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Born in 1960 in Fukuoka.
Lives and works in New York.

2013

[forthcoming]"Noritoshi Hirakawa" Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto (JP)
"House of Ourselves" Gallery VER, Bangkok (TH)

2012

"Beyond the sunbeams through trees" Museum of Modern Art Gunma (JP)
"Conscience, réalité" Galerie in situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris (FR)

2011

"A New Clear Era" Foreign Correspondent's Club Japan (JP)
"Transcending Relativity" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
“Beyond the sunbeams through trees” Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (JP)
"In Reminiscence of the Sea" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)

2010

“The returning of the Sun” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (US)

2009

"Noritoshi Hirakawa - An Attribute of Living" Gallery HAM, Nagoya (JP)
"Seeking a Light" in Situ/Fabienne Leclerc, Paris (FR)

2008

"A Sense of Accomplishment/A Daughter's Proposal" Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo (JP)
"Vier Zwei Eins" Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY (US)

2006

Gallery Ham, Nagoya (JP)
"Les temps de rien a Montpellier" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
"Nothing Incomprehensible" Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (DE)
"The Layers from Capital" Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam (NL)
"Pale Destiny" Mars Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

2005

"The Layers from Capital" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Subject" Galerie In Situ, Paris (FR)
"Subject" Salon 94, New York, NY (US)

2004

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"Subject" The Eric Arthur Gallery - University of Toronto, Toronto (CA)
"Frieze Art Fair" Wrong Gallery, London (UK)

2003

"The Strings Of Light" BMW Gruppenpavillon, Munich (DE)
"Streams By The Wind" Kunsthalle Wien (Projektraum), Vienna (AT)

2002

"Les Temps de Rien à Montpellier" Noirmont Prospect, Paris (FR)
"The Intent of Gestures" Hermès Forum, Tokyo (JP)
"I Am The Mother And I Am The Daughter" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"The Manner of Living" Art & Public, Geneva (CH)

2001

Galeria 1991, Lisbon (PT)
"An Inevitable Story as Coincidence" Magazin4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz (AT)

2000

"Le Murmure de la Mer" Art & Public, Geneva (CH)

1999

"The Echos in a Mirror" Kunsthalle St. Gallen (CH)
"Le Va et Vient" Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zürich (CH)
"Shiosai" Gallery HAM, Nagoya (JP)

1998

Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan (IT)
"The Reason of Life" Deitch Projects, New York, NY (US)
"The Flame of Wandering" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Forty years behind Paris" Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (US)

1997

"Garden of Nirvana" Deitch Projects, New York, NY (US)
"Reconfirmation" Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne (DE)
"La Vertu dans le Vice" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (FR)
Centre d'art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (CH)

1996

"A Window of Society" Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Ginza Komatsu Amuser, Tokyo (JP)
"Frostbite, Women, Children and Japanese" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
"Complex of Pieter Bruegel" Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)

1995

"Why do the Japanese dislike the Japanese?" Gallery HAM, Nagoya (JP)
"A Destination of Ego" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (NL)
"L'autre permanent" Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (FR)
"Khaosan Road" Rum, Malmö (SW)

1994

"Just before the last moment in the Twentieth Century" American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY (US)
"Frostbite" Art & Public, Geneva (CH)
"News from somewhere. A journey in search of the earthly paradise" Tracy Williams, Paris (FR)
"Women, Children and the Japanese" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)

1993

"The Greatest" Gallery HAM, Nagoya (JP)
"Dreams of Tokyo" Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

1992

"Meanings rely on your Attitude" Gallery Fukuyama, Tokyo (JP)
"A temptation to be a Man" Galerie Marc Jancou (Projektraum), Zürich (CH)
"Je veux être amoureux de vous!" MA Galerie, Paris (FR)

1991

"Entropaia" Gallery Fukuyama, Tokyo (JP)
"To become Dharma" de Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL)
"Dreams of Tokyo" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (NL)

1990

"Frostbite" Gallery Surge, Tokyo (JP)
"Placebo is missing" W139, Amsterdam (NL)

1989

"Entropaia" Citicorp Citibank Shinjuku, Tokyo (JP)
"Yearnings of Montezuma" Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (CN)
"Influenza" Art Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art in Silpakorn University, Bangkok (TH)

1988

"Passing moments" Gallery Tamaya, Tokyo (JP)
"Out of breath" Gallery Parergon II, Tokyo (JP)

2009

"Pas nécessaire et pourtant indispensable. 1979-2009 : 30 ans d’art contemporain à Meymac - Abbaye St André" Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac (FR)
"The Fallern Angels" Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)

2008

"An Attribute of Living" Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"Diana and Actaeon: The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body" Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (DE)
"Darkside: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed" Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
"Silence in the Light" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Silence in the Light" Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Body Work" Le Case d´Arte, Milan (IT)

2007

"Out of the Loop" Brooklyn Industries' New Contemporary Art Center, NY (US)
"Mulher, Mulheres" SECS Paulista, Sao Paulo (BR)
"Flash Cube" Leeum, Samsung Musem of Art, Seoul (KR)
"Reality Crossings: 2nd Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg" Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (DE)
Kunstfilm Biennale, Cologne (DE)
"Vanishing Points: Contemporary Japanese Art" National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (IN)
"Mädels" Gabriele Rivet, Cologne (DE)
"Wako Works of Art: 15 Years - Part 1" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)

2006

"Into Me/Out of Me" P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY (US); Kunst Werke, Berlin (DE)
"Sweet Ecstasy" Galerie Nicola von Senger AG, Zürich (CH)
Galerie Cornelius Pleser, Munich (DE)
"Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht" ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
"Don Giovanni" Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
"25 Years Zeno X Gallery" Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE)
"The Garden Party" Deitch Projects, New York, NY (US)
"Chambre avec vues" Domaine Départemental de la Garenne Lemot, Gétigné-Clisson (FR)
"Mädels" Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne (DE)

2005

"Dark Places" Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (US)
"Femme(s)" Museum Carouge, Geneva (CH)
"Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal" Montréal (CA)
"Go Inside - Sweet Taboos" Tirana Biennale 3, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana (AL)
"Japanese artists' recent works" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Desire" Para/Site, Hong Kong (December 16 - January 28, 2006)
"Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht" ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (DE)
"Image and Imagination - Le Mois de la Photo" Montreal (CA)

2004

"Mixed Farming" Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL)
"Artists Speak" Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam (NL)
"Black & White" Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne (DE)
Galerie in Situ, Paris (FR)
"Aufruhr der Gefhle. Leidenschaften in der zeitgenssischen Fotografie und Videokunst" Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig (DE)
"Summer Group Show" Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY (US)
"Fruits - Les mtamorphoses du quotidien" The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Takasaki, Gunma (JP), (cat.)
"Dwelling" Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY (US)

2003

"Tirol Transfer" Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (AT), (cat.)
"The History of Japanese Photography" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (US), (cat.)
"Das Lebendige Museum" Museu für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (DE)
"False Innocence" Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona (ES)
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam (NL)
Grieder von Puttkamer, Berlin (DE)
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)

2002

"Departures" (w/ Alfred Jaar), Torch, Amsterdam (NL)
"Magazin im Magazin. A Fruitful Wavers" Magazin4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz (AT), (cat.)
"The Museum, the Collection, the Director and his Loves" Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, (DE)
"Streams by the Wind - Heat Stroke" Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt (DE)
"Formen der Gewalt" Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne (DE)
"Composition of Desire" w/ Vivan Sundaram, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam (NL)
"Shower in the Dark" Deitch Project,, New York, NY (US)
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (DE)

2001

"The Overexcited Body" Museum of the Arengario, Piazza Duomo, Milan (IT); SESC, Saopaulo (BR), (cat.)
"Playgrounds & Toys for Children" United Nations Visitors’ Lobby, New York, NY (US)
"Casino 2001" S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
"Desire" Curated by Peter Weiermair, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (IT); Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim (DE)
"Dévoler" Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne (FR)
"Images et identités" capc Musée of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (FR)
"The Beauty of Intimacy" Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (AU); Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (DE); Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (NL), (cat.)

