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Exhibitions

The Exhibition Database is currently under construction. Please refer to the “Selected Exhibitions” list below in the meantime.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020s

  • “Yoshitomo Nara,” Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain); Museum Frieder Burda (Baden-Baden, Germany); The Hayward Gallery (London, UK), 2024–2025
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: The Beginning Place,” Aomori Museum of Art (Japan), 2023–2024
  • “YOSHITOMO NARA. ALL MY LITTLE WORDS,” The Albertina Modern, Vienna (Austria), 2023
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to the Moon, Even If We Can't,” The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2023
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: I Forgot Their Names and Often Can't Remember Their Faces but Remember Their Voices Well,” Dallas Contemporary (USA), 2021
  • “Yoshitomo Nara,” Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, Taiwan); Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan); Tainan Art Museum (Taiwan), 2021
  • “Though no one may notice, the world knows all that you have seen,” 13 stores in Sapporo and Otaru (Hokkaido, Japan), 2021
  • “Love From the Sea,” A vacant store at Yanagawa St. in Otaru (Hokkaido, Japan), 2021 (as a event of URA-OTARU Baza-Art)
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca,” Pace Gallery, London (UK), 2021
  • “Yoshitomo Nara,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA); Yuz Museum Shanghai (China), 2021–23

2010s

  • "“Drawings—Last 31 Years,” Château La Coste（Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France), 2019"
  • “Drawings: 1988–2018 Last 30 Years,” Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 2018
  • “Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone―Take your time, it won’t be long now,” Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film (Tokyo, Japan), 2018
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: all things must pass, but nothing is lost / precious days around me, sometimes farther along, sometimes under my feet,” Pace/McGill Gallery (New York, USA), 2018
  • “Yoshitomo Nara for better or worse,” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan), 2017
  • “At Tobiu,” Tobiu Art Festival 2017, Tobiu Art Community (Hokkaido, Japan), 2017
  • “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” Daikanyama Hillside Plaza (Tokyo, Japan), 2017
  • “to the north, from here naoki ishikawa + yoshitomo nara,” The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo, Japan), 2015
  • “Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara,” Asia Society Hong Kong Center (China), 2015
  • “A 3-Day Drawing Show,” Sawada Mansion Gallery room 38 (Kochi, Japan), 2014
  • [Solo Exhibition]Pace Gallery, New York (USA), 2013
  • “NARA Yoshitomo: a bit like you and me...,” Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan); Aomori Museum of Art (Japan); Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (Japan), 2012–13
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: The Little Little House in The Blue Wood,” Towada Art Center (Aomori, Japan), 2012–13
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool,” Asia Society Museum (New York, USA), 2010

2000s

  • “The Crated Rooms in Iceland: Yoshitomo Nara + YNG,” Reykjavik Art Museum (Iceland), 2009
  • “Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A-Z Project,” BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (New Castle, UK), 2008
  • “Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A to Z,” Yoshii Brick Brew House (Aomori, Japan), 2006
  • “Yoshitomo Nara ‘Moonlight Serenade’,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan), 2006
  • “Yoshitomo Nara—From the Depth of My Drawer,” Hara Museum (Tokyo, Japan); Kanaz Forest of Creation (Fukui, Japan); Yonago City Museum of Art (Tottori, Japan); Yoshii Brick Brew House (Aomori, Japan); Rodin Gallery, Seoul (Korea), 2004–05
  • “Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow,” Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (Germany); K21: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Dusseldorf, Germany), 2004–05
  • “The Good, the Bad, the Average... And Unique,” Little More Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 2003
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens,” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (USA); Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (USA); San Jose Museum of Art (USA); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (USA); The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (USA), 2003–05
  • “Who Snatched the Babies?,” CNEAI (Ile-de-France, France), 2002
  • “Nara Yoshitomo: I DON’T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME.,” Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan); Ashiya City Museum of Art and History (Hyogo, Japan); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan); Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art (Japan); Yoshii Brick Brew House (Aomori, Japan), 2001–02
  • “In the Empty Fortress,” Johnen & Schöettle (Cologne, Germany), 2000
  • “Walk On: Works by Yoshitomo Nara,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (USA), 2000
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket,” Santa Monica Museum of Art (USA), 2000

