Yoshitomo Nara — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

Christie's

Untitled, 1996

HK$5,040,000 ($645k USD)

Untitled (Hi Watt Hi Watt), 2005

Christie's

£138,600 ($183k USD)

Cosmic Eyes (in the Milky Lake), 2005

Sotheby's

£11,466,448 ($11M USD)

Missing Mariana, Suni, Christina, 2005

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Dog from your Childhood (Prototype), 1997

HK$1,890,000 ($242k USD)

Nov 2024

Christie's

Untitled, 2003

HK$1,071,000 ($137k USD)

Nov 2024

Christie's

Star Girl, 2007

HK$529,200 ($68k USD)

Nov 2024

Christie's

Untitled, 2007

CN¥30,550,000 ($4.2M USD)

Sotheby's

Christie's

For Sale 2

KUMI Contemporary · Artsper

Walk On (Ukiyo-e woodcuts on Japanese paper)

$98,117

Print

Fern Hill Gallery · Artsper

No Fun! from "In the Floating World"

$32,254

Print

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Market3,000 auction results

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$829 – $25M

342 of 393 paintings lots with prices

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$1.6M

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$484K

342 priced paintings lots

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May 2026 · $4.3K

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Paintings: $484K medianWorks on paper: $129K medianSculpture/objects: $882 medianPhotographs: $4.1K medianPosters/ephemera: $1.5K medianEditioned prints: $27.9K medianUnclassified lots: $4.5K medianBooks/portfolios: $5.7K median

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Galleries1

#2 David Zwirner

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Prizes & Awards1

International TAKIFUJI Art Award

Winner 1984

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Podcast Interviews1

podcasts Meet the Artist: Yoshitomo Nara - Hirshhorn Museum - SoundCloud SoundCloud

Meet the Artist: Yoshitomo Nara. Hirshhorn Museum. 20. 1:31:17. Jun ... Re-Setting the Stage: In Conversation with Robert Wilson. Hirshhorn ...

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Education2

Aichi Prefectural University Fine Arts Music Nagakute Aichi Japan

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, Germany

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Publications7

Monograph 1

Phaidon Press · 2020

Exhibition Catalog 5

Hatje Cantz · 2024

VanhaerentsArtCollection Looking Ahead

Prestel · 2020

Yoshitomo Nara Author

Abrams · 2010

Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito Author

Hatje Cantz · 2005

The Japanese experience--inevitable Author

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Group Catalog 1

Hatje Cantz · 2023

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Current Exhibitions0

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Recent News20

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[Namsan Stroll] An Era When You Can Experience Great Art Without Traveling to Seoul

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Yoshitomo Nara Sometimes I Feel I’m Walkin’ Alone (No. YNF2287), 1998

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KAWS | Untitled (KAWS X Mocad) (2019)

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RC Foundation Project Space Exhibition Series 2025–27

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Past Exhibitions14

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#914 Upsilon Gallery

Paper Cut: Works on Paper

Georg Baselitz, Willem de Kooning, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Jasper Johns, Julian Opie, Yoshitomo Nara

23 E 67th St, New York, NY 10065, United States

Mar 12, 2026 — Apr 18, 2026

Beyond Kawaii: Defiance and Vulnerability in Yoshitomo Nara’s Prints

#289 Manabia Fine Arts

Yoshitomo Nara

19501 Biscayne Blvd #2057, Aventura, FL 33180, USA

Dec 3, 2025 — Jan 3, 2026

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, Abando, 48009 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

Jun 28, 2024 — Nov 3, 2024

Yoshitomo Nara28.06.2024 - 03.11.2024

The Bootleg Drawings 1988 - 2023

#4 Pace

Yoshitomo Nara

Nov 17, 2023 — Feb 15, 2024

#4 Pace

Pinacoteca

Yoshitomo Nara

Nov 26, 2021 — Jan 15, 2022

An Exhibition of Works From a Private Collection Yoshitomo Nara

#531 Charles Moffett

Yoshitomo Nara

394 Broadway Second Floor, New York, NY 10013, United States

Apr 4, 2019 — Jul 3, 2019

Yoshitomo Nara: New Works

#145 Stephen Friedman Gallery

Yoshitomo Nara

54 Franklin St, New York, NY 10013, USA

Apr 28, 2016 — Jun 1, 2016

#26 Esther Schipper

via lift or stairs, Potsdamer Str. 81e/Top floor / Obergeschoss, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Sep 16, 2015 — Oct 31, 2015

Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara

Asia Society Museum

Yoshitomo Nara

9 Justice Dr, Admiralty, Hong Kong

Mar 6, 2015 — Jun 4, 2015

Special Exhibition: Yoshitomo Nara

#3,856 Takeda Art Co.

Yoshitomo Nara

Jun 10, 2013 — Jun 22, 2013

#118 Marianne Boesky Gallery

507 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Feb 28, 2009 — Mar 28, 2009

#145 Stephen Friedman Gallery

5-6 Cork St, London W1S 3LQ, UK

Feb 3, 2006 — Mar 11, 2006

Yoshitomo Nara | Saucer Tales

#118 Marianne Boesky Gallery

507 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Oct 19, 2002 — Nov 16, 2002

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, Abando, 48009 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

Mar 11, 2024

Yoshitomo Nara06.28.2024 - 11.03.2024