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BIOGRAPHY



Born in Tokyo in 1962, Takashi Murakami lives and works in Tokyo and New York



Education


1986

Graduated Department of Japanese - Traditional Painting: Nihon-ga, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan


1988

MA, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan


1993

PhD, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan


1998

Teach at UCLA for 3 months (New Genre Course)



Solo Exhibitions/ Personali


1999

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

"DOB in the Strange Forest", Parco Gallery, Tokyo/Nagoya

"The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning", The Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, New York


1998

Feature Inc. , New York, USA

"Back Beat", Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA

"Back Beat - Super Flat", Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

"Moreover, DOB raises his hand", Sagacho bis, Tokyo


1997

Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

Gallery Koto, Okayama, Japan

University at Buffalo Art Gallery, New York State University, Buffalo, USA

Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA


1996

Feature Inc., New York

Gavin Brown Enterprize, New York

"727", Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

"Konnichiwa, Mr. DOB", Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka, Japan

"7272", Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

"A Very Merry Unbirthday, ToYou, To Me!", Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo


1995

Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

"Crazy Z", SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo

"Niji", Gallery Koto, Okayama, Japan

Yngtingagatan 1, Stokholm, Sweden


1994

"Fujisan", Gallery Koto, Okayama, Japan

"Which is Tomorrow?", SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo

"Azami, Kikyo, Ominaeshi", Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan


1993

Nasubi Gallery, Tokyo "A Very Merry Unbirthday!", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima

"A Romantic Evening", Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan


1992

"Wild, Wild", Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo


1991

Art Gallery at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo

Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Rontgen Kunst Institut (one night Exhibition, August 23), Tokyo

Gallery Aries, Tokyo

Hosomi Gallery Contemporary, Tokyo


1989

Gallery Ginza surugadai, Tokyo



Group Exhibitions/ Collettive


2000

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1999

"New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

"Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s", The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo

"Something Warm and Fuzzy/ Children and Contemporary Art", Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA

Carnegie International 1999-2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA


1998

"Cities on the Move", Secession, Wien, AustriaÅ^Capc Musee d'art

contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France/ P.S.1, New York

"People, Places and Things", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Pop Surrealism", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, USA

"So what? - Exhibition of contemporary Japanese art", Ecole Nationale Superleure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

"Art is Fun 9", Hara Museum Arc, Gunma

"The Manga Age", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

"The Noumea Third Biennale of Contemporary Art", Noumea, Nouvelle Caledonie

"50 Years of Japanese Life Style; Postwar fashion and design", Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi

"Ero Pop Christmas", Nadiff, Tokyo

"Tastes and pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990s", National Gallery of modern Art, New Delhi, India/ Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philieppines


1997

"Flying Buttress Please", Torch Gallery, Amsterdam

"Super Body", Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Hiropon Show '97: Tokyo Underground Visual Show, Shop 33, Tokyo

"Need for Speed", Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

"Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition", The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul

"Singularity in Plurality", Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa


1996

"Tokyo Pop", The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

" Ironic Fantasy", The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

"Sharaku Interpreted by Japan's Contemporary Artists", The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo

"Asia-Pacific Triennial 1996", Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

"Romper Room", Thread Waxing Space, New York


1995

"Incidental Alterations: P.S.1 Studio Artists 1994/95", The AngelOrensanz Foundation,New York

Art Space Hap, Hiroshima

"Transculture", The 46 th Venezia Biennale, Venice, Italy

"Japan Today", Louisiana Museum of Modern art, Humblebaek, Denmark / Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway / Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden / Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland / MAK, Wien, Austria

"Cutting Up", Max Protetch Gallery, New York

"Transculture", Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa (-1996)


1994

"Shinjyuku Syonen Art', Shinjyuku Kabuki-cho, tokyo

Lest We Forget: On Nostalgia", The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York

VOCA '94, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan


1993

Malaria Art Show Vol.1, "February 1st Festival", Tokyo

Artists' Shop '93, Sai Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Malaria Art Show Vol.4, "Decorative", Tokyo

"The Ginbrart", Ginza, Tokyo

"00 Collaboration", Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo

Art Today '93 "Neo Japanology", Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan

"Beyond the 'Nihonga'- An Aspect of Contemporary Japanese Paintings", Tokyo

Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

"The Exhibition for Exhibitions", Kyoto Shijo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan


1992

Artists' Shop '92, Sai Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Mars Galler, Tokyo

Floating Gallery Vol.1, Tsukishima Warehouse, Tokyo

1st Transart Annual "Painting/Crossing", Bellini Hill Galley, Yokohama, Japan

"Nakamura and Murakami", Space Ozone, Seoul, Korea

"Nakamura and Murakami", SCAI Project Room, Tokyo

"Anomary", Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo

Tama Vivant '92, Seed Hall, Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo

"Nakamura and Murakami", MetariaSquare Hotel, Osaka, Japan


1991

"Jan Hoet in Tsurugi", Tsurugi-cho, Ishikawa, Japan

"Jan Hoet's Vision', Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan



Grants & Awards/ Premi


1994-95 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship

P.S.1 International Studio Program, New York, USA



Public Collections/ Collezioni Pubbliche


The Japan Foundation

Peter Norton Family Foundation

Queensland Art Gallery

The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco











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