BIOGRAPHY
Born Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
EDUCATION
1988-1993 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
1987 Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, M.F.A
1985 Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, B.F.A
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
"Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool", Asia Society, New York
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2009
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Crated Rooms for Iceland—Nara + Graf," Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
"Yoshitomo Nara + Graf," BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
"Yoshitomo Nara + graf," Cemeti Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007
"NARA + GRAF," Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague
"Berlin Baracke," Galerie Zink, Berlin
Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne
2006
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
"A to Z," Hirosaki Brew House, Hirosaki
"Moonlight Serenade," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2005
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Home" (+graf) graf media gm, Osaka
2004
Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
"From the Depth of My Drawer," The Hara Museum, Tokyo (traveling exhibition in Japan and Korea: Fukui Kanaz Forest of Creation; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, 2005; Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
"Shadow Puddles," graf media gm, Osaka
"Over the Rainbow," Pinakothek der Moderne Kunst, Munich
"Somewhere, collaboration with Hiroshi Sugito," Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich
"Nowhere Land," Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne
2003
"Nothing Ever Happens," Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. (traveling exhibition: ICA Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Center for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Hawaii)
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
"S.M.L," graf media gm, Osaka
Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich
"The good, the bad, the average and unique," Little More Gallery, Tokyo
2002
"who snatched the babies," Centre National de l'estampe et de l'arte imprimè, Chatou, France
"Saucer Tales," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2001
"I don't mind if you forget me," Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (traveling exhibition: Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, 2002; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Hokkaido; Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki)
"Clear For Landing," Galerie Michael Zink, Munich
"Drawing Days," Colette, Paris
"in the white room," Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
2000
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
"Lullaby Supermarket," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
"Empty Fortress," Galerie Johnen & Schoettle, Cologne, Germany
"Walk On," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
"in the empty fortress," Johnen + Schoettle, Cologne, Germany
1999
"Somebody Whispers in Nurnberg," Institut fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, Nurnberg (catalogue)
Projektraum Berlin, Berlin
"Pave Your Dreams," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"done did," Parco Gallery, Nagoya
"Happy Hour," Hakutosha, Nagoya
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
"No, They Didn't," Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"Walking Alone," Tokyo, The Ginza Art Space (catalogue)
"in the floating world," Nadiff, Tokyo
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, curated by
Marilu Knode (catalogue)
1997
"Screen Memory," Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"Lonesome Puppy," Hakutosha, Nagoya
"Drawing Days," Hakutosha, Nagoya
"Sleepless Night," Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany
1996
Galerie Johnen & Schoettle, Cologne
"Lonesome Puppy," Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"Hothouse Fresh," Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya(catalogue)
"Empty Surprise," Artium, Fukuoka
1995
"Cup Kids," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya
"Pacific Babies," Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
"In the Deepest Puddle," SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo (catalogue)
"Nothing Gets Me Down," Galerie Humanite, Tokyo (catalogue)
"Oil on Canvas," Galerie Humanite, Nagoya (catalogue)
"Project for Gunma," Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Gunma
1994
"lonesome babies," Hakutosha, Nagoya (catalogue)
"Hula Hula Garden," Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
"Christmas For Sleeping Children," Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka (catalogue)
1993
Galerie Johnen & Schoettle, Köln
"Be Happy," Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo (catalogue)
1992
Loft Gallery Deventer, The Netherlands
"Drawings," Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
Galerie Johnen & Schoettle, Cologne
1991
"Harmlos," Galerie im Kinderspielhaus, Dusseldorf
Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
"cogitationes cordium," Galerie Humanite, Nagoya
1990
Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
1989
"Irrlichtteater," Stuttgart, Germany
1988
