Yoshitomo Nara

Dates

Born 1959, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Lives and works in Tochigi, Japan

Education

1987, Graduate School of Aichi Prefectual University of Art, MA

1988–1993, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

1993, Completed Meisterschuler from A.R. Penk

2024

Yoshitomo Nara: Traveling with Hazy Humid Day in Pintung, Pintung Art Museum, Taiwan, December 2, 2024–May 25, 2025.

Yoshitomo Nara, BLUM, Tokyo, November 7, 2024–January 11, 2025.

Yoshitomo Nara, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, June 28–November 3, 2024. Travels to: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, November 23, 2024–April 27, 2025; Hayward Gallery, London, June 10–August 31, 2025. (Catalogues)

Yoshitomo Nara: Traveling with Hazy Humid Day in Penghu 2024, Penghu Reclamation Hall, Magong, Taiwan, March 29–September 1, 2024. (Brochure)

2023

Yoshitomo Nara: From Hokkaido, From Taiwan, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, November 24–December 26, 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara: The Bootleg Drawings 1988–2023, Pace Gallery, Geneva, November 17, 2023–February 29, 2024.

Yoshitomo Nara: The Beginning Place, Aomori Museum of Art, Japan, October 14, 2023–February 25, 2024.

Yoshitomo Nara: Ceramic Works, Pace Gallery, Seoul, September 5–October 21, 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara: Woodcuts, 2010–2022, Pace Prints, New York, New York, June 15–August 3, 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara: All My Little Words, The Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria, May 10–November 1, 2023. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: Dog-o-rama, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan, April 29–September 18, 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara: Traveling with Hazy Humid Day, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts - Neiwei Arts Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, April 10–August 31, 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon, Even If We Can't, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, February 25–June 25, 2023.

2022

Hello, How Can We Do a Nara Yoshitomo Show? Documents on Nara Yoshitomo’s Hirosaki Exhibitions 2002-2006, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan, September 17, 2022–March 21, 2023

Yoshitomo Nara: Peace Head, Hanover Square, London, May 9–October 28, 2022.

Yoshitomo Nara, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, March 5–January 2, 2023.

2021

Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca, Pace Gallery, London, November 26, 2021–January 15, 2022. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: Not Everything But / Green House, Not Everything But / Orange House, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China, October 29, 2021–June 26, 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, April 1, 2021–January 2, 2022. Traveled to: Yuz Museum, Shanghai, March 5–September 4, 2022. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: I Forgot Their Names and Often Can't Remember Their Faces but Remember Their Voices Well, Dallas Contemporary, Texas, March 20–August 22, 2021.

Yoshitomo Nara Special Exhibition, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan, March 12–June 20, 2021. Traveled to: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 24–October 31, 2021; Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan, November 16, 2021–February 13, 2022.

2020

Yoshitomo Nara: After all I'm cosmic dust, Pace Gallery, 68 Park Place, East Hampton, New York, July 3–19, 2020. Traveled to: Pace Gallery, 3rd Floor, 540 West 25th Street, New York, September 18–October 24, 2020.

2019

Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings – Last 31 Years, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, August 23–November 22, 2019.

En/trance: Yoshitomo Nara, Japan Society, New York, February 26, 2019–February 6, 2020.

2018

Yoshitomo Nara, N’s Yard, Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, 2018.

Yoshitomo Nara: Puppy Love, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, opened December 4, 2018.

Yoshitomo Nara: all things must pass, but nothing is lost/precious days around me, sometimes farther along, sometimes under my feet, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, October 25, 2018–January 12, 2019.

Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings 1988–2018, Last 30 Years, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, September 21–October 18, 2018. (Brochure)

Yoshitomo Nara: Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone—Take your time, it won’t be long now, Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo, July 7–August 10, 2018. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: Ceramic Works and…, Pace Gallery, 12/F H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, March 27–May 12, 2018. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings: 1988–2018, Last 30 Years, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, February 9–March 8, 2018.

2017

Yoshitomo Nara: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Daikanyama Hillside Plaza, Tokyo, September 29–October 1, 2017. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: For Better or Worse: Works 1987–2017, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, July 15–September 24, 2017. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: Thinker, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, March 31–April 29, 2017. (Catalogue)

2016

Yoshitomo Nara: New Works, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, April 28–June 1, 2016. (Catalogue)

2015

Yoshitomo Nara: Shallow Puddles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, October 3–November 14, 2015. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, September 18–October 24, 2015.

Yoshitomo Nara: “stars”, Pace Hong Kong, 15C Entertainment Building, 30 Queens Road Central, March 13–April 25, 2015. (Catalogue)

Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara, Asia Society, Hong Kong, March 6–July 26, 2015.

2014

Yoshitomo Nara: Greetings from a Place in My Heart, Dairy Art Centre, London, October 3–December 14, 2014.

Yoshitomo Nara, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, March 1–April 12, 2014. (Catalogue)

2013

Yoshitomo Nara, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, May 10–June 29, 2013. (Catalogue)

2012

Yoshitomo Nara: The Little Little House in The Blue Woods, Towada Art Center, Aomori, September 22, 2012–January 14, 2013.

Yoshitomo Nara: a bit like you and me…, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, July 14–September 23, 2012. Traveled to: Aomori Museum of Art, October 6, 2012–January 14, 2013; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, January 26–April 14, 2013. (Catalogue)

2011

Print Works, Roppongi Hills Art & Design Store Gallery, Tokyo, February 17–March 21, 2011.

2010

Yoshitomo Nara: New Editions, Pace Prints, New York, October 27–December 4, 2010.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, Asia Society Museum, New York, September 9, 2010–January 2, 2010. (Catalogue)

Ceramic Works, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, May 15–June 19, 2010. (Catalogue)

2009

The Crated Rooms in Iceland: Yoshitomo Nara + YNG, The Reykjavik Art Museum, September 17, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, February 28–March 28, 2009.

2008

Yoshitomo Nara and Installation by YNG, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, December 20, 2008–February 7, 2009

Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, June 14–October 26, 2008.

Yoshitomo Nara, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, April 26–June 26, 2008.

Yoshitomo Nara, Galerie Zink Munich, Munich, March 14–May 3, 2008.

2007

Yoshitomo Nara, Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne, September 29–October 31, 2007.

Yoshitomo Nara + graf: Torre de Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, September 21, 2007–January 6, 2008. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara + graf, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, June 2–October 28, 2007.

Yoshitomo Nara + graf: Berlin Baracke, Galerie Zink Berlin, February 10–April 21, 2007.

2006

Yoshitomo Nara: Moon Light Serenade, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, September 20, 2006–March 21, 2007. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori, July 29–October 22, 2006. (Catalogue).

Yoshitomo Nara + graf, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, February 3–March 11, 2006.

2005

Home, graf media gm, Osaka, December 18, 2005–February 5, 2006.

Yoshitomo Nara, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, September 9–October 8, 2005.

2004

Shallow Puddles, graf media gm, Osaka, December 24, 2004–January 6, 2005.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nowhere Land, Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, October 28–February 5, 2004.

Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, August 11–October 10, 2004. Traveled to: Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, October 19–November 28, 2004; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, February 10–March 21, 2005; Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori, April 16–May 22, 2005; Rodin Gallery, Seoul, 2005. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, March 30–May 5, 2004.

Yoshitomo Nara: New Works 2004, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, January 10–February 7, 2004.

2003

The Good, the Bad, the Average…and unique, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, 2003. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, 2003.

S.M.L., graf media gm, Osaka, December 20, 2003–February 1, 2004.

Yoshitomo Nara: Your Dog, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, November 8, 2003–June 13, 2004.

Yoshitomo Nara: New Drawings, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, November 8–December 6, 2003.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, September 12, 2003–January 4, 2004. Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, January 24–April 4, 2004; San Jose Museum of Art, July 24–October 24, 2004; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, December 3, 2004–February 26, 2005; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, March 25–May 22, 2005. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, May 2–May 31, 2003.

2002

12 Etchings, Space Force, Tokyo, 2002.

Saucer Tales, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, October 19–November 16, 2002.

Yoshitomo Nara: Who Snatched the Babies?, Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprime, Chatou, France, June–September 2002. (Catalogue)

2001

Yoshitomo Nara: I Don't Mind, If You Forget Me, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, August 11–October 14, 2001; Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, January 19–March 31, 2002; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, April 7–June 2, 2002; Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, June 14–August 14, 2002; Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori. (Catalogue)

Clear For Landing, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, June 9–July 21, 2001.

Drawing Days, Colette, Paris, June 4–30, 2001.

In the White Room: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, January 11–February 10, 2001.

2000

Yoshitomo Nara, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, May 26–June 24, 2000.

In the Empty Fortress, Galerie Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, March 31–April 4, 2000.

Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, March 25-May 27, 2000.

Walk On, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 18–June 25, 2000.

1999

Happy Hour, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, 1999.

Pave Your Dreams, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 1999.

Walking Alone, The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, 1999. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: Done; did, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, December 3–30, 1999.

Somebody Whispers in Nuremberg, Institut für moderne Kunst in der SchmidtBank-Galerie, Nuremberg, June 11–August 20, 1999. (Brochure)

In the Floating World, NADiff, Tokyo, April 2–May 10, 1999.

Yoshitomo Nara: An Exhibition of Sculpture in Two Parts (Part II), Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, March 16–April 3, 1999.

Yoshitomo Nara: An Exhibition of Sculpture in Two Parts (Part 1), Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, February 16–March 13, 1999.

No They Didn't, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, January 16–February 6, 1999.

1998

Yoshitomo Nara, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, September 11–November 22, 1998. (Brochure)

1997

Drawing Days, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, 1997.

Lonesome Puppy, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, 1997.

Sleepless Night, Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany, 1997.

Yumeooka Art Project, World Is Yours, Wing Kamiooka Center Court, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 1997.

Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, December 5–December 27, 1997.

Yoshitomo Nara, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, May–June 28, 1997.

1996

Cup Kids, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, 1996.

Empty Surprise, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, 1996.

Yoshitomo Nara, Johnen+Schottle, Cologne, 1996.

Lonesome Puppy, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo and Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, December 24–29, 1996. (Catalogue)

Hothouse Fresh, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, January 20–February 24, 1996. (Catalogue)

1995

Cup Kids, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Aichi, 1995. (Catalogue)

Nothing Gets Me Down, Galerie Humanité Tokyo, 1995. (Catalogue)

Oil on Canvas, Galerie Humanité Nagoya, Aichi, 1995. (Brochure)

Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, July 12–August 19, 1995.

In the Deepest Puddle, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, March 10–April 4, 1995. (Catalogue)

1994

Christmas for Sleeping Children, Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka, 1994. (Brochure)

Hula Hula Garden, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, September 2–October 2, 1994.

Lonesome Babies, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Aichi, April 5–May 14, 1994. (Brochure)

1993

Gallerie Johnen+Schottle, Cologne, 1993.

Yoshitomo Nara: Be Happy, Galerie Humanité Nagoya, October 12–30, 1993. Traveled to: Galerie Humanité Tokyo, November 29–December 18, 1993. (Brochure)

1992

Loft Gallery, Deventer, The Netherlands, 1992.

Drawings, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, September 1992.

1991

Cogitationes Cordium, Galerie Humanité Nagoya, Aichi, 1991. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: Paintings, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, October 24–November 24, 1991.

Harmlos, Galerie im Kinderspielhaus, Düsseldorf, January 25–February 21, 1991

1990

Yoshitomo Nara, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, May 4–30, 1990.

1989

Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart, 1989.

1988

Innocent Being, Galerie Humanité Nagoya, Aichi and Galerie Humanité Tokyo, 1988. (Catalogue)

Goethe-Institut, Düsseldorf, 1988. (Brochure)

1985

Recent Works, Space to Space, Nagoya, Aichi, 1985.

1984

It's a Little Wonderful House, Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, 1984.

Wonder Room, Space to Space, Nagoya, Aichi, 1984.

2024

Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025.

Pace Tokyo: Special Preview, Pace Gallery, Tokyo, July 6–August 9, 2024.

Summer Group Show, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, June 26–August 9, 2024.

If I must die, you must live: Henk Visch, Mosab Abu Toha, Refaat Alareer, Sliman Mansour, Yoshitomo Nara, Posters for Gaza, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, May 17–June 29, 2024.

Animal Watch, Gallery 125 Newbury, New York, January 26–March 2, 2024.

2023

THE SNOWFLAKES, Tomakomai City Museum, Hokkaido, Japan, December 9, 2023–March 24, 2024.

Au bout de mes rêves: Vanhaerents Art Collection (At the End of My Dreams: Vanhaerents Art Collection), Le Tripostal, Lille, France, October 6, 2023–January 14, 2024.

FOOD for THOUGHT, Taka Ishii Gallery Maebashi, Gunma, Japan, September 17–November 12, 2023.

Niko Pirosmani, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, September 17, 2023–January 28, 2024.

Guideposts of the World – Crazy Contemporary Art: Taguchi Art Collection, Nariwa Museum, Okayama, Japan, September 16, 2023–January 31, 2024.

Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections, Part II, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, September 9, 2023–January 8, 2024.

THE Doraemon Exhibition NAGASAKI 2023, Huis Ten Bosch Museum, Nagasaki, Japan, July 7–October 1, 2023.

WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, April 19–September 24, 2023.

TOP Collection: Serendipity, Wondrous Discoveries in Daily Life, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, April 7–July 9, 2023.

Hokusai: Inspirations and Influence, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 26–July 16, 2023. Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Washington, October 19, 2023–January 21, 2024; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, September 21, 2024–January 5, 2025.

Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections, Part I, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, March 24–September 3, 2023.

2022

STILL ALIVE: Aichi Triennale, Ichinomiya City, Japan, July 30–October 10, 2022.

FRONT International 2022: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, July 16–October 2, 2022.

Sparkling Clay – Artists and Children at the Frontier of Ceramics. The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Koka, Japan, June 25–September 4, 2022.

Human and Animal: Breathing Life into Clay, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan, May 28–July 3, 2022.

2021

Little Things: Parts I & II, Pace Gallery, Geneva, November 10, 2021–January 5, 2022.

Julian Opie: Collected Works/Works Collected, Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, United Kingdom, November 6, 2021–March 6, 2022. (Catalogue)

Next World: The Power of Dreams, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan, April 3–May 16 (extended through June 25), 2021. (Catalogue)

2020

Inaugural Installations: Kinder Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, November 21, 2020–December 31, 2021.

STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, July 31, 2020–January 3, 2021. (Catalogue)

2019

Blue is Hot and Red is Cold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, October 12–November 11, 2019.

Conversations: Contemporary Asian Art, Hermitage Museum & Gardens, Norfolk, Virginia, June 14–October 13, 2019. (Catalogue)

ARTZUID 2019, Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial, Amsterdam, May 17–September 15, 2019. (Catalogue)

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 5–July 28, 2019. Travels to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 8–December 8, 2019. (Catalogue)

The Passion, The Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Holle, Germany, April–October 2019.

2018

Bubblewrap, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan, December 15, 2018–March 3, 2019.

The Incongruous Body, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California, August 11, 2018–January 20, 2019.

Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall and Asia Culture Center, Korea, September 7–November 11, 2018.

Bangkok Art Biennale, October 19, 2018–February 3, 2019.

Humanistic Return, The Spiritual Origin of Ceramic Art, Taiwan Ceramics Bienniale, Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, 3F Gallery, September 7, 2018–March 3, 2019. (Catalogue)

Sea of Desire, Fondation Carmignac, Ile de Porquerôles, France, June 2–November 4, 2018.

