1940 Born in Tokyo
1959 – 1963 Studied photography and film-making at Chiba University
1963 Graduates from the Department of Engineering at Chiba University; majored in Photography and Film Making
1964 First Taiyo Prize for “Satchin”
1963 – 1972 Worked at Dentsu Inc.
1974 Helped found the Workshop School of Photography
1976 Opened Nobuyoshi Araki School
1981 Opened Araki Limited Stock Company
1988 Opened AaT ROOM
1990 Shashin-no-kai Prize from the Photographic Society of Japan
1991 7th Higashikawa Prize
1994 Japan Inter-Design Forum Grand Prix
2008 Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Arts
Lives and works in Tokyo
Selected Exhibitions
2008 Nobuyoshi Araki – Hana Kinbaku, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto : Japanische Fotografie der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
2008 Photographers of Japanese Descent, Galerie Howard Greenberg, New York, USA
2008 Works, Galerie Aplanat für Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2008 Nobuyoshi Araki – Kinbaku, Galerie Jablonka, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008 Araki meets Hokusai, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
2008 Araki Gold, Palais Fontana dei Trevi, Rome, Italy (solo)
2008 Body Work, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
2008 Read my Lips, Peres Projects – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007 Blue Chips, Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna, Austria
2007 Pale Carnage, Dundee Contemporary Arts – DCA, Dundee, Scotland
2007 Nobuyoshi Araki, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2007 Revoir. Nobuyoshi Araki, Carte blanche, Galerie Mennour Kamel, Paris, France (solo)
2007 Nobuyoshi Araki – Diaries, Leica Galerie Wien Westlich, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2007 Araki – A la vie la mort, Musee de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium (solo)
2007 Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to now, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
2007 Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, London, UK
2007 Sus ojos les delatan, Foundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
2006 EROS in der kunst der moderne, foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
2006 INTO ME / OUT OF ME, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2006 Into me / out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York, USA
2006 Why pictures now, MUMUK Museum Moderner Kunst – Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2006 Noboyushi Araki, Taka Ishii gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2006 Nobuyoshi Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2006 Self.Life.Death, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, UK (solo)
2006 Tokyo/Sexteen 1969-1973, 1973, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (solo)
2006 Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
2006 Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo Berlin. Die Kunst Zweier Stadte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2006 La region humaine, Septembre de la photographie, Lyon, France
2006 Full House – Gesichter einer Sammlung, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2006 XX – Encontras de Fotografia, CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
2006 Der Verletzbare Körper, Forum für Fotographie, Cologne, Germany
2006 Polaroids, Galleria Ca di Fra, Milano, Itlaly (solo)
2006 FLUTTER, The Approach, London, England, UK (solo)
2006 Sweet Ecstasy, Nicola von Senger AG, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Polamaniacs, Photology, Milan, Italy
2005 Rising Sun, Melting Moon – Contemporary Art from Japan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005 Blumenmythos-Van Gogh bis Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
2005 Contemporanea, Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain
2005 Le Confort Moderne, Poitier, France
2005 Awakening, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005 Der fotografierte Mensh, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
2005 Selections from the Hara Museums permanent collection, Hara Museum of contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005 The Ancient Sound of the Image, Palazzo Fontana dei Trevi Rome, Italy
2005 Arakinema, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
2005 Palais de Tokyo, Paris (performance) (solo)
2005 Araki, Michael Hoppen Photography, London, England, UK (solo)
2005 Nobuyoshi Araki por Adriana Varejï¿1⁄2o, Galeria Fortes Vilaï¿1⁄2a, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2005 Nobuyoshi Araki, Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
2005 Nobuyoshi Araki Tokyo Nude, Yoshii Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2005 Nudes, Galleria Anna dï¿1⁄2Ascanio, Rome, Italy (solo)
2004 Nobuyoshi Araki, De Hallen.Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (solo)
2004 Hana Jinsei, Kitano Cultural Center, Nagano, Japan (solo)
2004 Painting Flower, Epson imaging gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2004 Polaraki, Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2004 Nobuyoshi Araki, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2004 EIJANAIKA! YES FUTURE! – Le Japon post XXe siecle, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2004 Akimahen, Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille, France
2004 Tokio Comedy, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
2004 Polanographs , Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Polanographs + Classics, Galerie Mï¿1⁄2llerwitt, Aarhus C, Denmark
