May 25th, 2009 by Monomono

Yoshitomo Nara is one of the most influential artists to emerge from Japan during the Pop art movement of the 1990s. Since his initial U.S. solo exhibition at Blum & Poe Gallery, he has had one-man shows at the Institut fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Yokohama Museum of Art. His work was included in “Super Flat” at the MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, and at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. He continues to live and work in Japan.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2010
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Asia Society, New York, NY (September; a catalogue will be published by Harry N. Abrams and the Asia Society for this exhibition)

2009
‘Walking in My Mind’ (group exhibition), Hayward Gallery, London, UK (6/23 – 9/6)
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2008
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
‘Yoshitomo Nara + graf’, BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Galerie Meyer & Kainer, Vienna, Austria
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Galerie Zink, Münich, Germany

2007
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany
‘Yoshitomo Nara + graf’, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, GEM – Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, The Netherlands
‘Yoshitomo Nara + graf: BARACKE’, Galerie Zink, Münich, Germany

2006
‘Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A to Z’, Yoshi Brick Brew House, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

2005
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
‘Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer’, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
‘Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens’, Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
‘Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow’, K21 (Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus), Düsseldorf, Germany

2004
‘Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow’, Pinakothek der Moderne, Münich, Germany
‘Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito: somewhere…’, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Münich, Germany
‘Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (traveled to Institute of Contemporay Art Philadelphia, PA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO)
‘Yoshitomo Nara: Nowhere Land’, Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany
‘Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer’, Kanazu Forest of Creation Museum, Hukui, Japan
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
‘Yoshitomo Nara: New Works 2004′, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2003
‘New Drawings’, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2002
‘Contemporary Drawings: Eight Propositions’ (group exhibition), MoMA QNS, NY
‘Yoshitomo Nara’, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2001
‘Yoshitomo Nara: in those days’, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
‘I Don’t Mind, If You Forget Me’, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (traveled to Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Ashiya City Museum of Art, Asahikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Aomori Museum of Art)
‘Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings’, Collette, Paris, France
‘Clear For Landing’, Galerie Michael Zink, Münich, Germany

2000
‘Lullaby Supermarket’, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
‘Walk on’, Museum of Contempoary Art Chicago, IL