Nobuyoshi Araki 1940 Born in Tokyo 1963 Graduated from Chiba University, Department of Engineering, Photography and Film 1964 Received the 1st Taiyo Prize Selected Personal Exhibitions after '90 1990 "Skyscapes", Gallery Verita, Tokyo Egg Gallery, Tokyo 1992 "AKT - TOKYO", Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg "Nobuyoshi Araki: Festival of the Angels", Parco Gallery, Tokyo 1994 "Private Photography", Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo "Erotic Photography Exhibition", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo 1995 "Nobuyoshi Araki, Journal intime", Fondation Cartier, Paris Jabionka Gallery, K?ln 1996 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo "Flowers - Life and Death", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo 1997 "Nobuyoshi Araki: Retrographs", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "Nobuyoshi Araki", Wiener Secession, Wien "The World of Girls", Il Tempo, Tokyo 1999 "Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Selected Group Exhibitions after '90 1990 "Tokyo: A City Perspective", Tokyo Metropolitane Museum of Photography, Tokyo 1991 "Japanese Photography in the 1970's", Tokyo Metropolitane Museum of Photography, Tokyo 1994 "Liquid Crystal Futures: Contemporary Japanese Photography",?@the Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh "Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century", Spiral/ Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo "Photography and Beyond in Japan", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "Tokyo Love", The Ginza Art Gallery, Tokyo 1995 "Sites of Being", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston "Vision of Hope and Despair", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1996 "Prospect '96", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt "Sex and Crime", Sprengel Museum, Hannover "From Close Range", Blum & Poe, Los Angeles 1997 Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo "Lust und Leere, Japanishe Photographie der Gegenwart", Kunsthalle Wien im Museumsquartier, Wien 1998 Satani Gallery, Tokyo "TOKYO Shijyo", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Selected Publication 1971 "Sentimental Journey", privately published 1978 "The Camera between Men and Women", Byakuya-Shobo, Tokyo "Yoko, My Love", Asahi Sonorama, Tokyo 1981 "Theory of Photography", Tojusha, Tokyo "Photo-theatre: Tokyo Elegy", Tojusha, Tokyo "Sniper-shot:Arakin-Z", Mirion Shuppan, Tokyo 1982 "A Ten-year Sentimental Journey", Tojusha, Tokyo 1984 "A World of Girls", Byakuya-Shobo, Tokyo "Tokyo Autumn", Sanseido,Tokyo 1989 "Tokyo Nude", Ota Shuppan "Tokyo Story", Heibonsha, Tokyo 1990 "The First Year of Heisei", IPC Photo Tanz "Tokyo Lucky Hole", Ota Shuppan, Tokyo "Towards Winter: Tokyo, A City Heading for Death", Magazine House, Tokyo 1991 "Sentimental Journey / Winter Journey", Shinchosha, Tokyo "Skyscrapes / Close-range-scapes", Shinchosha, Tokyo "Colorscapes", Magazine House, Tokyo 1993 "Postwar: August 16 - September 3, 1973", Art Room, Tokyo 1994 "First Person Photography", Asahi Shinbun, Tokyo