My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, January 6–June 3, 2018.

2017

Japanorama. A New Vision on Art Since 1970, The Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, October 20, 2017–March 5, 2018.

Global New Art, Woodone Museum of Art, Hiroshima, August 25–November 12, 2017.

Expected: Cool Japan, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands, April 14–September 17, 2017.

Chewing Gum II, Pace Gallery, 15C Entertainment Building, 30 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, February 10–March 11, 2017.

2016

Modern Landscape: For the Pleasure of People and Scenery. Nara Yoshitomo Curates the MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, May 24–November 13, 2016. (Catalogue)

Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, May 22–December 31, 2016. (Catalogue)

Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, Queens Museum, New York, April 10–July 31, 2016.

2015

Summer Group Show, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, July 15–August 21, 2015.

Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, June 13–July 31, 2015.

Immortal Present: Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, May 23–September 7, 2015.

The Wind Veers to the East - Contemporary Art Exhibition for the Boao Forum for Asia, Boao Forum for Asia, Hainan Province, China, March 20–30, 2015.

To the North, From Here: Naoki Ishikawa + Yoshitomo Nara, Watari-um, Tokyo, January 25–May 10, 2015.

2014

Cinderella, Sky Art Museum, Seoul, December 20, 2014–March 22, 2015.

Go-Betweens: the World Seen through Children, Nagoya City Museum, November 8–December 23, 2014. Traveled to: Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha, January 16–March 15, 2015; The Museum of Art, Kochi, April 5–June 7, 2015.

Everything falls faster than an anvil, Pace London, 6–10 Lexington Street, May 9–June 18, 2014. (Catalogue)

Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, May 6–August 29, 2014.

Study from the Human Body, Stephan Friedman Gallery, London, March 14–April 26, 2014.

Carte Blanche, Pace at Chesa Büsin, Zuoz, Switzerland, February 20–March 30, 2014.

2013

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 24, 2013–May 26, 2014. Traveled to: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam, Luxembourg, July 5–October 12, 2014; Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, November 15, 2014–March 15, 2015. (Catalogue)

Aichi Triennale 2013: Awakening, Aichi Arts Center, Japan, August 10–October 27, 2013.

Flowers, Towada Art Center, Japan, April 27–September 8, 2013.

2012

The Magic of Ceramics: Artistic Inspiration, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Koka, 2012. Traveled to Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, May 25–August 25, 2013; Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, September 7–November 24, 2013.

New Phases in Contemporary Painting: A Curator’s Message 2012, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, October 27–December 24, 2012. (Catalogue)

Masahiko Kuwahara, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore, September 15–October 21, 2012.

The Art of Cooking, Royal/T, Los Angeles, April 27–August 1, 2012.

San Antonio Collects: Contemporary, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, March 24–July 1, 2012.

Reality/Imaginary: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, March 16–May 6, 2012.

Print/Out: Multiplied Art in the Information Era, 1990–2010, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 19–May 14, 2012. (Catalogue)

2011

New Works in Ceramics, Japan 2011, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, September 17–November 25, 2011.

Café in Mito 2011: Relationships in Color, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, July 30–October 16, 2011.

The Most Requested Top 30, 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Part 2, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, July 27–August 23, 2011.

Taguchi Art Collection: Global New Art, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, July 12–September 31, 2011.

Invisibleness is Visibleness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, July 9–September 4, 2011.

Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, June 23–August 12, 2011.

Future Pass: From Asia to the World, 54th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, June 4–November 6, 2011.

Zenkyo-an x FOIL, Kenninji Zenkyoan Temple, Kyoto, May 1–8, 2011.

The 53 Stations of Tokaido: From Hiroshige to Artists of Our Days, Musée Bernard Buffet, Mishima, Shizuoka, April 24–August 30, 2011.

Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hel in contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York, March 18–June 12, 2011. (Catalogue)

The Most Requested Top 30: 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, February 18–May 14, 2011.

Collection, Part 3, Yokohama Museum of Art, January 21–March 20, 2010.

Collectors' Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Singapore Art Museum, January 14–February 17, 2011. (Catalogue)

Collection Exhibition: Floating Boat, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, January 8–April 3, 2011.

2010

Best 100 Works from Museum Collection, The Tokushima Modern Art, Aichi, 2010.

Peko-chan World, Fujiya Ginza Building, Tokyo, 2010. (Catalogue)

12th International Cairo Biennale, El Bab Gallery, Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, Cairo, December 12, 2010–February 22, 2011.

Made in Popland, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, November 12, 2010–February 20, 2011. (Catalogue)

Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The National Arts Club, New York, November 5–15, 2010. Traveled to: Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, May 26–August 7, 2011. (Catalogue)

Teruhisa Kitahara’s Astounding Contemporary Art, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, October 9–November 7, 2010.

Daiwa Collection first Session, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Naha, September 11, 2010–January 23, 2011.

Yoshitomo Nara x Ei-Q: Departure of an Artist at Age 24, Toki No Wasuremono / Watanuki, Inc., Tokyo, September 11–September 18, 2010.

Self Portrait:Watashi to iu tanin [Me as Others], Takahashi Collection, Hibiya, September 4–November 28, 2010.

Aomori Museum of Art Collections: Shiko Munakata, Toru Narita, Yoshitomo Nara: Idol3, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, August 28–October 17, 2010.

Collection 2010-2 Memory / Memorial—for the summer of the 65th Hiroshima Memorial Day, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, July 19–November 7, 2010.

Ateliers d’artistes, Musée Bernard Buffet, Mishima, Shizuoka, July 17–October 12, 2010. (Catalogue)

Innocence: Art towards Life, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, July 17–September 20, 2010. (Catalogue)

Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, May 1, 2010–March 27, 2011.

Zenkyo-an x FOIL Group Exhibition: Asu wa wakarahen [Nobody Knows Tomorrow], Kenninji Zenkyoan Temple, Kyoto, May 1–5, 2010.

Trans-Cool Tokyo, Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, February 26–March 28, 2010. Traveled to: Singapore Art Museum, November 19, 2010–February 13, 2011; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, July 2–September 25, 2011.

The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, February 25–June 13, 2010. (Catalogue)

Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, United Kingdom, February 4–April 11, 2010.

Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, January 16–April 4, 2010. (Catalogue)

2009

The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, December 5, 2009–April 5, 2010. (Catalogue)

15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, October 3–November 14, 2009.

Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, September 19, 2008–January 4, 2009.

From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan, September 8–November 8, 2009. (Catalogue)

In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and His Surrounding Students—Masako Ando, Mika Kato, Tamami Hitsuda, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, August 22–October 18, 2009; Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, August 28–October 25, 2009. (Catalogue)

Stages: Lance Armstrong Foundation Global Art Exhibition to Raise Funds and Awareness in the Fight Against Cancer, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, July 17–August 8, 2009. (Catalogue)

Walking in my Mind, Hayward Gallery, London, June 23–September 6, 2009. (Catalogue)

Rites de Passage, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, The Netherlands, June 20–September 6, 2009.

Altium Prospective: 20th Commemoration Exhibition, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, May 30–June 21, 2009.

ARTZUID, Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial, Amsterdam, 2009. (Catalogue)

2008

The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from The Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi. Traveled to: Yatsushiro Municipal Museum, Kumamoto; Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fuji Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi, 2008–2010. (Catalogue)

Shiko Munakata, Tohru Narita, Yoshitomo Nara: The Icons of the Time, Oita Art Museum, 2008.

20th Anniversary Memorial Collection + Hibikiau Oto, Iro, Katachi (Sympathize with Sound, Color and Shape), Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 2008. (Catalogue)

Wonderland: Japanese Contemporary Art, Opera Gallery, Hong Kong, November 28–December 18, 2008. (Catalogue)

Happy Mother. Happy Children, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Hachioji, October 4–December 14, 2008. (Catalogue)

Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, September 23–November 26, 2008

Collection II: Shell—Shelter, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, September 13, 2008–April 12, 2009.

A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, August 26–October 13, 2008. Traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, November 18–December 21, 2008. (Catalogue)

Encounters, Pace Beijing, August 3–September 31, 2008.

Kankai Pavilion Opening Exhibition: Beyond time, Beyond Space, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Gunma, July 27–September 23, 2008.

Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, July 25–October 19, 2008. (Catalogue)

Animals in Contemporary Art: Many Animals!! What? Art? Towada Art Center, Aomori, July 19–August 21, 2008.

Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, July 18–September 15, 2008. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, November 22, 2008–January 25, 2009; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, July 21–September 10, 2009; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Yokote, September 19–November 29, 2009; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, December 13, 2009–February 11, 2010; The Museum of Art, Ehime, April 7–May 16, 2010; Towada Art Center, Aomori. (Catalogue)

Mogi kenichiro, Hana, Kakuta Mitsuyo, Araki Nobuyoshi: Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, June 20–August 17, 2008. (Catalogue)

Selected Works from The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, April 19–June 15, 2008.

KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia, Jogja National Museum, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, April 19–May 18, 2008. (Catalogue)

Tomyam Pladib, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, March 19–July 15, 2008.

Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, March 1–June 1, 2008.

MOT Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, February 9–April 13, 2008.

The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, January 11–February 9, 2008.

2007

Hop, Stamp, Hanga! Child Print Art Museum, Musée Bernard Buffet, Mishima, Shizuoka, 2007.

Let’s Go to The Museum! How to Enjoy the Modern Art, Together with Dick Bruna, Musée Bernard Buffet, Mishima, Shizuoka, 2007. (Catalogue)

Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, 2007. (Catalogue)

3L4D: 3rd Life 4th Dimension, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, closed November 8, 2007. (Catalogue)

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, September 29, 2007–January 26, 2008. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, May 31–September 8, 2008; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, October 9, 2008–January 11, 2009. (Catalogue)

The Zabludowicz Collection: When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, September 21, 2007–January 20, 2008.

Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collction (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusets, September 19–December 9, 2007. (Catalogue)

ShContemporary 2007 Shanghai in Art, Best of Artists, Shanghai Exhibition Center, September 6–9, 2007.

Summer Show 2007, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, August 1–August 25, 2007.

Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection Shinagawa, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, July 28–October 28, 2007.

Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 22–October 21, 2007. (Catalogue)

Surrealism and Art, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, April 21–June 17, 2007. Traveled to: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, July 3–September 17, 2007; Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, September 29–December 9, 2007. (Catalogue)

Show Me Thai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, April 18–May 20, 2007. (Catalogue)

Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, March 16, 2007–June 30, 2010. (Catalogue)

Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, March 16–April 21, 2007.

Portrait Session, NADiff, Tokyo, March 8–April 1, 2007. Traveled to: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, February 25–May 27, 2007. (Catalogue)

The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop, Contemporary Art Center/Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, February 3–May 6, 2007. (Catalogue)

2006

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Collection: Kono 20nen no 20 no art [20 Artworks From the Past 20 Years], Sapporo Artpark, Hokkaido, 2006. (Catalogue)

Kazoku no jokei: Nihon no kazoku wo kangaeru [The Scene of Family: A Review to the Japanese Family], Museum of Modern Art, Mito, Ibaraki, 2006. (Catalogue)

35 40’ N 139 45’ E Tokyo, Archeus, London, October 10–November 18, 2006.

10th Anniversary, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, September 30–October 14, 2006.

A Magical Life, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, September 9–October 10, 2006.

6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, September 5–November 5, 2006. (Catalogue)

Long Live Sculpture! Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Middelheim, Belgium, May 28–September 3, 2006. (Catalogue)

Cult Fiction: Art and Comics. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London. Traveled to: New Art Gallery, Walsall, May 4–July 1, 2006; Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, July 14–September 2007; City Art Gallery, Leeds, September 27–November 11, 2007; Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, November 17, 2007–January 12, 2008; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, January 19–March 9, 2008. (Catalogue)

The Child, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, April 14–June 18, 2006. (Catalogue)

Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai, Rajata Art House, Bangkok, February 11–17, 2006.

Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, February 7–April 16, 2006.

2005

Kotaro Terada Collection, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, 2005.

Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, December 15, 2005–June 10, 2006.

Kiss Kiss, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, November 24, 2005–January 28, 2006.

Well Done: the Art of Design World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, October 8–December 11, 2005. (Catalogue)

RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, October 7, 2005–July 15, 2007.

Unheimlich Jung: Kinder und Jugendliche in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Stadtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany, September 29–November 13, 2005. (Catalogue)

Yokohama 2005: International Triennial of Contemporary Art—Art Circus, Yokohama, September 28–December 18, 2005. (Catalogue)

Japan Pop: Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, September 9–November 27, 2005. (Catalogue)

Portrait, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, June–July 2005.

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Japan Society Gallery, New York, April 8–July 24, 2005. (Catalogue)

The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, March 29–June 19, 2005. (Catalogue)

Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, March 29–April 23, 2005.

Baby Shower, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, February 4–April 2, 2005.

Chairs and Japanese Design, the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, January 29–March 27, 2005. (Catalogue)

2004

New Prints: Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito, Space Force, Tokyo, 2004. (Brochure)

Onkochishin, White Cube Gallery, Osaka, 2004.

Unusual Combination, Plus Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, 2004.

Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporay Art, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, December 4, 2004–April 17, 2005. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, November 11, 2004–February 13, 2005. Traveled to K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, March 12–May 29, 2005. (Catalogue)

Nara and Sugito: Somewhere, Galerie Zink and Gegner, Munich, November 11–December 23, 2004.

Fiction. Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, (+graf/YNG) Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, August 21–October 31, 2004. (Catalogue)

Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photograpy III, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, July 17–September 2, 2004. (Catalogue)

Dog Days of Summer, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, June 1–September 30, 2004.

Why Not Live for Art? Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, May 26–July 11, 2004.

Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, February 21–May 9, 2004.

2003

Best Collection, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 2003.

Collection, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Aichi, 2003.

Foil, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, 2003.

Hope: Do Hope For The Future, Laforet Museum, Tokyo, 2003.

My Room Somehow Somewhere, gm Gallery, Osaka, 2003

Nichijou Seikatsu, Speak For, Tokyo, 2003.

Niños/Children, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, 2003. (Catalogue)

Painting In Our Time, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, 2003. (Catalogue)

Room Air, It-Park, Tapei, Taiwan, 2003.

Trauer / Grief, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, 2003.

Super Nova Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 12, 2003–May 23, 2004. (Catalogue)

Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, October 18, 2003–January 18, 2004. (Catalogue)

Moving energies #2: Aspekte der Sammlung Olbricht, Museum Folkwang Essen, October 17, 2003–January 11, 2004. (Catalogue)

Ukiyo-E Avant-Garde, Tokyo Station Gallery, September 27–November 9, 2003. (Catalogue)

Inaugural Group Show, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, September 4–October 4, 2003.

Art de Zoo, The Akita Museum of Modern Art, July 2003. (Catalogue)

Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo, April 26–May 26, 2003. (Catalogue)

Room Air, IT Park, Tapei, April 26–May 24, 2003.

Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, April 12–June 29, 2003; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, September 17, 2003–January 4, 2004; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, January 31–April 20, 2004. (Catalogue)

Kids Are Us / I bambini siamo noi, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, March 9–May 25, 2003.

Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, January 13–March 21, 2003. Traveled to: Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, April 11-June 15, 2003; University of North Texas Gallery, Denton, August 25–Oct 31, 2003; Western Washington University, Bellingham, January 12–March 13, 2004. (Catalogue)

M_ARS-Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, January 10–March 26, 2003. (Catalogue)

2002

Bokura no Hero to Heroine, Otaru City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 2002. (Catalogue)

Drawing Days, Backspace, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, 2002.

Fragile Figures, Palette Club, Tokyo, 2002.

Emotional Site, Sagacho Shokuryo Building, Tokyo, November 16–24, 2002. (Catalogue)

Drawing Now: Eight Proposition, The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York, October 17, 2002–January 6, 2003. (Catalogue)

The Galleries Show 2002, Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 14–October 2002. (Catalouge)

Traces, Imprints and Tales: Japanese Contemporary Art Draws from Tradition, Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki, August 24–June 10, 2002. (Catalogue)

The 20th Century. Art Recognized Virtual Images: Between Monalisa and Mammon, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, August 3–September 23, 2002.

The Doraemon, Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka, July 13–September 23, 2002. Traveled to: Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa; Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Aichi; Oita Art Museum; Shimane Art Museum, Matsue; Akita Senshu Museum of Art; Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa; Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Nagano.

Weiche Brüche, Japan, Kunstraum Insbruck, Austria, June 29–September 28, 2002. (Catalogue)

The Japanese Experience: Inevitable, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, June 9–July 14, 2002. (Catalogue)

Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, June 5–August 4, 2002. (Catalogue)

Pop! Pop! Pop! ‘50s–‘00s Pos Art Show, Museum of Modern Art, Mito, Ibaraki, April 5–May 19, 2002. (Catalogue)

2001

Dialogue with Nature: Graduation Works from the Collection of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi, 2001. (Catalogue)

Pop Heart e Generazione MTV, Light Gallery, Faenza, 2001.

Suichoku no Jikan, University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, 2001.

Tsunami Raiders, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, 2001.

Silence of the City, Gwanju Art Museum, Korea, December 14, 2001–February 15, 2002. (Catalogue)

Neo Tokyo: Japanese Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, November 10, 2001–February 10, 2002. (Catalogue)

Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Overland Park, November 2001-January 2002.

Jap in the Box, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, October 26–November 26, 2001.

Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future of Sculpture, University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of the Arts, October 11–28, 2001. (Catalogue)

Works on the Paper: From the Terada Collection, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, October 6–December 24, 2001.

Senritsumirai: Future Perfect, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, September 29, 2001–January 6, 2002. (Catalogue)

Takashi Murakami / Yoshimoto Nara, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, August 22–September 8, 2001.

Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Modern Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, June 28–August 10, 2001.

Group exhibition, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, May 31–July 28, 2001.

Jam: Tokyo-London, Barbican Centre, London, May 10–July 1, 2001. Traveled to: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, February 2002–May 2002. (Catalogue; edited by Liz Farelly)

Retorn al país de les meravelles: l'art contemporani i la infància, Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona, April 27–July 8, 2001. (Catalogue)

Public Offerings, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 1–July 29, 2001. (Catalogue)

My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation. Organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York. Traveled to: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, February 10–May 6, 2001; Brooklyn Museum of Art, July 28, 2001–October 7, 2001;Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, January 24, 2002–March 31, 2002; Tampa Museum of Art, April 21, 2002–June 23, 2002; Chicago Cultural Center, July 13, 2002–September 8, 2002; Akron Art Museum, Ohio, September 21, 2002–January 5, 2003; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm, April 12, 2003–June 15, 2003; Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, Washington, July 12, 2003–September 21, 2003; Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama, October 13, 2003–January 4, 2004. (Catalogue)

Superflat, Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, January 14–May 27, 2001. Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, July 15–October 14, 2001; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, November 10, 2001–March 3, 2002. (Catalogue)

2000

Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 2000.

From the Collection of Aomori Museum of Art: Yoshitomo Nara and Hana Hashimoto—The Amazing Garden, Takayama Uichi Memorial Art Museum, Shichinohe, Aomori, 2000. (Pamphlet)

Gose Abe Ando His Influences, Namioka Town Hall, Aomori, 2000.

Group exhibition, Gallery Hakuyosha, Nagoya, Aichi, 2000.

Kids World Aomori 2000, Aomori Prefectural Museum, Aomori, Japan, 2000.

Works from the Tokushima Modern Art Museum Collection 2000, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, 2000. (Catalogue)

Yoshimoto Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Galerie Humanité, Nagoya, Aichi, 2000.

Cultural Ties, Jariwala Westzone Gallery London, November 16–December 22, 2000.

Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art—Between the Body and Space, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdwoski Castle, Warsaw, October 10–December 3, 2000. (Catalogue)

The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 1, 2000–January 2, 2001. (Catalogue)

00: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, July 6–August 30, 2000. (Catalogue)

Presumed Innocent, CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, June 8–October 1, 2000. (Catalogue)

Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, June 2–August 6, 2000. (Catalogue)

Work on Paper, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, May 23–June 10, 2000.

Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum für Internatonale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, May 21–September 10, 2000. (Catalogue)

Super Flat, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, April 28–May 29, 2000. Traveled to: Parco Gallery, Nagoya and other cities in Japan (Catalogue)

Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts: Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Germany, April 9–June 12, 2000. Traveled to: Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, June 18–August 27, 2000. (Catalogue)

One Heart, One World: International Exhibition of the Heart, United Nations Public Lobby, New York, April 5–25, 2000. Traveled. (Catalogue)

Trading Views: 4 x Japanishe Kunst, Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken, Germany, February 6–March 26, 2000. Traveled to: Stadtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany, April 15–May 21, 2000; Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 17–October 1, 2000. (Catalogue)

1999

An Active Fault of Painting, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya, Aichi, 1999.

Yoshimoto Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan, 1999.

A Muse Land 2000: It’s an Animal World, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, December 22–January 30, 1999.

Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, November 19–December 18, 1999.

Vergiß den Ball und Spiel Weiter, Nuremberg Kunsthalle, October 21, 1999–January 9, 2000. (Catalogue)

Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s, Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, D.C., September 14–30, 1999. Traveled. (Catalogue)

Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, September 12–November 21, 1999. Traveled to: Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, July 8–September 17, 2000; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001; PS1, New York, February 4–April 8, 2001; Fundacio "La Caixa," Barcelona, April 26–July 8, 2001; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, August 30–November 4, 2001; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, November 24, 2001–January 20, 2002; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee, June 6–July 28, 2002; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, September 13–November 17, 2002. (Catalogue)

Tendance, Abbaye Saint André Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, July 10–October 17, 1999.

Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish, or Both, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan, July 3–September 26, 1999. (Catalogue)

KunstRai, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, June 1–6, 1999.

Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Time, Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, February 11–March 22, 1999. (Catalogue)

New Modernism for a New Millennium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 21–March 7, 1999. (Catalogue)

1998

From the Collections of Aomori Museum of Art, Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Hachinohe, Aomori, 1998. Traveled.(Catalogue)

Innocent Minds, Space X and Forum Space at Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya. (Catalogue)

Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 1998, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea, November 1–30, 1998.

Voor herhaling vatbaar: Henk Visch, Yoshitomo Nara, Peter Archer, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, October 16–November 15, 1998.

The Manga Age, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, October 3–December 13, 1998. Traveled to: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, February 6–April 11, 1999. (Catalogue)

1997

Box: Its Cosmos, Galerie Humanité Tokyo, 1997.

Group exhibition, Galeria & Ediciones Ginkgo, Madrid, 1997.

Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 1997. (Catalogue)

VOCA ’97: Vision of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, March 15–30, 1997. (Catalogue)

Dream of Existence: Exhibition of Young Japanese Artists, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, March 13–April 13, 1997. (Catalogue)

Drawing Show, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, February 14–March 16, 1997.

1996

Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, 1996. (Catalogue)

Kind of Blue, Gallery Hakuyosha, Nagoya, Aichi, 1996.

Sunny Side Up, Gallery Nayuta, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 1996.

Drawings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, September 6–Octobner 13, 1996.

Summer Exhibition, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, July 15–August 31, 1996.

L’Enfance retrouvé, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, May 9–June 22, 1996.

Tokyo Pop, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, April 27–May 26, 1996. (Catalogue)

Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, April 6–May 6, 1996.

1995

Art x = @, SAM Museum, Osaka, 1995.

Drawing Chat, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, 1995.

Dusseldorf-andere Ort, Orangerie Schloss Brake, Lemgo, Germany, 1995.

The Future of Paintings ’95, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, 1995.

Hon to bunchin (Book and Paperweight), Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, 1995.

Jyugem: Endless Happiness, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, 1995.

Positiv, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany, 1995.

That Figures: Yoshitomo Nara, Kenji Yanobe, Charles Worthen, Ferdinand v Dieten/Gallery d’Eendt, Amsterdam, November 11–December 10, 1995.

Takeoffs, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California, October–November 12, 1995.

Gunma Biennale for Young Artists: Project for Gunma ’95, Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, July 22–August 27, 1995.

Summer Exhibition, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, June 23–end of August 1995.

1994

Art Against AIDS, Art Cologne, 1994.

Harvest ’94, Haus Bickdorf, Kempen, Germany and Gallery Hakuyosha, Nagoya, Japan, 1994.

Ironic Fantasy, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, 1994.

My Room is Your Room, 7th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, 1994.

Project for Gunma ’95, Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, 1994.

Tokyo Pop, The Hiratsuks Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, 1994.

1993

Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1993.

Harvest ’93, Haus Bockdorf, Kempen, Germany, 1993.

In Situ, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, 1993.

Artomatic, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, December 12, 1993–January 16, 1994.

Compositions, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, October 17–November 15, 1993.

Harvest ’93, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, June 2–7, 1993.

Partners, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, March 14–April 18, 1992.

1992

Tijdelijk Asiel, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, 1992.

Summer exhibition, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, July–August 1992.

1991

4th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Electricity Museum Nagoya, Aichi, 1991.

Pack, Sain Gallery, Busan, Korea, 1991.

1990

Acqua Strana, Galerie Ulla Sommers, Düsseldorf, 1990.

Brille, Galerie Pentagon, Cologne, 1990.

Vivian Rowe, Yoshitomo Nara, Louis Darocha, Kees de Groot, Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, May 4–30, 1990.

1989

Mensch und Technik, Nixdorf A.G., Düsseldorf, 1989.

1988

Feeling House, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Tsu, 1988.

1987

New Artists in Nagoya, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, 1987.

1986

Each Person’s Expression of Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 1986.

Present ’86, Gallery NAFNagoya, Nagoya, Aichi, 1986.

1985

Gonin Bayashi [Five Person’s Musical Band], Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, 1985.

Sense of Vision and Touch, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, 1985.

1984

Paranoia, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, 1984.

Yoshitomo Nara, Kooji Miura, Gallery Denega, Hirsaki, Aomori, 1984.

2024

Adesina, Precious. “Yoshitomo Nara and the dark side of Japanese 'cuteness'” (Guggenheim Bilbao exhibition review). BBC, 14 August 2024. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240813-yoshitomo-nara-and-the-dark-side-of-japanese-cuteness

Carollo, Elisa. “Slow Sales at Tokyo Gendai Suggest Realizing Japan’s Potential Will Be an Uphill Battle.” Observer, 8 July 2024. https://observer.com/2024/07/slow-sales-tokyo-gendai-2024-japanese-art-market-analysis/

Chow, Vivienne. “By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results from Sotheby’s Hong Kong ‘The Now’ and Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sales, April 2024.” Artnet News, 9 April 2024. https://news.artnet.com/market/by-the-numbers-a-breakdown-of-results-from-sothebys-hong-kong-the-now-and-modern-and-contemporary-art-evening-sales-april-2024-2464471.

Chow, Vivienne. “Work of the Week: Yoshitomo Nara’s ‘I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight.’” Artnet News, 10 April 2024. https://news.artnet.com/market/work-of-the-week-yoshitomo-nara-i-want-to-see-the-bright-lights-tonight-2467149.

Davidson, Lisa. “Yoshitomo Nara: The Bootleg Drawings 1988 – 2023” (Pace Gallery exhibition review), We Heart, 1 February 2024. https://www.we-heart.com/2024/02/01/yoshitomo-nara-the-bootleg-drawings-1988-2023/.

De la Cruz, Sofia. “Yoshitomo Nara’s skittish universe takes over the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum” (exhibition review). Wallpaper, 16 July 2024. https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/yoshitomo-nara-guggenheim-bilbao-museum-review

de Volpi, Carlotta. “Tokyo Gendai focuses on the quality of the works.” Il Giornale dell’Arte, 8 July 2024. https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/Tokyo-Gendai-punta-sulla-qualita-delle-opere

Elderton, Louisa. “‘Would Imagine Some Little Child Like Me’: The Eternal Youth of Yoshitomo Nara” (Guggenheim Bilbao exhibition review). Artnet News, 11 July 2024. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yoshitomo-nara-guggenheim-bilbao-2511064

Estiler, Keith. “A Look Inside Yoshitomo Nara’s Mid-Career Survey at Guggenheim Bilbao” (exhibition review). Hypebeast, 12 July 2024. https://hypebeast.com/2024/7/yoshitomo-nara-guggenheim-bilbao-mid-career-survey

Greenberger, Alex. “81 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall” (Hammer Museum and Museum of Modern Art exhibition previews, Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition review). ARTnews, 2 September 2024. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/fall-2024-must-see-museum-exhibitions-biennials-1234715497/van-gogh-poets-and-lovers-at-national-gallery-london/

Moroz, Sarah. “Yoshitomo Nara Brings Pathos, Humor and Musical Citations to Guggenheim Bilbao” (exhibition review). Observer, 2 August 2024. https://observer.com/2024/08/art-review-yoshitomo-nara-guggenheim-bilbao/

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara on his art’s meaning, and chasing the ‘carefree freedom’ of childhood.” Interview with Kate Whitehead. South China Morning Post, 29 January 2024. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3249861/japanese-artist-yoshitomo-nara-his-arts-meaning-and-chasing-carefree-freedom-childhood.

Pasarón, Julia. “Yoshitomo Nara” (Guggenheim Bilbao Exhibition review). I-M Magazine, 27 June 2024. https://i-m-magazine.com/culture/yoshitomo-nara/

“Spain Art.” Naver, 27 June 2024. https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/091/0009680707

Westall, Mark. “Yoshitomo Nara – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao” (exhibition review). FAD Magazine, 10 July 2024. https://fadmagazine.com/2024/07/10/yoshitomo-nara-guggenheim-museum-bilbao/

“Yoshitomo Nara at The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao” (exhibition review). Art Plugged, 19 May 2024. https://artplugged.co.uk/yoshitomo-nara-at-the-guggenheim-museum-bilbao/

Zara, Julia. “Hammer Museum | Breathe: Toward Climate And Social Justice” (exhibition review). Flaunt, 15 August 2024. https://www.flaunt.com/post/hammer-museum-breathe-toward-climate-and-social-justice-

2023

Cane, Hesper. “Yoshitomo Nara's Retrospective at Albertina Modern Presents the Artist's Multifaceted Oeuvre of Drawings” (Albertina Modern exhibition review). Widewalls, 26 May 2023. https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/yoshitomo-nara-albertina-modern

“An exhibition that will soothe the disappointment of the end of the art fair” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Naver, 12 September 2023. https://post.naver.com/viewer/postView.naver?volumeNo=36562546&memberNo=24216069

Foster, Kristina. “The top art exhibitions in Europe and the US this summer.” Financial Times, 5 June 2023. https://www.ft.com/content/ba924d93-328a-4962-a734-25ca24f51643

“Frieze, Kiaf Seoul 2023 Review of Must-See Works.” Naver, 7 September 2023. https://post.naver.com/viewer/postView.naver?volumeNo=36538814&memberNo=856760

Goldstien, Caroline. “Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction Around the World in April 2023.” Artnet News, 29 May 2023. https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/here-are-the-15-most-expensive-artworks-sold-at-auction-around-the-world-in-april-2023-2302102

“Here Are the Most Bankable Artists of the Year, So Far.” Artnet News, 23 August 2023. https://news.artnet.com/market/most-bankable-artists-intelligence-report-mid-year-2023-2350025

Holland, Oscar. “From Singapore to Seoul, Asia's Rising Art Capitals Vie for Hong Kong's Crown.” CNN Style, 22 March 2023. https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/art-capitals-hong-kong-basel-singapore-seoul

Katsikopoulou, Myrto. “colossal dog sculpture welcomes visitors to yoshitomo nara’s solo exhibition in aomori, japan” (Aomori Museum of Art exhibition review). Designboom, 23 November 2023. https://www.designboom.com/art/colossal-dog-sculpture-yoshimoto-nara-exhibition-aomori-museum-japan-11-23-2023/.