2004 From Winter to Spring , Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Araki by Araki: the photographer’s personal selection, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Love by Leica, Leica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Wachstum, Schöheit und Vergänglichkeit, Munich, Germany
2003 Nobuyoshi Araki, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
2003 Nobuyoshi Araki, Zonca&Zonca, Milano, Italy
2003 Nobuyoshi Araki, Krisal Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Mon journal – photopainting, galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France (solo)
2003 Nobuyoshi Araki, Il tempo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2003 Tokyo still life, Tampereen Taidemuseo, Finland (solo)
2003 Nabuyoshi Araki, Refex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2002 La nature morte au Japon, Maison de la Photographie, Moscow, Russia (solo)
2002 Araki Retrospective, a-d Miami, Miami, USA
2002 Oeil pour oeil, figures de l’art contemporain, Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
2002 Araki in Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, Italy
2002 Seoul Novel-Tokyo Story, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Corea
2001 Vintage prints and early works, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2001 Tokyo Still Life, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, UK
2001 Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bolzano, Italy; Rupertinum in Salzburg, Austria
2001 The body and the sin, Valencia Biennale, Valencia, Spain
2001 Fact of Love, Hayward Gallery, London, England, UK
2001 Ganjin and photographers from the world, Matsuzakaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 See, Take a picture, Express, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Promiscuous Flowers – Robert Mapplethorpe & Nobuyoshi Araki, Niitsu City Museum, Niigata, Odakyu Museum, Shinjuku, Japan
2001 Strategoes-photography of the nineties, Kunsthalle in Kiel, Germany
2001 Kaei, Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Kakyoku, Hanasakan, Kagoshima, Japan
2001 Shikijyo kyo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Shosetsu Seoul, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Uen Yanaka Biyori, Gallery J2, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2001 Shosetsu Seoul, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2001 Nobuyoshi Araki, Il tempo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2001 Nobuyoshi Araki, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2000 Sentimental Journey, Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi, Prato, Italy
2000 Erotos, OP fotogallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
2000 Shashin-shijo-shugi, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2000 Porivacy, Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2000 Photo Poche, La Camera, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2000 Nobuyoshi Araki, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium (solo)
2000 Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (solo)
2000 Nobuyoshi Araki, Damasquine Art Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo)
2000 Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France (solo)
2000 Fussa Love, Galerie Les Trois Agneaux (solo)
2000 The arsfuturashow, Ars Futura galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 Bourgeois Hero, Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy Rebecca Camhi, Athens, Greece
2000 Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen -Cities of 21st Century, Bauhaus, Germany
2000 Dessau Foundation and Siemens Kultur Programme, Munich, Germany
2000 Copenhagen Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids 1971-74, New works by Nobuyoshi Araki and Saul Fletcher, Yayoi Kusama Walking Piece 1966, Gallery Asprey Jacques, London, UK
2000 Yume no ato-What remained of the dream…, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
2000 Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsiaw, Poland
2000 Racolta della Forografia Contemporanea, Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy
2000 XL Photography, Deutsche Borse AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2000 Nobuyoshi Araki, Griedervonputtkamer Galerie, Berlin
2000 Voyage sentimental, Centre national de la photographie, Paris, France
1999 Araki Nobuyoshi Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Nobuyoshi Araki: 1969-1999, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
1999 Get Together-Art as Teamwork, Kunsthalle Wien am Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
1999 Love and Desire, Galleria Photology, Milano, Italy
1999 Change of Scene XV, Musuem fÃ1⁄4r Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1999 Spiral TV, collaboration with Vanessa Beecroft, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Miyajima, Araki, Sugimoto, Kusama, Studio Casoli&Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy
1999 Attack, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 Exposition de la collection de la Fondation Cartier, Centre culturel de Belm, Lisbon, Portugal
1999 Collected Works I: Contemporary Art since 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
1999 Tachikawa International Art Festival ’99, Tachikawa, Japan
1999 Nobuyoshi Araki, Scalo Art Space, New York, USA (solo)
1999 Ryu u Seki, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1999 ALive, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
1999 Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
1999 Polaroids, Gandy Gallery, Praha (solo)
1999 1973-1999, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1999 Nobuyoshi Araki, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
1999 Araki Nobuyoshi, Il Tempo, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1999 Touren, Toru Maeshima Gallery, Wakayama, Japan (solo)
