COPY, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY
Oeil pour oeil: Collection Privée de Lyon - Le RECTANGLE, Centre d´Art de la Ville de Lyon, Lyon
OPEN / INVITED e v+ a 2002 - ev+a, Limerick
Im Sucher, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
Botanique, PKM GALLERY, Seoul
2001
The Nature of Still Life, Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologne
Update #4: The Dark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
The Body of Art, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
2000
Et l'homme créa la femme, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Anvers
Veronica's Revenge, Contemporary Perspectives on Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, MCA, Sydney, NSW
Contemporary Photography from Japan, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Yume no Ato - Was vom Traum blieb ..., Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1999
Get Together - Kunst als Teamwork, KUNSTHALLE wien project space karlsplatz, Vienne
Johann Korec, Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne
Self Portrait, Loans from the invisible Museum, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
Gesammelte Werke 1; Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Attack, fotografie op het scherpst van de snede, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
SWEET & SOUR, Art & Public, Genève
Veronica's Revenge - Photographies De La Collection Lac-Suisse - Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
1998
Fünf Komma Fünf, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Es grünt so grün..., Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Taipei Biennial 1998 - Site of desire, Taipei Biennial, Taïpeh
Private ficcions, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelone
Waterproof/A Prova de Agua, Centro Cultural de Belém - CCB, Lisboa
Exposition de Groupe - Photographie, Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris
1997
Cities on the move, Wiener Secession, Vienne
The 90s: a family of man? - Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
Desire & Void: Contemporary Japanese photography, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhague
Du construit, du paysage, FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Lust und Leere. Japanische Photographie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienne
1995
L'immagine riflessa, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
1994
Liquid Crystal Futures, Contemporary Japanese Photography, Fruitmarket Gallery, Édimbourg (Écosse)
When The Body Becomes Art, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
1993
Love You Tokyo! The Photographs Of Kineo Kuwabara And Nobuyoshi Araki, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
1992
Adam & Eve, Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama
Awards
2012
6th ANGO awards
2008
Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Arts
1994
Japan Inter-Design Forum Grand Prix
1991
7th Higashikawa Prize
1990
Shashin-no-kai
Works in Public and Private Collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Collection olorVISUAL, Barcelona
CRAC Sète
Fondation Cartier, Paris
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
UBS Art Collection
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
