Artists

AMANO Yoshitaka

画家、キャラクターデザイナー、イラストレーター、本の装幀家。 舞台美術や衣装デザインも手がける。繊細で妖艶・幻想的な絵柄は、世界中で人気を博している。



1952 born in Shizuoka, Japan



Solo Exhibitions

2024


“Além da Fantasia” Farol Santander, São Paulo, Brazil


“Wakayama Winter Fusion -Amano Yoshitaka×TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION-” Wakayama Castle, JP


 


2023


“Blue” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP


“The Birth of Myth” LOMEX, New York, U.S.A.


“Dreamer” Modern Art Museum Shanghai, China


“Candy Girl by Yoshitaka Amano” Ever Harvest Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan


 


2022


“Golden View of the World” Myoshinji Temple, Kyoto, JP


“baby’ZOO” Gallery W, Tokyo, JP


“baby’ZOO” Beijing Xidan Gengchang Bazaar Art Space, Beijing, China


“The Coming of Spring” KIKKA Gallery, Tokyo, JP


 


2021


“Premonition of Happiness” KIKKA Gallery, Tokyo, JP


 


2019


“Fantasy In Daylight” Modern Art Museum Shanghai, China


“Tales of Spring Dreams” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP


 


2018


“Interwoven Fantasy” ZhuZhong Art Museum, Beijing, China


“Deva Loka” Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New York, U.S.A.


“The World of Final Fantasy and Yoshitaka Amano” Ikebukuro Sunshine City, Tokyo, JP


“TENMA” JRA Racing Museum, Tokyo, JP


“TENMA” Equine Museum of Japan, Kanagawa, JP


 


2016


“A Triumphal Return to Shizuoka: AMANO Yoshitaka – ORIGIN” Sumpu Museum, Shizuoka, JP


“Amano Yoshitaka: Evolving Fantasy, Dreams, Adventure and Romance” Niitsu Art Museum, Niigata, JP


“Amano Yoshitaka: Evolving Fantasy” Grand Front Osaka, JP


“CANDY GIRL: Amano Yoshitaka” Ginza Mitsukoshi 7F Gallery, Tokyo, JP


“Amano Yoshitaka: Evolving Fantasy” Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, JP


 


2015


“AURUM” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP


“Yoshitaka Amano: the world beyond your imagination” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, JP


“Yoshitaka Amano: the world beyond your imagination” Kawara Museum of Takahama City, a Hometown of Ceramics, Aichi, JP


 


2014


“Yoshitaka Amano: the world beyond your imagination” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, JP


 


2013


“TOKYO SYNC” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP


“Mythopoeia” Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


 


2012


“Deva Loca Redux” Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China


 


2011


“Yoshitaka Amano: FOR JAPAN” SUPERFROG Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


 


2010


“Deva Loca” Art Statements Tokyo, JP


Galerie Nosbaum & Reding -Art Contemporain, Luxembourg


“Rêves et portraits” Galerie Petits Papiers & Maison Autrique, Brussels, Belgium


Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan


“Deva Loka” LeBasse Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


“Hero” MOCA Studio, Taipei, Taiwan


 


2009


“Flying to Deva Loka” Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan


“Amano Galaxy” Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, JP


“Deva Loka USA” SUPERFROG Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


 


2008


“Deva Loka, Rouge & Bleu” Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China


“Amano Yoshitaka~N.Y.SALAD Fairy Tale Paintings~” Utsunomiya Fairy Museum, Tochigi, JP


“Deva-Loka” Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany


 


2007


Galerie Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg


 


2006


“Yoshitaka Amano: Le mond l’Animation” Le Baladoir de l’Espace Bonlieu, Annecy, France


“Eye on Amano” Festival Walk, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China


 


2005


“maniera” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, JP


“Alimentation Générale” Galerie Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg


 


2004


Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland


“M” Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany


“New works” Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany


“recent works” Galerie Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium


 


2003


“Goldfish Princess and N.Y.SALAD” Kimie Imura Fairy Art Museum, Fukushima, JP


“The works” Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany


The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


 


2002


Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, U.S.A.


Médiathèque de Cavalaire-sur-Mer, PACA France


 


2000


“Amano Yoshitaka: Fairly Tale World” Kimie Imura Fairy Art Museum, Fukushima, JP


 


1999


“Hero” The Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, U.S.A.


“Moon Light Fantasy” Kimie Imura Fairy Art Museum, Fukushima, JP


 


1998


“THINK LIKE AMANO” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, JP


“A Fantasy Celts Fairies by Amano” Kimie Imura Fairy Art Museum, Fukushima, JP


“1001 NIGHTS” Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


“Festiv’art 98” Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film, Brussels, Belgium


 


1997


“THINK LIKE AMANO” Puck Building, New York, U.S.A.


Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, JP


 


1996


“Animation World” Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, JP


 


1995


“Characters” Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, JP


Museum des Sciences Naturelles, Orléans, France


 


1994


“Rampo, Arabian Nights and the World of Final Fantasy” Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, JP


 


1991


“DAWN” Omori Belport Atrium, Tokyo, JP


“sublimation” Kanazawa Bunka Hall, JP


 


1989


“Hiten” Yurakucho Mullion, Tokyo, JP


Group Exhibitions

2024


“Handle with Care” Espacio SOLO, Madrid, Spain


 


2023


“Shin Japanese Painting: Revolutionary Nihonga” Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, JP


 


2019


“Timeless MUCHA” The Museum of Kyoto, JP


“Timeless MUCHA” The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, JP


“Rough∞Sketches” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JP


 


2018


“Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Exhibition –Memories of You-” Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, JP


“Folkloristics” Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


 


2017


“Impacts!Ⅱ: FURUU” Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, JP


 


2016


“Exposing Ikai – The Different World: Visitors in Past and Contemporary Art” Akita Museum of Art, JP


“Edogawa Rampo Tribut” parabolica-bis, Tokyo, JP


“Impacts! HAZUMI” Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, JP


 


2014


“Impacts! HAZUMI Japan Art Festival” Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, U.S.A.


 


2013


“Yoshitaka Amano x HYDE Providence and Immorality -NIPPON EVOLUTION-” Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, JP (traveled to Osaka, Takamatsu)


“Personal Structures” Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy


 


2012


“4 Artists Participating in the 55th Venice Biennale” Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China


“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” Kiyomizudera Temple, Kyoto, JP


 


2009


“Eve: Yoshiki Hishinuma+Yoshitaka Amano” l’Opera, Paris, France


 


2008


“Manga! Japanese Images” Luisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark


“Anime! High Art-Pop culture” AMPAS/Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


“Anime! High Art-Pop culture” Deutsches Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany


 


2007


“3L4D” Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan


“Animamix: From Modernity to Eternity” MoCA Shanghai, China


“Comix” Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark


 


2006


“Fiction@Love” MoCA Shanghai, China


 


2005


“10 Years!” Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany


 


2004


“Funny Cuts” Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany


“Yoshitaka Amano – Andre van de Wijdeven” Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Nederland


“Dessins et des Autres – Part2” Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium


“Dessins et des Autres” Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France


“Rodolphe Janssen feat. Michael Janssen” Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium


 


2002


“Game On” Barbican Galleries, Barbican Art Centre, London, U.K.


 


1998


“Fairly World” Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, JP (traveled to Kobe, Kyoto)


 


1995


“Shiga Annual for youth ’95/ Fantasy RPG Illustration” The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, JP


 


1992


“Fantasy Land” Communications Museum, Tokyo, JP


“Beautiful Boy for Young Ladies” Yayoi Museum, Tokyo, JP


Awards

2018 Inkpot Award/ U.S.A.


2000 The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award “THE SANDMAN: The Dream Hunters” collaboration with Neil Gaiman/ U.S.A.


2000 Dragon Con Award, Julie Award/ U.S.A.


1983-1986, 2007 14-17th & 38th Seiun Award/ Japan


Public Collection

Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (Kumamoro, Japan)