Yoshitomo Nara  (Japanese, 1959) 

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Yoshitomo Nara Biography
1959   Born: Hirosaki, Japan
1985   Studied at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, B.F.A, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1985 - 1987   Studied Fine Arts, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1987   Studied at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, M.F.A, Nagakute Aichi, Japan
1988 - 1993   Studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany
2000   Moved to Tokyo, Japan
  Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Selected Exhibitions
2012   Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (solo)
2010   Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool", Asia Society, New York,, NY (solo)
2010   Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2010   Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2010   "The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place," 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
2009   Rites de Passage", Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands
2009   "Walking in My Mind," The Hayward Gallery, London, England
2009   The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009   Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009   "Crated Rooms for Iceland—Nara + Graf," Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo)
2008   Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2008   "Yoshitomo Nara + Graf," BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (solo)
2008   Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2008   "Yoshitomo Nara + graf," Cemeti Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia (solo)
2008   "Encounters," Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
2008   "The Masked Portrait,"curated by Midori Nishizawa, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2008   Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007   GEM, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2007   "Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2007   "Pretty Baby," The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2007   "Disorder in the House," Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Brussles
2007   "NARA + GRAF," Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain (solo)
2006   Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Aomori, Japan
2005   Yoshitomo Nara+graf HOME, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005   Kiss Kiss, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
2005   Yoshitomo Nara- From the Depth of My Drawer, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004   Yoshimoto Nara – Nothing Ever Happens, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2004   Nowhere Land, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
2004   Ficton.Love- Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2004   Strips & Characters/Kunst unter dem Einfluss von Comics Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
2003   The Japanese Experience Museum der Moderne, Salzburg Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
2003   Yoshitomo Nara, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2002   Drawing Days, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
2002   Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2001   Superflat, MOCA THE PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, West Hollywood, CA
2000   Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000   Yoshitomo Nara – Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2000   Walk On, Works by Yoshimoto Nara, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Literature
2004   Von Doris Krystof, H. and Bernhart Schwenk, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito : over the rainbow. Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2004
2003   Wada, K. Birth and present : a studio portrait of Yoshitomo Nara. Corte Madera, Calif. : Gingko, 2003