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Yoshitomo Nara Biography
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1959 |
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Born: Hirosaki, Japan
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1985 |
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Studied at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, B.F.A, 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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Studied at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, M.F.A, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
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1988 - 1993 |
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Studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, 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, 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," The Hayward Gallery, London, England
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
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 (solo)
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria (solo)
"Yoshitomo Nara + graf," Cemeti Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia (solo)
"Encounters," Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
"The Masked Portrait,"curated by Midori Nishizawa, 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, Den Haag, The Netherlands
"Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Pretty Baby," The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
"Disorder in the House," Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Brussles
"NARA + GRAF," Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain (solo)
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2006
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Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Aomori, Japan
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2005
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Yoshitomo Nara+graf HOME, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kiss Kiss, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara- From the Depth of My Drawer, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
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2004
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Yoshimoto Nara – Nothing Ever Happens, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Nowhere Land, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Ficton.Love- Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MOCA Taipei, 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, UK
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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, MOCA THE PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, West Hollywood, CA
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2000
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Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel, Amsterdam, The 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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| Literature |
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2004
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Von Doris Krystof, H. and Bernhart Schwenk, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito : over the rainbow. Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2004
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2003
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Wada, K. Birth and present : a studio portrait of Yoshitomo Nara. Corte Madera, Calif. : Gingko, 2003
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