1990s

  • “Pave Your Dreams,” Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York, USA), 1999
  • “No, They Didn’t,” Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 1999
  • “Somebody Whispers in Nürnberg,” Institut für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg in der Schmidt Bank-Galerie (Nürnberg, Germany), 1999
  • “In the Floating World,” NADiff (Tokyo, Japan), 1999
  • “Walking Alone,” The Ginza Art Space (Tokyo, Japan), 1999
  • “done did,” Parco Gallery (Aichi, Japan), 1999
  • “Yoshitomo Nara,”Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin (USA), 1998
  • “Sleepless Night,” Galerie Michael Zink (Regensburg, Germany), 1997
  • “YOSHITOMO NARA: Screen Memory,” Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 1997
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: Empty Surprise,” Mitsubishi Jisho ARTIUM (Fukuoka, Japan), 1996
  • “In The Deepest Puddle,” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (Tokyo, Japan), 1995
  • “NARA Yoshitomo New Works: ‘Nothing Gets Me Down’,” Galerie Tokyo Humanité (Japan), 1995
  • “Pacific Babies,” Blum & Poe Santa Monica (USA), 1995
  • “Hula Hula Garden,” Galerie d’Eendt (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), 1994
  • “Yoshitomo Nara: Lonesome Babies,” Hakutosha (Aichi, Japan), 1994
  • [Solo Exhibition]Johnen＋Schöttle (Cologne, Germany), 1993
  • “Harmlos,” Kinderspielhaus Düsseldorf (Germany), 1991
  • [Solo Exhibition]Galerie d’Eendt (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 1990

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020s

  • “Protectors of Love and Peace (Tentative),” Yutaka Kikutake Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 2022
  • “Front International 2022: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,” The Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), 2022
  • “Aichi Triennale 2022: STILL ALIVE,” Orinasu Ichinomiya (Aichi, Japan), 2022
  • “Encounter-Infinite Variety of Faces,” Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (Kagawa, Japan), 2021
  • “Youth,” Yutaka Kikutake Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 2021
  • “Human and Animal: Breathing Life into Clay: The Vanguard of 21st Century Ceramic Art,” Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (Japan); The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Shiga, Japan); Iwate Museum of Art (Tokyo), 2021–22
  • “Nara Yoshitomo and Children in Prints,” Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo, Japan), 2021–22
  • “Thank You Memory: From Cidre to Contemporary Art,” Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (Aomori, Japan), 2020
  • “STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World,” Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), 2020–21
  • “Tobiu Art Festival 2020,” Tobiu Art Community (Hokkaido, Japan), 2020
  • “Connecting Currents: LOL!,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA), 2020–22

2010s

  • “Niko Pirosmani—Promeneur entre les mondes | Vincent van Gogh: Vitesse & Aplomb,” Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles (France), 2019
  • “Weavers of World—A Century Flux in Japanese Modern/Contemporary Art—,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Japan), 2019
  • “ARTZUID 2019: Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial,” City of Amsterdam (The Netherland), 2019
  • “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art,” The National Gallery of Art, Washington (USA), 2019
  • “Takahata Isao: A Legend in Japanese Animation,” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan); Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan); Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan); The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Japan); Taipei Music Center (Taiwan), 2019–22
  • “BISHOJO: Young Pretty Girls in Art History,” Museum of National Taipei University of Education (Taiwan), 2019
  • “Tobiu Art Festival 2019,” Tobiu Art Community (Hokkaido, Japan), 2019
  • “BLUE IS HOT AND RED IS COLD—Klasse A. R. Penck,” Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Germany), 2019
  • “My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection,” Hara Museum (Tokyo, Japan), 2018
  • “The Incongruous Body,” American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2018–19
  • “Taiwan Ceramics Biennale Humanistic Return: The Spiritual Origin of Ceramic Art,” Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), 2018–19
  • “The 12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders,” Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall (Korea), 2018
  • “Constellation Malta,” Fort St Elmo Valletta (Malta), 2018
  • “Niko Pirosmani,” The ALBERTINA Museum (Vienna, Austria), 2018–19
  • “Bangkok Art Biennale 2018,” BAB Box at One Bangkok (Thailand), 2018–19
  • “Bubblewrap,” Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (Japan), 2018–19
  • “Murakami Takashi’s Superflat Consideration on Contemporary Ceramics,” Towada Art Center (Aomori, Japan), 2017
  • “Cool Japan: A Worldwide Fascination in Focus,” Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden (The Netherlands), 2017
  • “Japanorama, A New Vision on Art since 1970,” Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), 2017–18
  • “Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer,” Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan), 2016
  • “Very Addictive: Re extension of Aesthetics in Daily Life,” Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (China), 2016
  • “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk ,” Queens Museum (New York, USA); Grammy Museum (Los Angeles, USA), 2016
  • “Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose,” Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (USA); Akron Art Museum (USA); Crocker Art Museum (California, USA), 2016–17
  • “DOMMUNE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: The 100 Japanese Contemporary Artists: Season 4,” Yamamoto Gendai (Tokyo, Japan), 2016
  • “Aomori EARTH 2016: Roots and Routes,” Aomori Museum of Art (Japan), 2016
  • “Aichi University of the Arts’ 50th Anniversary Exhibition ‘Art Begins from the Forest’,” Aichi University of the Arts (Japan), 2016
  • “Immortal Present: Art and East Asia,” The Berkshire Museum (USA), 2015
  • “TODAY IS THE DAY Exhibition for the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima,” ART GALLERY MIYAUCHI (Hiroshima, Japan), 2015
  • “Study from the Human Body,” Stephen Friedman Gallery (London, UK), 2014
  • “Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present,” Leila Heller Gallery (New York, USA), 2014
  • “Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children,” Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan); Nagoya City Museum (Aichi, Japan); Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Japan); The Museum of Art, Kochi (Japan), 2014–15
  • “Re: Quest―Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s,” Seoul National University Museum of Art (Korea), 2013
  • “Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C., USA), 2013
  • “Awakening: Aichi Triennale 2013,” Yagihyo Marunouchi 8th Building (Aichi, Japan), 2013
  • “Print/Out,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA), 2012
  • “Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan,” Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia), 2012
  • “Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan), 2012–13
  • “A Curator’s Message 2012: NEW PHASES in CONTEMPORARY PAINTING,” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan), 2012
  • “Bye Bye Kitty!!!: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art,” Japan Society (New York, USA), 2011
  • “Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project,” The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, USA), 2011
  • “Future Pass: From Asia to the World,” Abbazia di San Gregorio (Venice, Italy), 2011
  • “CAFE in Mito 2011,” Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Gallery (Ibaraki, Japan), 2011
  • “Works in Ceramics, 2011,” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan), 2011
  • “Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan), 2010
  • “Trans–Cool Tokyo: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection,” Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (Thailand); National Museum of Singapore; Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), 2010–11
  • “INNOCENCE—ART Towards LIFE,” Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Japan), 2010
  • “Yoshitomo Nara x Ei-Q: Departure of an Artist at Age 24,” TOKI-NO-WASUREMONO, WATANUKI, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), 2010
  • “Made in Popland,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2010
  • “12th International Cairo Biennale,” El-Bab Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Gezira, Cairo (Egypt), 2010

2000s

  • “In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and His Surrounding Students,” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan), 2009
  • “Walking in My Mind,” Hayward Gallery (London, UK), 2009
  • “6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,” Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), 2009
  • “Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection,” Manchester Art Gallery (UK), 2009
  • “Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection,” Kirishima Open-Air Museum (Kagoshima, Japan); Sapporo Art Museum (Japan); The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan); The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Japan); Yonago City Museum of Art (Tottori, Japan); Akita Museum of Modern Art (Japan); The Museum of Art, Ehime (Japan), 2008–10
  • “A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan); The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Japan), 2008
  • “The Masked Portrait,” Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York, USA), 2008
  • “Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings,” Irish Museum of Modern Art,” 2008
  • “KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia,” Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) etc., 2008
  • “Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love,” Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (Thailand), 2008
  • “WONDERLAND: Japanese Contemporary Art,” Opera Gallery Hong Kong (China), 2008
  • “The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop,” Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Gallery (Ibaraki, Japan), 2007
  • “Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker,” Okazaki Mindscape Museum (Aichi, Japan), 2007
  • “Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s,” Pataca Art＋Museum (Porirua, New Zealand); The Japan Foundation, Toronto (Canada); MacLaren Art Centre: Royal Victoria Hospital (Ontario, Canada); West Virginia State Museum (USA); Art Museum of Eastern Idaho (USA); Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Florida, USA); Gunaropulos Museum (Athens, Greek); Japan Museum SieboldHuis (Leiden, The Netherlands); Museum De Lakenhal (Leiden, The Netherlands); City Museum of Skopje (Macedonia); Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum (Tehran, Iran); Vjekoslav Karas Gallery (Karlovac, Croatia); Croatian Association of Fine Artists (Zagreb, Croatia); Lycée classique de Diekirch (Luxembourg); Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje (Slovenia); National Art Museum of Ukraine; Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art (Ukraine); Shinsegae Gallery (Gwanju, Korea); Embassy of Japan, Public Information and Cultural Center (Seoul, Korea); Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China); Dalian No.15 High School (China); Museum of Heilongjiang Province (China); Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing (China); 53 Art Museum (Canton, China), 2007–12
  • “Surrealism and Art,” Utsunomiya Museum of Art (Tochigi, Japan); Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan); Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan), 2007
  • “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (USA); Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (USA); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (USA), 2007–08
  • “Cult Fiction—Art and Comics,” Hayward Gallery (London, UK); The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK); Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery (UK); Leeds Art Gallery (UK); Aberystwyth Arts Centre (UK); Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle, UK), 2007
  • “Pretty Baby,” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (USA), 2007
  • “Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA), 2007
  • “Imagination Becomes Reality. An exhibition cycle focusing on the pictorial understanding of current art, Part III: Talking Pictures,” Sammlung Goetz, Munich (Germany), 2006
  • “The Child,” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan), 2006
  • “Kazoku no jokei: Nihon no kazouku wo kangaeru [The Scene of Family: A Review to the Japanese Family],” The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Japan), 2006
  • “Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai,” City of Bangkok, Silpakorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) etc., 2006
  • “Long Live Sculpture!,” The Middelheim Museum (Antwerp, Belgium), 2006
  • “Having New Eyes,” Aspen Art Museum (USA), 2006
  • “6th Shanghai Biennale,” Shanghai Art Museum (China), 2006
  • “The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia,” Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), 2005
  • “Yokohama International Triennial: Art Circus (Jumping from the Ordinary),” Yamashita Seaside Tenement House (Kanagawa, Japan), 2005
  • “Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture,” Japan Society (New York, USA), 2005
  • “Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan,” The Israel Museum, 2005
  • “Unheimlich Jung: Kinder und Jugendliche in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst,” Stadtische Galerie, Sønderborg (Denmark), 2005
  • “JaPan Pop: Manga and Japanese Contemporary Art,” Helsinki Art Museum, Tennis palace (Finland), 2005
  • “Portrait,” Galerie Meyer Kainer (Vienna, Austria), 2005
