BORN

1947 in Ehime, Japan

EDUCATION

1969
BFA, Chuo Bijutsu Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine., NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2015
AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong
Little High, Tokyo
FIFTY24SF GALLERY, San Francisco

2014
Stussy Guest Artist Series - HAJIME SORAYAMA Exhibition STUSSY HARAJUKU CHAPTER, Tokyo

2013
AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong
Hajime Sorayama x graniph Exhibition, graniph Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo

2011
Hajime Sorayama: 1970-2010, Gering & Lopeg Gallery, New York City
NEO DISCIPLINE, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo
Neo Japonism & Obsession, TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS/B GALLERY, Tokyo

2010
NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo
Span Art Gallery, Tokyo

2008
Opera Gallery, New York
WEAM, Miami

2007
EROTOVISION, Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome

2005
Hysteric Mini 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Tokyo/Osaka/HongKong
Show Room, New York

2003
Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo/Osaka

2002
Bape Gallery, Tokyo

1999
Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels

1998
Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels
ECR, Cologne, Germany

1994
UP'S Gallery
Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angels
The Castlegate Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta

1988
The Seibu Department Store Gallery, Hakodate

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
TRIBUTE TO KOW YOKOYAMA, TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS, Tokyo
ALLOY & PEACE, Spiral, Tokyo

2015
Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York
Exhibition of Mythical beast Ⅱ, Bunkamura, Tokyo
MEDICOM TOY EXHIBITION'15, PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo
The Aesthetics of Fantasy - Japanese Erotica in Contemporary Art, Bunkamura, Tokyo
Here is ZINE tokyo 10, Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo
FELIX THE CAT - Cats Out Of The Bag, SLOW CULTURE, Los Angeles

2014
LEATHER JAPAN 2014, New York, NY
Amalia Ulman + Hajime Sorayama Exhibition, London
JAPAN EROTICA, Musee de lerotisme, Paris
with Hello Kitty, MDP GALLERY/SPACE M, Tokyo
PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! KILL!", Vanilla Gallery/Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
O's story, Billiken Gallery, Tokyo
atrocity beauty, Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo
HORIYOSHI THE THIRD x Hajime Sorayama, Galleria Harajuku, Tokyo
KITAHARA COLLECTION, Takamatsu city museum of Art, Takamatsu
Span Art Gallery, Tokyo

2013
The Pop Surrealism Show, Opera Gallery, New York City
UKIYOE Roman Exhibition, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo
ALICE Fantasy tale exhibition, Bunkamura, Tokyo

2012
Cosmic Fusion III, O museum, Tokyo
The ObsessionArt 5th Anniversary Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork Street, London
Artist's book by Treville 1985-2012, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Monster, billiken Gallery, Tokyo
Japanese Erotic Artsts, Jinbocho Gallery, Tokyo

2011
MEDICOM TOY 15th ANNIVERSARY, PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo
Here is ZINE tokyo 2, Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo
Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art 40th Anniversary Special
Exhibition, Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka
Märchenism, The Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo

2010
CODE : EROTICA, Bunkamura, Tokyo
KITAHARA COLLECTION, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo

2009
"Almost There" Time Tunnel Series Vol.29, G8, Tokyo

2008
CARNIVORA, FUSE Gallery, New York, NY / L'Imagerie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / CPOP Gallery, Detroit

2007
20th Anniversary Exhibitions "Graphics & Messages", GGG, Tokyo

2006
Ginza Recruit Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005
Winter Invitational, Art At Large, New York

1997
Forum--Gelande, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany

1989
Ferrari Hall, Munich, Germany