"Innocent Being," Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo
Goethe Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany
1985
"Recent Works," Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya
1984
"Wonder Room," Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya
"It's a Little Wonderful House," Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
"The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place," 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, February 25 – May 9, 2010
2009
"Rites de Passage", Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands, June 20 - September 6, 2009
"Walking in My Mind," The Hayward Gallery, London, Yoshitomo Nara with installation by YNG, June 23 - September 6, 2009
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, December 5, 2009 – March 14, 2010
Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Tamami Hitsuda, Masako Ando, Mika Kato, Aichi Triennale Pre-event, "It's a Little Playground," Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan (traveled exhibition-Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan), August 28-October 25, 2009
2008
"Encounters," Pace Beijing, Beijing
"The Masked Portrait," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, curated by Midori Nishizawa
2007
"When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever; An Exhibition of the Zabludowicz Collection at BALTIC," BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
"Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection," Houston, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
"Pretty Baby," The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
"The Door into Summer," Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Mindscape Museum, Okazaki, Aichi
"Disorder in the House," Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Bernard Bugget Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
"Silly Adult" Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagan
"Let's Go To The Museum! How To Enjoy The Modern Art, Together With Dick Bruna," Bernard Buffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
"Hot, Stamp, Hanga! Child Print Art Musuem," Bernard Buffet Museum, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection," Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
"ShContemporary 2007 Shanghai in Art," Best of Artists Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
"3L4D – 3rd Life 4th Dimension," Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
"Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai," Bangkok
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
"A Magical Life" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
"10th Anniversay" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2005
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan,
"Little Boy – The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture," Japan Society, New York
"The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art From East Asia," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Japan Pop", Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
"Unheimlich Jung", Stadtische Galerie, Sonderborg, Denmark
"New Acquisition" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
"Kotaro Terada Collection" Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
"Kiss Kiss" c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
"Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art in Japan," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004
"Seeing Other People," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Fiction Love," The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
"Supernova," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit," Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Non-sect Radical," Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
"The Myth of Childhood," Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
"Funny Cuts: Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenosischen Kunst," Stadtgalerie, Stuttgart
2003
"Your Dog," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (through 2004)
"M_ARS-Art and War," Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum, Austria
"Painting in our time,", The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
"Ninos," Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
"I bambini siamo noi," Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
"Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation," The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans,
"Trauer/GRIEF," Atelier Augarten, Vienna
"Happiness," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Room Air," It-Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2002
"Pop! Pop! Pop!," The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
"Fragile Figures," Palette School, Tokyo
"Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"The Galleries Show," Royal Academy of Arts, London
"The Japanese Experience-Inevitable," Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
"Babel 2002," National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
"Contemporary Art from Japan to Finland 2002," Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki
2001
"Murakami/Nara," Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"Painting at the Edge of the World," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
