Born in Ehime, Japan
Lives and Works in Tokyo, Japan
Education
1969
BFA, Chuo Bijutsu Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2024
'I, Robot', Almine Rech, London, UK
'Desire Machines', Museum of Sex, Miami, Florida, US
2023
'LABYRINTH', Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
'Hajime Sorayama: Desire Machines', Museum of Sex, Miami, Florida, US
"Space Travelers", CICA Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, CA
"Space Traveler", NANZUKA UNDER GROUND, Tokyo, Japan
"Solo Show", AISHO NANZUKA, Hong Kong
2022
"H.R. Giger X Sorayama: Approaching", UCCA Lab, Beijin, China
'CYBER LADIES’ 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/Hajime Sorayama's EXPO", Wrong Gallery Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2016
"XLARGE × HAJIME SORAYAMA", XLARGE HARAJUKU, Tokyo, Japan
"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
AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong, China
Little High, Tokyo, Japan
FIFTY24SF GALLERY, San Francisco, CA, USA
2014
Stussy Guest Artist Series - HAJIME SORAYAMA Exhibition Curated by NANZUKA, STUSSY HARAJUKU CHAPTER, Tokyo, Japan
2013
"Solo Exhibition", AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong, China
"Hajime Sorayama x graniph Exhibition", graniph Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011
"Hajime Sorayama : 1970-2010", Gering & Lopeg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
"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
Opera Gallery, New York, NY, USA
"Sorayama Exhibitions", WEAM, Miami, FL, USA
2007
"EROTOVISION", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome, Italy
2005
"Hysteric Mini 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition", Tokyo/Osaka/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
"三代目彫よし × 空山基 『弧狼展』", ART GALLERY DOGENZAKA, Tokyo, Japan
"The Essentials of KINBAKU ART", Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"HAKKOU, MERRY ART GALLERY", Kanagawa, Japan
'H.R. X Sorayama: Approaching', UCCA Lab, Beijing, China
2022
"Mickey Mouse Now and Future", Seoul Art Centre, Hangaram Art Museum, Seol, Korea
"Group show ‘for TZ’ ", NANZUKA UNDRGROUND, Tokyo, Japan
"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
“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
"Bubble wrap", Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
"COOL JAPAN", TROPEN MUSEUM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Tokyo Sweet Gwendoline", VANILLA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"Exhibition of Mythical beast V", Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo, Japan
"AAF - AUTOMOBILE ART FEDERATION vol.7", gallery YAMAWAKI, Tokyo, Japan
"【第二回】丘の上の秘宝の間~ アートでできた秘宝館~ ", MERRY ART GALLERY, Kanagawa, Japan
"EROTIC ART and ESOTERICISM", Vanilla gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"The 30th Contemporary Art Exhibition", Imabari Kono Museum, Ehime, 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 “Life is hard... Let's go shopping.”, 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 2014, New York, NY, USA
Amalia Ulman + Hajime Sorayama Exhibition, 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
"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
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
KITAHARA COLLECTION, 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
