30yrs from 1984 first solo show
2014
Print Works, Satellite, Okayama, Japan
Sawada Mansion Gallery, Kochi, Japan
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2012
NARA Yoshitomo: a bit like you and me…, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; traveled to Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
The Little Little House in The Blue Woods, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara Prints, 8/Art Gallery/Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Print Works, Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010
ceramic works, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, Asia Society, New York, NY
New Editions, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2009
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
The Crated Rooms in Iceland – Yoshitomo Nara + YNG, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008
Yoshitomo Nara with Installation by YNG, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Galerie Zink, Munich, Germany
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Chaguin, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan (collaboration with Hiroshi Sugito)
2007
Torre de Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain
Yoshitomo Nara + graf, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, Netherlands
Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Berlin Baracke, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany
2006
Moonlight Serenade, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A to Z, Yoshii Brick Brew House, Hirosaki, Japan
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2005
Home, graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori; Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Aomori; Rodin Gallery, Seoul (cat.)
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Nowhere Land, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Yoshitomo Nara: New Works 2004, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Somewhere…, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany (collaboration with Hiroshi Sugito)
Shadow Puddles, graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
Over the Rainbow: Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito, Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munich, Germany; traveled to the K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003
Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
S.M.L., graf media gm, Osaka, Japan
Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany
New Drawings, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
The Good, the Bad, the Average.... And Unique, Little More Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stephen Friedman, London, UK
2002
Saucer Tales, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Who Snatched the Babies?, Centre National de l’estampe et de l’arte imprimè, Chatou, France
12 Etchings, Space Force, Tokyo, Japan
2001
In Those Days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
NARA Yoshitomo: I DON’T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Japan; traveled to Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art; Ashiya City Museum of Art;
Asahikawa Prefectural Museum of Art; Aomori Museum of Art; Hirosaki Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, Hirosaki, Japan (cat.)
Drawings Days, Collette, Paris, France
Clear For Landing, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
In the White Room: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
In the Empty Fortress, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Lullaby Supermarket, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Walk on, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999
Done; Did, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Happy Hour, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Somebody Whispers in Nürnberg, Institut fur Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg,
Germany (cat.)
Pave Your Dreams, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
An Exhibition of Sculpture in Two Parts, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Walking Alone, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
In the Floating World, Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
No, They Didn’t, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (cat.)
1997
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Screen Memory, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lonesome Puppy, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Drawing Days, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Sleepless Night, Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg, Germany
Yume Ooka Art Project, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
1996
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle (with Karen Kilimnik), Cologne, Germany
Lonesome Puppy, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hothouse Fresh, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
Empty Surprise, Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
Cup Kids, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
1995
Cup Kids, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Pacific Babies, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
In The Deepest Puddle, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Nothing Gets Me Down, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Oil on Canvas, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
1994
Lonesome Babies, Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
Hula Hula Garden, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christmas For Sleeping Children, Itoki Crystal Hall, Osaka, Japan (cat.)
1993
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Köln, Germany
Be Happy, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1992
Loft Gallery, Deventer, Netherlands
Drawings, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991
Harmlos, Galerie im Kinderspielhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany
cogitationes cordium, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Japan
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1990
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1989
Irrlichttheater, Stuttgart, Germany
1988
Innocent Being, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya & Tokyo, Japan
Goethe Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
1985
Recent Works, Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya, Japan
1984
Wonder Room, Gallery Space to Space, Nagoya, Japan
It’s a Little Wonderful House, Love Collection Gallery, Nagoya, Japan