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Blum & Poe : Yoshitomo Nara and Installation by YNG - 20 Dec 2008 to 7 Feb 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Yoshitomo Nara and Installation by YNG December 20, 2008 - February 7, 2009 Opening Reception: December 20, 2008 6-8pm YOSHITOMO NARA Biography Born: Hirosaki, Japan, 1959 Education: Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, B.F.A., Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, Japan Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, M.F.A., Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, Japan Kunstakademie D�sseldorf, D�sseldorf, Germany Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan One-Person Exhibitions 2008 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK 2007 NARA + GRAF, Centro de Arte Contempor�neo de M�laga, Spain Berlin Baracke, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany 2006 Moonlight Serenade, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa,Japan A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Hirosaki, Japan Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland 2005 Home, graf gm, Osaka, Japan Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Over the Rainbow: Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (travelling to the K21, D�sseldorf, Germany) Bridge, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan ) 2004 Yoshitomo Nara, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Keiner & Meyer, Wien, Austria Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany Yoshitomo Nara: new works 2004, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (travelling to Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, San Jose Museum of Art, NM, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI throughout 2004/2005) S.M.L., Graf Media GM, Osaka, Japan Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany New Drawings 2003, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo The Good, the Bad, the Average.... and Unique, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Stephen Friedman, London, UK 2002 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Who Snatched the Babies, cneai, Chatou, France 12 Etchings, Spaceforce, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Nara Yoshitomo: in those days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan I Don�t Mind, If You Forget Me, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Japan (travels to Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Ashiya City Museum of Art, Asahikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Aomori Museum of Art) (cat.) Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings, Collette, Paris, France Clear For Landing, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany In the White Room, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK In the Empty Fortress, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Koln, Germany Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Walk on, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 1999 Done Did, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Happy Hour, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Somebody, Whispers in Nurnberg, Institut fur Moderne Kunst N�rnberg, N�rnberg, Germany (cat.) Pave Your Dreams, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA Walking Alone, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) In the Floating World, Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan No, They Didn�t, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1998 Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (cat.) 1997 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Lonesome Puppy, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Drawing Days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany 1996 Galerie Johnen & Schottle (with Karen Kilimnik), Koln, Germany Lonesome Puppy, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hothouse Fresh, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (cat.) Empty Surprise, Artium, Fukuoka, Japan 1995 Cup Kids, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA In The Deepest Puddle, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) Nothing Gets Me Down, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) Oil on Canvas, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan (cat.) Project for Gunma, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan 1994 lonesome babies, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (cat.) Hula Hula Garden, Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Christmas For Sleeping Children, Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka, Japan (cat.) 1993 Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Koln, Germany Be Happy, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo, Japan (cat.) 1992 Loft Gallery, Deventer, Netherlands Drawings, Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1991 Harmlos, Galerie im Kinderspielhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany cogitationes cordium, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1990 Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1989 Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart, Germany 1988 innocent being, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo, Japan Goethe Institut, D�sseldorf, Germany 1985 Recent Works, Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya, Japan 1984 Wonder Room, Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya, Japan It�s a Little Wonderful House, Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Group Exhibitions 2007 Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition, New Art Gallery, Walsall; touring to Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth; Tullie House, Carlisle Pretty Baby, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX The Door into Summer, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels Bernard Vuffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan Silly Adult, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Portrait Session, NADiff, Tokyo; touring to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Summer Show, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2006 Kiss Kiss, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai, Bangkok, Thailand Long Live Sculpture!, Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Middelheim, Belgium A Magical Life, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan 10th Anniversary, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China 35 40� N 139 45� E Tokyo, Archeus, London Talking Pictures, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany 2005 Yokohama International Triennial, Yokohama, Japan Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Little Boy: Pop Culture in Japan, Japan Society, New York, NY (curated by Takashi Murakami) (cat.) Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland 2004 Art Cologne 2004: over the rainbow: Yoshitomo Nara and Horoshi Sugito, galerie zink & gegner, Munich, Germany Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Somewhere�Yoshitomo Nara and Horoshi Sugito, galerie zink & gegner, Munich, Germany Hirsohi Sugito and Yoshitomo Nara, Museum of Art Den Haage, Den Haage, Netherlands 2003 Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Center, Tokyo, Japan Supernova: Art of the 1990�s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco, CA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Nichijyou Seikatsu, Speak For, Tokyo, Japan FOIL, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Painting in Our Time, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Kids Are Us, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy Trauer/GRIEF, Atelier Augarten Zentrum f�r zeitgen�ssische Kunst der �sterreichischen Galerie Belvedere Wien, Austria girls don�t cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan Ninos, Centro de Art de Salamanca, Spain M_ARS- ART AND WAR, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (curated by Valerie Cassel) (travels) (cat.) The Japanese Experience - Inevitable, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (curated by Vicky Clark and Barbara Bloemink) (cat.) 2002 Weiche Bruche. Japan, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany BABEL 2002, National Museum of Conetemporary Art, Seoul, Korea JAM: TOKYO - LONDON, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Fragile Figures, Palette School, Tokyo, Japan The Doraemon, Suntory Museum, Tokyo, Japan Bokura no Hero and Heroine, Otaru City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan Backspace Drawing Days, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, Queens, New York 2001 Neo-Tokyo Japanese Art Now, MCA, Australia Mr., Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito, Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Masahiko Kuwahara, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Takashi Murakami/Yoshitomo Nara, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan JAM: TOKYO - LONDON, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA My Reality: My Reality and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO (curated by Jeff Fleming) (cat.) Superflat, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA (curated by Takashi Murakami) (travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle) (cat.) Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, P.S.1, Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (traveled to Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) 2000 The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (cat.) Presumed Innocent, Capc, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France Trading Views, Stadtgalerie Saarbruecken, Germany / stadtische Galerie, Erlangen/ Municipal Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands Kinder des 20.jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg / Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz, Germany Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (traveled to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ) �00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY Dark Mirrors of Japan, de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (cat.) Gendai, Center For Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Superflat, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (curated by Takashi Murakami) (cat.) Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany Viewing Path, Saarbrucken Staatgalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany 1999 Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Forget about the ball and get on with the play, Kunsthalle N�rnberg, N�rnberg, Germany New Modernism for a New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish, or Both, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO Tendance, Abbaye Saint-Andre Centre d�art Contemporain, Meymac, France It�s an animal world, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Art/Domestic, Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (curated by Takashi Azumaya), (cat.) 1998 The Manga Age, Museum of Contemporary Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) 1997 Dream of Existence, Municipal Museum of Art, Budapest, Hungary Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Drawing Show, Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands (with Henk Visch) Galerie & Ediciones Ginkgo, Madrid, Spain VOCA, The Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1996 Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka City, Japan (cat.) Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan (cat.) Kind of Blue, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan 1995 Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Drawing Chat (with Katsuhige Nakahashi), Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan Endless Happiness, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan Art x = @, SAM Museum, Osaka, Japan That Figures, Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Book and Weight, Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan POSITIV, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany D�sseldorf-anderer Ort, Orangerie Schloss Brake, Lemgo, Germany the future of paintings, 1995, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan Takeoffs, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan 1994 Gunma Biennale, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan my room is your room, 7th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Harvest �94, Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany Harvest Kempen-Nagoya (with Shiro Matsui), Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Art Against AIDS, Art Cologne, Koln, Germany 1993 Partners, Galerie d�Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands Harvest �93 (with Shiro Matsui), Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany In Situ, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Belgium 1992 Tijdelijk Asiel, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1991 4th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Electricity Museum Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan Pack, SA-IN Gallery, Pusan, Korea 1990 Brille, Galerie Pentagon, Koln, Germany Acqua Strana, Galerie Ulla Sommers, D�sseldorf, Germany 1989 Mensch und Technik, Nixdorf A.G., D�sseldorf, Germany 1988 Feeling House, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan |
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