Chronology

1947 - Born in Ehime, Japan
1969 - BFA, Chuo Bijutsu Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and Works in Tokyo

Publications

2023 -
"THE GYNOIDS LUVTRONIX", Koutoku-sha
"Hajime Sorayama", TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2023, Innen Zine
2022 -
"GIGER SORAYAMA by H. R. Giger, Hajime Sorayama", KALEIDOSCOPE
"TOKYO SWEET GWENDOLINE" Kawade Shobo Shinsha
"DOMINATRIX HEAVEN," Kawade Shobo Shinsha
2020 - "SORAYAMA", Sakuhin-sha
2017 - "COMPLETE MASTERWORKS", Edition SKYLIGHT, Switzerland
2016 - "Hajime Sorayama SPECIAL EDITION", HIOSHINA
2015 - "HAJIME SORAYAMA SEXY ROBOT GIGANTES", Genkosha
2014 -
"PuSSyCaT!KiLL!KiLL!KiLL!", Editions Treville
"XL Sorayama masterworks", Edition SKYLIGHT, Switzerland
2013 - "Vibrant Vixens", Edition SKYLIGHT, Switzerland
2010 - "Sorayama masterworks", Edition SKYLIGHT, Switzerland
2006 -
"Relativision", Graphic-sha
"SORAYAMA:SECRETS REVEALED"(DVD), Airbrush Action, US
2003 - "LATEX GALATEA", Editions Treville
2002 -
"VENOM", Graphic-sha
"The Gynoids The Storage Box", Editions Treville
2001 - "SORAYAMA COMPLETE WORKS", Edition SKYLIGHT, Switzerland
2000 -
"Sorayamart", Soleil Production, France
"Sorayama, Moira", Editions Kunst der Comisc Gmbh, Germany
"METALLICON", Sakuhin-sha
"The Gynoids-reborn", Editions Treville
"The Gynoids-Genetically Manipilated", Editions Treville
1999 - "SORAYAMA 1964-1999", Sakuhin-sha
1998 -
"Sorayama 1964-1999: The complete works of Hajime Sorayama", Sakuhin-sha
"Torquere", Sakuhin-sha
1997 -
"NĀGA", Sakuhin-sha
"Sorayama, Call in Beauties", Bijutsu Shuppan-sha
"SORAYAMA VOLUME II CD-Rom", MSD-Japan
1996 -
"Lithograph", Robert Bane Editions, US
"SORAYAMA VOLUME I CD-Rom", MSD-Japan
"Silver & Satin", Comic Image, US
1995 -
"HAJIME SORAYAMA Collector Cards 2", Comic Image, US
Beginning of monthly publication of works by SORAYAMA in Penthouse Magazine
1994 -
"HAJIME SORAYAMA Collector Cards", Comic Image, US
"Lithograph", Robert Bane Editions, US
Special Sorayama article appeared in the Silver Anniversary issue of Penthouse Magazine
1993 -
"THE GYNOIDS", Sakuhin-sha
"HAJIME SORAYAMA Collector Cards", Comic Image, US
1992 - "Hyper Illustrations 2", Bijutsu Shuppan-sha
1989 -
"Hyper Illustrations", Bijutsu Shuppan-sha
"HAJIME SORAYAMA", Tschen, Germany
1988 - "Poster Book SEXY ROBOT", Tschen, Germany
1985 -
"Venus Odyssey", Tokuma communications
"Illustration Video", Fuji Television
1984 - "Pinup", Graphic-sha
1983 - "Sexy Robot", Graphic-sha