Katsikopoulou, Myrto. “Yoshitomo Nara’s Childlike Characters Take Ceramic Forms at Pace Gallery Exhibition in Seoul” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Designboom, 13 September 2023. https://www.designboom.com/art/yoshimoto-nara-childlike-characters-ceramic-pace-gallery-exhhibition-seoul-09-13-2023/

Loho, Petra. “Yoshitomo Nara on Turning His Cute Characters into Art World Icons.” Artsy, 16 May 2023. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-yoshitomo-nara-turning-cute-characters-art-icons

“The lonely side of great artists: Yoshitomo Nara's portrait of Michael Jackson to lead Poly Auction HK's spring sales.” The Value, 28 March 2023. https://en.thevalue.com/articles/poly-auction-hk-2023-yoshitomo-nara-michael-jackson

Michalarou, Efi. “ART CITIES: Geneva-Yoshitomo Nara” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Dreamideamachine, November 2023. https://www.dreamideamachine.com/?p=92664.

Mohan, Aarthi. “Yoshitomo Nara’s ‘Ceramic Works’ is a mastery of creativity and emotional depth” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Stirpad, 13 October 2023. https://www.stirpad.com/news/stir-news/yoshitomo-nara-s-ceramic-works-is-a-mastery-of-creativity-and-emotional-depth/.

Park, Yuna. “What to see in town during Seoul Art Week.” Korea Herald, 5 September 2023. https://m.koreaherald.com/amp/view.php?ud=20230905000759

Rodgers, Daniel. “From Teahouses to Cool-Girl Nail Salons, Iris Law Takes Us Inside Her Weekend In Seoul” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). British Vogue, 10 October 2023. https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/iris-law-seoul-travel-diary-burberry.

Sagar, Eva. “I'm not as serious an artist as you might think" (Albertina Modern exhibition review). Wiener Zeitlung, 9 May 2023. https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/kunst/2188056-Ich-bin-nicht-so-ein-ernsthafter-Kuenstler-wie-Sie-vielleicht-meinen.html

Shu-yan, Lee. “Christie’s Hong Kong autumn 2023 auctions fetch US $384 million, see strong demand for Asian masterpieces.” South China Morning Post, 5 December 2023. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3243785/christies-hong-kong-autumn-2023-auctions-fetch-us384-million-see-strong-demand-asian-masterpieces?campaign=3243785&module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article.

Silverman, Erica. “Top Seoul Exhibitions: Yoshitomo Nara, Leiko Ikemura, and More” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Whitewall, 8 September 2023. https://whitewall.art/art/top-seoul-exhibitions-yoshitomo-nara-leiko-ikemura-and-more

Wolfson, Julie. “Yoshitomo Nara’s Time-Traveling Solo Exhibition at the Aomori Museum of Art, “The Beginning Place” (exhibition review). Cool Hunting, 22 November 2023. https://coolhunting.com/culture/yoshitomo-naras-time-traveling-solo-exhibition-at-the-aomori-museum-of-art-the-beginning-place/.

“Worldwide Exhibition Hit List: Art Openings September 2023.” Berlin Art Link, 1 September 2023. https://www.berlinartlink.com/2023/09/01/worldwide-exhibition-hit-list-art-openings-september-2023/

“Yoshitomo Nara Brings Decades of Artistic Journey to Life in New Aomori Exhibit” (Aomori Museum of Art exhibition review). The Japan News, 15 October 2023. https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/art/20231015-143212/.

“Yoshitomo Nara holds “The Bootleg Drawings 1988-2023" at Pace Gallery Geneva” (exhibition review). Gen de Art, 9 November 2023. https://www.tfwsa.or.jp/post/yoshitomonara_thebootlegdrawings_geneva.

"Yoshitomo NARA at HOME." Casa Brutus, No. 284, December 2023.

Yoshitomo, Nara. “YOSHITOMO NARA Je ne fais pas partie de ces artistes qui vivent pour creer.” Interview with Andrea Machalova. Luxe Bilan, 2023.

Yuna, Park. “As a wanderer, Yoshitomo Nara does not confine himself to art” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Korea Herald, 25 September 2023. https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230925000774

2022

“Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic.” Apollo Magazine, 13 May 2022. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/feminine-power-british-museum/

Levy, Par Christine. "Les Japonaises ne veulent plus se taire.” Le Monde diplomatique, January 2022: 7, illustrated.

Luo, Shuyin. “The first Frieze Seoul VIP opens a new international channel for the Asian art market.” Artron, 3 September 2022. https://m-news.artron.net/news/20220903/n1980689.html

Rea, Naomi. “Casual Vibes and an Absence of Fireworks Marked Christie’s $82.2 Million Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in London.” Artnet News, 13 October 2022. https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-20th-21st-century-evening-sale-in-london-netted-72-5-million-without-fireworks-2191702

Sherwin, Skye. “Yoshitomo Nara: ‘My works’ roots are in fairytales, not comics’” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Guardian, 7 January 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jan/07/yoshitomo-nara-my-works-roots-are-in-fairytales-not-comics.

Qi, Lin. “Yoshitomo Nara's full-scale exhibition to open at Shanghai's Yuz Museum” (Yuz Museum exhibition preview). China Daily, 2 March 2022. https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202203/02/WS621f0b24a310cdd39bc89d18.html.

2021

Anspon, Catherine D. “Japanese Arist Yoshimoto Nara is Bringing His Monumental Museum Show to Dallas” (Dallas Contemporary exhibition preview). Paper City Magazine, 12 January 2021. https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/dallas-arts-yoshitomo-nara-dallas-contemporary-pedro-alonzo/

Brodbeck, Anna Katherine and Vivian Li. “The Fundamental Emotions All Humans Possess.” Patron Magazine, October / November 2021: cover, 82–89, illustrated.

Carter, Dom. “Pinacoteca: Landmark Yoshitomo Nara exhibition features a gallery within a gallery” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Creative Boom, 16 December 2021. https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/yoshitomo-nara-pinacoteca/.

Falco Raez, Constanza. “Yoshitomo Nara | The Japanese Artist's First Retrospective At LACMA” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition preview). Flaunt, 3 June 2021. https://flaunt.com/content/yoshitomo-nara-lacma

Ghassemitari, Shawn. “Pace Gallery Brought a Star-Studded Lineup to Art Basel 2021.” Hypebeast, 21 September 2021. (opens in a new window) https://hypebeast.com/2021/9/pace-gallery-art-basel-2021

Hsiao, Sherry. “Works of Japanese master painter to see Taiwan debut” (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts exhibition review). Taipei Times, 18 January 2021. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/01/18/2003750794

Loos, Ted. “Museum Shows With Stories to Tell" (Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition review). The New York Times, 21 May 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/arts/museum-listings.html

Nara, Yoshitomo and Tim Blum. "The Fundamental Emotions all Humans Possess." Interview with Anna Katherine Brodbeck and Vivian Li. Patron Magazine, 30 September 2021. https://patronmagazine.com/the-fundamental-emotions-all-humans-possess/

Nara, Yoshitomo. "Yoshitomo Nara" (Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition review). Interview with Katy Donoghue. Whitewall, Fall 2021: 116–120, illustrated.

Villa, Angelica. “The Most Expensive Yoshitomo Nara Works Ever to Sell at Auction.” ARTnews, 12 August 2021. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/yoshitomo-nara-most-expensive-works-1234601326/not-everything-but-green-house-2009/

Westall, Mark. “Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca, a Landmark Solo Exhibition for London” (Pace London exhibition preview). FAD Magazine, 19 November 2021. https://fadmagazine.com/2021/11/19/yoshitomo-nara-pinacoteca-a-landmark-solo-exhibition-for-london/.

2020

Delson, Susan. “The Unsettling Confrontations of Artist Yoshitomo Nara.” The Wall Street Journal, 18 December 2020. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unsettling-confrontations-of-artist-yoshitomo-nara-11608317986

Estiler, Keith. “Yoshitomo Nara Displays Unseen Drawings at Pace Gallery’s East Hampton Space” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Hypebeast, 14 July 2020. https://hypebeast.com/2020/7/yoshitomo-nara-after-all-im-cosmic-dust-pace-gallery-east-hampton-exhibition-info

Fabricant, Florence. “One Plate to Serve You and Feed the Homeless: Sales of these limited-edition dinner plates provide meals for the hungry in New York City.” The New York Times, 16 November 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/dining/artist-plates-coalition-for-the-homeless.html

Garcia, Gretty. “Inside the Definitive Book on Yoshitomo Nara.” New York Magazine, 16 April 2020. https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/inside-the-definitive-book-on-yoshitomo-nara.html

Hinkle, Annette. "Pace Gallery is Now in East Hampton" (Pace gallery exhibition review). Sag Harbor Express, 1 July 2020. https://sagharborexpress.com/pace-gallery-is-now-in-east-hampton/?wallit_nosession=1

Imada, Kaila. “Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara turn their art into free colouring pages.” Time Out Tokyo, 11 May 2020. https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/takashi-murakami-and-yoshitomo-nara-turn-their-art-into-free-colouring-pages-051120

Jones, Mark. “Pioneer spirit.” Christie’s Magazine (September–October 2020): 106–115, illustrated. https://issuu.com/christiesmagazine/docs/christie_s_magazine___september-october_2020

Laster, Paul. “3 Must-See Gallery Pop-Ups in the Hamptons” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art & Object, 16 July 2020. https://www.artandobject.com/news/3-must-see-gallery-pop-ups-hamptons

Leung, Gabrielle. “Dallas Contemporary to Reopen with Major Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition” (Dallas Contemporary exhibition preview). Hypebeast, 13 August 2020. https://hypebeast.com/2020/8/dallas-contemporary-reopening-yoshitomo-nara-exhibition-info

Leung, Gabrielle. “Yoshitomo Nara Drops Special Edition Print for Dallas Contemporary.” Hypebeast, 17 April 2020. https://hypebeast.com/2020/4/yoshitomo-nara-dallas-contemporary-marching-on-a-butterbur-leaf-print-release

Valero, David. "Yoshitomo Nara: Piercing Eyes and Mysterious Girls." Metal Magazine, 26 May 2020. https://metalmagazine.eu/bi/post/article/yoshitomo-nara

Whitehead, Kate. “Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara ‘a control freak’ but he ‘gave me complete freedome’, says author of book on his career.” South China Morning Post, 14 June 2020. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3088765/japanese-artist-yoshitomo-nara-control-freak-he-gave-me

“Yoshitomo Nara Paints What He Hears” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition preview). DNYUZ, 24 July 2020. https://dnyuz.com/2020/07/24/yoshitomo-nara-paints-what-he-hears/

2019

Armstrong, Annie. “Yoshitomo Nara Work Sells for $25 M. in Hong Kong, Blasting Through Artist Record.” ARTnews, 7 October 2019. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/yoshitomo-nara-auction-record-13340/

Starr, Nina. “In Conversation with Japanese Artist Yoshitomo Nara” (Chateau La Coste exhibition review). Design Anthology, 27 September 2019. https://designanthologymag.com/story/yoshitomo-nara

Qi, Lin. “Painting of Nara's signature 'angry girl' fetches HK$196 million at auction.” China Daily, 7 October 2019. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201910/07/WS5d9af8c3a310cf3e3556ef44.html

2018

Jiang, Yiwei. “H Queen’s Duo Jia Dong Xi Fang Yi Xian Hua Lang Kai Mu, Xiang Gang Yi Shu Xin Di Biao Tui Dong Shi Chang Sheng Wen” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Art Newspaper (China), 29 March 2018. http://www.tanchinese.com/art-market/36828/

Leng, Lin. “Yoshitomo Nara’s Ceramics Exhibition Inaugurates Pace Gallery’s New Space at H Queen’s, Hong Kong – In Conversation” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Interview with Valencia Tong. Art Radar, 28 March 2018. http://artradarjournal.com/2018/03/28/yoshitomo-naras-ceramics-exhibition-inaugurates-pace-gallerys-new-space-at-h-queens-hong-kong-in-conversation/

Movius, Lisa. "Pace Reveals Details of Its New Hong Kong Space" (Pace Hong Kong exhibition preview). The Art Newspaper, 11 January 2018. http://theartnewspaper.com/news/pace-reveals-details-of-its-new-hong-kong-space

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Interview with Yoshitomo Nara” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Interview with Sophie von Wunster. Art Asia Pacific, 28 March 2018. http://www.artasiapacific.com/Blog/InterviewWithYoshimotoNara

Neuendorf, Henri. “Pace Will Launch Its New Hong Kong Gallery With a Yoshitomo Nara Solo Show” (Pace Hong Kong exhibition preview). Artnet News, 10 January 2018. https://news.artnet.com/market/pace-new-hong-kong-gallery-yoshitomo-nara-1196702

Rim, Tina. “Yoshitomo Nara – New Ceramic Works” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Artling, 4 April 2018. https://theartling.com/en/artzine/2018/04/04/yoshitomo-nara-ceramic-works-and/

Shao, Tingru. “Yoshitomo Nara de Chuang Zuo.” Artist Magazine, no. 520 (September 2018): 86–103, illustrated.

Shu, Tong. “H Queen’s: Huanghou Da Dao Zou Yi Zao, Yi Shu Ru Chao Yong” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artco (May 2018): 74–77, illustrated.

2017

Angeleti, Gabriella. “Japanese Artist Reveals His Mature, ‘Grown-up’ Side” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Art Newspaper, 31 March 2017. http://theartnewspaper.com/shows/japanese-artist-reveals-his-mature-grown-up-side/

Fujimori, Manami. “Yoshitomo Nara: Thinker” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Yomitime, 14 April 2017: 4, illustrated.

