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Takashi Murakami Biography
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1962 |
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Born in Tokyo, Japan
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1986 |
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BFA, Japanese Painting Course, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
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1988 |
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MFA, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
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1993 |
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Ph.D., Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music [Dissertation : The meaning of the nonsense of the meaning]
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Asian Cultural Fellowship, P.S 1 International Studio Program in New York, NY
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1998 |
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Visiting Professor, School of the Art and Architecture at the UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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Lives and Works in Asaka, Saitama and Brooklyn, New York. Organizing a group of young artists, "HIROPON FACTORY," and producing an exhibition.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Murakami ©, Museum Fë Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
Murakami ©, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
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2008
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Murakami ©, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Comic Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Jellyfish Eyes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
My 2007, Colette, Paris, France
Murakami ©, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Tranquility of the Heart Torment of the Flesh - Open Wide the Eye of the Heart, and Nothing is Invisible, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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The Pressure Point of Painting, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
Where are we going, Selection from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Infinite Painting, Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Agnes Hotel Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan
Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Dragon Veines, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
POPulence, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
10th Anniversary Collection, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Selections from the logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Off the Shelf: News Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books, Vassar College print and Drawings Galleries: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Get Ready, Land of the Rising Sun! Contemporary Japanese Art from Taikan Yokoyama to the Present, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
Mass Production: Artists' Multiples and Marketplace, The university of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
Limited/Unlimited, 34 Long Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
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2005
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Opening of Gallery Extension, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Pop Culture, Japan Society, New York, NY (solo)
Outdoor Banner Installation, Public Art Fund, New York, NY (solo)
Kaikai Kiki exhibition, Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
T1 - Turin Triennial, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Japan Pop, Helsinki Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland
Post and After, Brandeis University Rose Museum, Boston, MA
POPulance, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Ecstasy : In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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2004
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Funny Cuts, Stuttgart Museum of Art, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Takashi Murakami: Inochi, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art, Marfa, TX
Monument to now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Biennale de Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, UK
Walker without walls, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Inochi, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
GEISAI 5, Big Site, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama
Tokyo Girls Bravo, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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GEISAI Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan
GEISAI 4, Big Site, Tokyo, Japan
GEISAI 3,Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Super Flat Monoglam, Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan
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2002
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Takashi Murakami Kaikaikiki, Kawaii! Vacances d'ete, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France.7.27-10.27. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Tokyo Girls Bravo 2 , Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan
Coloriage, Fondation Cartire popur l 'art contemporain, Paris, France
GEISAI 1, Tokyo Tower Amusement Hall, Tokyo, Japan
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2001
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Zombie Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Murakami Solo Exhibition:summon monsters open the door heal or die, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Murakami: Made In Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , MA
Takashi Murakami: Mushroom, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Takashi Murakami:WINK: An Installation of New York by Takashi Murakami, Grand Central Terminal Vanderbilt Hall, New York, NY
Takashi Murakami: KAI KAI KI KI, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
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2000
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Second Misson Project Ko2, P.S.1, New York, NY
KAI KAI KI KI: SUPER FLAT, ISSEY MIYAKE MEN, Tokyo, Japan
SUPERFLAT , The MOCA Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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1999
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Tokyo Girls Bravo, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
Hiropon Show, Parco LOGOS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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1998
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Ero Pop Tokyo, George's, Los Angeles, CA
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