Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 | “Fantasy In Daylight”, Modern Art Museum Shanghai, China “Tales of Spring Dreams”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | Interwoven Fantasy, Zhu Zhong Art Museum, Beijing, China DEVA LOKA, Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, USA The World of Final Fantasy and Yoshitaka Amano, Ikebukuro Sunshine City, Tokyo, Japan TENMA, JRA Racing Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | A Triumphal Return to Shizuoka: AMANO Yoshitaka – ORIGIN, Sumpu Museum, Shizuoka, Japan Amano Yoshitaka : Evolving Fantasy, Dreams, Adventure and Romance, Niitsu Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Amano Yoshitaka : Evolving Fantasy, Grand Front Osaka, Osaka, Japan CANDY GIRL: Amano Yoshitaka, Ginza Mitsukoshi 7F Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Amano Yoshitaka: Evolving Fantasy, Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | AURUM, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 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, Japan |
2013 | Mythopoeia, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore Tokyo Sync, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | Yoshitaka Amano, Art Statements, Hong Kong Deva Loka Redux, Art Statements, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | For Japan, Superfrog Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
2010 | Yoshitaka Amano 2010, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Deva Loka, LeBasse Projects, Los Angeles, USA Hero, MOCA Studio, Taipei, Taiwan |
2009 | Deva Loka USA, Superfrog Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Amano Galaxy, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | Deva Loka, Art Statements, Hong Kong Deva-Loka, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany Amano Yoshitaka ~N.Y.SALAD Fairy Tale Paintings~, Utsunomiya Fairy Museum, Tochigi, Japan |
2007 | Yoshitaka Amano, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg |
2006 | Yoshitaka Amano: Le mond 'Animation, Le Baladoir de l'Espace Bonlieu, Annecy, France Yoshitaka Amano, Art Statements, Hong Kong |
2005 | maniera, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan Yoshitaka Amano, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg |
2004 | Recent Works, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Yoshitaka Amano, M. Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany New works, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany Yoshitaka Amano, mitterrand+cramer / art advisory, Geneva, Switzerland |
2003 | The works, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany Goldfish Princess and N.Y. SALAD, Kimie Imura Fairy Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan |
2002 | Médiathèque de Cavalaire-sur-Mer, PACA, France Yoshitaka Amano, Leo Koenig Inc., New York City, New York, USA Solo presentation at the FIAC, Paris, France Yoshitaka Amano, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, California, USA |
2000 | Amano Yoshitaka: Fairy Tale World, Kimie Imura Fairy Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan |
1999 | Hero, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, USA |
1998 | Think Like Amano, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan Moon Light Fantasy, Kimie Imura Fairy Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan 1001 NIGHTS, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, USA Festiv'art 98, Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film, Brussels, Belgium |
1997 | THINK LIKE AMANO, Puck Building, New York, USA |
1996 | Animation World, Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, Japan |
1995 | Characters, Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, Japan Museum des Sciences Naturelles, Orléans, France |
1994 | Rampo, Arabian Nights and the World of Final Fantasy, Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, Japan |
1991 | DAWN, Omori Belport Atrium, Tokyo, Japan sublimation, Kanazawa Bunka Hall, Kanazawa, Japan |
1989 | Hiten, Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 | “Timeless MUCHA” The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan “Rough∞Sketches” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | Prime Meridian, Vinyl on Vinyl, Manila, Philippines FINAL FANTASY 30th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION –Memories of You–, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Folkloristics, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore |
2017 | IMPACTS! II FURUU, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan CAMK Collection Vol.5, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan |
2016 | Exposing Ikai – The Different World: Visitors in Past and Contemporary Art, Akita Museum of Art, Akita, Japan 「Impacts! 勢み」,, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan |
2014 | 「Impacts! 勢み」Japan Art Festival, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art × Mizuma Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
2013 | Yoshitaka Amano x HYDE Providence and Immorality –NIPPON EVOLUTION–, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan (travelled to Osaka, Takamatsu, Japan) Personal Structures, 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy |
2012 | Paper does not blush, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany |
2011 | Anime! High Art - Pop Culture, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany |
2010 | Kyoto-Tokyo, from Samourais to Mangas, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Eve: Yoshiki Hishinuma + Yoshitaka Amano, Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto, Japan |
2009 | Eve: Yoshiki Hishinuma + Yoshitaka Amano, l'Opera, Paris, France |
2008 | Manga! Japanese Pictures, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California, USA Manga! Japanese Pictures, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Anime! High Art - Pop Culture, Deutsches Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany |
2007 | Animax: From Modernity to Eternity, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China 3L4D - 3rd Life 4th Dimension, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Comix, Kunsthalle Brandst, Odense, Denmark |
2006 | Fiction@Love, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China |
2004 | Dessins et des Autres – Part II (curated by Anne de Villepoix and Catherine Bastide), Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium Rodolphe Janssen feat. Michael Janssen, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium Dessins et des Autres, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Yoshitaka Amano – André van de Wijdeven, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands Funny Cuts - Cartoons und Comics in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 10 Years!, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany |
2002 | Game On, Barbican Galleries, Barbican Art Centre, London, UK |
1998 | Fairy World, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan (travelled to Kobe and Kyoto, Japan) |
1995 | Shiga Annual for youth '95/Fantasy RPG Illustration, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Shiga, Japan |
1992 | Fantasy Land, Communications Museum, Tokyo, Japan Beautiful Boys for Young Ladies, Yayoi Museum, Tokyo |
Awards
2018 | Inkpot Award, San Diego Comic-Con International, California, USA |
2000 | The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Best Comic-Related Book “THE SANDMAN: The Dream Hunters” collaboration with Neil Gaiman, San Diego, USA |
2007, 1986-1983 | 38th & 17th-14th Seiun Award - Best Artist of the Year, Federation of Science Fiction Fan Groups of Japan, Japan |
Museum Collections
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan |