Yoshitomo Nara

*1959 / Japan

Solo exhibitions

From Hokkaido, From Taiwan

Taka Ishii Photo, Tokyo (JP)
24 Nov 2023 – 26 Dec 2023
all things must pass, but nothing is lost / precious days around me, sometimes farther along, sometimes under my feet

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
25 Oct 2018 – 9 Feb 2019
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone

Take your time, it won’t be long now

Taka Ishii Photo, Tokyo (JP)
7 Jul 2018 – 10 Aug 2018

Group

Fly to the Moon: Five Lunar Episodes

Hara Museum Arc, Tokyo (JP)
12 Sep 2026 – 11 Jan 2027

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Jae-Eun Choi, Jim Dine, Shiro Kuramata, Rika Noguchi, Hiroshi Nomura, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Peter Stämpfli, Tabaimo, Andy Warhol
Collection

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (JP)
6 Dec 2025 – 22 Mar 2026

with Diane Arbus, Alexander Rodchenko, Thomas Ruff, Tadasu Takamine
Träumerei

Hara Museum Contemp Art, Tokyo (JP)
12 Jul 2025 – 12 Jan 2026

with Leiko Ikemura, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yasumasa Morimura, Kohei Nawa, Shinro Ohtake, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Miwa Yanagi, Tadanori Yokoo
Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010

The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT), Tokyo (JP)
3 Sep 2025 – 8 Dec 2025

with Matthew Barney, Lee Bul, Yamashiro Chikako, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, David Hammons, Pierre Huyghe, Miyako Ishiuchi, Joan Jonas, Emiko Kasahara, Tadashi Kawamata, Meiro Koizumi, Aida Makoto …
Pace: 65 Years

Pace Geneva, Genève (CH)
9 Sep 2025 – 7 Nov 2025

with ..., Yto Barrada, Hermann Nitsch
Walking in the Wild

By Bob van Orsouw and Christophe Guye

Christophe Guye Galerie, Zürich (CH)
13 Dec 2023 – 2 Mar 2024

with Jun Ahn, Haluk Akakçe, Miles Aldridge, Nobuyoshi Araki, Mike Brodie, Cortis & Sonderegger, Robert Frank, Stephen Gill, Fabrice Gygi, REN Hang, Kosuke, Pierre Molinier …
WORLD CLASSROOM

Contemporary Art through School Subjects

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
19 Apr 2023 – 24 Sep 2023

with Johanna Billing, Luke Ching, Manon de Boer, Sam Falls, Fischli & Weiss, Shilpa Gupta, Naoya Hatakeyama, Aziz Hazara, Susan Hiller, Yee I-Lann, Christian Jankowski, Tomoko Maezawa …
TOP Collection: Serendipity

Wondrous Discoveries in Daily Life

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
7 Apr 2023 – 9 Jul 2023

with Masaru Aikawa, Elliott Erwitt, Shigeo Gocho, Naoya Hatakeyama, Naoki Honjo, Tomoki Imai, Sayuki Inoue, Naoki Ishikawa, Kazuo Kitai, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Takuma Nakahira, Harumichi Saito …
STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World

STARS ARE NOT MADE OVERNIGHT!

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
31 Jul 2020 – 3 Jan 2021

with Tatsuo Miyajima, Takashi Murakami, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Pairs

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
10 May 2018 – 24 Aug 2018

with Diane Arbus, Yto Barrada, Aneta Bartos, William Christenberry, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, Paul Graham, Peter Hujar, Richard Learoyd, Susan Paulsen, Irving Penn …
We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
6 Sep 2014 – 20 Sep 2015

with Michiko Kon, Yayoi Kusama, Yasumasa Morimura, Daido Moriyama, Takashi Murakami, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Miwa Yanagi
To the North, From Here

Watarium Museum, Tokyo (JP)
25 Jan 2015 – 10 May 2015

with Naoki Ishikawa
Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children

Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya (JP)
8 Nov 2014 – 23 Dec 2014

with Christian Boltanski, Rineke Dijkstra, Lewis Hine, In Sook Kim, Akino Kondoh, Jacob Riis, Fiona Tan, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Santeri Tuori, Won Seoung Won, O Zhang
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950

Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
12 Jul 2014 – 12 Oct 2014

with Roy Arden, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Monica Bonvicini, Mircea Cantor, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Bruce Conner, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Sam Durant, Harold E. Edgerton, Dara Friedman …
Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
31 May 2014 – 31 Aug 2014

with Christian Boltanski, Rineke Dijkstra, Lewis Hine, In Sook Kim, Akino Kondoh, Jacob Riis, Fiona Tan, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Santeri Tuori, Won Seoung Won, O Zhang
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan

Section 1: Reality/Ordinary world<br>Section 2: Imaginary world/ Phantasms

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RU)
14 Mar 2012 – 6 May 2012

with Makoto Aida, Takashi Homma, Yayoi Kusama, Yasumasa Morimura, Takashi Murakami, Hiraki Sawa, Toshio Shibata, Lieko Shiga, Tadasu Takamine
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Hara Museum Contemp Art, Tôkyô (JP)
14 Jan 2011 – 8 May 2011

with William Kentridge, Yasumasa Morimura, Pipilotti Rist, Tabaimo, Miwa Yanagi
What's Interesting About Japanese Contemporary Art?