1998 The Past-Fotoarbeiten 1972-73, Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, Germany (solo)
1998 Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo, Stadtisches Klinikum Fulda, Germany (solo)
1998 Portraits and Flowers, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1998 Tokyo Nostalgia, Galleria Photology, London, UK (solo)
1998 Arakinema: Taipei, Yomiuri Culture Salon Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
1998 Arakinema: Erotic Women in Color, Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Thailand (solo)
1998 Story Portraits, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)
1998 Filtre, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
1998 Love in Winter-with Boris Mikhailov, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Nuit Blanche, Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Bergen Billedgalleri Rasmus Meyers Samlinger, Bergen, Norway; Porin TaideMuseo, Pori, Finland; Goeteborgs Konstmuseum, Goeteborg, Sweden
1998 Life, Border, Line – Struth, Penone, Hohenbuchler, Jacobs, Araki, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Araki VS. Weegee, Gallery Ham, Nagoya, Japan
1998 Searching for the Future Photography, EpSite, Epson Imaging Gallery, Shinjuku, Japan
1998 Hiroshige and Araki, Japonisme Museum, Atami, Shizuoka, Japan
1998 Printemps de Cahors-Photographie & Arts Visuels, Cahors, France
1998 Fuori Uso: 1998-Mostrato, Assozione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara, Italy
1998 Cho nichijo (Sur-eeryday-life), Shanghai Art Musem, Shanghai, China
1998 1998 Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 Car Culture in Photographs of 20th Century, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
1998 Photographic Diaries, Zagreb Art Pavillion, Croatian Photographic Union, Zagreb, Croatia
1998 Illusionary Botanical Garden, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Japan
1998 The Promise of Photography: The DG Bank Collection, Hara Musem of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Fetishes & Fetishism, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
1998 Life is a Bitch, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo: Roteiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998 Under/Exposed, Tunnelbana Metro U-bahn, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Cosmosco, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Shijyo Tokyo: Markt der Gefühle, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1997 Nobuyoshi Araki, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 Flower Rondo, JM Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 A World of Girls, Il Temp, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Floating Images of Women in Art History: From the Birth of Feminism towards the Reconstruction of Gender, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
1997 Elvis+Marilyn:2 x Immortal, Sogo Museum, Yokohama, Japan
1997 The 33rd ‘Artists Today’ Exhibition: City Landscapes and Unity in the Plurality, Yokohama Citizen’s Gallery, Japan
1997 Cities on the Move:, WienerSecesion, Vienna, Austria; capc Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; PS1, New York USA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; KIASMA Helsinki, Finland
1997 Kain (Sensual Flowers), with Yukio Nakagawa, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Nobuyoshi Araki, Dianne Arbus, Nan Goldin, Sammlung Goetz Munich, Germany
1997 Lust und Leere (Desire and the Void), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Austria; Arken Museum für Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
1997 10th International Biennial of the Image, Nancy Center Culturel, Andre Malraux Vandoeuvre, Nancy, France
1997 Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
1997 Du Construit, du paysage, Centre Regional d’art contemporain, Sete, France
1997 Polaero, with Larry Clark, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Sasame Hiroyuki, c/o Hara, 2nd Floor, 4-3-3 Kita Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Art Tower Mito, Obaragi, Japan
1997 Shashin (Photos), Kobe Fashion Musuem, Kobe; Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1997 A’s Life, Kachimai Hall, Obihiro; La Foret Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1997 Shikijyo, Scalo Book Store, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1997 Araki Retrographs, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (solo)
1997 Tokyo Comedy, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria (solo)
1997 Arakinema: Love Secession, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria (solo)
1997 Arakinema: Vienna and Tokyo Paradise, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1997 Nobuyoshi Araki, Gallery Starmach, Krakow, Poland (solo)
1997 Nobuyoshi Araki, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy (solo)
1996 Death Reality, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996 The Past 1972-1973, Stadtsparkasse Münster, Germany (solo)
1996 Flowers: Life and Death, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996 Tokyo Novel, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996 Kain (Shadows of Flowers), Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996 Bokujukitan, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1996 Arakinema: Novel Photography, Studio Mouris Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996 Arakinema: Flower Rondo II, Areana Hall, Tamagawa Takshimaya SC, Japan (solo)
1996 Fake Love, Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996 The Face, The Dead, Pace Wildenstein and Macgill, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1996 A moment in Time, Espace Tag Heuyer, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996 From Close Range, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1996 Private Tokyo, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
