Yoshitomo Nara Born: 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan Education and Awards 1998 Guest Professor at U.C.L.A. 1995 Award for Artists, Nagoya City 1988-19 93 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 1987 M.F.A. Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music 1985 B.F.A. Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music One-Person Exhibitions (selected) 2008 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK 2007 NARA + GRAF, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, 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 April Song, The Sculpture Garden Museum VANGI MUSEO, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan 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, Düsseldorf, Germany) Bridge, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 2004 Yoshitomo Nara: New Works 2004, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Yoshitomo Nara-From the Depth of My Drawer, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria Nowhere Land, Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany Shallow Puddles, graf gm, Osaka Touring Exhibition: Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui/Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori/ Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori, Rodin Gallery, Seoul Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Somewhere, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany 2003 Yoshitomo Nara: New Drawings, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo S.M.L., graf, Osaka The good, the bad, the average and unique, Little More Gallery, Tokyo Galerie Zink and Gegner, Munich, Germany Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (travels to Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii), USA Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2002 Who snatched the babies?, Centre National de l'estampe et de l'arte imprime, Chatou, France Saucer tales, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA 12 Etchings, Space Force, Tokyo 2001 Nara Yoshitomo: In Those Days, Hakutosha, Nagoya 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.) Drawing Days, Colette, Paris, France Clear for Landing, Galerie Michael Zink, München, Germany In the White Room, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California 2000 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Walk On, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois In the Empty Fortress, Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California 1999 Somebody Whispers in Nürnberg, Institut fur Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany (cat.) Done Did, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Happy Hour, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Pave Your Dreams, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Walking Alone, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) No, They Didn't, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Toyko, Japan In the Floating World, Nadiff, Tokyo 1998 Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, curated by Marilu Knode (cat.) 1997 Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Lonesome Puppy, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Drawing Days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Sleepless Night, Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo 1996 Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle (with Karen Kilimnik), Cologne, Germany Lonesome Puppy, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hothouse Fresh, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (cat.) Empty Surprise, Artium, Fukuoka, Japan Cup Kids, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan 1995 Cup Kids, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan (cat.) Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California 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 & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany Be Happy, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) 1992 Loft Gallery, Deventer, The Netherlands Drawings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany 1991 Harmlos, Galerie im Kinderspielhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany Cogitationes Cordium, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1990 Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1989 Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart, Germany 1988 Innocent Being, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan Goethe Institute, Düsseldorf, 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 (selected) 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 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, Japan Society Gallery, New York Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland 2004 Somewhere, Nara and Sugito, Galerie Zink and Gegner, Munich, Germany Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Funny Cuts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Fiction Love, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan Nonsect Radical, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Dog Days of Summer, California University Museum of Photography, USA Why not live for art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Unusual Combination, + Gallery, Nagoya Onkochishin, White Cube Gallery, Osaka Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Tokyo Super Nova Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2003 Ninos, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA, curated by Valerie Cassel (cat.); touring The Japanese Experience-Inevitable, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by Vicky Clark and Barbara Bloemink (cat.) Opening Exhibition, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo My Room Somehow Somewhere, gm, Osaka M_ARS-Art and War, Neue Galerie, Austria Collection, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan Room Air, It-Park, Tapei, Taiwan Your Dog is Orange County, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA FOIL, Little More Gallery, Tokyo Nichijyou Seikatsu, Speak For, Tokyo Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo The Galleries Show 2003, Royal Academy of Arts, London Painting In Our Time, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata Japan Trauer/Grief, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria Do Hope For The Future, Laforet Museum, Tokyo Art de Zoo, The Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan Ukiyo-E Avant-Garde, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo I bambini siamo noi, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy 2002 