Koon, Yeewan. “Yoshitomo Nara: For Better or Worse, Works 1987–2017” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art). Art Asia Pacific, no. 106 (November/December 2017): 119, illustrated.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “’I Was Really Unthinking Before’: Yoshitomo Nara on His Recent Work and His Show at Pace Gallery in New York” (exhibition review). Interview with Robert Ayers. Art News, 14 April 2017. http://www.artnews.com/2017/04/14/i-was-really-unthinking-before-yoshitomo-nara-on-his-recent-work-and-his-show-at-pace-gallery-in-new-york/

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Yoshitomo Nara Discusses the Importance of Drawing and Zen Serenity to His Work” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). Interview with Paul Laster. Time Out, 29 March–April 4, 2017: 47, illustrated.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “15 Minutes with Yoshitomo Nara.” Interview with Tali Jaffe. Cultured Magazine (March 2017). http://www.culturedmag.com/15-minutes-yoshitomo-nara/

“Yoshitomo Nara’s World.” Special issue, Eureka Poetry and Criticism 49-13, no. 706 (2017).

2016

“Hong Kong: Asian Art ‘Game-Changers Honored by Asia Society.” Asia Media International, 22 March 2016. http://asiamedia.lmu.edu/2016/03/22/hong-kong-asian-art-game-changers-honored-by-asia-society/

Spencer, Samuel. “Yoshitomo Nara Comes to Stephen Friedman Gallery and Waterloo Bridge” (exhibition review). Artinfo, 3 May 2016. http://uk.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1392857/yoshitomo-nara-comes-to-stephen-friedman-gallery-and-waterloo

“Yoshitomo Nara Unveils Statue for Art Museum’s 10th Anniversary.” The Asahi Shimbun, 29 December 2016. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201612290054.html

2015

Carol. “Yoshitomo Nara: Yong Tong Zhi de Shi Jiao Kan Xing” (Pace Hong Kong exhibition review). Weekend HK, 27 March 2015: 34, illustrated.

Nara, Yoshitomo “Disaster, Reindeer and Spock Ears: The World of Japanese Artist Nara.” Interview with Caroline Henshaw. Yahoo! News, 15 March 2015. https://www.yahoo.com/news/disaster-reindeer-spock-ears-world-japanese-artist-nara-054848285.html

Janice. “Yoshitomo Nara: Lai Zi Xiang Cun de Gu Du Nan Hai” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). Ming Pao Weekly, 21 March 2015: 50–57, illustrated.

Jessie. “Yoshitomo Nara Jiang Shen Hou Shi” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). New Monday, 13 March 2015: 104–107, illustrated.

Liu, Yiyuan. “Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). The Art Newspaper (China), 13–14 March 2015: 20, illustrated.

McNeill, David. “Ulterior Motifs” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). 48 Hours, March 2015: 10–17, illustrated.

“Nara: Stars” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). Art Bahrain (Spring/Summer 2015): cover, 2–9, illustrated.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Interview with Aimee Lin. Art Review Asia, Summer 2015: 44–47, illustrated.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Yoshitomo Nara: Dao Zhe Wang Qian Zou de Ren” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). Interview with Wu Jianru. Leap, 29 April 2015. http://leapleapleap.com/2015/04/%E5%A5%88%E8%89%AF%E7%BE%8E%E6%99%BA%EF%BC%9A%E5%80%92%E7%9D%80%E5%BE%80%E5%89%8D%E8%B5%B0%E7%9A%84%E4%BA%BA/?lang=zh-hans

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Self-portrait with Broken Hear” (Asia Society exhibition review). Interview with Caroline Henshaw. The Nation, 19 March 2015: 14B, illustrated.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Q&A: Yoshitomo Nara Seeks Lasting Art After Japan’s Tsunami” (Asia Society exhibition review). Interview with Wei Gu. The Wall Street Journal, 13 March 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/03/13/qa-yoshitomo-nara-seeks-lasting-art-after-japans-tsunami/

Nip, Amy. “Japanese Artist Yoshitomo Nara Says Hong Kong is Like a Tasty Bowl of Noodles” (Asia Society exhibition review). South China Morning Post, 9 March 2015. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1732829/japanese-artist-yoshitomo-nara-says-hong-kong-tasty-bowl-noodles

Pan, Huimin. “Pace Hong Kong Exhibits Yoshitomo Nara’s New Series ‘stars’” (exhibition review). Artron, 11 March 2015. http://huanan.artron.net/20150311/n720145.html?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0

Pan, Gaojie. “Yoshitomo Nara: Wo Yu Xiang Gang Geng You Gong Ming” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). The Art Newspaper (China), April 2015: 11, illustrated.

Vassiliou, Amani. “A Cult Classic” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). Art Asia Pacific (July/August 2015): 49–51, illustrated.

Zhou, Qianxin. “Yoshitomo Nara Zhi Tian Ming” (Pace Hong Kong and Asia Society exhibition review). Hong Kong Economic Times, 16 March 2015: C11, illustrated.

2014

Carabelli, Emilia. “Quando l’arte si combina con il turismo” (Pace at Chesa Büsin exhibition review). Corriere del Ticino, 13 March 2014: 34, illustrated.

Cheng, Susan. “Angry Kids Swear and Light Up in Yoshitomo Nara’s Latest Exhibition at Blum and Poe” (exhibition review). Complex Art + Designi, 12 March 2014. http://www.complex.com/art-design/2014/03/angry-children-light-up-and-rock-out-in-yoshitomo-naras-latest-exhibition-at-blum-and-poe

“Japanese Artist Yoshitomo Nara To Have Major Exhibition at London’s Dairy Art Centre” (exhibition preview). Artlyst, 19 July 2014. http://www.artlyst.com/articles/japanese-artist-yoshitomo-nara-to-have-major-exhibition-at-londons-dairy-art-centre

McEwan, Olivia. “Yoshitomo Nara: Commercial Allure Presenting The Right Touch Of Unease” (Dairy Art Center exhibition review). Artlyst, 10 October 2014. http://www.artlyst.com/articles/yoshitomo-nara-commercial-allure-presenting-the-right-touch-of-unease

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Courteney Cox Visits Opening of New York by Yoshitomo Nara” (Blum and Poe exhibition review). The Hollywood Reporter, 4 March 2014. Interview with Christopher Wyrick. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/courteney-cox-visits-opening-new-685904

Harris, Gareth. “Interview: Japanese Artist Yoshitomo Nara” (Dairy Art Center exhibition review). Financial Times, 10 October 2014. http://on.ft.com/1oaXLtd

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Yoshitomo Nara Is Back And More Innocent Than Ever” (Blum and Poe exhibition review). Huffington Post, 12 March 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/12/yoshimoto-nara_n_4944894.html

“Previewed: Yoshitomo Nara” (Blum & Poe exhibition preview). Art Review 66, no. 2 (March 2014): 34, illustrated.

Wee, Darryl. “Yoshitomo Nara to Hold Solo Show at London’s Dairy Art Center” (exhibition preview). Artinfo, 27 July 2014. http://uk.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1049569/yoshitomo-nara-to-hold-solo-show-at-londons-dairy-art-center

2013

“Art and Soul.” Art + Auction (April 2013): illustrated.

Balfour, Frederik. “[Sotheby’s] Patek Philippe Clock, El Bulli Wines Raise $281 Million.” Bloomberg, 9 April 2013: llustrated. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-08/patek-philippe-clock-sells-for-record-2-3-million-in-hong-kong.html

Belcove, Julie. “The Artist as Collector.” Sotheby’s, 19 June 2013. http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/sothebys-at-auction/2013/06/artists-who-collect-damien-hirst-george-condo.html

Browne, Alix. “Girls, Girls, Girls! Where the Artist Yoshitomo Nara Conceives His Enchanting Enfants Terribles.” W, May 2013: 124, illustrated.

Brownstein, Carrie. “Carrie Brownstein Shares Her Love for Yoshitomo Nara.” Interview with Austin Considine. Huffington Post, 25 September 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/austin-considine/carrie-brownstein-shares-_b_3983472.html

Bustamante, Isabella. “Yoshitomo Nara and Child as Hero.” The Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal 3 (Spring 2013): 22–28, illustrated.

Cotter, Holland. “Destruction Feeding Creation” (Hirshhorn Museum exhibition review). The New York Times, 13 December 2013: C29, C34, illustrated.

Creahan, D. “New York – Yoshitomo Nara at Pace Gallery Through June 29th, 2013” (exhibition review). Art Observed, 27 June 2013. http://artobserved.com/2013/06/new-york-yoshitomo-nara-at-pace-gallery-through-june-29th-2013/

“Critics’s Picks: The Five Best Events this Week” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Time Out New York, 16 May 2013: 43–44, illustrated.

Crow, Kelly. “Sales Hint That Asian Art Is Back in the Air” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Wall Street Journal, 5 April 2013. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324600704578402770905297316.html?KEYWORDS=kelly+crow

Frazier, David. “Yoshitomo Nara” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art and Asia Pacific, no. 85 (September/October 2013): 148, illustrated.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “An Interview with Yoshitomo Nara.” Interview with Hideo Furukawa. Asymptote, November 2013. http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Interview&id=26

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Interview by Katy Donoghue. Whitewall, no. 31 (Fall 2013): 92–99, illustrated.

Raviv, Lihi. “You Are Not Alone: Yoshitomo Nara Early Works at Auction.” Mutualart.com, 26 March 2013.

http://www.mutualart.com/OpenArticle/You-Are-Not-Alone--Yoshitomo-Nara-Early-/75CA88E09BE18E21

“Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Sales.” Asian Art (March 2013), illustrated.

“Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand of Kute Kulture In New York (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Huffington Post, 18 May 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/yoshitomo-nara-exhibit-pace-gallery-kulture-of-kute_n_3199882.html#slide=more297932

2011

“The Anti Superstars.” (Singapore) Today, 18 January 2011: T1, T2, T4.

Boxer, Sarah. Yoshitomo Nara: Asia Society, New York.” Artforum (January 2011).

Corkill, Edan. “Yoshitomo Nara Puts the Heart Back in Art” (Yokohama Museum of Art exhibition review). Japan Times, 20 July 2012. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/07/20/arts/yoshitomo-nara-puts-the-heart-back-in-art/#.Ub95VPnvtPN

D’Alessandro, Jaime and Naoko Okada. “Videodrome + Kidult Art.” (Milan) La Repubblica, February 2011: 88–93.

“Feature 2: Yoshitomo Nara.” ZHI JP. it is JAPAN (China), January 2011: 60–103, illustrated, cover.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Special Interview: Yoshitomo Nara” by Akiko Nose. Cool Magazine 21 (2011): 4–21, illustrated.

“No Dead End Streets: The Multiudionous Paths Trod by Yoshitomo Nara.” The Art Street Journal 2, issue 4

Phillips, Sam. “Tokyo Pop in Clay.” Ceramic Review 250 (July/August 2011): 52–55.

“Yoshitomo Nara’s Box Set” (Asia Society exhibition preview). Interview, 12 November 2011. http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/yoshitomo-nara-asia-society#/_

2010

“Art: Pop Up.” New Yorker, 12 July 2010.

Cheny, Alexandra. “Reclusive Neo-Pop Artist Yoshitomo Nara Opens His Studio Doors.” Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2010.

Ebony, David. “Yoshitom Nara: Asia Society.” Art in America (December 2010): 149–150.

Furlan, Julia. “Yoshitomo Nara Invites Fans to Armory Open Studio.” WNYC Culture, 24 August 2010.

Hickey, Dave. “The New Modern Art.” Playboy, January 2010: 148–151,

Lee, Jae. “Yoshitomo Nara: Ceramic Works.” Japan Times, 11 June 2010.

“Park Avenue Armory Welcomes Yoshitomo Nara + YNG for Open Studio.” Artdaily.org, 27 August 2010.

Rao, Priya. “On Park Avenue, art Inspired by Life.” The Wall Street Journal, 8 September 2010.

Robinson, Walter. “Kid Stuff.” Artnet, 8 September 2010.

Russeth, Andrew. “Dangerous Child’s Play: A Q & A with Yoshitomo Nara.” Artinfo, 9 September 2010.

Salsbury, Britany. “Critics’ Picks: Yoshitomo Nara” (Asia Society exhibition review). Artforum, 3 October 2010. http://artforum.com/archive/id=26541

Smith, Roberta. “Cudding with Little Girls, Dogs, and Museic” (Asia Society exhibition review). The New York Times, 10 September 2010: C21, illustrated.

Vogel, Carol. “Cartoons Art Invading the Upper East Side.” The New York Times, 15 July 2010: C25, illustrated.

Yablonsky, Linda. “Artifacts: The Ghosts of Park Avenue” (Asia Society exhibition preview). The New York Times Style Magazine, 10 September 2010.

“Yoshitomo Nara.” Art in America (August 2010).

“Yoshitomo Nara: Ceramic Works.” The Art Street Journal, 2, no. 1 (2010): 5.

“Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool.” Art +Auction, July–August 2010.

“Yoshitomo Nara: White Ghost.” This Week in New York, 8 September 2010.

2009

Bachofen, Kartin. “Lichtblicke am Horizot: Kunstmarkt.” Handelszeitung, 3 June 2008.

Dyer, Ein. “Showstoppers: Yoshitomo Nara.” Juxtapoz 99 (April 2009).

Genocchio, Benjamin. “Fantastic Voyage.” Art + Auction, March 2009: 91.

Januszczak, Waldemar. “Hayward Gallery’s Ambitious Theme Show.” (London) The Sunday Times, 28 June 2009.

Ko, Hanae. “Yoshitomo Nara Arrested For Graffiti in New York Subway.” Art Asia Pacific 63 (May/June 2009): 51.

Koenig, Tristan. “Shock of the Cute.” Art World 8 (April/May 2009): 166.

Latimer, Quinn. “Art Basel Begins.” Art in America, 11 June 2009.

Pappas, Jen. “Spotlight on Yoshitomo Nara.” Hi-Fructose Magazine 11, 8 April 2009: 20–21.

Philby, Charlotte. “Observations: Dark Delights from the Lovely Mind of Japanese Genius Yoshitomo Nara.” The Independent, 12 June 2009.

Pricco, Evan. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Juxtapoz 104 (September 2009).

Sumpter, Helen. “Walking in My Mind, Image Gallery.” Time Out London, 2 July 2009.

“Trek Lance Armstrong STAGES Bike by Yoshitomo Nara.” Hypebeast, 20 July 2009.

“When Humans Attack: Yoshitomo nara’s Kids, Top 25 Asian Serial Killers.” Giant Robot, Spring 2009.

“Yoshitomo Nara.” New Yorker, 30 March 2009.

2008

Allsop, Laura. “Consumed.” Art Review (September 2008): 48.

Basciano, Oliver. “Bringing Back the Baltic.” Art Info, 15 August 2008.

Chapman, Peter. “Pick of the Week: Yoshitomo Nara + Graf.” (London) The Independent, 12–18 July 2008: 13.

Collett, Christopher. “Young Art Runs Free.” Metro UK, 13 June 2008: 33.

“Culture Vultures.” Collective Magazine, June/July 2008: 12.

“Exhibitions: Yoshitomo Nara + graf, A–Z Project.” The Guide UK 14 August 2008: 37.

Federico, Cherie. “Reality Is What You Make It.” Aesthetica (August–September): 34, 35.

Fenwick, Andrew. “Manga Inspired Designer: Yoshitomo Nara + Graf.” Metro U.K., 23 June 2008.

Hudson, Stacey. “Every Dog Has Its Day.” Metro Spirit, 9–15 April 2008.

Infante, Fran. “Exhibition’s right at Home in Baltic.” (Newcastle) The Evening Chronicle, 12 June 2008: 41.

Kilston, Lyra. “Emotional Drawing.” Modern Painters (December 2008).

Pastoriza, Helena. “Yoshitomo Nara + graf, A–Z Project.” Daily Serving, 3 October 2008.