1996 Kingdom of Flora, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1996 Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996 Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1996 Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Larry Clark, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1996 A Girl floating in the Cosmos, with Gozo Yoshimasu, Marilia and Kazutoki Umezu, Kouchi Prefectural Musuem Hall, Kouchi, Japan
1996 Private Tokyo, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996 Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Araki and Ten Contemporary Tanka Poets, Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Nobuyoshi Araki & Michiko Kon, Center for Photography, Carmel, USA
1996 Images of Woman in Japanese Contemporary Photography 1930- 1990, Shoutou Musuem, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Face vs Nude, Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Sensual Flowers, Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan
1996 A Moment in Time, Espace Tag Heuer, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Erotos, Gallery Index, Stockholm, Sweden
1995 Nobuyoshi Araki, Torch, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1995 The First Year of Heisei, Le Garage, Reims, France
1995 Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Zone Gallery, Newcastle, UK
1995 Naked Novel, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Dactcho-kun, A Virgin Boy, Space Link, Tokyo, Japan
1995 The VIth Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Todi Palazzo delle Arti, Perugia, Italy
1995 Trame Inquiette (Agli Ordini del Cibo), Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy
1995 The Act of Seeing ( Urban Space)- taking a distance, Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
1995 The Dead, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK; Horsens Museum, Horsens, Denmark
1995 Works by 25 Photographers in Their 20s, Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
1995 Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1995 26th Arles International Photo Festival, Des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
1995 Carnegie International 1995, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pitttsburgh, USA
1995 Blumenstücke Kunststücke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
1995 Cities I want to live in, Ginza Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Death of Flowers, with Eric Andriesse, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995 Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
1995 Ginzabout, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Texture and Touch: Contemporary Photography from Japan, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1995 Vision of Hope and Despair, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
1995 Journal intime, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
1995 Nobuyoshi Araki: A- Diary, Sachin and his brother Mabo, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)
1995 Arakinema: Sentimental Journey/Winter Journey, Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1995 Satchin in Summer, La Foret Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1995 Arakinema: Passion in Okinawa, Ryubo Hall, Naha, Okinawa, Japan (solo)
1995 Nobuyoshi Araki: Diario Intimo, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal (solo)
1995 Tokyo Novelle, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
1995 Tokyo Novel/Kiss of Flower, organized by The Morphe ’95, outdoor exhibition in Aoyama district, Japan (solo)
1995 Bokuju-Kitan, Strange Black Ink Stories, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1994 Body and Memory: Nobuyoshi Araki and Larry Clark, Sala Parpallo Palau Scala, Valencia, Spain
1994 Tokyo Love, with Nan Goldin, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Tokyo Fine Day, Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Private Photography, Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Nordliga Fotocentret, Oulu, Finland
1994 Sky, Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Tokyo Cube: Unconscious Tokyo, White Cube, London, UK
1994 Obscene Photographs, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Nobuyoshi Araki: Private Photography, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
1993 Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1993 Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Fotografische Sammlung im Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
1993 Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
1993 The World of Photo-maniac Diary in Colour, Wonderland, Hiroshima, Japan (solo)
1993 New World of Love, La Camera, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1993 Erotos, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1992 Photo Maniac Diary, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1992 Kuruma (voiture) de Tokyo, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1992 Angel’s Festival, Parco Gallery, Tokyo; Sapporo Parc Hokkaido;Shinsaibashi Parco, Osaka, Japan (solo)
1992 Arakinema: Angel’s Festival, Parco Theater, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1992 Love Interrogations / Tokyo Fax./Fucks, Apt Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1992 Photo Maniac Diary, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991 , Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
1992 Akt-Tokyo Nobuyoshi Araki 1971-1991, Galerie Fotohof, Mirabellpark, Salzburg, Austria