Pop! Pop! Pop!, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Soul, South Korea Fragile Figures, Palette School, Tokyo, Japan Weiche Brüche.Japan, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany The Doraemon, Suntry Museum of Art, Osaka Bokura No Hero and Heroine, Otaru City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan Emotional Site, Shokuryo Building, Tokyo Monalisa Mammon, The Hiratsuka Museum of art, Kanagawa, Japan Contemporary Art from Japan to Finland, Helsinki, Finland Drawing Days, Backspace, Galerie Michael Zink, Germany Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, Queens, New York Pressing, objectif, Antwerp, Belgium 2001 Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, PS1, New York, USA Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain/ Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA/ Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Takashi Murakami/ Yoshimoto Nara, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Jap in the Box, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future of Sculpture, University Art Museum, Tokyo National Super Flat, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angels, USA, curated by Takashi Murakami; touring to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, (cat.) Forms of Human Figures from the Terada Collection, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Aichi Prefectural University of Art Collection, Haruhi Museum, Aichi, Japan SENRITSUMIRAI Arte Attuale dal Giappone, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy My Reality-Contemporary art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA, curated by Jeff Fleming, (cat.) Tsunami Raiders, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany Jam: Tokyo London, Barbican Centre, London Arte Attuale dal Giappone, Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Suichoku no Jikan, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Silence of the City, Gwanju Art Museum, Korea Neo Tokyo-Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Camera Works, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA 2000 Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (cat.) Super Flat, The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood Trading Views, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Super Flat, Parco Gallery, Tokyo; touring to Nagoya and other cities in Japan (cat.) Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (cat.) Yshitomo Nara and Hana Hashimoto – The Amazing Garden, Takayama Memorial Art Museum, Shichinohe, Aomori, Japan Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany Hakuyosha, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Tokushima Collection 2000, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima Presumed Innocent, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France (travels to Hayward Gallery. London) Culturalities Exhibition, Westzone Gallery Space, London Erlangen/Muncipal ,MuseumDe Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands Gendai, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Kids World Aomori 2000, Aomori Prefectural Museum, Aomori, Japan Gose Abe Ando His Influences, Namioka Town Hall, Aomori Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA/ Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Kinder des 20ten Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg/ Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany Works on Paper, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Yoshimoto Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan 1999 Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California New Modernism for a New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Vergiss den Ball und Spiel Weiter, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany 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 Tendances, Abbaye Saint-Andre Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA It’s an Animal World, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Art/Domestic, Temperature of the Time, Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (cat.), curated by Takashi Azumaya Yoshimoto Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan 1998 The Manga Age, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 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, Netherlands Hon to Bunchin (Book and Paperweight), Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan POSITIV, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany Dusseldorf-andere Ort, Orangerie Schlos Brake, Lemgo The Future of Paintings, 1995, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan Takeoffs, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan Gunma Biennale, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuks Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Ironic Fantasy, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi 1994 My Room is Your Room, 7th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Harvest ’94, Haus Bickdorf, Kempen Harvest Kempen-Nagoya, (with Shiro Matsui), Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan Art Against AIDS, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany 1993 Partners, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands Harvest ’93, (with Shiro Matsui), Haus Bockdorf, Kempen 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, Cologne Acqua Stana, Galerie Ulla Sommers, Düsseldorf, Germany 1989 Mensch und Technik, Nixdorf A.G., Düsseldorf, Germany 1988 Feeling House, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan 1987 New Artists in Nagoya, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 1986 Each Person’s Expression of Space, Gifu Prefectural Art Museum, Japan Present ’86, Gallery NAF, Nagoya, Japan 1985 Sense of Vision and Touch, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Five Person’s Musical Band, Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 1984 Paranoia, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Two Person Show, Gallery Denega, Hirsaki, Japan Bibliography (selected) 2007 Fox, Dan and Kataoka, Mami, “Tokyo City Report”, Frieze, Issue 104, January-February 2006 Kultureflash, March 1 “The Galleries’ Top 100 Artists”, Flash Art, Vol. 39, No. 250, October Lee, Andrew and Pilling, David, FT Magazine, August 5/6 2005 Ohnuma, Keiko, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 10 Morse, Marcia, Honolulu Weekly 2004 Conti, Andrew, metropolis.japantoday.com Chun, Kimberly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 38, No. 51 Bonetti, David, St. Louis Post Despatch, December 2 Fallon, Roberta, Artnet, August 3 Fisher, Jack, San Jose Mercury News (CA), August 