Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami nasce a Tokyo nel 1962, vive e lavora a Tokyo e New York.

 

EDUCATION
1986
Graduated Department of Japanese – Traditional Painting: Nihon-ga, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

 

1988
MA, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

 

1993
PhD, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

 

1998
Teach at UCLA for 3 months (New Genre Course)

 

SOLO SHOWS

2020

Takashi Murakami: Michael Majerus Superflat. Michael Majerus Estate, Berlin,
Germany.

 

2019

Murakami vs. Murakami. Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.
GYATEI²2 . Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA.

 

2018

In Wonderland. Perrotin, Shanghai, China.
AMERICA TOO. Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA.
Change the Rule! Gagosian, Hong Kong.
Heads < – – > Heads. Perrotin, New York, NY.
TECHNICOLOR 2 (with Virgil Abloh). Gagosian, Paris, France.
future history. Gagosian, Davies Street, London, England.

 

2017

Takashi Murakami: The Deep End of the Universe. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics (in collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji). Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA.
Under the Radiation Falls. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
Murakami by Murakami. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway.
Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX.

 

2016

Takashi Murakami: Learning the Magic of Painting. Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France.

 

2015

Murakami: The 500 Arhats. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

 

2014

In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY.
Arhat Cycle. Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy.

 

2013

Takashi in Superflat Wonderland. Plateau, Seoul, South Korea.
Takashi Murakami. Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong.
Arhat. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA.

 

2012

Flowers and Skulls. Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong.
Murakami: Ego. Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar.
Homage to Yves Klein. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
Takashi Murakami. Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England.

 

2010

Takashi Murakami. Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy.
Takashi Murakami Versailles, Palace of Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

 

2009

Takashi Murakami Paints Self-Portraits, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
Takashi Murakami: Picture of Fate: I Am But a Fisherman Who Angles In the Darkness
of His Mind. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY.
INOCHI. Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
New Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, England.

 

2008

Davy Jone’s Tear. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA.

 

2007

©MURAKAMI. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany; Guggenhiem, Bilbao, Spain.
Jellyfish Eyes. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Tranquility of the heart. torment of the flesh – open wide the eye of the heart. And nothing is invisible. Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Ave., New York, NY.

 

2006

Limited/Unlimited. 34 Long Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.
The Pressure Point of Painting. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
Installation at Samurai. Tokyo, Japan.

 

2005

Kaikai Kiki Exhibition. Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
Takashi Murakami Print Show. Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan.
T1: Takashi Murakami. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy.
Post and After. Brandeis University, Randallstown, MD.
Installation at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan.

 

2004

Satoeri Ko² Chan. Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Inochi. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA.

 

2003

Reversed Double Helix. Rockefeller Center, New York, NY.
Superflat Monogram. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
Superflat Monogram. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.

 

2002

Kaikai Kiki: Takashi Murakami. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris,
France; traveled to the Serpentine Gallery, London, England.

 

2001

Summon monsters? Open the door? Heal? Or die? Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Takashi Murakami: Made in Japan. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Mushroom. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.
WINK. Grand Central Station, New York, NY.
Kaikai Kiki, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.

 

2000

Second Mission Project Ko. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
Kaikai Kiki: SUPERFLAT. Issey Miyake Men, Tokyo, Japan.

 

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

2021

Hong Kong Exchange. Gagosian, Hong Kong.

 

2020

Stars: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Happy! NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Murakami por Murakami. Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.

 

2019

An Exhibition for Notre Dame Gagosian, Paris, France.
Japan Supernatural. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

 

2017

All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life. Tate Britain, London, England.

 

2016

Creature. The Broad, Los Angeles, CA.
Lunar Attraction. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
Nude: From Modigliani to Currin. Gagosian, 980 Madison Ave., New York, NY.
Superflat Collection: From Shohaku and Rasanjin to Anselm Kiefer. Yokohama
Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.
Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation. Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy.

 

2015

The Shape of Time: In Collaboration with Gisèle Croës. Gagosian, Hong Kong.
The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture. Expo 2015 Modena, Modena, Italy.
Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, 1995-2005. Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA.
Sprayed: Works from 1929 to 2015. Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, England.
Artists for MOCA Highlights. Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA.

 

2014

G I R L (curated by Pharrell Williams). Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France.
Takahashi Collection 2014: Mindfulness! Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan.
Dirge: Reflections on [Life and] Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.
Making Links: 25 Years. SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan.

 

2013

Intellectual Game. Shanghai Xintiandi Culture Festival, Shanghai, China.
Re: Quest―Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s. Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

 

2012

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
NY, traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
Battleground States. Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT.

 

2011

Il mondo vi appartiene (The World Belongs to You). Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy.
A History of Edition: Duchamp, Beuys, Murakami. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
Gagosian Pop-Up! Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, England.
Surfaces of Everyday Life: Postwar and Contemporary Masters from Ai Weiwei to Andy Warhol. Ikkan Art Gallery, Artspace@Helutrans, Singapore.
Future Pass: From Asia to the World. 54th Esposizione Internazionale d’Art, la
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

 

2010

Multiple Choice. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
Pop Life: Art in a Material World. National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, ON, Canada.
John Armleder, Tauba Auerbach, Hernan Bas, Matthew Day Jackson, Bernard Frize,
Mark Grotjahn, Sergej Jensen, Bharti Kher, Adam McEwen, Olivier Mosset,
Takashi Murakami, R.H. Quaytman, Claude Rutault, Lee Ufan, Piotr Uklanski,
Martin Wohr. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
Sexual Transcendence. Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection. New Museum, New York,
NY.