  • “Baby Shower,” Galleri Nicolai Wallner (Copenhagen, Denmark), 2005
  • “Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit,” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Japan), 2004
  • “NON-SECT RADICAL: Contemporary Photography III,” Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan), 2004
  • “Fiction. Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (Taiwan), 2004
  • “Funny Cuts: Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenössischen Kunst,” Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany), 2004
  • “Painting in Our Time,” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum (Japan), 2003
  • “Ukiyo-E Avant-Garde,” Tokyo Station Gallery (Japan), 2003
  • “Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life,” Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), 2003–04
  • “Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation,” The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA); Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (USA); The University of North Texas Art Gallery (USA); Western Washington University (USA), 2003
  • “Supernova: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), 2003
  • “I bambini siamo noi,” Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Turin, Italy), 2003
  • “Grief,” Atelier Augarten (Vienna, Austria), 2003
  • “Girls Don’t Cry,” Parco Museum Tokyo (Japan), 2003
  • “NIÑOS. CHILDREN,” Salamanca Art Center (Spain), 2003
  • “M_ARS: ART AND WAR,” Neue Galerie Graz (Austria), 2003
  • “Moving Energies #2: Aspekte der Sammlung Olbricht,” Museum Folkwang, Essen (Germany),” 2003
  • “IVè Biennale de la Gravure d’lle de France,” Domaine et Orangerie de Madame Elisabeth (Versaille, France), 2003
  • “Monnalisa Mammon,” The Hiratsuka Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan), 2002
  • “Emotional Site,” Shokuryo Building (Tokyo), 2002
  • “The Japanese Experience: Inevitable,” Ursula Blickle Stiftung (Kraichtal, Germany); Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Austria), 2002
  • “Weiche Bruche: Japan,” Kunstraum Innsbruck (Austria), 2002
  • “BABEL 2002,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2002
  • “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA), 2002
  • “Pop!Pop!!Pop!!!: 50’s-00’s Pop Art Show,” The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Japan), 2002
  • “Traces, Imprints and Tales: Japanese Contemporary Art Draws from Tradition,” Kerava Art Museum (Finland), 2002
  • “JAM: Tokyo-London,” Barbican Art Gallery (London, UK); Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Japan), 2001–02
  • “Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future,” The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts: Chinretsukan Gallery (Japan), 2001
  • “My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation,” Des Moines Art Center (USA); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (USA); Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, USA); Tampa Museum of Art (USA); Chicago Cultural Center (USA); Akron Art Museum (USA); Norton Museum of Art (Florida, USA); Huntsville Museum of Art (USA), 2001
  • “Neo-Tokyo—Japanese Art Now,” Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2001
  • “Public Offerings,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (USA), 2001
  • “Senritsumirai: Future Perfect,” Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci (Prato, Italy), 2001
  • “Silence of The City,” Gwangju Museum of Art (Korea), 2001
  • “Pop Heart e Generazione MTV,” Light Gallery, Faenza (Italy), 2001
  • “MURAKAMI/NARA NARA/MURAKAMI,” Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 2001
  • “Kaboom!,” Haines Gallery (San Francisco, USA), 2001
  • “Retorn al pais de les meravelles: L’art contemporani i la infància,”“la Caixa” Foundation (Barcelona, Spain), 2001
  • “VACANT LOT,” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan), 2000
  • “Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art,” Tacoma Art Museum (USA); Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (USA); “la Caixa” Foundation (Barcelona, Spain); Crocker Art Museum (California, USA); Art Gallery of Hamilton (Canada); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA), 2000–01
  • “Kinder des 20. jahrhunderts: Malerei, Skulptur, Fotograpfie,” Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg (Germany); Mittelrhein Museum Koblenz (Germany), 2000
  • “Presumed Innocent,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (France); Hayward Gallery (London, UK), 2000
  • “Trading Views: 4 x Japanishe Kunst,” Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (Germany); Städtische Galerie Erlangen (Germany); Museum De Lakenhal (Leiden, The Netherlands), 2000
  • “Super Flat,” Shibuya Parco Gallery (Tokyo, Japan); PARCO GALLERY Nagoya (Aichi, Japan); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (USA); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, USA); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington (USA), 2000–03
  • “The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), 2000
  • “Dark Mirrors of Japan,” de Appel Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 2000
  • “Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art—Between the Body and Space,” Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), 2000
  • “Continental Shift,” Ludwig Forum Aachen (Germany), 2000

