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
2001Inventor's Award - Asahi newspaper
1999Good Design Grand Prize Award
Media Art Festival Grand Prize Award
1996Vargas 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