1992 Car Photographs, Tokyo, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 State of Things: A Thousand Photographs Exhibited Day by Day , P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Winter Journey, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Aï¿1⁄2es Nude Exhibition: Lovers, Apt Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991 On the Move, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Arakinema Springscapes, Cinema Rise, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1991 From Close-range, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1991 Jeanne, Shinchosha Art Space, Tokyo; Heartland, Hamamatsu, Japan (solo)
1991 From Close-range II: Flowers, Nudes and Yamorinskies, Athens Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)
1991 Colorscapes, The Seed Hall, Tokyo / Seikatsu Soko, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
1990 Arakinema: Tokyo Nude, Kinokuniya Hall, Tokyo, Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Theater Asbestos, Japan (solo)
1990 Tokyo Lucky Hole, Apt Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1990 Towards Winter: Tokyo, A City Heading for Death, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1990 This Month’s Three Selected Photos, Fukuiya Coffee Shop, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1990 Chiro My Love, Ikebukuro Book Center Libro, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Arakinema: Skyscapes, Shuppan Club, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Skyscapes, Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Foto Tanz, Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Tokyo Lucky Hole, Apt Gallery Tokyo, Japan
1990 Towards Winter: Tokyo, A City Heading for Death, Egg Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Nobuyoshi Araki ï¿1⁄2e89: Selected Photographs, Gallery Kosai, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Araki-s-m 1967-1987, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Arakinema 2, Studio Mag, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Puppet Prince, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1987 ARAKI-S-M: 1967-1987, Zeit -Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1987 A Part of Love, Art Space Mirage, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1986 Tokyo Erotomania Diary, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1986 Araki Shoots Shibuya Like Atget, Tokyo, Japan
1986 Shibuya Street, Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo; Inax Showroom, Fukuoka, Japan
1986 Photo Live: Tokyo Theater ’86, Sapporo Beer Factory, Tokyo, Japan
1986 Arakinema: Tokyo Story, Cinemarise, Tokyo, Japan
1985 An Immoral Woman, Kï¿1⁄2es Bar, Tokyo, Japan
1985 A Pseudo-Story About Girls, Bar New Dug, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Cinephotographic Woman , Bar Refain, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Freely Snatched Love, Kitchen Ramen, Tokyo, Japan
1984 A World of Girls, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1984 A Balthus Summer, Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japan
1982 I am Photography, Doi Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982 The Third Arakism Declaration, Asahi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Arakiï¿1⁄2es Storm of Love, Doi Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981 The Second Arakism Declaration, Yahama Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1981 Rika: Pseudo High-School Girl, Shinjuku Yamiichi Shop, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Pseudo-Photos, Room 301, Harada Building, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Recent Photos, Room 301, Harada Building, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Fictitious Truth: Zigeunerweisen, Kinokuniya, Tokyo, Japan
1980 100% of Nairon, Bar Nylon, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Wet Dreams on a Midsummer Night and the Anniversary of the End of the War, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Arakism Declaration, New York Theater, Tokyo, Japan
1979 First Visit to New York, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo; Obihiro Building Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
1978 My Scene: 1940-1977, Canon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1978 Portraits of Descendants, Camp Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1978 Actresses: A Sentimental Ero-Roman, Horindo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Last Yearï¿1⁄2es Photos, Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977 This Yearï¿1⁄2es Photos, Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Tokyo Blues, Nikon Salon, Tokyo; Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan
1976 Yoko, My Love, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1976 Notes on Taeko, Seibu Book Center Libro, Tokyo, Japan
1976 Private Tokyo ï¿1⁄2e76, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975 Actress: Kisaki Sekimura, Matto Grosso, Tokyo, Japan
1974 Actresses by Photos, Videos and Film, Gallery Matto Grosso (solo)
1973 Mail Photographs Exhibition, Unpeel Me, Heat Me, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Pseudo-Documentary: Photographs Polluted by Silver-Halogen Compound: Chirring Chirring Cicadas in Chorus, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Flowers in Ruins, Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1972 Mail Photographs Exhibition, Miami’s truth, Tokyo, Japan
1970 Sur-Sentimentalist Manifesto No. 2: The Truth about Carmen Marie, Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970 Kitchen Ramen Ero-Rearism, Kitchen Ramen, Tokyo, Japan
1967 Ginza, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan
1967 Zoo, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan
1966 Subway, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan
1966 Middled-Aged Women, Mitsubishi Denki Galley, Tokyo, Japan
1965 Satchin and His Brother Mabo, Shinjuku Station Building, Tokyo, Japan