Nobuyoshi ARAKI
荒木経惟
Araki was born in Shitaya-ku (now Taito-ku), Tokyo. Araki graduated from photography faculty at Chiba University and worked at advertising agency Dentsu as an commercial photographer. Here, Araki met his future wife, an essayist Yōko Araki. After they were married in 1971, Araki published a book of pictures of his wife taken during their honeymoon titled Sentimental Journey ( Yōko died in 1990). In 1972, Araki resigned from Dentsu and became a freelance photographer. His works are held in numerous museum collections including the Tate and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Publications
1970 - Zerokkusu Shashincho 1–25 = Xeroxed Photo Album 1–25
1971 - Senchimentaru na Tabi. Tokyo: self-published
1990 - Tokyo Lucky Hole 1983–1985 Shinjuku Kabuki-cho district. Tokyo: Ohta Shuppan
1993 - Shokuji = The Banquet. Tokyo: Magazine House
2016 - Sentimental Journy. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha
2005 - Self, Life, Death. New York: Phaidon
2014 - Photography for the Afterlife. Tokyo: Heibonsha
2017 - Tokyo. Munich: Pinakothek der Moderne; Only Photography
2014 - Araki by Araki (in English, French, and German). Cologne: Taschen
1971 - Senchimentaru na Tabi. Tokyo: self-published
1990 - Tokyo Lucky Hole 1983–1985 Shinjuku Kabuki-cho district. Tokyo: Ohta Shuppan
1993 - Shokuji = The Banquet. Tokyo: Magazine House
2016 - Sentimental Journy. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha
2005 - Self, Life, Death. New York: Phaidon
2014 - Photography for the Afterlife. Tokyo: Heibonsha
2017 - Tokyo. Munich: Pinakothek der Moderne; Only Photography
2014 - Araki by Araki (in English, French, and German). Cologne: Taschen
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005 - Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2006 - Implosion (Ten Year Anniversary), Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2008 - Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2009 - Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2010 - Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2015 - The Pistils Waltz, Gallery 51, Antwerp
2018 - The Incomplete Araki, Museum of Sex, New York City
2018 - Nobuyoshi Araki: KATA-ME, Rat Hole Gallery
2018 - Nobuyoshi Araki: Monstrous Paradise, RuArts Gallery, Moscow
2022 - Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma, Hamiltons Gallery, London
2006 - Implosion (Ten Year Anniversary), Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2008 - Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2009 - Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2010 - Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2015 - The Pistils Waltz, Gallery 51, Antwerp
2018 - The Incomplete Araki, Museum of Sex, New York City
2018 - Nobuyoshi Araki: KATA-ME, Rat Hole Gallery
2018 - Nobuyoshi Araki: Monstrous Paradise, RuArts Gallery, Moscow
2022 - Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma, Hamiltons Gallery, London
Awards
1999 - Oribe Award
2008 - Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
2011 - Ango Award
2013 - Mainichi Art Award
2008 - Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
2011 - Ango Award
2013 - Mainichi Art Award
Collections
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tate, London
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, UK
The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Tate, London
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, UK
The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
