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Takashi Murakami    (Japanese/American, 1963)

 Takashi Murakami - Inochi figure: Bob (Sculptures) h: 40 cm / h: 15.7 in
Takashi Murakami
Inochi figure: Bob 2009
 
 Takashi Murakami - Inochi figure: David (Sculptures) h: 40 cm / h: 15.7 in
Takashi Murakami
Inochi figure: David 2009
 
 Takashi Murakami - Inochi figure: Victor (Sculptures) h: 40 cm / h: 15.7 in
Takashi Murakami
Inochi figure: Victor 2009
 
 Takashi Murakami - Inochi figure: Yamamoto (Sculptures) h: 40 cm / h: 15.7 in
Takashi Murakami
Inochi figure: Yamamoto 2009
 
 Takashi Murakami - Inochi figure: Zhang (Sculptures) h: 40 cm / h: 15.7 in
Takashi Murakami
Inochi figure: Zhang 2009
 
 

Biography
1962 Born in Tokyo
1986 BFA, Japanese Painting Course, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1988 MFA, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1993 Ph.D., Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music [Dissertation : The meaning of the nonsense of the meaning]
1995 Asian Cultural Fellowship, P.S 1 International Studio Program in New York, U.S.A.
1998 Visiting Professor, School of the Art and Architecture at the UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Lives and Works in Asaka, Saitama and Brooklyn, New York. Organizing a group of young artists, "HIROPON FACTORY," and producing an exhibition.

Exhibitions
2009 "Murakami ©", Museum Fë Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Allemagne (1 Octobre - 31 Décembre) (solo)
2009 "Murakami ©", The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Espagne (1er Février - 30 Juin) (solo)
2008 "Murakami ©", Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (solo)
2007 "Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
2007 "Comic Abstraction", Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2007 "Jellyfish Eyes", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2007 "My 2007", Colette, Paris, France
2007 "Murakami © ", MOCA, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2007 "Tranquility of the Heart Torment of the Flesh - Open Wide the Eye of the Heart, and Nothing is Invisible", Gagosian Gallery, New York. (solo)
2006 "The Pressure Point of Painting", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
2006 "Where are we going" Selection from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi,Venice, Italy
2006 "Infinite Painting", Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
2006 "Agnes Hotel Art Fair", Tokyo, Japan
2006 "Fairy Tales Forever", ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
2006 "Dragon Veines", University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
2006 "POPulence", Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
2006 10th Anniversary Collection, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2006 "Spank the Monkey", Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Uk
2006 Selections from the logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
2006 "Off the Shelf: News Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books, Vassar College print and Drawings Galleries: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
2006 "Get Ready, Land of the Rising Sun! Contemporary Japanese Art from Taikan Yokoyama to the Present", Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
2006 Mass Production: Artists' Multiples and Marketplace, The university of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
2006 "Limited/Unlimited", 34 Long Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
2005 "Opening of Gallery Extension", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
2005 "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Pop Culture", Japan Society, New York,USA (solo)
2005 "Outdoor Banner Installation", Public Art Fund, New York, USA (solo)
2005 "Kaikai Kiki exhibition", Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2005 T1 - Turin Triennial", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2005 "Japan Pop", Helsinki Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland
2005 "Post and After", Brandeis University Rose Museum, Boston, MA, USA
2005 "POPulance", Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
2005 "Translation", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2005 "Ecstasy : In and About Altered States", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2004 "Funny Cuts", Stuttgart Museum of Art, Stuttgart, Allemagne (solo)
2004 "Takashi Murakami: Inochi", Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2004 "Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art", Marfa, Texas, USA
2004 "Monument to now", Deste Foundation, Athènes, Grèce
2004 Biennale de Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Grande-Bretagne
2004 "Walker without walls, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2004 Inochi, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2004 GEISAI 5, Big Site, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama
2004 Tokyo Girls Bravo, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2003 GEISAI Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
2003 GEISAI 4, Big Site, Tokyo
2003 GEISAI 3,Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama
2003 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2003 Super Flat Monoglam, Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
2002 Takashi Murakami Kaikaikiki, Kawaii! Vacances d'ete, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France.7.27-10.27. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. Novemver-January.2003
2002 Tokyo Girls Bravo 2 , Nadiff, Tokyo
2002 Coloriage, Fondation Cartire popur l 'art contemporain, Paris
2002 GEISAI 1, Tokyo Tower Amusement Hall, Tokyo.2002.3.16-17.
2001 Zombie Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. 2001.8.25.
2001 Takashi Murakami Solo Exhibition:summon monsters open the door heal or die :, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo. 8.25-11.4.
2001 Takashi Murakami: Made In Japan , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , Boston,U.S.A. 4.15-9.3
2001 Takashi Murakami: Mushroom , Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 3.17-4.14
2001 Takashi Murakami:WINK: An Installation of New York by Takashi Murakami , Grand Central Terminal Vanderbilt Hall, New York, U.S.A. 3.14-4.13
2001 Takashi Murakami: KAI KAI KI KI , Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France 1.13-3.3
2000 Second Misson Project Ko2 , P.S.1, New York, U.S.A.
2000 KAI KAI KI KI: SUPER FLAT , ISSEY MIYAKE MEN, Tokyo, Japan1.28-2.13
2000 SUPERFLAT , The MOCA Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2000 2001.7.15-10.14[Henry Art Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A 2001.9-]
1999 Tokyo Girls Bravo, NADiff, Tokyo 5.28-6.28
1999 Hiropon Show, Parco LOGOS Gallery, Tokyo 5.28-6.28
1998 Ero Pop Tokyo, George's, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 5.15-6.1
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