2007

Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2007.

Brown, Angela K. “Fort worth Exhibit Explores the Many Faces of Childhood.” Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 18 March 2007.

Dunning, Brian. “Best New Museums.” GQ, March 2007: 178.

Kamiya, Yukie. “Yoshitomo Nara and graf: Happy Together.” Art Asia Pacific 52 (2007): 26–28.

Kunstbeeld, 4 June 2007.

Lopez, Ruth. “Fall Preview: Art-Core rock.” Time Out Chicago, 30 August–5 September 2007.

March, Fernando Huici. “Palabras Deside el Arte.” Arte y Parte (Madrid) 71 (October 2007): cover, 12–13.

Mariani, Anthony. “Where the Wild Things Are.” FW Weekly, 28 March–3 April 2007.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Sheng Huo de Yi Shun Jian, Sheng Huo Shang de Xie Shi: Zhuan Fang Yoshitomo Nara.” Interview with Pan Fan, Zhang Qingwen. Artist Magazine, no. 391 (December 2017): 196–201, illustrated.

“Pretty Baby.” Fort Worth Key, March 2007.

Robinson, Gaile. “Modern’s Show Takes the Cute out of Childhood.” (Dallas-Fort Worth) Star telegram, 25 February 2007: D7

Terranova, Charissa. “Romper Rooms.” The Dallas Morning News, 24 February 2007: 1E, 6E.

Vine, Richard. “Reflections in a Chinese Mirror.” Art in America, (May 2007): 74–78.

2006

“Cool Japan: Yoshitomo Nara—The Drive to Create.” Japan +: Asia-Pacific Perspectives 4, September 2006: 40–45.

Coomer, Martin. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Time Out London, 22 February–1 March 2006.

Corbetta, Caroline. “Arte.” Vogue Italia. January 2008: 48.

Fujimori, Manami. “Prescription Art.” Vogue (Japan), October 2006: 252.

Lee, Andrew and David Pilling. “Problem Children.” Financial Times, May 2006: 34–35.

Lubow, Arthur. “The Murakami Method.” The New York Times Magazine, 3 april 2005: 48–57, 64, 76, 79.

Matsui, Midori. “A to Z.” Artforum, December 2006: 327–328.

Miyamura, Noriko. “Asia, Kanazawa, Yoshitomo Nara.” Modern Painters (December 2006–January 2007): 120.

Myers, Terry R. “Little Boy Boom.” Modern Painters, April 2005: 54–59.

Prevert, Jacques. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Isao Takahata

Smith, Roberta. “Japan’s Collective Unconscious.” The New York Times, 8 april 2005: B27–31.

The, David. “Soi Sabai’s temporary Art Connections.” Art Asioa Pacific 52 (Fall 2006): 74–75.

2005

Anspon, Catherine. “My First Great Piece of Art.” Papercity, September 2005: 56–57.

Buruma, Ian. “Virtual Violence.” Times Literary Supplement, 23 June 2005: 12–15.

Cahan, Susan. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Art US (March/April 2005): 40.

De Graeve, Cyril. “Nara Land.” Chronic’art (Paris) 19 (April.May 2005): 52–53.

Kitamura, Katie. “San José Museum of Art.” Contemporary Magazine 68 (August 2005): 64–65.

Letsinger, Miranda. “Artists Struggle to Capture Tsunami’s Scale.” Modern Painters (19 December 2005).

Matsui, Midori. “The artists to Watch: Nara.” Interview, June 2005.

Ohnuma, Keiko. “Artist Nara Visits Isles.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 28 March 2005.

Ohnuma, Keiko. “Beyond Cute.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 10 April 2005.

Paiva, Derek. “Get a Taste of Pop Art Icon.” Honolulu Advertiser, 1 April 2005: 17.

Princenthal, Nancy. “Yoshitomo Nara at Maianne Boesky Gallery.” Art in America (November 2005).

Schieder, Chelse. “Angry Little Girls.” NY Arts (May/June 2005).

2004

Bonetti, David. “Nara’s ‘Cuteism’ Has Bite & a Cult Following.” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 2 December 2004.

Bonetti, David. “The Cute, the Strange, the Marvelous Make Nara Show a Happening Thing.” St Louis Post Dispatch, 5 December 2004.

Conti, Andrew. “Yoshitomo Nara:From the Depth of My Drawer.” Metropolis, October 2004.

Chun, Kemberly. “Killer Cute.” San Francisco Bay Guardian (15–21 September 2004).

Dorazio, Jennifer. “Do This!” Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 January 2004.

Fischer, Jack. “Young, but Not Innocent.” Mercury News, 1 August 2004.

Helfand, Glen. “Asian Pop Nara-Nara Land: Japanese New Pop Sensation Brings a Punk Edge and Grown-Up Ennui to His Cartoonlike Girl World.” San Francisco Gate, 30 July 2004.

Hunt, David. “Yoshitomo Nara: The Prince and the Pauper.” Art Asia Pacific (Winter 2004): cover; 45–46.

“Japanese Art Duo at Pinakothek.” Munich Weekly News, November 2004.

Lubow, Arthur. “The Murakami Method.” The New York Times Magazine, 3 April 2005: 48–57, 64, 76, 79.

Mizota, Sharon. “Little Triggers.” Metro News, 21–27 July 2004.

Myers, Terry R. “Little boy Boom.” Modern Painters (April 2005): 54–59.

“Nara: Reality is What I Feel” (interview). Sleek 5 (2004).

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” Sleek 5: 172–177.

Obregon, Christian. “Hideaki Kawashima, Chiho Aoshima y Yoshitomo Nara.” Spot 20 (2003): 36–41.

Powhida, William. “Seeing Other People.” Brooklyn Rail (September 2004).

Steinberg, Marc. “Otaku Consumption, Superflat Art and the Return to Edo.” Japan Forum 16, no. 3 (2004): 449–471.

“What is On: Our Selection A–Z.” The Art Newspaper (September 2004).

“Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito [interview].” Style 76, November 2004.

“Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow.” A Vela, 11 August 2004.

2003

Another Magazine 5 (2003).

“Biennale in Buchform.” Bolero, September 2003.

Bly, Lyz. “The Kids Are all Right.” Cleveland Free Times, 17 September 2003.

Heartney, Eleanor. “Yoshitomo Nara at Marianne Boesky Gallery.” Art in America (May 2003).

Kamiya, Setsuko. “Yoshitomo Nara: An Artist Drawing on Peace.” Japan Times, 30 March 2003: 9, 11.

Kane, Dan. “Yoshitomo Nara: Japanese Art Hero at Cleveland Museum.” The (Canton, Ohio) Repository: 12.

Kitamura, Katie. “Yoshitomo Nara at Stephen Friedman Gallery.” Contemporary Magazine 52 (May 2003).

Laing, Jennifer. “Japanimation Grows Up.” The New York Times, 12 January 2003.

Lebeau, Eleanor. “Little Snarlings.” Clevescene, 24–30 September 2003: 30.

“Little Snarlings: Yoshitomo Nara’s Toddler-Punks Share the Darker Side of Childhood.” Cleveland Scene, 24 September 2003.

McCaffery, Damian. “Hello Kiddie.” Vibe, August 2003.

Sciaccualuga, Maurizio. “Aging Without Growing Old.” Work: Art in Progress, January–March 2003.

Smith, Ryan. “Token Japanese Guy or American Consumerism at Work.” Visual Art (September 2003): 21.

Templado, Loui. “Artists’ Afgan Odyssey Never Leaves Comfort Zone.” Asahi Shimbun, 21 February 2003: 28.

Vogue Deutsch, September 2003.

2002

Cotter, Holland. “Rain or Shine, residing Outdoors.” The New York Times, 9 August 2002.

Keiser, Beth A. “How much is that doggy in the pool?” Albany Times Union, 20 July 2002.

Kondo, Miyki. “Modern Artist Nara A Reluctant Success Story.” International Herald Tribune, 25 February 2002.

Kuresawa, Takemi. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Art Asia Pacific 36 (October/November 2002): 85.

Meneguzzo, Marco. “Yoshotomo Nara.” Artforum (September 2002).

“Pencil Realism.” New York Times Magazine, 15 December 2002.

Padel, Jean-Louis. “Animal Factory.” Beaux Arts 219 (August 2002).

Shuman, Rachel. “Tompkins Square park.” Time Out New York, 1–8 August 2002.

Solomon, Deborah. “Pencil Revivalism.” The New York Times, 15 December 2002.

2001

“Amnesiac Vision: Radiohead and Yoshitomo Nara.” Perso 24 (June 2001): 64–68.

Bousteau, Fabrice. “Japon: L’anné de eveil.” Beaux Arts 211 (December 2001): 90–97.

Campbell, Clayton. “Public Offerings.” Flash Art (July–September 2001): 117.

Chattopadhyay, Colette. Art Asia Pacific 29 (January 2001): 92–93.

Cooper, Jacqueline. “Superflat.” New Art Examiner (September–October 2001): 58–65.

Corrigan, Susan. “Biff! Bang! Pow! Japan Goes Pop.” I-D Magazine, May 2001: 106–110.

Darling, Michael. “Plumbing the Depths of Superflatness.” Art Journal (Fall 2001): 76–89.

Drohojowska-Philip, Hunter. “Pop Go the Usual Boundaries.” Los Angeles Times, 14 January 2001: 4.

Endter, Heike. “Yoshitomo Nara at Michael Zink.” Flash Art (July–September 2001): 124.

Fujitsu, Ryota. “Superflat: Battle of America.” Bijutsu Techo (April 2001): 179–190.

Harvey, Doug. “P.O.’d: On MOCA’s Public Offerings.” LA Weekly, 11–17 May 2001: 50.

Harvey, Doug. “‘Superflat’ at Museum of Contemporary Art.” Art Issues (March/April 2001): 53.

Kasahara, Chiaki. “Superflat: Going to America.” Kokoku Hihyo, March 2001: 117–124.

Knight, Christopher. “Flat-Out Profound.” Los Angeles Times, 16 January 2001: F1 & F7.

Littek, Manon. “Little Forget-me-nots.” Japan Times, 12 September 2001.

McGee, John. “Yoshitomo Nara: I don’t mind, if you forget me.” Metropolis, October 2001.

Matsui, Midori. “Yoshitomo Nara with Midori Matsui.” Index, February / March 2001: 56–64.

Nakamura, Eric. “Punk Art.” Giant Robot 20 (Spring 2001): cover illustration; 24–28.

Nakamura, Eric. “The Year Otaku Broke.” Art & Text (May–July 2001): 36–29.

Pagel, David. “Art Review: Before Their Art Was Famous.” Los Angeles Times, 4 April 2001: F1 & F8.

Power, Carla. “The Tokyo London Connection.” Newsweek, Summer 2001.

Raverty, Dennis. “Visions From a Sinking World: Japanese Anime at the Des Moines Art Center.” New Art Examiner (September–October 2001): 53–57.

“Special Feature: Yoshitomo Nara.” Bijutsu Techo (December 2001): 9–112.

Stevens, Lennox. “Superfreaky! Superflat.” Entertainment Today, 23–29 march 2001: 6.

Wong, Martin. “Super Duper Flat.” Artbyte (Jun3 2001): 58–63.

2000

“Art Project.” Interview, October 2000.

Berk, Anne. “Stemmen van Japanners.” Kunstbeeld, June 2000.

Bolten-Rempt, Jetteke. “Voices from Japan: Trading Views.” Decorum: tijjdschrift voor kunst en cultuur 18, no. 2 (July 2000): 11–18.

Brouwer, Maranne. “Breuk en overgang.” Decorum, tijjdschrift voor kunst en cultuur 18, no. 2 (July 2000).

Lewisohn, Dedar. “Comic Book Philosophy.” I-D Magazine, July 2000.

Matsui, Midori. “Japanese Innovators.” Flash Art, January / February 2000: 90–91.

Mundy, Michelle. “Japanese Art Displays A New Face.” Pensacola News Journal, 4 February 2000.

Pagel, David. “Lullaby: Just the Right Cup of Tea” (Santa Monica Museum of Art exhibition review). Los Angeles Times, 10 April 2000.

Nakamura, Eric. “Yoshitomo Nara: Kids, Dogs and Knives on Canvas (interview).” Giant Robot 20 (2000).

“Nara Project.” Dazed and Confused, June 2000.

Shoji, Kaori. “Violently Cute.” Dutch 25 (2000).

“Special Feature: Yoshitomo Nara.” Bijutsu Techo, July 2000: 90–91.

Sumpter, Helen. Evening Standard, May 2000.

Ratnam, Niru. “First Toughest in the infants.” The Face, June 2000.

Zijlmans, Kitty. “Het land van de rijzende sterren.” Decorum: tijjdschrift voor kunst en cultuur 18, no. 2 (July 2000): 2–7.

1999

Akasaka, Hideto. “The World of Yoshitomo Nara.” Asahi Shimbun Weekly Aera, 22 February 1999.

Azumaya, Takashi. “To Mr. Nara: Solitude About Painting.” Le Millenium, January 1999.

Azumaya, Takashi. “Slash with a Knive!” Studio Voice, February 1999.

Azumaya, Takashi. “Walking Alone.” MOE, October 1999.

Besher, Kara. “Yoshitomo Nara: Saccharin with a razor-sharp edge.” Japan Times, 31 January 1999: 13.

Darling, Michael. “Yoshitomo Nara: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.” Le Millenium, no. 26 (January 1999).

Fuse, Hideto. “Culture.” Mainichi Shinbum, 2 July 1999.

Joynes, Les. “Yoshitomo Nara at Ginza Art Space.” Art in America (July 1999): 106.

Knode, Marilu. View On Colour, March 1999.

Kojima, Yayoi. “Yayoi’s Art Pardise.” Ryuhkoh-Tsuhshin, April/May 1999.

Nishihara, Min. “Actualite.” Figarp Japon, June 1999.

Pagel, David. “Childhood Into Adulthood.” Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1999: F32.

Saito, Naoko. “People.” Rockin On Japan, August 1999.

Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review; Yoshitomo Nara” (Marianne Boesky Gallery review). The New York Times, 5 November 1999: B39.

Sugiyama, Chiyono. “Nara’s enfants terribles.” Daily Yomiuri Arts Weekend, January 1999: 7.

Trescher, Stephan. “In the Floating World.” Neue Bildense Kunst (December 1999): 56–61.

Yoshitomo, Banana. “Sub-Culture is Super-Culture: The Lines He Makes.” Hanatsubaki, February 1999.

Zellen, Jody. “Yoshitomo Nara at Blum & Poe.” Artpress (May 1999): 67–68.

1998

D’Arcy, David. “Culture Going, Going, Gone!” Los Angeles, November 1998: 50–53.

Hyuga, Akiko. “Comic Icon.” Bijutsu Techo, December 1998.

Itoi, Kay. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Artnews, May 1998.

Miyamura, Noriko. “Telepathy Exists Between His Art and Us.” Bijutsu Techo, April 1998: 129–142.

Nagoya, Satoru. “Overture: Yoshitomo Nara.” Flash Art (May–June 1998): 91.

“Neuro Transmitter – Galerie: Pop-Art voil hintrgrindiger Geheimnisse.” Neuro Transmitter 38 (1998): 70.

Nishimura, Tomohiro. “New Figurative Painting in the 90s.” Bijutsu Techo, November 1998.

