Nobuyoshi Araki Biography

Tokyo (Japan), 1940

Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan's greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is attested to by the more than 300 books he has published in the last four decades, while his work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death, has drawn critical attention both at home and abroad.

Selected Recent Exhibitions

"Nobuyoshi Araki" Jablonka Galerie,Germany

"Araki in Venice" Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy

"Shosetsu Seoul" Artium, Fukuoka

"Tokyo Still Life" IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK

"Pola", Low, Los Angeles

"Shosetsu Seoul" Spiral Hall, Tokyo

"Shikijo kyo" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

"Flower Shadow" Gallery Artgraph, Tokyo

"Viaggio Sentimental" Centro Perl'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

"Arakinema: Kurumado" Pecci, Prato

"Polaevacy" Nadiff, Tokyo

"Nobuyoshi Araki" Low, Los Angeles

"Shashin Shijyo Shugi" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

"Nobuyoshi Araki" Stedellik Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Gent, Belgium

"Nobuyoshi Araki" Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

"Nobuyoshi Araki" Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris

"Nobuyoshi Araki" Damasquine Art Gallery, Bruxell, Belgium

Selected Articles

• Dirty pretty things

The Guardian, October 4, 2005 - Nobuyoshi Araki at the Tokyo Met. Museum of Contemporary Art

by Monty DiPietro, 1999 - [ Nobuyoshi Araki at the Hara Museum][3]

[3]: http://photography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=photog raphy&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.assemblylanguage.com%2Freviews%2FAraki.html