"My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. (touring exhibition: Brooklyn Museum, New York; Florida, Tampa Museum of Art; Chicago Culture Center, Chicago; Akron Art Museum of Art, Akron; The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville; Independent Curators International, New York)
"Tsunami Raiders," Galerie Michael Zink, München, Germany
"Public Offering," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"JAM! – London Tokyo," Barbican Gallery,London (2002)- Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Arte Attuale dal Giappone," Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
"Neo Tokyo-Japanese Art Now," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
"Camera Works," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Sichoku no Jikan," The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
"Silence of The City," Gwangju Art Museum, Korea
2000
"Super Flat," The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood (touring exhibition:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle)
"Drawn From Life," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Drawings 2000," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Super Flat," Parco Gallery, Tokyo (catalogue published)
"Presumed Innocent," Capc Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
"Dark Mirror from Japan," De Appel, Netherlands
"Continental Shift," Ludwig Forum, Aachen
"Trading Views," Saarbrucken Staatgalerie, Saarbrucken (touring exhibition: Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany; Stedelijk museum De Lakenhal Lieden, Holland)
"Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts," Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany
"Works on Paper," Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"The Darker Side of Playland," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"GENDAI," Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
1999
"Spellbound," Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
"Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott and Lea Rosson Delong
"Vergiss den Ball und spiel weiter," Nuremberg Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany
"Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito," Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
"Tendance," Abbaye Saint-Andre Centre d'art Contemporain, Meymae
"Art/ Domestic, Temperature of the Time," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
"New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection,"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990's," The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
1998
"The Manga Age," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1997
"Dream of Existence," Kiscelli Municipal Museum of Art, Budapest
"Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition," The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
"Drawing Show," Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
Galerie & Ediciones Ginkgo, Madrid
"VOCA," The Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo
1996
"Tokyo Pop," The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa (catalogue)
"Intangible Childhood," Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Osaka
"Ironic Fantasy," The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai (catalogue)
1995
Galerie d'Eendt Amsterdam
"Drawing Chat," Shinanobashi Gallery, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Osaka
"Endless Happiness," SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
"Art x = @," SAM Museum, Osaka
"That Figures," Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
"Book and Weight," Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka
"POSITIV," Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
"Dusseldorf-andere Ort," Orangerie Schlos Brake, Lemgo
"The Future of Paintings, 1995," Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
"Takeoffs," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, California
"Gunma Biennale," Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
1994
"My Room is Your Room," 17th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Japan
"Harvest '94," Haus Bockdorf, Kempen
"Harvest Kempen-Nagoya," Hakutosha, Japan
"Art Against AIDS," Art Cologne, Köln, Germany
1993
"Partners ," Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
"Animals," Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
"Harvest '93," (with Shiro Matsui) Haus Bockdorf, Kempen
"In Situ," Theateraan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Belgium
1992
"Tijdeljk Asiel," Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1991
"4th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair," Japan
"Pack," SA-IN Gallery, Pusan, Korea
1990
"Brille," Galerie Pentagon, Köln
"Acqua Strana," Galerie Ulla Sommers, Dusseldorf
1989
"Mensch und Technik," Nixdorf A.G., Dusseldorf
1988
"Feeling House," Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
1987
New Artists in Nagoya, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya
1986
"Each Person's Expression of Space," Gifu Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
"Present '86," Gallery NAF, Nagoya
1985
"Sense of Vision and Touch," Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya
"Five Person's Musical Band," Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya
1984
"Paranoia," Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya