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 - "Desire Machines", Museum of Sex Miami, Miami, FL, US
2023 -
"Space Travelers", CICA Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, CA
"Space Traveler", NANZUKA UNDER GROUND, Tokyo, Japan
"Solo Show", AISHO NANZUKA, Central, Hongkong
2022 -
"H.R. Giger X Sorayama: Approaching", UCCA Lab, Bejin, Chaina
"CYBER LADIES’ WORLD", Almine Rech, Paris, France
2021 -
"SORAYAMA SHARK", chi K11 art space, Guangzhou, China
"Metropolis", HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"Dinosauria", NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan
2020 -
"SEX MATTER", NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan
"TREX", NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan
2019 - "SORAYAMA Space Park", Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
2018 -
"Sorayama Explosion 💥", NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan
"editions", AISHONANZUKA, Central, HongKong
2017 -
"Sawasdee Sexy Robot by Hajime Sorayama", EchoOne ArtSpace, Bangkok, Thailand
"Club Sorayama", LANDMARK, Central, Hong Kong
"Hajime Sorayama's EXPO", Wrong Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 -
"XLARGE × HAJIME SORAYAMA", XLARGE HARAJUKU, Tokyo, Japan
"Sorayama", Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY, US
"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine.", NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan
2015 -
"Hajime Sorayama editions", AISHONANZUKA, Central, Hong Kong
"Hajime Sorayama's Solo Exhibition", Little High, Tokyo, Japan
"HAJIME SORAYAMA - PRINT SHOW", FIFTY24SF GALLERY, San Francisco, CA, US
2014 -
"Stussy Guest Artist Series - HAJIME SORAYAMA Exhibition Curated by NANZUKA", STUSSY HARAJUKU CHAPTER, Tokyo, Japan
2013 -
"Solo Exhibition", AISHONANZUKA, Central, Hong Kong
"HAJIME SORAYAMA x graniph Exhibition", graniph Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 -
"HAJIME SORAYAMA : 1970-2010", Gering & Lopeg Gallery, New York, NY, US
"Sexcetra" aired on Playboy TV
"NEO DISCIPLINE", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Neo Japonism & Obsession", TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS/B GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2010 -
"Solo Exhibition", NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo, Japan
"Giclee World", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 -
Opera Gallery, New York, NY, US
"Sorayama Exhibitions", WEAM Museum, South Beach, FL, US
2007 - "EROTOVISION", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome, Italy
2005 -
"HYSTERICMINI 20years Annibersary ART EXHIBITION", Tokyo & Osaka, Japan / HongKong
Show Room, New York, NY, US