2000

"Cold Burn" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"The Unseen" Galerie deux, Tokyo (JP)
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam (NL)
"Elbow Room" Curated by Grady T. Turner, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Contemporary Japanese Photography" De Pont Foundation, Tilburg (NL), (cat.)
"Autowerke - European and American Photography 1998 – 2000" Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE), (cat.)
"COS-PLAY" Curated by Paul Donker Duyvis and Christine Sluysmans, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
"Confession of a voyeur" (kuratiert von Vasif Kortun), Dulcinea, Istanbul (TR)

1999

"Spaceship Earth" Art in General, New York, NY (US)
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (FR)
"Zich ophouden bij..." Brugse Hallen, Bruges (BE)
"Transmute" Curated by Joshua Dector, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (US)
"A Girl Like You" Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris (FR)
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten (w/ Paul Donker Duyvis), Amsterdam (NL)
"Sweet & Sour" Art & Public, Genenva (CH)
"Shadows of the Soul" Kunstcentrum de Boterhal, Hoorn (NL)
"Missing Link" Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
"Dehors ­ Dedans" capc Musée of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux
Gallery HAM, Nagoya (JP)
"Singulier, Pluriel" Le Frac des pays de la Loire, Nantes (FR)

1998

"Terminating Angel" Curated by Joshua Dector, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (FR)
"Where I am" Curated by Francisco Vaz Fernandes, Galeria Municipal Da Mitra, Lisbon (PT)
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"La Sphere de L’Intime" Curated by Jérôme Sans, Le Printemps De Cahors, Cahors (FR)
"Live and Let Die" Curated by Udo Kittelmann, Apex Art C.P., New York, NY (US)
"Voor het verdwijnt en daarna", S.M.A.K., Watou (BE), (cat.)
"Diana 98" Palais X-tra, Zürich (CH)
"Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams, and the Contemporary Awakening" Curated by Francesco Bonami, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY (US)
"Crossings" Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
ArtNation Projects, New York, NY (US)
"Bathroom" Curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Fétiches/ Fétichismes" Curated by Jean-Michel Ribettes, Passage de Retz, Paris (FR)
"Bangkok Art Project 1998" SABAAI CHAI CHAI, Bangkok (TH)
"S.M.A.K. in Watou" Various locations, Watou (BE), (cat)
"Shopping the Stars" Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"Photographs and Filmstills" Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)

1997

"Absolute Landscape - Between Illusion and Reality" Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (JP), (cat.)
"AJAR" Galleri F15, Moss (NO)
"Lust und Leere - Japanische Photograhie Der Gegenwart" Curated by Peter Weiermair, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT); Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj (DK); Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel (DE), (cat.)
"Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions" Curated by Francesco Bonami, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (US), (cat.)
"Heaven-Public View" Curated by Joshua Dector, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY (US)
"Light - Invisible Scene" Gallery NW House, Tokyo (JP)
"vis-à-vis" Galerie Art & Essai, Université Rennes 2, Rennes (FR)
"Love, etc." Galerie Esca, Nîmes (FR)
"Noritoshi Hirakawa & Philip Reilly" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (NL)
"Un bel été" Casino Luxemburg (LU)
Biennale de Cétinie, Montenegro (YU)
"Die Liebe, die Trauer, die Zeit" (Axel Heinrich Murken Sammlung), Ludwig-Forum Aachen (DE)

1996

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"Traffic" Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, capc Musée of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (FR), (cat.)
"Urgence" capc Musée of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (FR), (cat.)
"Nudo & Crudo - sensitive body, visible body" Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (IT), (cat.)
"Non! Pas Comme Ça!" Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (CH)
"Disneyland After Dark" Kunstamt Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
"Joint Ventures" Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY (US)
"Playpen & Corpus Delirium" Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (CH), (cat.)
"a/drift : Scenes From the Penetrable Culture" Curated by Joshua Dector, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY (US), (cat.)
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (FR)
E.S.Vandam, New York, NY (US)
"Phase 2" Das TAT, Frankfurt (DE)
"Shopping" Yohji Yamamoto, New York (US)
"CurriculumVitae (3as journadas de arte contemporãnea Porto '96)" Oporto'96, Oporto's Festival of Contemporary Art, Institut Français de Porto (PT)
"Video arte del Japon - Maniáticos de la Desaparición" Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (AR)
"Manics of Disappearance - Today's Japan as disseminator of video messages" Gallery 101, Ottawa (CA)
"Images of women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930's - 90's" Shoto Museum, Tokyo (JP)
"Video Art Channel - Five Artists N'On File" NICAF, Yokohama (JP)