1990s

  • “New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection,” Limn Gallery, San Francisco (USA), 1999
  • “Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Time,” Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), 1999
  • “Vergiß den Ball und spiel’ weiter: Das Bild des Kindes in Zeitgenössischer Kunst und Wissenschaft,” Kunsthalle Nürnberg (Germany), 1999
  • “An Active Fault of Painting,” Nagoya Civic Gallery (Aichi, Japan), 1999
  • “Platform 99: 70 Young Visual Artists from Asia and Latin America,” Canvas Foundation (The Netherlands), 1999
  • “Something Warm & Fuzzy: Children and Contemporary Art,” Des Moines Art Center (USA), 1999
  • “The MANGA Age,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Japan); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), 1998–99
  • “Innocent Minds,” Aichi Art Center (Japan), 1998
  • “Busan International Contemporary Art Festival 1998,” Busan Museum of Art (Korea), 1998
  • “VOCA ’97: The Vision of Contemporary Art 1997,” The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan), 1997
  • “Dream of Existence: Exhibition of Young Japanese Artists,” Kiscelli Municipal Museum of Art (Budapest, Hungary), 1997
  • “Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 1997
  • “Intangible Childhood,” Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Japan), 1996
  • “Tokyo Pop,” The Hiratsuka Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan), 1996
  • “Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists,” The Miyagi Museum of Art (Japan), 1996
  • “Kind of Blue,” Hakutosha (Aichi, Japan), 1996
  • “Endless Happiness,” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (Tokyo, Japan), 1995
  • “POSITIV,” Museum am Ostwall (Dortmund, Germany), 1995
  • “Düsseldorf—Andere Ort,” Orangerie Schloss Brake (Lemgo, Germany), 1995
  • “The Future of Paintings ’95,” Osaka Contemporary Art Center (Japan), 1995
  • “Takeoffs,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University (California, USA), 1995

1980s

  • “Mensch und Technik,” Nixdorf AG (Germany), 1989
  • “Feeling House,” Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Japan), 1988
  • “New Artists in Nagoya,” Gallery Westbeth (Aichi, Japan), 1987
  • “Paranoia,” Gallery Westbeth (Aichi, Japan), 1984

Exhibitions curated by Yoshitomo Nara

  • “Flat Yoshitomo Nara &,” Back of "toita" (Hokkaido, Japan), 2022
  • “Takeshi Motai the Dream Traveler, by Yoshitomo Nara,” Chihiro Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), 2017
  • “Horizon That Appears Out of The Sleepy Woods,” Stephen Friedman Gallery (London, UK), 2016
  • “MOMAT Collection by Yoshitomo Nara,” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan), 2016
  • “PHASE 2015 COMPANY: SECRETS OF NORTHERN JAPAN,” Aomori Museum of Art (Japan), 2015
  • “PHASE 2014,” Aomori Museum of Art (Japan), 2014
  • “The Little Art Club in The Blue Woods,” Towada Art Center (Aomori, Japan), 2012–13
  • “morning glory,” Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), 2001
  • “World Peace Café,” PARCO GALLERY Nagoya (Aichi, Japan), 1999
  • “World Peace Café,” Hakutosha (Aichi, Japan), 1997