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Hajime Sorayama
Japan
Hajime Sorayama (born 1947) is world famous for an intense hyper illustrated style. Sorayama is sometimes described as an imaginative modern day Vargas. The conceptual originality and futuristic visions of Sorayama transcend the erotic form and maintains a growing number of main stream admirers. He paints with a tiny brush and airbrushes finishing aspects. Sorayama creates super realistic female pin ups, metallic robots and erotic art. The highly detailed art is featured in movies, TV, books, magazines and ads.
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