1995

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"Shift" Aperto ‘95, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL), (cat.)
"On Board" Curated by Jerôme Sans/ Karin Schorm, Aperto ‘95, on board Il Nuovo Trionfo (Riva San Biago), Venice (IT), (cat.)
"Campo" Curated by Francesco Bonami, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice (IT); Conferenza Stampa -Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'arte, Tuirn (IT); Konst Museet, Malmö (SW), (cat.)
"Ripple Across the Water" Curated by Jan Hoet, Aoyama,Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"Infra Sound" Curated by Jerôme Sans, Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hamburg (DE), (cat.)
"Feminin, Masculin" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR), (cat.)
"Orient / Ation -The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World", 4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (TR)
"logiques imparables" Curated by Ami Barak, Aperto'95, Garage JP, Conqueyrac (FR)
"Art Basel" Zeno X Gallery/Antwerp, Basel (CH)
"l'art d'aimer - curiousitas érotica" Chez le Concierge, Sète (FR)
"E.T." Organized by Jay Ko, Chien Mai (CH)

1994

"Of the Human Condition: Hope and despair at the End of the Century", Spiral, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"A Vision of Japan for 21st Century", Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"Play Off" Art & Public, Geneva (CH)
"Gaze-L’impossible transparence" Curated by Hou Hanru, Carré des Arts,Parc floral de Paris, Paris (FR), (cat.)
"Desert of Desire", Spiral, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"adieu, les frontières!" Art & Public, Geneva (CH); Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich (CH)
Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt (DE)
"Refreshment", MA Galerie, Paris
"per la nostra società", ARS LUX, Bologna
"Commerce" Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Carré des Arts, Saint-Nicolas, Paris (FR)
"J'aime Regarder les Filles" Curated by Jean-Yves Jouannais, Galerie J. Moussion, Paris (FR)
"Les memoires de l'authenticite" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (NL)
"Art Basel" Gallery HAM/Nagoya, Art & Public/Geneva, Basel (CH)
"Inbetween" Project by Adem Yilmaz and Jårg Geismer, Archäologischer Park, Xanten (DE); Westliche Orangerie des Terrassengartens am Kloster Kamp, Kamp-Lintfort (DE); XLV. Biennale di Venezia, Turkish Pavillion, Venice (IT)
"Art in America" Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"Prospect 1986-1994" Bob van Orsouw, Zürich (CH)

1993

"Neuviemes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire" Garenne Lemot, Clisson (FR), (cat.)
"Prospect 93" Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (DE), (cat.)
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
"Curator’s Eye ’93" Gallery NW House, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"00-Collaboration" (with Michio Sato) Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo (JP)
"Thoughts that fit like air" Art & Public, Geneva (CH)
"Viennese Story" Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT), (cat.)
American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY (US)
"Partners" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (NL)
"NICAF" MA Galerie/Paris, Yokohama (JP)
"Artists and AIDS" Henie-Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden (NO)
With Eric Duyckaerts, MA Galerie, Paris (FR)
"Une (in)position: humainement votre..." FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier (FR)
"Art Basel" Art & Public/Geneva, Basel (CH)
"Breda Photografica '93" De Beyerd, Breda (NL)
"Before the sound of the beep" Curated by Jerôme Sans, Paris (FR)
"Trade Routes" The New Museum, New York, NY (US)
"In Between" The Floating Gallery, Tokyo (US)
Hôtel Carlton Palace Chambre 763, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Paris (FR)
"Het Intellectuele Geweten Van De Kunst", Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (NL)

1992

"Summer Becomes Eclectic" Mars gallery, Tokyo (JP)
"The Photo Biennale of Rotterdam III" Maddox, Rotterdam (NL)
"The 28th Artists Today" Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama (JP), (cat.)
"Unchain My Heart" Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (NL)
"NICAF" American Fine Arts, Co./New York, Yokohama (JP)
"Oriental Spirit in Contemporary Zürich Flats" Raymond Ludi's flat, Zürich (CH)
"Nouvelles Scenes" Atheneum, Dijon (FR)
"Art Cologne" Zeno X Gallery/Antwerp, Cologne (DE)

1991

"Asakusae" Japan/Belgium Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Asakusa old Kinryu school, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"Orientation 50’ Nord" Belgium/Japan Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Cinquantenaire, Brussels (BE), (cat.)