Hara Museum Arc, Tôkyô (JP)
12 Sep 2009 – 23 Nov 2009

with Yasumasa Morimura, Tabaimo, Miwa Yanagi
Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IL)
16 Dec 2005 – 10 Jun 2006

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, Yoshihiro Suda
Unheimlich Jung

Kinder und Jugendliche in der zeitgenössischen Kunst

kunsthaus kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren (DE)
2 Dec 2005 – 19 Feb 2006

with Bernhard Fuchs, Katharina Mayer, Alex Morrison, Santeri Tuori
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art From East Asia

Mori Art Museum, Tôkyô (JP)
29 Mar 2005 – 19 Jun 2005

with Xu Bing, SONG Dong, LEE Mingwei, Yoshihiro Suda
Skin

Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Firenze (IT)
3 Mar 2005 – 30 Apr 2005

with Vanessa Beecroft, Robert Gligorov, Nan Goldin, Shirin Neshat, Raymond Pettibon
Piss Off

International Artists United by a Heavy Dose of Attitude

Museum of New Art (mona), Pontiac (US)
2 Oct 2004 – 31 Oct 2004

with Doug Aitken, Yolanda Andrade, GAO Bo, Pablo Cabado, Christina Calderón, Maurizio Cattelan, Douglas Gordon, Rip Hopkins, Mike Kelley, Zofia Kulik, Sean Landers, Sarah Lucas …
Eijanaika!Yes future! Post-twentieth Century Japan

Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)
9 Jul 2004 – 10 Oct 2004

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Amy Granat, Eikoh Hosoe, Youmei Kawai, Yayoi Kusama, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami, Rika Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Tsuyoshi Ozawa …
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Neues Museum, Nürnberg (DE)
27 Jul 2004 – 1 Oct 2004

with Markéta Othová
Non-Sect Radical-Contemporary Photography III

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (JP)
17 Jul 2004 – 20 Sep 2004

with David Claerbout, Mao Ishikawa, Steve McQueen, Anri Sala, Ahlam Shibli, Keiji Tsuyuguchi, Tomoko Yoneda
Dog Days of Summer

Img.: Hermaphrodite with Dog, 1968. UCR/CMP University Print Collection

UCR ARTS , Riverside (US)
3 Jun 2004 – 17 Sep 2004

with Diane Arbus, Roger Ballen, Jo Ann Callis, Manuel Carrillo, Will Connell, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, John Hesketh, Takeshi Kainuma, Thomas McGovern, Susan Meiselas, Edgar Mendoza …
Biennale

Museum of New Art (mona), Pontiac (US)
15 May 2004 – 26 Jun 2004

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Janine Antoni, Nobuyoshi Araki, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Oliver Boberg, Monica Bonvicini, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, John Coplans, Tacita Dean …
Trauer

Augarten Contemporary Belvedere, Wien (AT)
16 Apr 2003 – 31 Aug 2003

with Bas Jan Ader, Tacita Dean, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, William Kentridge, Zoran Naskovski

Events

PAN Amsterdam 2021

fair of today for art, antiques and design

PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL)
14 Nov 2021 – 21 Nov 2021

with Jan Banning, Valerie Belin, Hans Bellmer, Tom Blachford, Kim Boske, Eelco Brand, Casper Faassen, Rene Groebli, Ilanit Illouz, Max Kraanen, Ilona Langbroek, Terry O'Neill …
Art Basel Miami Beach 2018

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (US)
6 Dec 2018 – 9 Dec 2018

with Ignasi Aballi, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Darren Almond, Darren Almond, Erica Baum, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Dirk Braeckman, Kwame Brathwaite, Nancy Burson …
12th Gwangju Biennale

Imagined Borders

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
7 Sep 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Francis Alys, Halil Altindere, Leonor Antunes, Alexander Apostol, Marwa Arsanios, Kader Attia, Lara Baladi, Yto Barrada, Louidgi Beltrame, Zach Blas, Alex Buldakov, Tiffany Chung …
daikanyama photo fair 2018

Fine-Art Photo Association, Tokyo (JP)
28 Sep 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

with Teiji Furuhashi, Candida Hoefer, Naohiro Harada, Ryuichi Ishikawa, Mao Ishikawa, Geraldine Kang, Tomoko Kawai, Takashi Kawashima, Keizo Kitajima, Fusako Kodama, Yasumasa Morimura, Keizo Motoda …
Non-Sect Radical-Contemporary Photography III

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (JP)