Yoshitomo Nara  (Japanese, 1959) 

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Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese, b.1959) is a Contemporary artist best known for his Neo Pop paintings featuring the innocent motifs and buoyant style of children's books and comics. Nara's most frequent subjects are wide-eyed, cartoonish children and animals, executed in a flattened, economical style. Often, snippets of Japanese, English, or German text float within the compositions. Nara is also a prolific sculptor and draughtsman. He has had solo exhibitions at Blum & Poe in Santa Monica, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Pace Prints Gallery in New York, the Asia Society Museum, and many other institutions. He lives and works in Tochigi, Japan.

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Yoshitomo Nara, Country Home

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Country Home
2011
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Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Untitled
2007

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Phillips London
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Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Untitled
2003

Sakurado Fine Arts
Yoshitomo Nara, Peace Flag

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Peace Flag
2001
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Yoshitomo Nara, Sleepless Night

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Sleepless Night
2007

Adam Biesk Inc.
Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled (Portrait Drawing)

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Untitled (Portrait Drawing)
2000

Artificial Gallery
Yoshitomo Nara, Peace Flag

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Peace Flag
2001

Artificial Gallery
Yoshitomo Nara, On the F-word

 

Yoshitomo Nara
On the F-word
Hamburg Kennedy Photographs
Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled (Balance Beam)

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Untitled (Balance Beam)
1997

Casterline | Goodman Gallery
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Yoshitomo Nara, Doggy Radio

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Doggy Radio, 2012
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Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled Ink Drawing

 

Yoshitomo Nara
Untitled Ink Drawing, 1997
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Yoshitomo Nara, 失眠夜坐著 (Sleepless night sitting)

 

Yoshitomo Nara
失眠夜坐著 (Sleepless night sitting), 2007
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1959   Born in Hirosaki, Japan
1985   BFA, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1985 - 1987   Studied Fine Arts, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1987   MFA, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1988 - 1993   Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
2000   Moved to Tokyo, Japan
  Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
2013   Yoshitomo Nara, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - 2013   Pop Art Accrochage, Fluegel-Roncak Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
2012   Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (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
2010   Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (solo)
2009   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)
2008   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
2007   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
2006   Yoshitomo Nara + Graf, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Aomori, Japan
2005   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
2004   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
2003   The Japanese Experience, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Yoshitomo Nara, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2002   Drawing Days, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2001   Superflat, Pacific Design Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, West Hollywood, CA
2000   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
  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