"Two Person Show," Gallery Denega, Hirosaki
CATALOGS AND PUBLICATIONS
2006
Yoshitomo Nara + Graf A to Z Project. Japan: Foil, 2006.
2004
Coatzee, Mark. Rubell. Family. Collec-tion. Not. Afraid. New York: Phaidon, 2004
2003
Sanders, Mark, Fumiya Sawa and Kyoichi Tsuzuki. Reflex: Contemporary Japanese Self-Portraiture. London: Trolley Limited, 2003
Chiapang, Sun. The good, the bad, the average …and unique YOSHITOMO NARA. (Little More), Tokyo, 2003
NARA: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. Cleveland: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland curated by Kristin Chambers, 2003
2002
Who snatched the babies? Yoshitomo Nara. Paris: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2002
Argentine Hag. Text by Banana Yoshimoto, Drawings & Photographs by Yoshitomo Nara, Japan: Rockin' On Inc, 2002
Hoptman, Laura. drawing now: eight propositions. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. New York: Phaidon Press, 2002
2001
Takei, Masakazu. Nobody knows YOSHITOMO NARA Drawings. (Little More), Japan, 2001
I DON"T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME. Nara Yoshitomo. Yokohama Museum of Art, 2001
2000
The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition coordinated by Heather Whitmore Jain, 2000
Konishi, Nobuyuki. YOSHITOMO NARA. Germany: Stadtgalerie Saarbrüken, 2000
1999
UKIYO Yoshitomo Nara. Masakazu Takei (Little More), Japan, 1999
Works by contemporary ASIAN artists from the Logan Collection. California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999
1998
Takei, Masakazu Slash with a Knife: YOSHITOMO NARA. (Little More), Japan, 1998
1996
Ironic Fantasy: Another World by Five Contemporary Artists. Japan: The Miyagi Museum of Art, 1996
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
"Little Snarlings: Yoshitomo Nara's toddler-punks share the darker side of childhood," Cleveland Scene, September 24, 2003
"Biennale in Buchform," Bolero, September 2003
McCaffery, Damian. "Hello Kiddie," Vibe, August 2003
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Sciaccualuga, Maurizio. "Ageing Without Growing Old," Work: Art in Progress, January-March 2003
2002
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2002
2001
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2000
Shoji, Kaori. Dutch, November 2000
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1999
Trescher, Stephan. Neue Bildende Kunst, December 1999
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1998
Hyuga, Akiko. Bijutsu Techno, December 1998
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1997
Matsui, Midori. "Tokyo Pop," Flash Art, Nara, Yoshitomo, "In the Deepest Puddle," November/December, 1997
Darling, Michael. "Yoshitomo Nara," Frieze, September/October 1997
Pagel, David. "Prizing an Animated Approach to Life," Los Angeles Times, May 23, 1997
1996
Matsui, Midori. Bijutsu Techno, February 1996
Abe, Takaki. "Contemporary Art," Oggi, February 1996
Onishi, Wakato. Asahi Shimbun, May 16, 1996
Ishida, Ayako. "Snap, Crackle, and Pop," The Daily Yomiuri, May 10,1996
Tsurumoto, Chikara. "Exhibition," Nishinihon Shimbun, February 1, 1996
Nara, Yoshimoto. Hanatsubaki, January 1996
1995
Borg, Lucette. "Japanese Figuren," NRC Handelsblad, November 24, 1995
Darling, Michael. Art Issues, September/October 1995
Haito, Masahiko. "Nara Yoshitomo, Hakutosha – Review," Bijutsu Techno, February 1995
Hiroe, Yasutaka. "Review Nagoya," Bijutsu Techno, September 1995
Nara, Yoshitomo. "The Ordinary Life of an Ordinary Person," Bijutsu Techno, July 1995
Pagel, David. The Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1995
Tager, Alisa. "Report from Los Angeles," Art in America, October 1995
Tager, Alisa. "Yoshitomo Nara-Pacific Babies", Poliester, Fall1995
Interview, Bijutsu Techno, July 1995
"Girl Facing Reality," Nikkei Art, May 1995
Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERA, April 10, 1995
Studio Voice, April 1995
Touo Nippou, March 30, 1995
Pia, March 14, 1995
The Shinbiyutsu Shimbun, March 1,1995
Shimizu, Minoru. "Nara Yoshitomo, Itoki Crystal Hall Review," Bijutsu Techno, March 1995
Yamashita, Rika. "Interview," Meets, January 1995
Ryuko Tsushin, January 1995
1994
Inoue, Takao. "Art Space," Asahi Shimbun, April 16, 1994
Gekkan Bijutsu, February 1994
Kuiper, Petra. "Weises Band," Neue Rheinische Zeitung, February 8, 1994
Nishihara, Min. "Suburbia Baby, The Suburbs of Art," Silvester Club, July 1994
"Exhibitions Held Last Month: Nara Declares The End of the Girl Civilian," Gekkan Bijutsu, February 1994
Takanashi, Tomoko. "The Day I Met Ms. Medel," Geijutsu Koron, March 1994
Nara, Yoshitomo. "Gangster Girls," Geijutsu Shincho, January 1994
Pia, December 13, 1994
The Shinbijyutsu Shimbun, December 11, 1994
"Interview," L Magasin, December 1994
1993
Pia, December 7, 1993
The Shinbijyutsu Shimbun, December 1, 1993
Nikkan Gendai, October 28, 1993
Nikkan Gendai, October 21, 1993
Yomiuri Shimbun, October 21, 1993
Chunichi Shimbun, October 18, 1993
1991
Ariake, Chihiro. "Art," Chunichi Shimbun, April 16, 1991
Igami, Norie. "Yoshitomo Nara," Bijutsu Techno, July 1991
Ishii, Yoji. "Gallery," Yomiuri Shimbun, April 14, 1991
Kawohl, Anja. "Elemente fur Harmlosen Eindruck," Rheinische Post, January 20, 1991
"Kunst mit Kindern," Westdeutsche Zeitung, January 1991
"Harmlos," Neue Rheinische Zeitung, January 26,1991
1990
Steenhuis,Paul. "Yoshitomo Nara," NRC Handelsblad, May 1, 1990