TAKASHI MURAKAMI ( 1962 -
Japan

 Born  1962 in  Tokyo, Japan

Studies :

1993 P.h.D. - National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
1988 M.F.A.- National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo  
1986
B.F.A. - National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo 

Solo Exhibitions: (info. provided by www.vgallery.co.za)
2005 S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
2004 Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam
Liverpool Biennial: International Festival of Contemporary Art
Inochi, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA 
GEISAI 5, Big Site, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama 
Tokyo Girls Bravo, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2003 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2002 Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris
Serpentine Gallery, London     
2001

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Grand Central Station, New York
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
MOCA Gallery
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
The Pacific Design Center, L.A
Des Moines Art Center, Aiowa, U.S.A
The Geffen Contemporary , U.S.A
Walker Art Center ,Minnea Polis, U.S.A
Castello di Rivoli ,Torino , Italy
Henry Art Gallery ,Seattle, U.S.A

2000

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Ryon Biennale, Ryon, France
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Issey Miyake Men, Tokyo
Newsantandrea, Savona, Italy
PARCO gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya, Japan

1999 Parco Dept. Store Gallery, Tokyo
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College
Gallery KOTO, Okayama, Japan
1998 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Sagacho bis, Tokyo
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Feature Inc., New York
1997 46th Venice Biennale, Venice
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
Isetan Museum, Tokyo
Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sedai, Japan
The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Thread Waxing Space, New York
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Shop 33, Tokyo
Weiner Secession, Vienna, Austria
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Max Protech Gallery, New York
Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Waino Aalonoen Museum of Art, Truku, Finland
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Space Hap, Hiroshima, Japan
The Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
1996 Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Shop 33, Tokyo
Gallery Koto, Okayama, Japan
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Feature Inc., New York
Kirin Art Plaza, Osaka, Japan
Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1995 Gallery Koto, Okayama, Japan
Yngtingagatan 1, Stockholm, Sweden
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
1994 Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Gallery Koto, Okayama
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
1993 Nasubi Gallery, Tokyo
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan
1992 Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo 
1991 Gallery Hosomi Contemporary, Tokyo
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
Aoi Gallery, Osaka
Gallery Aires, Tokyo
Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo
1989 Café Tiens! Tokyo
Gallery Ginza Surugadai, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions :
2002 Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Foundation Cariter pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Fourth International Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA 
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
Swiss Institute, New York
2000 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Switzerland
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin , Germany
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa 
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands 
Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY
James Cohan Gallery, New York
1999 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Shibuya Parco, Tokyo
Contemporary Art Center, Ibaraki, Japan
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
Shizuoko Prefectural Convention & Art Center, Shizuoka, Japan
Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York
Logan Collection”, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Des Moines Art Center, Aiowa, USA 
Carnegie Museum Hall, Pitsburg, U.S.A
Contemporary Art Gallery , Art Tower Mito, Japan 
Wüttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
National Gallery of modern Art, New Delhi,India
Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines
1998 Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Houston, TX
George’s, Los Angeles
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
NADiff, Tokyo
Ustunomiya Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan
Biennale d’art Contemporain de Noumea”, Noumea, New Caledonia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France
Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Contemporarin de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Hayword Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
Shop 33, Tokyo
George’s Los Angeles
1994 Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Shinjuku Kabukicho, Tokyo
Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York
Benesse House Naoshima, Japan
1993 1st Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Sai Gallery, Osaka
Ginza, Tokyo
Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Kyoto Shijo Gallery Kyoto, Japan
1992 Sai Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Mars Gallery, Tokyo
Tsukishima Warehouse, Tokyo
Bellini Hill Gallery, Yokohama
Space Ozone, Seoul, Korea
The Bathhouse, Tokyo
Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo
Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo
Metaria Square Hotel Osaka, Japan
1991 Tsurugi-cho, Ishikawa, Japan
Artium Art Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
1988 Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Graduation Exhibition - Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo
Represented :
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
Hirshhorn Museum
Smithsonian Institute,  Washington, DC.
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art/ Ludwig Museum Budapest
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art,  Washington, DC.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Walker Art Centre
Tate Modern, London
Japan Foundation, Tokyo Japan
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
City of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
National Gallery of modern Art, New Delhi, India
Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines

Takashi's work is taken up in numerous Museums, private and corporate collections worldwide. 
Awards :
1998 Visiting Professor, School of Art and Architecture, UCLA, Los Angeles
1994-95
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, P.S.1 International Studio Program  
Publications : 

Some of the most relevant articles published on the artist and his work in recent time by leading newspapers and magazines.

Artnews, Summer 2002, p. 90.
Artforum, September 2001, pp. 192 -3
New York Times, Wed. 25 July 2001
New York Times, June 24, 2001, p.31 - 32
The New York Times, Art in Review, Friday, April 6, 2001, p.E38
Artnews, March 2001, p. 134 -7
ArtForum, November 1999, p 134 -135
The New York Times, July 1999.

 
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