Hajime Sorayama |
Profile | |
1947 | Born in Ehime, Japan |
1969 | BFA, Chuo Bijutsu Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan |
Lives and Works in Tokyo |
Solo Exhibitions | |
2023 | "HAKKOU, MERRY ART GALLERY", Kanagawa, Japan |
2022 | "CYBER LADIESʼ WORLD", Almine Rech, Paris, France |
2021 |
"SORAYAMA SHARK", chi K11 art space, Guangzhou, China "Metropolis", HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China "Dinosauria", NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan |
2020 | "SEX MATTER", NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan "TREX", NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | "SORAYAMA Space Park", Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand |
2018 | "Sorayama Explosion 💥", NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan "editions", AISHONANZUKA, HongKong, China |
2017 | "Sawasdee Sexy Robot by Hajime Sorayama", EchoOne ArtSpace, Bangkok, Thailand "Club Sorayama", LANDMARK, Hong Kong, China "空山基的械慾論", Wrong Gallery Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan |
2016 | "Sorayama", Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY, USA "An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine.", NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | "Hajime Sorayama editions", AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong "Hajime Sorayama's Solo Exhibition", Little High, Tokyo, Japan "HAJIME SORAYAMA - PRINT SHOW", FIFTY24SF GALLERY, San Francisco, CA, US |
2014 | "Stussy Guest Artist Series - HAJIME SORAYAMA Exhibition Curated by NANZUKA", STUSSY HARAJUKU CHAPTER, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | "Solo Exhibition", AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong "HAJIME SORAYAMA x graniph Exhibition", graniph Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | "Hajime Sorayama : 1970-2010", Gering & Lopeg Gallery, New York, NY, USA "Sexcetra" aired on Playboy TV "NEO DISCIPLINE", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Neo Japonism & Obsession", TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS/B GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | "Solo Exhibition", NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo, Japan "Giclee World", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | "Hajime Sorayama×Opera Gallery”, Opera Gallery, New York, NY, USA "Sorayama Exhibitions", WEAM Museum, South Beach, FL, US |
2007 | "EROTOVISION", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome, Italy |
2005 | "HYSTERICMINI 20years Annibersary ART EXHIBITION", Tokyo & Osaka, Japan / HongKong Show Room, New York, NY, USA |
2003 | "HAJIME SORAYAMA-THE EXHIBITION-", Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan |
2002 | Bape Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1999 | Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels, CA, USA |
1998 | Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels, CA, USA ECR, Cologne, Germany |
1994 | UP'S Gallery Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels, CA, USA the Castlegate Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, USA |
1988 | The Seibu Department Store Gallery, Hakodate, Japan |
Group Exhibitions | |
2023 | "The Essentials of KINBAKU ART", Vanilla Gallery、Tokyo、Japan |
2022 |
"Mickey Mouse Now and Future", Seoul Art Centre, Hangaram Art Museum, Seol, Korea "Art Basel Miami Beach", NANZUKA, Miami, FL, US "Group show ʻfor TZʼ ", NANZUKA UNDRGROUND, Tokyo, Japan "Art Basel Hong Kong", NANZUKA, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong "My Pick - organized in association with CaM by Muuseo -", CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan "Mickey Mouse Now and Future", Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan |
2021 |
"Mickey Mouse Now and Future", PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan "Art Basel Miami Beach", NANZUKA, Miami, FL, US "POP-ING NANZUKA at AKI Gallery", AKI Gallery, Taipei, TAIWAN |
2020 |
"H.R.GIGER x SORAYAMA", PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan "Underground of Diversity", Art Basel Miami Beach Online 2020 "GROBAL POP UNDERGROUND" PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan "JP POP UNDERGROUND", Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan |
2019 |
"Arsham × Sorayama", NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan "TOKYO POP UNDERGROUND", Jeffrey Deitch, LA, US "TOKYO POP UNDERGROUND", Jeffrey Deitch, NY, US "Art Basel Hong Kong 2019", Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong "Span Art Gallery Collection 2019", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "MUZAN -cruel and beauty-", VANILLA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan "I draw", D MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea "PEOPLE", Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA "Taipei Dangdai", Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
