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Yoshitomo Nara Biography
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1959 |
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Born in Hirosaki, Japan
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1985 |
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BFA, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
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1985 - 1987 |
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Studied Fine Arts, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
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1987 |
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MFA, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
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1988 - 1993 |
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Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
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2000 |
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Moved to Tokyo, Japan
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Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012 - 2013
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Pop Art Accrochage, Fluegel-Roncak Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
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2012
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Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (solo)
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2010
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Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (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
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2009
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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)
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2008
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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
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2007
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GEM, The Hague, Netherlands
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Yoshitomo Nara + Graf, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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2006
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Yoshitomo Nara + Graf, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Aomori, Japan
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2005
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Yoshitomo Nara + Graf, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kiss Kiss, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
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2004
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Yoshimoto Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Nowhere Land, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Fiction Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Strips & Characters/Kunst unter dem Einfluss von Comics Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
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2003
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The Japanese Experience, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Yoshitomo Nara, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
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2002
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Drawing Days, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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2001
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Superflat, Pacific Design Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, West Hollywood, CA
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2000
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Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Walk On: Works by Yoshimoto Nara, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| Selected Public Collections |
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British Museum, London, England
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
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