Dates:
born   1962
Biography: (artist biography as of 2004)
Born 1962, Tokyo, Japan


SELECTED SOLO EXHBITIONS

2004 Inochi, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles,
CA, USA

Satoeri Ko2 Chan, Tomio Koyama
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2003 Reversed Double Helix, Rockefeller
Center, New York, USA

Superflat Monogram, Galerie Emmanuel
Perrotin, Paris, France

Superflat Monogram, Marianne Boesky
Gallery, New York, USA

2002 Kaikai Kiki: Takashi Murakami,
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art
Contemporain,
Paris, France, travelling to the
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2001 summon monsters? open the
door? heal? or die?, Museum of
Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

WINK, Grand Central Station, New York,
USA Mushroom, Marianne Boesky
Gallery, New York, USA

Takashi Murakami: Mad in Japan,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

2000 Second Mission Project Ko2,
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long
Island City, New York, USA

KaiKai Kiki: SUPERFLAT, ISSEY
MIYAKE MEN,
Tokyo, Japan

1999 Love & DOB, Gallery KOTO,
Okayama, Japan

Superflat, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New
York, USA



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 Walker WithoutWalls, Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, USA

Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou
Collection, Deste – Nea Ionia, Athens,
Greece

Floating Worlds, Beacon Cultural
Foundation, Beacon, NY, USA

Optimo, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, USA

2003 Supernova: Art of the 1990s from
the Logan Collection, San Francisco
Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

Pittura/Painting: Rauschenberg to
Murakami, 1964–2003, Museo Correr,
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

On the Wall:Wallpaper and Tableau,
Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, RI,
USA, and The Fabric Workshop and
Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains and Victors
from
the Robert Lesser Collection, Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2002 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

POPJack:Warhol to Murakami, Museum
of
Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO,
USA
Chiho Aoshima, Mr, Takashi Murakami,
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris,
France
2001 Form Follows Fiction, Castello di
Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art,
Torino, Italy

Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of
Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum
voor
Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed
Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe Fourth
International Biennial, Santa Fe, NM,
USA
(curated by Dave Hickey)

Public Offerings, Museum of
Contemporary
Art (LA MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
(curated by Paul Schimmel)

2000 ’00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,
New York, USA

5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de
Lyon, Lyons, France

1999 Ground Zero Japan, Contemporary
Art Centre, Ibaraki, Japan

The Carnegie International 1999/2000,
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA


FURTHER READING

‘Artists Without Borders’, Brutus, Special
Murakami/Nara issue (September 2001)

Jamie Huckbody, ‘Shooting from the Hip’,
i-D Magazine (February 2003), pp. 80–85

Kay Itoi, ‘Japanese Generation Takes
Off’,
Artnews (Summer 2002), p. 90

Cheryl Kaplan, ‘Takashi Murakami: Lite
Happiness + Super Flat’, Flash Art
(July–September 2001), pp. 92–97

John Kelsey, ‘Takashi Murakami’,
arText, 74, p. 78

Frances Richards, ‘Takashi Murakami’,
Artforum (September 2001), pp. 192–93

James Roberts, ‘Magic Mushrooms’,
Frieze
(October 2002), pp. 66–71
Source:Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, International 04 Festival catalogue
Date of source:2004

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