Sanders, Mark and Fumiya Sawa. “Toy Stories: Interview with Yoshitomo Nara.” Dazed & Confused, April 1998: 98–101.

Uchida, Akio. “Talk of the Town: Happy Hour / Shonen Knife.” Barefout, June 1998.

Yoshiba, Saori. “Culture Club.” Rockin’ On, February 1998.

1997

Darling, Michael. “Yoshitomo Nara” (Blum & Poe exhibition review). Frieze, no. 37(September / October 1997): 85.

Kamps, Tobey. “Milwaukee: ‘Inova’ plans to Innovate.” Artnews 96 (November 1997): 78.

Kiki, Kudo. “Catch up you!” Popeye, March 1997.

Matsui, Midori. “Tokyo Pop.” Flash Art (November / December 1997): 110.

Murata, Makoto. “Close Up Artist.” Optim, May 1997.

Pagel, David. “Prizing an Animated Approach to Life.” Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1997.

Tsuchizaki, Masahiko. “In the Deepest Puddle.” Hon No Tabiibito, November 1997.

1996

Abe, Takaki. “Contemporary Art.” Oggi, February 1996.

Di Genova, Arianna. “La carica dei bimbi cattivi: All’Istituto giapponese di cultura, la pittura degli anni 96” (review). Il Manifesto, 20 April 1996.

Ishida, Ayako. “Snap, Crackle, and Pop.” The Daily Yomiuri, 10 May 1996.

Matsui, Midori. “The Micro Politics of Partiality – ‘Cuteness’ as a Sign of Deviation.” Bijutsu Techno, February 1996.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “Message.” Hanatsubaki, January 1996.

Onishi, Wakato. “Tokyo Pop.” Nishinihon Shimbun, 7 February 1996.

“Empty World.” Yomiuri Shimbun (Kyushu), 15 February 1996.

1995

Asahi Shimbun Weekly Aera, 10 April 1995: 69.

Borg, Lucette. “Japanese Figuren.” NRC Handelsblad, 24 November 1995.

Darling, Michael. “Yoshitomo Nara at Blum & Poe.” Art Issues (September / October) 1995: 44.

“Girl Facing Reality” (review). Nikkei Art, May 1995: 26.

Haito, Masahiko. “Nara Yoshitomo, Hakutosha – Review.” Bijutsu Techo, February 1995: 199–190.

Hiroe, Yasutaka. “Review: Nagoya.” Bijutsu Techo, September 1995.

“Interview.” Bijutsu Techo, July 1995: 34–37.

Nara, Yoshitomo. “The Ordinary Life of an Ordinary Person.” Bijutsu Techo, July 1995.

Pagel, David. “Yoshitomo Nara” (review). Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1995.

Pia, 14 March 1995: 209.

Ryuko Tsushin, January 1995.

The Shinbijutsu Shinbun, 1 March 1995.

Shimizu, Minoru. “Nara Yoshitomo, itoki Crystal Hall” (review). Bijutsu Techo, March 1995: 175–177.

Studio Voice, April 1995: 67.

Tager, Alisa. “Report from Los Angeles.” Art in America (October 1995): 51–53.

Tager, Alisa. “Yoshitomo Nara-Pacific Babies.” Poliester, Fall 1995.

Touo Nippou, 30 March 1995.

Yamashita, Rika. “Interview.” Meets, January 1995.

1994

“Exhibitions Held Las Month Nara Declares the End of the Girl Civilian.” Gekkan Bijutsu, February 1994.

“Inteview.” L Magasin, December, 1994.

Inoue, Takao. “Art Space.” Ashai Shimbun, 16 April 1994.

Kuiper, Petra. “Weises Band.” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 8 February 1994.

Nishihara, Min. “Suburbia Baby, The Suburbs of Art.” Silvester Club, July 1994.

Pia, 13 December 1994.

Takanashi, Tomoko. “The Day I Met Ms. Medel.” Geijustu Koron, March 1994.

The Shinbijyutsu Shinbun, 11 December 1994.

1993

Chunichi Shinbun, 18 October 1993.

Pia, 7 December 1993.

Nikkan Gendai, 21 October 1993.

Nikkan Gendai, 28 October 1993.

The Shinbijyutsu Shinbun, 1 December 1993.

Yomuri Shinbun, 21 October 1993.

1991

Arike, chihiro. “Art.” Chunichi Shinbun, 16 April 1991.

“Harmlos.” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 26 January 1991.

Igami, Norie. “Yoshitomo Nara.” Bijutsu Techo, July 1991.

Ishii, Yoji. “Gallery.” Yomiuri Shinbun, 14 April 1991.

Kawohl, Anja. “Elemente für Harmolosen Eindruck.” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 26 January 1991.

“Kunst mit Kindern.” Westdeutsche Zeitung, 28 January 1991.

1990

Steenhuis, Paul. “Yoshitomo Nara.” NRC Handelsblad, 1 May1990.

1988

Yomuri Shinbun, 19 April 1988.

Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nagakute, Japan

Aomori Museum of Art, Japan

The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A.

British Museum, London, U.K.

Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France

Clematis-no-Oka, Shizuoka, Japan

Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, U.S.A.

Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, U.S.A.

Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France

Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Iwate Prefecture Citizen’s Cultural Exchange Center-Aiina, Morioka, Japan

Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

Kadokawa Culture Museum, Tokorozawa, Japan

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

The Long Museum, Shanghai, China

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, U.S.A.

The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, U.S.A.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany

New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China

Patong Municipality, Phuket, Thailand

Palm Springs Art Museum, California, U.S.A.

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Rubell Family Collection, New York and Miami, U.S.A.

Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.

Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan

Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2024

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Daniel Zamani. Texts by Lucia Agirre, Shigemi Takahashi and Mika Yoshitake. Ostfildern, Germany and Baden-Baden, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag; Frieder Burda Foundation, 2024.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lucia Agirre, Shigemi Takahashi and Mika Yoshitake. Madrid: La Fábrica; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2024.

Yoshitomo Nara: Traveling with Hazy Humid Day in Penghu 2024 (exhibition brochure). Texts by Yoshitomo Nara and Mika Kuraya. Taipei: The General Association of Chinese Culture, 2024.

2023

Nara, Yoshitomo. Yoshitomo Nara in His Own Words. Translated by Yuan Jing and Tang Shi. Taiwan, Taibei Shi: Dahong Art Co., Ltd., 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara: All My Little Words (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Angela Stief and Elsy Lahner. Vienna: The Albertina Modern, 2023.

2022

Nara Yoshitomo In Taiwan: 2021 Taiwan Special Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Translated by Xiaoling Wang. Taiwan, Taibei Shi: Dahong Art Co., Ltd., 2022.

Nara, Yoshitomo. Yoshitomo Nara in His Own Words. Translated by Yuan Jing and Tang Shi. Changsha, China and Shanghai: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House; Shanghai Insight Media, 2022.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Shanghai: Yuz Museum, 2022.

Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Stephanie Rosenthal and Simon Reynolds. London: Pace Gallery, 2022.

2021

Gipson, Ferren. The Ultimate Art Museum. New York: Phaidon Press, 2021: 216, illustrated.

Julian Opie: Collected Works/Works Collected (exhibition catalogue). Petworth, United Kingdom: Newlands House Gallery: 2021: 143, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara’s World. Texts by Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Banana Yoshitomo et al. Taiwan: Dahong Art Co., Ltd., 2021.

Yoshitomo Nara: Catalogue Raisonné. [Tokyo]: Yoshitomo Nara Studio, 2021. https://www.yoshitomonara.org/en/catalogue/

2020

Next World: The Power of Dreams (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Reiko Ueda, Yukie Tokunaga, and Keiichiro Ito. Sapporo, Japan: Nakanishi Publishing Co., Ltd., 2020: 66–67, illustrated.

STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Kataoka Mami, Kondo Kenichi, Tsubaki Reiko, Alexandra Munroe et al. Tokyo: Mori Art Museum and Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha Co., Ltd., 2020.

Yoshitomo Nara, Texts by Yeewan Koon and Yoshitomo Nara. New York: Phaidon, 2020.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Mika Yoshitake and Michael Govan. New York: Prestel and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.

2019

ARTZUID 2019: Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial (exhibition catalogue). Amsterdam: ARTZUID Foundation, 2019.

Conversations: Contemporary Asian Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Carrie Spencer & Lindsay Neal. Norfolk, Virginia: Hermitage Museum & Gardens, 2019.

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Barbara Rossetti Ambros, Thomas Hare and Federico Marcon. Washington, D.C. and New Haven: National Gallery of Art; Princeton University Press, 2019.

2018

Humanistic Return, The Spiritual Origin of Ceramic Art, Taiwan Ceramics Bienniale (exhibition catalogue). Taipei: New Taipei City Yingge Ceramic Museum, 2018: 122–127, illustrated.

Woo, Jung-Ah. Today, The Picture Speaks. Seoul: Humanist Books, 2018: 165, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara: Days 2014–2018. Text by Shigemi Takahashi. Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, 2018.

Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings 1988–2018, Last 30 Years (exhibition brochure). Texts by Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami. Tokyo: Kaikai Kiki Gallery, 2018.

Yoshitomo Nara: Thinker; Ceramic Works and… (exhibition catalogue). Text by Miwako Tezuka. New York: Pace Gallery, 2018.

2017

The Collection: Highlights from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2017: 361, illustrated.

Walk on the Wild Side: At the Heart of the Carmignac Collection. Interview of Edouard Carmignac by Fabrice Bousteau. Paris: Skira and Fondation Carmignac, 2017: 41, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara: For Better or Worse: Works 1987–2017 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Toshiharu Suzuki and the artist. Toyota, Japan: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2017.

Yoshitomo Nara: Will the Circle Be Unbroken. Tokyo: Fine-Art Photography Association, 2017.

2016

Morse, Trent. Ballpoint Art. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2016: 128–31, illustrated.

Horizon that Appears Out of the Sleepy Woods (exhibition catalogue). London: Stephen Friedman Gallery, 2016.

Modern Landscape: For the Pleasure of People and Scenery. Nara Yoshitomo Curates the MOMAT Collection (exhibition catalogue). Text by Yoshitomo Nara. Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2016.

Once in a Life: Encounters with Nara. Texts by Dominique Chan, Fumio Nanjo, Yeewan Koon, and Mika Kuraya. Hong Komg: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 2016.

Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art. 8th edition. Boston, New York and other cities: Pearson, 2016: 49, illustrated.

Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose (exhibition catalogue). Virginia Beach: Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016: 68–9, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). London: Stephen Friedman Gallery, 2016.

2015

Yoshitomo Nara: Self-Selected Works—Paintings. Text by Mika Kuraya. Kyoto: Seigensha Art Publishing, lnc, 2015.

Yoshitomo Nara: Self-Selected Works—Works on Paper. Text by the artist. Kyoto: Seigensha Art Publishing, lnc, 2015.

Yoshitomo Nara: Shallow Puddles (exhibition catalogue). Text by Shigemi Takahashi. Tokyo: Blum & Poe Gallery, 2015.

Yoshitomo Nara: stars (exhibition catalogue). Text by Arne Glimcher. Hong Kong: Pace Hong Kong, 2015.

2014

Everything falls faster than an anvil (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dave Hickey. London: Pace London, 2014: illustrated.

The 21st-Century Art Book. London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2014: 180, illustrated.

Stout, Katharine. Contemporary Drawing: From the 1960s to Now. London: Tate Publishing, 2014: 65, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Text by Masue Kato. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2014.

2013

Art for Baby: Faces. Surrey: Templar Publishing, 2013: illustrated.

Brougher, Kerry and Russel Ferguson. Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Scupture Garden, 2013.

Chanson, Maxime. 700 Artists’ Processes. Paris: editions jannick, 82.

Delong, Lea Rosson, ed. Des Moines Art Center Collects. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2013: 64, 65, illustrated.

Everything falls faster than an anvil (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dave Hickey. London: Pace London, 2014: illustrated.

Goodman, Abigail Ross, ed. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Vol. I. Winter Park, Florida: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2013: 92–93, illustrated.

Moszynska, Anna. Sculpture Now. London: Thames and Hudson, 2013: 56, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Byrne and Arne Glimcher. New York: Pace Gallery, 2013.

Yoshitomo Nara Photo Book 2003–2012. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2013.

2012

Yoshitomo Nara: a bit like you and me… (exhibition catalogue). Kyoto: Takei Masakazu (Foil Co. Ltd), 2012.

Yoshitomo Nara: Works on Paper. Text by Arne Glimcher. New York: Pace Gallery, 2012.

2011

Collectors' Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections (exhibition catalogue). Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2011.

Nara: 48 Girls. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 2011.

Print Works (postcard book). Tokyo: Mori Arts Center Museum Shop, 2011.

Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 2011.

2010

Ateliers d’artistes (exhibition catalogue). Shizuoka Prefecture: Musée Bernard Buffet, 2010.

Ceramic Works. Tokyo: Foil, 2010.

Disorder in the House (exhibition catalogue). Brussels: Vanhaerents Art Collection, 2010.

Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s (exhibition catalogue). Osaka: National Museum of Art, 2010.

Innocence: Art towards Life (exhibition catalogue). Tochigi, Japan: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 2010.

Made in Popland, China and Japan (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010.

Peko-chan World (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Fujiya Ginza Guilding, 2010. (Catalogue)

Tokyo Gallery + BTAP: 1950–2010. Tokyo and Beijing: Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, 2010: 280, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Midori Matsui, Miwako Tezuka, Michael Wilson, and Hideki Toyoshima. New York: Asia Society Museum, 2010.

2009

Artzuid: International Sculpture Route Amsterdam 2009 (exhibition catalogue). Amsterdam: Foundation Artzuid, 2009.

The Crated Rooms in Iceland: Yoshitomo Nara + YNG (exhibition catalogue). Text by Hafthor Yngvason, Markus thor Andresson, Jón Proppé and Goddur. Reykjavik, Iceland: Crymogea, 2009.

From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection (exhibition catalogue). Wakayama, Japan: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and His Surrounding Students - Masako Ando, Mika Kato, Tamami Hitsuda, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito (exhibition catalogue). Text by Yoshitomo Nara. Nagoya: Aichi Triennale Office, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya City Art Museum, Chunichi Shimbun, 2009.

The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nicholas Chambers. Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009.

Stages (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 2009.

Walking in my Mind (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Stephanie Rosenthal, Mami Kataoka, Susan Blackmore, Helen Luckett, Brian Dillon. London: Hayward Publishing, 2009.

2008

Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 2008.

Guglielmino, Giorgio. How to Look at Contemporary Art: (-- and Like It): 66 Works From 1970 to 2008. New York and Turin: Umberto Allemandi & Co., 2008: cover, 233–234.

Happy Mother. Happy Children (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, 2008.

The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from The Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum (exhibition catalogue). Tatebayashi: Gunma Museum of Art, 2008.

KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Japan Foundation, 2008.

Many Animals!! What? Art? (exhibition catalogue). Towada, Japan: Towada Art Center, 2008.

Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2008

A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 2008.

Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings (exhibition catalogue). Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2008.

20th Anniversary Memorial Collection + Hibikiau Oto, Iro, Katachi (Sympathize with Sound, Color and Shape) (exhibition catalogue). Kagawa, Japan: Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 2008.

Wonderland: Japanese Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Hong Kong: Opera Gallery, 2008.

2007

The Age of Micropop: The New Generation of Japanese Artists (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Parco Publishing, 2007.

Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from An Alumna’s Collction (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958) (exhibition catalogue). Wellesley, Massachusets: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 2007.

The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Parco Publishing, 2007.

Let’s Go to The Museum! How to Enjoy the Modern Art, Together with Dick Bruna (exhibition catalogue). Shizuoka, Japan: Musée Bernard Buffet, 2007.

Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker (exhibition catalogue). Okazaki, Japan: Mindscape Museum, 2007.

Pretty Baby (exhibition catalogue). Fort Worth, Texas: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2007.

Show Me Thai (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, 2007.

Surrealism and Art (exhibition catalogue). Utsunomiya, Japan: Utsunomiya Museum of Art, 2007.

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Dominic Molon, Bob Nickas, Richard Hell et al. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007: 246–247, illustrated.

3L4D: 3rd Life 4th Dimension (exhibition catalogue). Taipei: Metaphysical Art Gallery, 2007.

Yoshitomo Nara: Moonlight Serenade (exhibition catalogue). Text by Chieko Kitade. Kanazawa, Japan, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.

Yoshitomo Nara + graf: Torre de Málaga (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Fernando Francés and Hyunsun Tae. Málaga: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, 2007.

2006

A to Z: Yoshitomo Nara + graf (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Foil, 2006.

The Child (exhibition catalogue).Kyoto: Seigensha, 2006.

Cult Fiction: Art and Comics (exhibition catalogue). Text by Paul Gravett. London: Hayward Publishing, 2006.

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art collection: Kono 20nen no 20 no art = 20 Artworks From the Past 20 Years, (exhibition catalogue). Sapporo: Sapporo Artpark, 2006.

Kazoku no jokei: Nihon no kazoku wo kangaeru = The Scene of Family: A Review to the Japanese Family] (exhibition catalogue). Mito, Japan: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006.

Long Live Sculpture! Middelheim, Belgium: Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum, 2006.

Nara, Yoshitomo, Jacques Prevert, and Isao Takahata. Tori Eno Aisatsu. Tokyo: Pia, 2006.

6th Shanghai Biennale (exhibition catalogue). Shanghai: Shanghai Art Museum, 2006.

“Yoshitomo Nara.” In Phoenix, Woodrow. Plastic Culture: How Japanese Toys Conquered the World. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2006: 88–94, illustrated.

2005

Chairs and Japanese Design (exhibition catalogue). Saitama, Japan: Museum of Modern Art, 2005.

Yoshitomo Nara: Drawing File. Tokyo: Foil, 2005.

The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2005.

Isu no dezain: Nihon no "za" no tanjō kara mirai e = Chairs and Japanese design (exhibition catalogue). Saitama-shi: Saitama Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 2005.

Japan Pop: Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Helsinki: Helsinki City Art Museum, 2005.

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture (exhibition catalogue). New York: Japan Society Gallery, 2005.

Murakami, Takashi, ed. Little Boy: the Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture (exhibition catalogue). New York and New Haven: Japan Society and Yale University Press, 2005.

Slash with a Knife: Yoshitomo Nara. Rev. ed. Tokyo: Foil, 2005.

Unheimlich Jung: Kinder und Jugendliche in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Elke Keiper und Oliver Zybok. Waldkraiburg, Germany: Stadtische Galerie, 2005.

Well Done: the Art of Design World (exhibition catalogue). Taipei: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.

Yokohama Triennial 2005 (exhibition catalogue). Yokohama: Organizing Committee for the Yokohama Triennale, 2005.

Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Yoshitomo Nara and Noriko Miyamura. Tokyo: Foil, 2005.

Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Hyunsun Tae and Takashi Azumaya. Seoul: Rodin Gallery, 2005.

Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer: Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki (exhibition catalogue). Hirosaki, Japan: Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition Hirosaki Committee, 2005.

Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Doris Krystof and Bernarhart Schwenk. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005.

2004

Coatzee, Mark. Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection. New York: Phaedon Press, 2004.

Fiction. Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Taipei: Taipei Contemporary Art Foundation; Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.

Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporay Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ulrich Pfarr and Andreas Schalhorn. Stuttgart:Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber, 2005.

The Little Star Dweller. Texts and illustrations by Yoshitomo Nara. Tokyo: Rockin’ On. 2004. Reprinted: Taipei: Locus Publishing, 2004; Seoul: Sigongsa, 2005; Shanghai: Motie Culture Development Co., Ltd., 2010; Changchun: Jilin Publishing Group and Northern China Women and Children Publishing House, 2011.

New Prints: Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito (exhibition leaflet) Tokyo: Space Force, 2004.

Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photograpy III (exhibition catalogue). Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 2004.

Oh! My God! I Miss You (postcard book). San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004.

This Is a Time of…S.M.L. Texts by Hisako hara. Kyoto: Seigensha, 2004.

Sanders, Mark. Reflex: Contemporary Japanese Self-Portraiture. London Trolley Limited, 2003.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens (exhibition catalogue). Texts by John Doe et al. Cleveland: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.

2003

Art de Zoo (exhibition catalogue). Akita, Japan: The Akita Museum of Modern Art, 2003.

Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation (exhibition catalogue). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, 2003.

Girls Don’t Cry (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Nanjo and Associates, 2003.

The Good, the Bad, the Average…and unique (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Little More Gallery, 2003.

Happiness (exhibition catalogue). Kyoto: Tankosha; Mori Art Museum, 2003.

Moving energies #02 (exhibition history). Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 2003.

Painting In Our Time (exhibition catalogue). Niigata: The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, 2003.

Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of comics in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Roger Sabin and Bernard Welt. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2003.

Studio Portrait: A Document of Artist Yoshitomo Nara. Texts by Ivan Varitanian and Noriko Miyamura. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2003. Reprint as, Birth and Present: A Studio Portrait of Yoshitomo Nara. Corte Madera, California: Gingko Press, 2003.

Super Nova Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection (exhibition catalogue). San Franciso: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2003.

Takeshita, Miyako, ed. Emotional Site (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Emotional Site Executive committee, 2003.

Ukiyo-E Avant-Garde (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Tokyo Station Gallery, 2003.

Who Snatched the Babies? Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Paris and Tokyo: Impression Jouve Paris and Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2002.

2002

Bokura no Hero to Heroine = Our Hero and Heroine (exhibition catalogue). Otaru, Japan: Otaru City Museum of Art, 2002.

The Doraemon (exhibition catalogue). [S.l.]: The Doraemon Exhibition Production Committee, 2002.

Emotional Site (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Sagacho Shokuryo Building, 2002.

Hoptman, Laura J. Drawing Now: Eight Propositions (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

The Japanese Experience: Inevitable (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002.

Schwabsky, Barry. Vitamen P: New Perspectives in Painting. New York: Phaidon Press, 2002.

Teruhisa Kitahara Art Collection (exhibition catalogue). Yokohama: Sogo Museum of Art, 2002.

Traces, Imprints and Tales: Japanese Contemporary Art Draws from Tradition. Helsinki: Finish Artists Association, 2002.

The 20th Century. Art Recognized Virtual Images: Between Monalisa and Mammon (exhibition catalogue). Hiratsuka: Hiratsuka Museum of Art, 2002

Weiche Brüche, Japan (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Markus Neuwirth and Elisabeth Thoman-Oberhofer. Insburck: Kunstraum Insbruck, 2002.

Yoshitomo, Nara and Yoshitomo Nara. Argentine Hag. Tokyo: Rockin'On, 2002, illustrated.

Yoshitomo Nara: Who Snatched the Babies (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Cneai, 2002.

2001

Babel 2002 (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002

Dialogue with Nature: Graduation Works from the Collection of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (exhibition catalogue). Aichi, Japan: Haruhicho Board of Education, 2001.

Jam: Tokyo London (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Liz Farelly. London: Booth-Clibborn, 2001.

My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Jeff Fleming, Susan Lubowsky Talbot, and Takashi Murakami. Des Moines and New York: Des Moines Art Center; Independent Curators Incorporated, 2001

Nara Note. Text and illustrations by Yoshitomo Nara. Tokyo: Chikumashobo, 2001. Reprint, Seoul: Hongsi Communication, 2005.

Neo Tokyo: Japanese Art Now (exhibition catalogue). Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001.

Nobody Knows. Kokyo: Little More, 2001. Reprint, Tokyo: Foil, 2005.

Pop Heart e Generazione MTV (exhibition catalogue). Faenza, Italy: Light Gallery, 2001.

Pop! Pop! Pop! ‘50s–‘00s Pos Art Show (exhibition catalogue). Ibaraki, Japan: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

Public Offerings (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001.

Retorn al país de les meravelles: l'art contemporani i la infància = Retorno al país de las maravillas: el arte contemporáneo y la infancia (exhibition catalogue). Barcelona: Fundació Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensiions, 2001.

Senritsu Mirai: Future Perfectn (exhibition catalogue). Prato, Italy: Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, 2001.

Silence of the City (exhibition catalogue). Gwanju, Korea: Gwanju Art Museum, 2001.

Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future of Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of the Arts, 2001. (Catalogue)

Yoshitomo Nara: I Don't Mind, If You Forget Me (exhibition catalogue). Kyoto: Tankosha, 2001.

Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket. Texts by Stephan Trescher et al. Nuremburg: Verlag für modern Kunst Nürnburg, 2001)

Yoshitomo Nara: Naïve Wonder World. Tokyo: KTC Chuo Shuppan, 2001.

2000

00: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery (exhibition catalogue). Text by Klaus Kertess. New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2000: 64, illustrated.

Continental Shift (exhibition catalogue). Freiburg: Modo, 2000.

Dark Mirrors of Japan (exhibition catalogue). Amsterdam: De Appel Foundation, 2000.

The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imager from the Logan Collection (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000.

From the Collection of Aomori Museum of Art (exhibition pamphlet). Aomori, Japan: Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum, 2000.

Gendai (exhibition catalogue). Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, 2000.

Kids Art World Aomori 2000. Edited by the Borard of Education Museum Services and Art Park Project. Aomori: Aomori Prefectural Folk Museum, 2000.

Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts: Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie (exhibition catalogue). Cologne: Wienand, 2000.

A Muse Land 2000: It’s Animal World. Sapporo: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2000.

One Heart, One World: Internation Exhibition of the Heart (exhibition catalogue). [Japan]: NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, NHK Public Welfare Organisation, NHK Service Centre, 2000.

Presumed Innocent (exhibition catalogue). Bordeaux: CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain, 2000.

Superflat. Edited by Takashi Murakami. Tokyo: Madra, 2000.

Trading Views: Shiro Matsui, Yoshitomo Nara, Satoru Takahashi, Kenji Yanove (exhibition catalogue). Saarbrüken, Germany: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, 2000.

Works from the Tokushima Modern Art Museum Collection 2000 (exhibition catalogue). Tokushima: The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, 2000.

Yoshitomo, Banana. Hinagiku no jinsei [The Life of Hinagiku]. Drawings by Yoshitomo Nara. Tokyo: Rockin’ On, 2000.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nobuyuki Konishi. Saarbrüken, Germany: Stadtgalerie Saarbrüken, 2000.

1999

Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 1999.

Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Time (exhibition catalogue). Text by by Takashi Azumaya Tokyo: Setagaya Museum of Art, 1999.

Art is Fun 10: Angelic, Devilish, or Both (exhibition catalogue). Shibukawa: Hara Museum ARC, 1999.

Kaiga hyogen no katsudanso [An Active Fault in Painting]. Nagoy: Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery, 1999.

The Lonesome Puppy (exhibition catalogue). Text and illustrations by Yoshitomo Nara. Tokyo: Magazine House, 1999. Reprint: San Francsico: Chronicle Books, 2008; Seoul: Sallim Books, 2010

Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: The Japan Foundation Forum, 1999.

Platform 99: 70 Young Visual Artists form Asia and Latin America. Amsterdam: Canvas Foundation, 1999.

Somebody Whispers in Nuremberg (exhibition leaflet). Nuremberg: Institut für moderne Kunst in der SchmidtBank-Galerie, 1999.

Ukiyo: Yoshitomo Nara. Photographs by Takashi Homma. Tokyo: Little Moore, 1999.

Vergiß den Ball und Spiel Weiter: Das Bild des Kindes in Zeitgenössischer Kunst und Wisenschaft (exhibition catalogue). Nürnberg: Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2000.

Yoshitomo Nara: Puddle Flowers (postcard book). 4 vols. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1999.

1998

From the Collections of Aomori Museum of Art (exhibition leaflet). Tokiwa Furusato, 1998.

Innocent Minds (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nobuyuki Konishi. Nagoya: Aichi Perfectural University of Fine Arts and Music; Aichi Prefectural Museum, 1998.

The Manga Age (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998.

Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium Exhibitions April 1995–March 1997 (exhibition catalogue). Vol. 4. Text by Yoshitomo Nara. Fukuoka: Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, 1998.

Slash with a Knife: Yoshitomo Nara. Tokyo: Little More, 2001.

Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition floppy disc; leaflet). Text by Marilu Knode. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1998.

1997

Dream of Existence (exhibition catalogue). Budapest: Museum Kiscelli-Municipal Picture Gallery, 1997.

In the Deepest Puddle. Texts by Midori Matsui and Takako Minekawa. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1997.

Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Eun-Ju Choi, Shigeo Chiba, and Kazuo Yamawaki. Seoul: The National Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997.

VOCA ’97: Vision of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Ueno Royal Museum, 1997.

1996

Hothouse Fresh (exhibition pamphlet). Text by Midori Matsui. Nagoya: Gallery Hakutosha, 1996.

Intangible Childhood (exhibition catalogue). Tsu: Mie Prefectural Art Museum, 1996.

Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists (exhibition catalogue). Miyagi, Japan: the Miyagi Museum of Art, 1996.

Tokyo Pop (exhibition catalogue). Hiratsuka: The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, 1996.

1995

Cup Kids, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan, 1995. (Catalogue)

The Future of Paintings ’95 (exhibition pamphlet). Osaka: Osaka Contemporary Art Center, 1995.

In the Deepest Puddle / Nothing Gets Me Down (exhibition catalogue). Text by Eriko Osaka. Tokyo: SCAI The Bathhouse; Galerie Humanité Tokyo, 1995.

Oil on Canvas (exhibition pamphlet). Nagoya: Galerie Humanité Nagoya, 1995.

Project for Gunma ’95 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Katsutoshi Taniuchi. Takasaki: Museum of Modern Art Gunma, 1995.

1994

Christmas for Sleeping Children (exhibition pamphlet). Osaka: Itoki Crystal Hall, 1994.

Harvest ’94: shiro Matsui, Yoshitomo Nara (exhibition pamphlet). Nagoya: Hakutosha, 194.

In the Deepest Puddle / Nothing Gets Me Down (exhibition leaflet). Text by Eriko Osaka. Tokyo: SCAI The Bathhouse; Galerie Humanité Tokyo, 1995.

Lonesome Babies (exhibition pamphlet). Nagoya: Hakutosha, 1994.

1993

Be Happy (exhibition pamphlet). Nagoya and Tokyo: Galerie Humanité, 1993.

1991

Cogitationes Cordium (exhibition catalogue). Nagoya: Galerie Humanité Nagoya, 1991.

1988

Innocent Being (exhibition leaflet). Nagoya: Galerie Humanité Nagoya, 1988.

1984

Yoshitome Nara / Koji Miura (exhibition pamphlet). Hirosaki: Gallery Denega, 1984.