Nobuyoshi Araki is born in 1940 in Tokyo, Japan, where he lives and works. His father worked with photography and Araki shows his interest in this art form from an early age. In 1963 he obtains a master’s degree at Chiba University, where he studied photography and filmmaking and where he developed an interest in Italian Neo-Realist and French Nouvelle Vague films. This influence is clear Araki’s diaristic, erotically charged works, which are equally influenced by Japan’s urbanization and newfound commercialism after the Second World War, as well as in the artist’s stylistic references to Japanese toys, Karaoke bars, and other aspects of contemporary Japanese culture. In 1964 he won the prize for young photographers Taiyo and in 1965 he holds his first solo exhibition at Shinjuku Station Building in Tokyo. In 1971 he got married to Yoko Aoki and, from that moment, he will show a growing interest for the naked female body, subject which led him to achieve the fame. In 1981 he made his first and only film as director. Since the 80 he exhibits around the world and his work is appreciated by both audiences and critics.
Umegaoka Elegy - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI - Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid
LE PARADIS DE NOBUYOSHI ARAKI - galerie &co119, Paris
Araki.Tokyo - Pinakothek der Moderne, München
Nobuyoshi Araki. Il demone dell’Eros - De Primi Fine Art, Lugano
Nobuyoshi Araki - MIMOCA Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma, Kagawa
VINTAGE PRINTS - Taka Ishii Gallery, New York
Love-Dream, Love-Nothing - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Araki - I , Photography - Anton Kern Gallery, New York
The Incomplete Araki, Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki - Museum of Sex, New York
Between Love and Death: Diary of Nobuyoshi Araki - Deck, Singapore
KATA-ME - Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Impossible Love - Vintage Photographs - C/O Berlin
Araki Amore - Fondazione Sozzani, Milan.
Nobuyoshi Araki / Eroreal - Dom umenia/Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava
Nobuyoshi Araki - Photographoary: Photo-Mad Old Man A Turning 77 on 5.25.17 - Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo
Tombeau Tokyo - Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles
Tombeau Tokyo, Nobuyoshi Araki x Guimet Museum - Chanel Nexus, Tokyo
Kayuen - Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Photo Crazy A - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Sentimental Journey 1971-2017 - The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Clouds, Flowers & Nudes - Galerie Johannes Faber, Wien
Nobuyoshi Araki - A Desktop Paradise - Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki - Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Nobuyoshi Araki - Photo-Mad Old Man A 76th Birthday - Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Araki - Hiroshi Sugimoto - Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Araki Nobuyoshi - Calligraphy - Aura Gallery - Beijing, Beijing
Nobuyoshi Araki: Left Eye - L-Art Gallery, Chengdu, Sichuan
Araki - Eros Diary - Anton Kern Gallery, New York City, NY
Nobuyoshi Araki – Alluring Hell - Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Nobuyoshi Araki: Polaroids - Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Araki Nobuyoshi－Kekkai - Aura Gallery - Beijing, Beijing
Araki Ojo Shashu – Photography For The Afterlife: Alluring Hell - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
Nobuyoshi Araki Ōjō Shashū : Photography For The Afterlife - Easternsky, Paradise - Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Araki Nobuyoshi - Ōjō Shashū: Photography for the Afterlife - Love Journey - - Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata
Exposicion 93, 22 November 2013 – 2 March 2014, Centro Galego de Art Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Flowers & Mushrooms, 27 July – 27 October 2013, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Why not live for art? II, 13 July – 23 September 2013, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuyoshi Araki, 25 May – 22 June 2013, Taka Ishii Gallery, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuyoshi Araki, 2 May – 8 June 2013, Micheal Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
Nobuyoshi Araki: Bondages, 12 April – 31 May 2013, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Nobuyoshi Araki: Bondages, 12 April – 31 May 2013, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Portrait, Landscape & Still life, 21 March – 31 May 2013, Zonca & Zonca, Milan, Italy
Nobuyoshi Araki, 15 March – 13 April 2012, Zonca & Zonca, Milan, Italy
Rough, Blurred, and Out of Focus: Provoke Magazine and Postwar Japanese Photography, 3 January – 27 February 2012, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Nackt: Newton & Araki, 19 November 2011 – 19 February 2012, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Nobuyoshi Araki and Shiro Tsujimura: Work in Progress, 29 October 2011 – 5 March 2012, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Nobuyoshi Araki: Muses, 14 October 2011 – 26 November 2011, Galerie kamel Mennour, Paris, France
JAPAN 4, 10 October – 11 November 2011, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
FaR EasT, 15 September – 28 October 2011, Zonca & Zonca, Milan, Italy
Nobuyoshi Araki: Shiki-in (Color Eros), 9 September – 28 October 2011, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Art For Japan, 9 July – 27 August 2011, SOFA Gallery, Austin, USA
JAPANCONGO, 8 July – 14 August 2011, garage Center for Contemporary Cultur, Moscow, Russia
Japancongo, 6 February – 24 April 2011, Magasin, National Center of COntemporary Art Grenoble, France
Nobuyoshi Araki: Painted Photographs, 1 February – 4 March 2011, Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK
Images from a Floating World, 20 January – 5 March 2011, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, Chelsea, NY, USA