Introduction
1952 born in Shizuoka City, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo and New York.
Biography
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2015
Yoshitaka Amano: the world beyond your imagination, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Yoshitaka Amano: the world beyond your imagination, Kawara Museum of Takahama City, a Hometown of Ceramics, Aichi, Japan
2014
Yoshitaka Amano: the world beyond your imagination, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
2013
TOKYO SYNC, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
Mythopoeia, Mizuma Gallery, Singapour
2012
Deva Loca Redux, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
2011
For Japan, Superfrog gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Deva Loca, Art Statements Tokyo, Tokyo
Nosbaum & Reding ? Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Rêves et portraits, Galerie Petits Papiers & Maison Autrique, Brussels
Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
Deva Loka, LeBasse Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Hero, MOCA Studio, Taipei
2009
Flying to Deva Loka, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei
Amano Galaxy, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
Deva-Loka USA, Superfrog gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Deva-Loka. Rouge Bleu, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
Deva-Loka, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin
2007
Nosbaum & Reding ? Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2006
Eye on Amano, Festival Walk, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
2005
Nosbaum & Reding ? Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2004
Recent Works. Galerie Patrick De Brock, Knooke
Yoshitaka Amano. M. Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn
Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
2003
Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
2002
Leo Koenig Inc., New York
Solo presentation at the Fiac, Paris
The Happy Lion (Leo Koenig Inc. & Galerie Michael Janssen), Los Angeles
1999
Hero, Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC
1998
Think Like Amano. Uenonomori Museum of Art, Tokyo
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Brussels
1997
Think like Amano. New York
1995
Orléans Art Museum, Orléans
1989
Hiten. Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2014
Impacts!, Japan Art Festival, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, USA
2013
Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2012
4 Artists Participating in the 55th Venice Biennale, Art Statements Gallery, HongKong
Paper does not blush, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin
2011
Anime! High Art - Pop Culture, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2010
Kyoto-Tokyo, from samouraïs to mangas, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Manga. Japanese Pictures, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles
Manga. Japanese Pictures, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark
Anime High Art-Pop culture, Deutsches Film Museum, Frankfurt
2007
3L4D - 3rd Life 4th Dimension, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei City'Anime High Art-Pop culture, Deutsches Film Museum, Frankfurt'Comix, Kunsthalle Brandst, Odense-Denmark
2006
Fiction@Love, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
2004
Rodolphe Janssen feat Michael Janssen. Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Dessins et des Autres. Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Yoshitaka Amano ? André van de Wijdeven. Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
Dessins et des Autres ? Part II. Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (curated by Anne de Villepoix and Catherine Bastide)
Funny Cuts. Cartoons und Comics in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
10 Years , Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
2002
Barbican Galleries, Barbican Art Centre, London