1 Mizota, Sharon, Metro, Silicon Valley’s Weekly, July 21-27 Helfand, Glen, SF Gate July Dorazio, Jennifer, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22 2003 Another Magazine, Autum/Winter Royse, Julia, Elle, May Kitamura, Katie, Contemporary Güner, Fisun, Metro, 7 May 2002 Solomon, Deborah, The New York Times, Dec 15 Meneguzzo, Marco, Artforum, September Pradel, Jean-Louis, Beaux Arts Magazine, August Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, August 9 Shuman, Rachel, Time Out New York, August 1-8 Albany Times Union, July 20 Miyuki Kondo, International Herald Tribune, February 25 2001 Special Feature, Bijutsu Techo, December Darling, Michael, Art Journal, Fall Cooper, Jaqueline, New Art Examiner, Sep-Oct Raverty, Dennis, New Art Examiner, Sep-Oct Litter, Manon, Time Out, Japan, Sep 12-19 Special Issue, Brutus, September Campbell, Clayton, Flash Art, July-Sep Endter, Heike, Flash Art, July-Sep Wong, Martin, Artbyte, June Nakamura, Eric, Art and Text, May-July Corrigan, Susan, I-D, May Nakamura, Eric, Giant Robot, Spring Harvey, Doug, LA Weekly, May 11-17 Fujitsu, Ryota, Bijutsu Techno, April Harvey, Doug, Artissues, March/April Harvey, Doug, LA Weekly, March/April Kasahara, Chiaki, Kokoku Hihyo, March Stevens, Lennox, Entertainment Today, March 23-29 Matsui, Midori, Index, Feb-March Knight, Christopher, Los Angeles Times, Jan 16 Chattopadhyay, Colette, Art Asiapacific Nakamura, Eric, Giant Robot, issue 20 2000 Art project, Interview, October Special Feature, Bijutsu Techo, July Onishi, Wakato, Ashai Shinbum, July Lewisohn, Cedar, I-D, July Berk, Anne, Kunstbeeld, June Ratnam, Niru, The Face, June Nara (project), Dazed and Confused, June Sumpter, Helen, Evening Standard, May Nara/ David Shrigley, Bijutsu Techo, April Matsui, Midori, Bijutsu Techo, April Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, April 10 Matsui, Midori, Composite, Feb Matsui, Midori, Flash Art, Jan/Feb Shoji, Kaori, Dutch, no.5 1999 Besher, Kara, www.assemblylanguage.com Trescher, Stephan, Neue Bildende Kunst, December Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, November 5 Saito, Naoko, Rockin On Japan, August Joynes, Les, Art in America, July Fuse, Hideto, Mainichi Shinbum, July 2 Min, Nishihara, Figaro Japon, June Zellen, Jody, Artpress, May Kojima, Yayoi, Ryuhkoh-tsuhshin, April/May Marilu, Knode, View On Colour, March Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, March 12 Azumaya, Takashi, Studio Voice, Feb Akasaka, Hideto, Aera, Feb 22 Azumaya, Takashi, Le Millenium, Jan 1998 Hyuga, Akiko, Bijutsu Techo, December Itoi, Kay, Artnews, May Miyamura, Noriko, Bijutsu Techo, April Nagoya, Satouro, Flash Art, May-June Sawa, Fumiya, Dazed and Confused, no.41, April 1997 Darling, Michael, Frieze, Nov-Dec Matsui, Midori, Flash Art, Nov-Dec Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, 23 May, pF22 1996 Abe, Takaki, Oggi, February Ishida, Ayako, The Daily Yomiuri, 10 May Matsui, Midori, Bijutsu Techo, February Nara, Yoshimoto, Hanatsubaki, January Onishi, Wakato, Asahi Shimbun, 16 May Tsurumoto, Chikara, Nishinihin Shimbun, 1 February Tsurumoto, Chikara, Chunichi Shimbun, 7 February 1995 Borg, Lucette, NRC Handelsblad, 24 November Darling, Michael, Art Issues, Sep-October Haito, Masahiko, Bijutsu Techo, February Hiroe, Yasutaka, Bijutsu Techo, September Nara, Yoshimoto, Bijutsu Techo, July Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, 27 July Tager, Alisa, Art in America, October Tager, Alisa, Poliester, Fall Interview, Bijutsu Techo, July Shimbun, Asahi, Weekly AERA, 10 April Studio Voice, April Touo Nippou, 30 March Pia, 14 March The Shinbijutsu Shimbun, 1 March Shimizu, Minoru, Bijutsu Techo, March Yamashita, Rika, Meets, January Ryuko Tsushin, January 1994 Inoue, Takao, Asahi Shimbun, 16 April Kuiper, Petra, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 8 February Nishihara, Min, Silvester Club, July Gekkan Bijutsu, February Pia, 13 December The Shinbijutsu, Shimbun, 11 December Interview, L Magasin, December 1993 Pia, 7 December The Shinbijutsu, Shimbun, 1 December Nikkan Gendai, 28 October Nikkan Gendai, 21 October Yomiuri Shimbun, 21 October Chunichi Shimbun, 18 October 1991 Ariake, Chihiro, Chunichi Shimbun, 16 April Igami, Norie, Bijutsu Techo, July Ishii, Yoji, Yomiuri Shimbun, 14 April Kawohl, Anja, Rheinische Post, 20 January Westdeutsche Zeitung, 28 January Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 26 January 1990 Steenhuis, Paul, NRC Handelsblad, 1 May 1988 Yomiuri Shimbun, 19 April Publications 2006 Yoshitomo Nara + graf A to Z, Foil Co. Ltd RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum 2005 From the Depth of My Drawer, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki From the Depth of My Drawer, Foil co., Ltd. 2004 Cheap Sex, Blueprint Films Over the Rainbow, Hiroshi Sugito, Hatje Cantz This is a Time of... S.M.L., + graf, Seigensha Art Publishing Inc. 2003 Studio Portrait. A Documentary of Artist Yoshitomo Nara, Goliga Books Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Perceval Press 2002 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Laura Hoptman Argentine Hag, Banana Yoshimoto, Rockin’ On Inc. Who Snatched the Babies?, Tomio Koyama Gallery 2001 Public Offerings, Matsui Midori, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Thames and Hudson, I Don’t Mind, If You Forget Me, Taro Amano, Nara Yoshitomo Exhibition Committee Lullaby Supermarket, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg Painting At The Edge Of the World, Matsui Midori, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis My life as a dog, Stephan Trescher, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Kadokawa Shoten Nobody Knows, Little More 2000 Trading Views, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken 1999 Lonesome Puppy, Magazine House UKIYO, Little More Co. Ltd 1998 Yoshitomo Nara, (inova) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI Slash with a Knife, Little More 1997 In the Deepest Puddle, Kadokawa Shoten Film and Video 2007 Nara: Travelling With Yoshitomo Nara, documentary directed by Koji Sakabe for Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Public Collections Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan The Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Shiseido Art House Peter Norton Family Foundation Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd. Rubell Family Collection The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Neues Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg, Germany The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan Takamatsu City Museum of Art Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo