MANABU YAMANAKA

Born in Hyogo, Japan, 1959

Lives& Works in Tokyo

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 25 Years: Book Launch, Selection of Works, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

2003 Jyoudo, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

2001 Arakan:The Enlightened, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

Gyahtei Dohshi, curated by Dr. Gerhard Finkh, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2000 Dohshi, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

Gyahtei: Age, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

Gyahtei, The Waschhaus, Potsdam, Germany

1999 Gyahtei: Age, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

1998 The Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

1996 Mucsarnok Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest, Hungary

Konsthallen Goteborg, Sweden

1995 Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Diana und Actaeon, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany

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2007 Bad Big Love, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

2006 The Inner Workings of Cold Contact, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

2005 SUPERFAT, Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, New York

2003 How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era, International Center Photography, New York

Armory Show 2003, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

Skin Talk, Musee de la Civilisasion, Quebec, Canada

2002 Cuerpos Pintados, Santiago de Chile, Chile

The Armory Show 2002, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

2001 Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

The Armory Show 2001, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

2000 The University of Missouri Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO

The Armory Show 2000, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

1999 The Time of Our Lives, curated by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum o

Contemporary Art, New York

The Nude in Contemporary Art, curated by Harry Philbrick, Richard Klein and Jessica Hough, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

The Armory Show 1999, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

1998 Invitational ‘98, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland

1997 Philip Morris Art Award, Runner-Up, Harajuku Quest Hall, Tokyo

The First Steps: Emerging Artist from Japan, Grey Art Gallery, New York

The Desire and the Void. Art and Photography in Japan, curated by Peter Weiermair, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria; traveling to the Arken Museum for Modern Art, Denmark.

In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, ENG

1996 Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst E.V., Berlin, Germany

1994 Liquid Crystal Futures by Contemporary Japanese Photography.

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1992 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo, Japan

Fujohkan Privately Published

1989 Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Arakan Privately Published

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2000 Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

The Rolf and Erika Hoffman Public Collection, Berlin, Germany

TV BROADCAST

2000 Documentary on Gyahtei, broadcast worldwide

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Naked, exhibition catalogue, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001

The Desire and the Void:Contemporary Japanese Photography, exhibition catalogue, Vienna Kunsthalle, Austria, 1997

The Nude in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, 1999

Jerry Saltz, “A Group Show inConnecticut Gets a G Rating,” The Village Voice, August 24, 1999

Roberta Smith, “An Ode to Old Age, Life’s Gift,” The New York Times, July 16, 1999

Roberta Smith, Art Guide, The New York Times, September 16, 1999

Simon Watson, Simon Says, December 1999

Edit Andras, Armory Show 1999,New York, Muveszet, December, 1999

Herbert Reichert, “Manabu Yamanaka,” Review Magazine, December 15, 1999

“The Looming Spectre of a LargeScale Photograph,” The Art Newspaper, January, 2000

Vicki Goldberg, The Effects of Aging, Viewed Unblinkingly, The New York Times, January 2, 2000

Vince Aletti, Voice Choices, The Village Voice, January 4, 2000

Ken Johnson, Art Guide, Them New York Times, January 7, 2000

Jeanne Moos, “Not Your Usual Nudes,” CNN, aired nationally and internationally January 12 - 19, 2000

Anat Rosenberg, Manabu Yamanakaat Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, On Paper, May, 2000

Michael Amy, Manabu Yamanaka at Stefan Stux Gallery, Art in America, May, 2000

Die Zeit Magazine, Germany, forthcoming

TeleQuebec, Canada, television documentary on the flesh, forthcoming