2018 | "AAF - AUTOMOBILE ART FEDERATION vol.7", gallery YAMAWAKI, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | "Exhibition of Mythical beast IV", TOKYO KOTSU KAIKAN, Tokyo, Japan "Alice 2017", ROPPONGI STRIPE'S SPACE, Tokyo, Japan "Blood and Roses", SPAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan "AUTOMOBILE ART FEDERATION(AAF)" YAMAWAKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan "ARRIVAL XX PLANET THE COLLECTION - EXHIBITION OF KAWS × MURAKAMI TAKASHIʼS WORKS"Je Fine Art Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai "The Encyclopedia of Masamichi Katayama ʼLife is hard... Let's go shopping.ʼ", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "THE UNIVERSE AND ART", ARTSCIENCE MUSEUM, Singapore "Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine", Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany "The Encyclopedia of Masamichi Katayama", Tokyo Opera City Art Galleryz, Tokyo, Japan "TENGAI 3.0"(Traveling exhibition), hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO,Tokyo, Japan "頹恋期", Mangasick, Taiwan |
2016 | "Desire", Moore Building, Miami, FL, USA "TENGAI 3.0", hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK, New York, NY, USA "The Universe and Art", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan "Cosmic Fusion 4", O Museum, Tokyo, Japan "TRIBUTE TO KOW YOKOYAMA", TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan "ALLOY & PEACE", Spiral, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | "Unorthodox", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA "Exhibition of Mythical beast Ⅱ", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan "MEDICOM TOY EXHIBITION'15", PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan "The Aesthetics of Fantasy - Japanese Erotica in Contemporary Art", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan "Here is ZINE tokyo 10", Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan "FELIX THE CAT - Cats Out Of The Bag", SLOW CULTURE, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
2014 | "LEATHER JAPAN", New York, NY, US "The Destruction Of Experience:Amalia Ulman + HAJIME SORAYAMA Exhibition", Evelyn Yard, London, UK "JAPAN EROTICA", Musee de lerotisme, Paris, France "with Hello Kitty", MDP GALLERY/SPACE M, Tokyo, Japan "PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! KILL!", Vanilla Gallery/Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "O's story", billiken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Art Basel Hong Kong", NANZUKA, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong "atrocity beauty", Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "HORIYOSHI THE THIRD x Hajime Sorayama", Galleria Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "KITAHARA COLLECTION", Takamatsu city museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan "PARAMOUNT RANCH", PARAMOUNT RANCH, CA, US Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | "The Pop Surrealism Show", Opera Gallery, New York, NY, USA "UKIYOE Roman Exhibition", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "ALICE Fantasy tale exhibition", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | "Cosmic Fusion III", O museum, Tokyo, Japan "The ObsessionArt 5th Anniversary Exhibition", The Gallery in Cork Street, London, UK "Artist's book by Treville 1985-2012", Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Monster", billiken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Japanese Erotic Artsts", Jinbocho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | "MEDICOM TOY 15th ANNIVERSARY", PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan "Here is ZINE tokyo 2", Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan "Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art 40th Anniversary Special Exhibition", Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan "Märchenism", The Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | "CODE : EROTICA", Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan "Dazzling Contemporary Art Collection of Teruhisa Kitahara", Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | "Almost There" Time Tunnel Series Vol.29, G8, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | "CARNIVORA", FUSE Gallery, New York, NY / L'Imagerie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / CPOP Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA |
2007 | 20th Anniversary Exhibitions "Graphics & Messages", GGG, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 | Ginza Recruit Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | "Winter Invitational", Art At Large, New York, NY, USA |
1997 | "Forum--Gelande", Castrop-Rauxel, Germany |
1989 | "Ferrari Hall", Munich, Germany |
Award | |
2001 | Inventor's Award - Asahi newspaper |
1999 | Good Design Grand Prize Award Media Art Festival Grand Prize Award |
1996 | Vargas Award |
Public Collections | |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Smithsonian Institute of Technology Museum. Washington DC, USA World Erotic Art Museum, Miami, USA US Library of Congress. Washington DC, USA |

