Takashi Murakami
Photo Chika Okazumi
Profile
Takashi Murakami is the originator of the “Superflat” Theory and the artist most associated with its tenets.
He has maintained a multifaceted career as an artist, curator, collector, film director, and the founder of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
As a curator, Murakami organized a trilogy of exhibitions, beginning with SUPERFLAT ( which traveled from Parco Gallery, Shibuya to MOCA, Los Angeles and other museums) and continuing with Coloriage (Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain), and ending with Little Boy (NY Japan Society), which was awarded the prize for Best Thematic Show by AICA-USA (International Association of Art Critics United States).
In 2016, the first episode of the original anime series 6HP (Six Hearts Princess) was aired on TV. He is currently preparing to release a new live action feature film, Jellyfish Eyes 2.
| 1993 | Tokyo University of the Arts, P.h.D |
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| 1962 | Born in Tokyo, Japan |
Awards
| 2016 | 66th The Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts |
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| 2008 | GQ Men of the Year 2008 Awards |
| 2006 | 11th AMD Awards, Prize of Recognition (Digital Contents of The Year’05) Heisei 17 (56th) Educational Minister Rookie of the Year, Awarded by the Agency for Cultural Affairs for the Advancement of Art |
| 2004 | Les Compagnons du Beaujolais, Honorary Knighthood Tag Heuer Business Award |
| 2003 | Special Award, 46th Japan Fashion Editor Club (FEC) Awards |
| 2008 | Time The Most Influential People In The World 100 |
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| 2006 | Best Thematic Museum Show in New York, AICA USA |
| 2005 | Japan Society Imajiné Award |
| 1998 | Visiting Professor, School of Art and Architecture, UCLA, Los Angeles |
| 1994-95 | Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, P.S.1 International Studio Program |
| 2019 | "MURAKAMI POR MURAKAMI" Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil "Superflat Doraemon" Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo "BAKA" Galerie Perrotin, Paris "From Superflat to Bubblewrap" STPI, Singapore "MURAKAMI VS MURAKAMI" Tai Kwun, Hong Kong "GYATEI²" Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 2018 | "TAKASHI MURAKAMI IN WONDERLAND" Galerie Perrotin, Shanghai "AMERICA TOO" Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles "Change the Rule!" Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong "TECHNICOLOR 2" Gagosian Gallery, Paris "Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg" Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth "Heads↔︎Heads" Galerie Perrotin, New York "Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg" Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver "future history" Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London |
| 2017 | “The Deep End of the Universe” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo “Takashi Murakami : Lineage of Eccentrics,A Collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston “Under the Radiation Falls” Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago “Murakami by Murakami” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway |
| 2016 | “Learning the Magic of Painting” Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France |
| 2015 | "MURAKAMI TAKASHI: THE 500 ARHATS" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan "Ensō" Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Solo Exhibition" Art Projects Ibiza, Lune Rouge, Ibiza Gran Hotel, HEART Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain |
| 2014 | "In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow" Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY "ARHAT CYCLE" Palazzo Reale di Milano , Milano, Italy |
| 2013 | "Takashi in Superflat Wonderland" PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art , Seoul, Korea "Solo Exhibition" Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong "ARHAT" Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2012 |
"Flowers & Skulls" Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong "Murakami – Ego" Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Doha, Qatar |
| 2011 | "Solo Exhibition" Gagosian Gallery, London, England |
| 2010 |
"Solo Exhibition" Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy "MURAKAMI VERSAILLES" Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France |
| 2009 |
"I Love Prints and So I Make Them" ARKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan "I Love Prints and So I Make Them" Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Takashi Murakami Paints Self Portraits" Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France "©MURAKAMI" Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain |
| 2008 |
“Davy Jone’s Tear,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA "©MURAKAMI"Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2007 | "©MURAKAMI" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "Tranquility of the heart, torment of the flesh ― open wide the eye of the heart, and nothing is invisible" Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2018 | "Bubblewrap After Mono-ha, the next established art movement is Superflat, but that means the interim period overlapping the years of Japan's economic bubble has yet to be named, and I think calling it "Bubblewrap" suits it well. It especially makes sense if you incorporate the realm of ceramics. This show will contemplate this period through works including those from Takashi Murakami's collection." CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM KUMAMOTO , Kumamoto, Japan |
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| 2016 | "Juxtapoz x Superflat: Curated by Takashi Murakami and Evan Pricco" Pivot Art and Culture, Seattle; and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver |
| 2015 | "Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, Otani Workshop: Curated by Takashi Murakami" Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles; Blum and Poe Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture" Japan Society, New York |
| 2004 | "Tokyo Girls Bravo" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York "Chiho Aoshima, Mr., and Aya Takano" Gallery Emmanuel Perrotin at LFL Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | "Coloriage" Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris |
| 2001 | "Hiropon Show" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "Superflat" Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle |
| 2000 | "Superflat" Parco Gallery, Tokyo; and Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan "Aya Takano: Hot Banana Fudge" NADiff, Tokyo; George’s, Los Angeles |
| 1999 | "Hiropon 32/80" NADiff, Tokyo "Tokyo Girls Bravo" NADiff, Tokyo; and George’s, Los Angeles "Hiropon Show" Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan; and Parco Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1998 | "Mr.: O-Edo Kunoichi Ninpocho" Shop 33, Tokyo "Ero Pop Tokyo" George’s, Los Angeles |
| 1997 | "Aya Takano: God Is Coming" Shop 33, Tokyo "Tokyo Sex" NAS, Tokyo "Hiropon Show" Shop 33, Tokyo; Manken Gallery, Kanazawa College of Arts, Kanazawa, Japan; and Iwataya Z-SIDE W<, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 1996 | "Mr. Solo Exhibition: Frone & Perrine" Shop 33, Tokyo "Pico Pico Show" Saga-cho bis, Tokyo |
| 2017 | “Takashi Murakami's Superflat Consideration on Contemporary Ceramics” Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan |
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| 2016 | "Takashi Murakami's Superflat Collection From Soga Shohaku and Kitaoji Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer" Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
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