CV Yoshitomo Nara : vgallery.co.za

Yoshitomo Nara ( 1959 -
Japan

Born 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan
Studies :
1998 Guest professor at U.C.L.A, USA 1993 Completed meisterschueler study at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf 1987 Completed the graduate school of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music 1985 Graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
Solo Exhibitions: (info. provided by www.vgallery.co.za)
2005	Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf & Pinakothek der Moderne, München
2004	Johnen+Schöttle, Köln Galerie Zink & Gegner, München Museum Nürnberg Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Gallery Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2003	Ikon Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Galerie Zink & Gegner, München
2002	Des Moines Art Center
2001	Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1999	Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Kunsthalle Nürnberg Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg The Ginza Art Space, Tokio Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokio Projektraum Berlin, Berlin
1998	Institut of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1997	Gallery Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, J Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, NL Galerie Michael Zink Regensburg
1996	Johnen & Schöttle, Köln Ferdinand van Dieten-d´Eendt, Amsterdam Empty Surprise, Art Gallery, Fukuoka Hothouse Fresh, Hakutosha, Nagoya Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Artium, Fukuoka, Japan Tomio Kuama Gallery, Tokio
1995	SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo Galerie humanite, Tokyo Galerie humanite, Nagoya Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, LA The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya
1994	Lonesome Babies, Hakutosha, Nagoya Hula Hula Garden, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam Christmas for sleeping children, Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka
1993	Johnen & Schöttle, Köln Galerie Humanite, Nagoya Galerie Humanite, Tokyo
1992	Loft Gallery, Deventer, Netherland Drawings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
1991	Harmlos, Kinderspielhaus, Düsseldorf Galerie Humanite, Nagoya; Galerie
1990	Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
1989	Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart
1988	Innocent being, Galerie humanite, Nagoya Galerie humanite, Tokyo Goethe Institut, Düsseldorf
Group Exhibitions :
2005	Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen Staatsgalerie Stuttgart James Hyman Fine Art, London
2004	Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2003	Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen Trauer, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie, Graz Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2002	Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany MoMA, Queens, New York
2001	Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany Barbican Centre, London Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Gwanju Art Museum, Korea Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2000	Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Parco Gallery, Tokyo De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France MuseumDe Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg/ Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan
1999	Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan Abbaye Saint-Andre Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
1998	Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan The Pusan Museum of Art, Pusan, Korea
1997	Municipal Museum of Art, Budapest, Hungary The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (with Henk Visch) Galerie & Ediciones Ginkgo, Madrid, Spain The Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1996	Düsseldorf - andere Orte, Orangerie Schloß Lemgo Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum TOKIO POP, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka City, Japan The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan
1995	Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan SAM Museum, Osaka, Japan Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan Gunma Biennale, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
1994	7th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Haus Bickdorf, Kempen Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1993	Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Haus Bockdorf, Kempen Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Belgium
Represented :
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan The Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San franciso, California The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg, Germany The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Nara's work is taken up in numerous Museums, private and corporate collections worldwide.
Awards :
1995 Award for Artists, Nagoya City
Publications :
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Laura Hoptman, 2002 Public Offerings, Matsui Midori, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Thames and Hudson, 2001 Painting At The Edge Of the World, Matsui Midori, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis My life as a dog, Stephan Trescher, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Kadokawa Shoten, 2001 In the Deepest Puddle, Kadokawa Shoten, 1997 Slash with a Knife, Little More, 1998 UKIYO, Little More, 1999 Lonesome Puppy, Magazine House, 1999

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