 

2009

15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA.
Pop Life: Art in a Material Age. Tate Modern, London, England.
Mapping the Studio. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy.
Louis Vuitton and the Passion for Creation. Hong-Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong.
Un Certain État du Monde? A Selection of Works From Francois Pinault Foundation
Collection, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia.

 

2008

Kaikai Kiki Artists. Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
RETROSPECTIVE. Gagosian Gallery, West 21st Street, New York, NY.
for what you are about to receive. Gagosian Gallery, Red October, Moscow, Russia.

 

2007

Aoi Gallery 20th Anniversary. Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
CELUX. Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Insight? Gagosian Gallery, Barvikha Luxury Village, Russia.
Reflection. PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine.
Pleasures of Collecting, Part III: Contemporary and Cutting Edge. The Bruce Museum,
Greenwich, CT.
Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection, Davis Museum and
Cultural Center Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
Open House: Cincinnati Collects. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection. Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX.
Pop Art Is… Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England.
Land of the Samurai. Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Comic Abstraction. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

 

2006

Jellyfish Eyes. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
My 2007. Colette, Paris, France.
The Francois-Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop Selection. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy.
Mass Production: Artists’ Multiples and the Marketplace. The University of Akron,
Akron, OH.
Japan vs. Art: Contemporary Art and Nihon-ga from Taikan Yokoyama and Seiho
Takeuchi to Takashi Murakami. Osaka City Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.
Selections from the Logan Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO.
Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books. Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, NY.
10th Anniversary. Tomio Koyama Gallery. Tokyo, Japan.
Spank the Monkey. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England.
Invisible Landscape. Lund City Museum, Lund, Sweden.
Surprise, Surprise. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England.
Where are we going? Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection. Palazzo Grassi,
Venice, Italy.
Exhibition of collected works: Secret Base. Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan.
Infinite Paintings. Villa Manin Contemporary Art Center, Udine, Italy.
Sellout. Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Dragon Veins. USFC Museum of Tampa, Tampa, FL.

 

2005

Kaikai Kiki Exhibition. Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Post and After. Brandeis University Rose Museum, Boston, MA.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Paris, France.
Japan POP. Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
Fairy Tales Forever. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. Aarhus, Denmark.
POPulance. University of Houston, Houston, TX. Cleveland Museum of Contemporary
Art, Cleveland, OH. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, WinstonSalem, NC.
Moving Energies, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Translation. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture. Japan Society, New York, NY.
Colours and Trips. Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria.
Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany.

 

2004

Funny Cuts. Stuttgart Museum, Stuttgart, Germany.
Liverpool Biennial’s International 04 Exhibition. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
Walker without Walls. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection. Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece.
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art. Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX.
Floating Worlds. Beacon Cultural Foundation, Beacon, NY.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL.

 

2003

Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Popular. Pop. and Post-pop. Philadephia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Pulp Art: Vamps Villains and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection. Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art. Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, TX.
The Draemon Exhibition. Sogo Museum, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Asahikawa
Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. Matsuzakaya Museum,
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Oita Museum, Oita, Japan.
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.
On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Inaugural Exhibition. Mori Art Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Blum & Poe. Santa Monica, CA.
Pittura / Painting: Rauschenberg to Murakami. 1964-2003. Museo Correr, Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy.

 

2002

The Japanese Experience – Inevitable. Das Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Reality Check: Painting in the Exploded Field. CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Chiho Aoshima, Mr., Takashi Murakami, Aya Takano. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
Out of the Box: 20th-Century Print Portfolios. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
POPJack: Warhol to Murakami. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO.

 

2001

Casino 2001. 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.
Mr., Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Masahiko
Kuwahara. Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England.
Form Follows Fiction. Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy.
Murakami/Nara. Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism. Site Santa Fe Fourth
International Biennial, Santa Fe, NM.
Un art populaire. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France.
JAM: Tokyo London. Barbican Art Gallery, London, England.
Made in Asia? Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC.
Public Offerings. Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MOCA), Los Angeles, CA.
Painting at the Edge of the World. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
My Reality: The Culture of Anime. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
Under Pressure. Swiss Institute, New York, NY.
Superflat. Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA.
Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.

 

2000
murakami-manetas, newsantandrea Savona
murakami-manetas, pinksummer Genova

 

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

 

1998
Cities on the Move, Secession, Wien, Austria Å^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
So what? – Exhibition of contemporary Japanese art, Ecole Nationale Superleure des Beaux-Arts, Parigi
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
Ironic Fantasy, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi
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, Venezia
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern art, Humblebaek / Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo / Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stoccolma / 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

 

1993
Malaria Art Show Vol.1, February 1st Festival, Tokyo
Artists’ Shop ’93, Sai Gallery, Osaka
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
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
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

 

1991
Jan Hoet in Tsurugi, Tsurugi-cho, Ishikawa
Jan Hoet’s Vision’, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka

 

PRIZES

2006

Heisei 17 (56th) Educational Minister Rookie of the Year, Awarded by the Agency for
Cultural Affairs for the Advancement of Art.
Best Thematic Museum Show in New York, AICA USA.
11th AMD Awards, Prize of Recognition.

 

2005

Japan Society Imajiné Award.

 

2004

Les Compagnons du Beaujolais, Honorary Knighthood.
Tag Heuer Business Award.

 

2003

Special Award, 46th Japan Fashion Editor Club (FEC) Awards.

 

1998

Visiting Professor, School of Art and Architecture, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

 

1994-95

Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
P.S.1 International Studio Program, New York, USA

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Japan Foundation
Peter Norton Family Foundation
Queensland Art Gallery
The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco