Bragg, California, on July 17, 2011, at 70. A posthumous printing of Arita's First Born folio was undertaken by Yosihiko Ueda in late 2011 for publication November 2012, with accompanying exhibits in Tokyo and Paris Photo 2012. Also published in 2012, Pure: Taiji Arita in California: Life and Work, which photographically chronicles the last twenty years of Arita's life. Solo exhibitions 1977 Fāsuto bōn () / "First Born". Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo. 1980 Arita Taiji shashinten () / "Retrospective". Photo Gallery International, Tokyo. 1982 "The Photographs of Taiji Arita". Photo Gallery International, Tokyo (photographs) 1982 "18 Paintings". Tokyo Designer's Space, Tokyo (paintings) 1983 Sutorīto faito () / "Street Fight". Tokyo Designer's Space, Tokyo (paintings and photographs) 1983 Serufu pōtorēto () / "Self Portraits". Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo. 1984 Hyakka ryōran: Nihon no ie () / "Extravaganza: Japanese Buildings". Pentax Forum, Tokyo. 1988 Rasha no mori () / "Forest of the Naked". Seed Hall, Tokyo (paintings) 1989 Akai tsuchi () / "Red Earth". Gallery Face, Tokyo (paintings) 2000 "Forest of the Naked 2". The Loft Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (paintings) 2007 "Ovalism". North Coast Artists Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA (paintings) 2008 "Prime". Art3g, Fort Bragg, CA (paintings and sculpture) 2009 "Fruit of the Redwoods" (with Masako Arita). Art3g, Fort Bragg, CA (reliefs) Selected group exhibitions 1978 "Japan: A self portrait", International Center for Photography, New York (photographs) 1986 "Sūpā imēji no sekai" () / "Works in 20×24 Polaroid", Seed Hall, Tokyo (photographs) 1991 "Nihon no shashin, 1970 jidai: Tōketsu sareta 'toki' no kioku" () / "Japanese Photography in the 1970s: Memories Frozen in Time". Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 2007 "One" art3g, Fort Bragg, CA (painting) 2007 "The Power of Six", Odd Fellows Hall, Mendocino, CA (sculpture) 2007 "Found Objects", North Coast Artists Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA (sculpture) 2008 "Green Bones" (with Harry Albrecht), art3g, Fort Bragg, CA (paintings) 2010 "Out of the Woods", NorthCoast Artist Gallery, Fort Bragg CA (reliefs) 2010 "Pas de Deux", Odd Fellows Hall, Mendocino CA (paintings) 2010 "New American Art", Odd Fellows Hall, Mendocino CA (paintings) 2010 "Watakushi o mite: Nūdo no pōtoreito" (). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. 2011 "Work & Love", Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino CA (paintings & reliefs) 2012 "Taiji Arita Memorial Retrospective & Group Show" Odd Fellows Hall, Mendocino CA (sketches, paintings & sculptures) Permanent collections Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Sapporo Art Park (Sapporo) Publications showing Arita's works "First Born", serialized in