Bio
b. Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, 1946
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
The Park, The New Gallery, Naggar School of Art, Musrara, Jerusalem
2011
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Park, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia [Travelling Exhibition: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand]
2010
The Park, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
The Park, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2009
The Park, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany
The Park, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2008
The Park, ALP/Peter Bergman, Stockholm, Sweden
The Park, Galleri Brandstrup, Olso, Norway
The Park, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2007
The Park, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
The Park and Love Hotel, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver
1979
Koen [Park], Komai Gallery, Tokyo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
The Night, Art Centre de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
2019
Personal Private Public, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
2017
J’aime regarder les filles (Peeping Tom), Lumière des Roses, Montreuil, France
Modes of Behavior towards People When Affection Plays a Part: Klein Collection, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Histórias da sexualidade, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Acts of Intimacy: The Erotic Gaze in Japanese Photography, The Walther Collection Project Space, New York, NY
AnonimX: The End of the Privacy Era, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2016
Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1000m2 of Desire, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Limits of Control, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
After Eden, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2015
Prosu(u)mer, Museum of Contemporary Art Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Blow-Up: Antonioni's Classic Film and Photography, C/O, Berlin, Germany
Diamonds Always Come in Small Packages, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
2014
Typology, Taxonomy and Seriality, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2013
The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
On Watching and Being Seen, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL
2012
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park, Moscow Photo Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Camera Work, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2011
Night Vision: Photography After Dark, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2010
Disquieting Images, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, The Tate Modern, London, England [Travelling Exhibition: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN]
Provocateurs of Japanese Photography, Kathleen Collen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2009
The Provoke Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The 70s, PhotoEspaña 2009, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain [Travelling Exhibition: Palazzo Civico, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain; The Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdamm The Nethelands]
2008
Paris Photo, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Paris, France
5th Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Blue Sky, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zϋrich, Switzerland
to:Night: Contemporary Representations of the Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Selected Collections
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Swedish Art Council, Stockholm, Sweden
Walther Collection, Burlafingen, Germany
Selected Bibliography
2021
Thibault, Alexis. “Kohei Yoshiyuki and the voyeurs of Tokyo’s parks.” Numéro Magazine 27 May 2021
2019
Yoshiyuki, Kohei. The Park New York: Radius Books and Yossi Milo, 2019
Bengal, Rebecca. “Things Editors Like.” The New York Times Style Magazine 7 June 2019
"Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Kohei Yoshiyuki's ‘The Park.’" Juxtapoz 28 May 2019
Gotthardt, Alexxa. “How Photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki’s ‘The Park’ Became a Cult Phenomenon.” Artsy 2 April 2019
2017
Lederman, Russet. “Erotic Voyeurs of Japanese Photography.” Aperture 15 February 2017
Flint, Kate, Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017
2015
Celant, Germano. Fotografia maledetta e non. Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore Milano, Italy [book], 2015
“The Park.” Fisheye 18 March 2015
2013
Coppelman, Alyssa. “The Lurking Park Voyeurs of 1970s Tokyo.” Slate Magazine 2 April 2013
2012
O’Hagan, Sean. “Park life: how photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki caught voyeurs in the act.” The Guardian 20 September 2012
“(Pictures) Sex in the Park? It Must be Art.” London Evening Standard 22 May 2012
2010
Feil, Marcel. “The Hidden Viewer.” Foam International Photography Magazine. Spring 2010.
2008
When Things Cast No Shadow [catalog]. Fifth Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Ollier, Brigitte. “Avis aux mateurs.” Libération. 14 November 2008.
Wallace, Maria. “Peepshow: The spectacle of sex: Erotic Visions: The Body Exposed.” Exit. No. 29: 40-42. 2008.
Broverman, Neal. “Public Affairs.” The Advocate. 20 November 2007: 13.
“Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park. [book review]” D.A.P. Spring 2008.
2007
Yoshiyuki, Kohei. Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz and Yossi Milo Gallery, 2007.
Corbijn, Anton. [for “On My Mind”]. Foam [Netherlands] Winter 2007: 17.
Maine, Stephen. “Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York [review].” Art on Paper November/ December 2007: 95-6.
Marques, Ricardo. “À espereita no parque.” Sabado November, 2007.
Lebowitz, Cathy. “The Park: Kohei Yoshiyuki.” Interview with Josefina Ayerza. Lacanian Ink November, 2007: 163-7.
Latimer, Quinn. “Kohei Yoshiyuki.” Modern Painters November 2007: 93.
Woodward, Richard B. “Barefoot (and more!) in the park.” Guardian America 23 October 2007.
“Art + Selects: Art: Under Wraps.” The New York Sun 16 October 2007.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Kohei Yoshiyuki [review].” The New York Times 12 October 2007.
Harris, Jane. “Kohei Yoshiyuki, ‘The Park.’” Time Out New York 4 October 2007.
Camhi, Leslie. “Voyeur in Tokyo.” The Village Voice 3 October 2007.
Kuan, Debora. “Kohei Yoshiyuki [review].” Artforum 1 October 2007.
Sigler, Jeremy. “Kohei Yoshiyuki [review].” The Brooklyn Rail October, 2007.
Budick, Ariella. “Using a lens to pry into others’ private passions [review].” Newsday 28 September 2007.
Gefter, Philip. “Sex in the Park, And Its Sneaky Spectators.” The New York Times 23 September 2007.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “The Listings: Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park.” The New York Times 7 September 2007.
“Previews: Kohei Yoshiyuki.” The Village Voice 5-7 September: Vol. LII, No. 36.
“A Lost Voyeur’s Paradise.” New York Magazine 3 September 2007.
“Kohei Yoshiyuki [review].” The New Yorker 3 September 2007.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “The Week Ahead: Art [review].” The New York Times 2 September 2007: AR2.
“Voyeurismo a Tokyo negli scatti di Yoshiyuki.” La Repubblica September 2007.
“Down in the Park: Yoshiyuki Kohei’s Nocturnes, Interview by Araki Nobuyoshi.” Aperture Fall 2007.
2006
Badger, Gerry. “Document Kouen.” The Photobook: A History, Volume II. Ed. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London/NY: Phaidon Press, 2006: 296-297.
1992
Yoshiyuki, Kohei. Sekigai Kosen [Infrared Light]. Tokyo: Hokuso-sha, 1992.
1980
Yoshiyuki, Kohei. Document: Koen [Document: Park]. Tokyo: Seven-sha, 1980.
1973
Yamagishi, Shoji, “Editor's Note.” Camera Mainichi February 1973: 278.
“Kohei Yoshiyuki: Koen [Park].” Camera Mainichi February 1973: 127-133.
1972
Weekly Shincho.