2003 - "HAJIME SORAYAMA-THE EXHIBITION-", Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan
2002 - Bape Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999 - Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels, CA, US
1998 -
Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels, CA, US
ECR, Cologne, Germany
1994 -
UP'S Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels, CA, US
The Castlegate Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, US
1988 - The Seibu Department Store Gallery, Hakodate, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 - "STAR WARS EXHIBITION ”PASSION STRENGTH POWER”", PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
2023 -
"MODERN TIMES in Paris 1925: Art and Design in the Machine-age", Pola Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
" 三代目彫よし × 空山基『弧狼展』", ART GALLERY DOGENZAKA, Tokyo, Japan
"The Essentials of KINBAKU ART", Vanilla Gallery、Tokyo、Japan
"HAKKOU", MERRY ART GALLERY, Kanagawa, Japan
2022 -
"Dominatrix Heaven", Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Mickey Mouse Now and Future", Seoul Art Centre, Hangaram Art Museum, Seol, Korea
"Group show ‘for TZ’ ", NANZUKA UNDRGROUND, Tokyo, Japan
"My Pick - organized in association with CaM by Muuseo -", CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
"Mickey Mouse Now and Future", Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan
2021 -
"Mickey Mouse Now and Future", PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
"POP-ING NANZUKA at AKI Gallery", AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 -
"H.R.GIGER x SORAYAMA", PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
"Underground of Diversity", Art Basel Miami Beach Online 2020
"Global POP UNDERGROUND", PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
"JP POP UNDERGROUND", Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan
2019 -
"Arsham Sorayama", NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan
"TOKYO POP UNDERGROUND", Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA, US
"TOKYO POP UNDERGROUND", Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY, US
"Span Art Gallery Collection", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"MUZAN -cruel and beauty-", VANILLA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"MSD - Global POP Wave in the 21st Century", CAC Málaga, Malaga, Spain
"I draw", D MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea
"PEOPLE", Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA, US
"Taipei Dangdai", Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 -
"Bubble wrap", Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
"COOL JAPAN", TROPEN MUSEUM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Tokyo Sweet Gwendoline", VANILLA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"Exhibition of Mythical beast V", Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo, Japan
"AAF 7th Exhibition", Yamawaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"【第二回】丘の上の秘宝の間 ~ アートでできた秘宝館 ~ ", MERRY ART GALLERY, Kanagawa, Japan
"EROTIC ART and ESOTERICISM", Vanilla gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"The 30th Contemporary Art Exhibition", Imabari Kono Museum, Ehime, Japan
2017 -
"Exhibition of Mythical beast IV", Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo, Japan
"Alice", ROPPONGI STRIPE'S SPACE, Tokyo, Japan
"Blood and Roses", SPAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"AUTOMOBILE ART FEDERATION(AAF)", YAMAWAKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"ARRIVAL XX PLANET THE COLLECTION - EXHIBITION OF KAWS MURAKAMI TAKASHI’ S WORKS", Je Fine Art Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China
"The Encyclopedia of Masamichi Katayama ’Life is hard... Let's go shopping.’", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"THE UNIVERSE AND ART", ARTSCIENCE MUSEUM, Singapore
"Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine", Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
"TENGAI 3.0"(Traveling exhibition), hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO,Tokyo, Japan
"The 29th Contemporary Art Exhibition", Kono Art Museum, Imabari City, Ehime, Japan
" 頹恋期 ", Mangasick, Taiwan
2016 -
"DESIRE", Moore Building, Miami, FL, US
"It's a Sony", Sony Building, Tokyo, Japan
"TENGAI 3.0", hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK, New York, NY, US
"The Universe and Art", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Cosmic Fusion 4", O Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"TRIBUTE TO KOW YOKOYAMA", TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan
"ALLOY & PEACE", Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2015 -
"Unorthodox", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, US
"Exhibition of Mythical beast II", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan
"MEDICOM TOY EXHIBITION '15", PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
"The Aesthetics of Fantasy - Japanese Erotica in Contemporary Art", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan
"Here is ZINE tokyo 10", Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan
"FELIX THE CAT - Cats Out Of The Bag", SLOW CULTURE, Los Angeles, CA, US
"Art Stage Singapore", Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore
2014 -
"LEATHER JAPAN", New York, NY, US
"The Destruction Of Experience:Amalia Ulman + HAJIME SORAYAMA Exhibition", Evelyn Yard, London, UK
"JAPAN EROTICA", Musee de lerotisme, Paris, France
"with Hello Kitty", MDP GALLERY/SPACE M, Tokyo, Japan
"Pussycat! Kill! Kill! kill!", Vanilla Gallery / Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"O's story", billiken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"atrocity beauty", Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"HORIYOSHI THE THIRD x Hajime Sorayama", Galleria Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
"KITAHARA COLLECTION", Takamatsu city museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
"PARAMOUNT RANCH", PARAMOUNT RANCH, CA, US
Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 -
"The Pop Surrealism Show", Opera Gallery, New York, NY, US
"UKIYOE Roman Exhibition", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"ALICE Fantasy tale exhibition", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan
2012 -
"Cosmic Fusion III", O museum, Tokyo, Japan
"The ObsessionArt 5th Anniversary Exhibition", The Gallery in Cork Street, London, UK
"Artist's book by Treville 1985-2012", Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Monster", billiken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Japanese Erotic Artsts", Jinbocho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 -
"MEDICOM TOY 15th ANNIVERSARY", PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
"Here is ZINE tokyo 2", Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan
"Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art 40th Anniversary Special Exhibition", Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
"Märchenism", The Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 -
"CODE : EROTICA", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan
"Dazzling Contemporary Art Collection of Teruhisa Kitahara", Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 - "Almost There" Time Tunnel Series Vol.29, G8, Tokyo, Japan
2008 -
"CARNIVORA", FUSE Gallery, New York, NY / L'Imagerie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / CPOP Gallery, Detroit, MI, US
2007 - 20th Anniversary Exhibitions "Graphics & Messages", Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 - Ginza Recruit Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005 - "Winter Invitational", Art At Large, New York, NY, US
1997 - "Forum--Gelande", Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
1989 - "Ferrari Hall", Munich, Germany

Awards

2001 - Inventor's Award - Asahi newspaper
1999 - Good Design Grand Prize Award
1999 - Media Art Festival Grand Prize Award
1996 - Vargas Award

Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
Smithsonian Institute of Technology Museum. Washington DC, US
World Erotic Art Museum, Miami, FL, US
US Library of Congress, Washington DC, US

Books from Hajime SORAYAMA