Represented▼
Agan Harahap
AIDA Makoto
AKAMATSU Nelo
Albert Yonathan Setyawan
AMANO Yoshitaka
AOYAMA Satoru
Ari Bayuaji
Ashley YK Yeo
Budi Agung Kuswara
DU Kun
EGUCHI Ayane
Entang Wiharso
Gilang Fradika
Heri Dono
HORI Kosai
I Made Djirna
IKEDA Manabu
indieguerillas
Iwan Effendi
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
KANEKO Tomiyuki
KARIYA Hiroshi
Kemalezedine
Ken + Julia YONETANI
KONDOH Akino
KUMAZAWA Mikiko
MAJIMA Naoko
MATSUKAGE
MIYANAGA Aiko
MIZUNO Rina
MORI Junichi
Namonaki Sanemasa
Nasirun
O JUN
OGINO Yuna
OKADA Hiroko
OKAMOTO Ellie
SHINTSUBO Kenshu
SONE Yutaka
TANADA Koji
TSUTSUI Shinsuke
USAMI Masahiro
Wianta, Made
YAMAGUCHI Ai
YAMAGUCHI Akira
YAMAMOTO Masao
YAMAMOTO Ryuki
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
“Amano Corpus Animae” Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
“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
“Mon Cherie CoCo” Institut français de Tokyo, JP
“Kadokawa Culture Museum Collection Exhibition vol.04 Another Bookshelf Theater: Pictures and Publications Take the Stage” Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama, JP
“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)