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Yasumasa Morimura

Born in 1951, Osaka, Japan. Graduated from Fine Arts of Kyoto City University of Arts. In 1985, Morimura exhibited an large color portrait of Van Gogh inserting his own face and body into it. Since then, he has been pursuing the expression of self portrait. In 1988, Morimura was selected as an artist of Aperto of Venice Biennale and was catapulted into fame. Through the extensive use of props, costumes, make-up and digital manipulation, Morimura masterfully transforms himself into recognizable subjects that punctuate the western cultural cannon. His series include works based on seminal paintings by artists such as Frida Kahlo, Velazquez or Goya and on pictorial sources from history and the mass media. His ability to satirize and simultaneously create an homage of his source material is what makes Morimura's work particularly forceful and effective.

Education

1978	B.A. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Art

Collections
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA
Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
International Center for Photography, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Rubell Familly Collection, Miami, Florida
The Logan Collection, Vail. Colorado
Norton Family Foundation
Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Greece
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH

Works


Doublennage / Einstein
by Yasumasa Morimura
$1,875
photograph


Doublennage / Marilyn
by Yasumasa Morimura
$1,875
photograph


Doublennage / Mona Lisa
by Yasumasa Morimura
$1,875
photograph

Exhibition

Solo Exhibition

2011	“Requiem for Something – Art at the Summit of the Battlefield,” the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan “Depicted People: Women and Men. The Power of the “Others”: Microcosm of Yasumasa Morimura,” the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
2010	“A Requiem: Art on Top of the Battlefield,” ShugoArts, Koto, Tokyo “Requiem for Something – Art at the Summit of the Battlefield,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan; the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2008	“Yasumasa Morimura - Requiem for the XX Century. Twilight of the Turbulent Gods,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France “Yasumasa Morimura,” Curated by Filippo Maggia, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy
2007	“Yasumasa Morimura: Reflections,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI “Yasumasa Morimura - Requiem for the XX Century. Twilight of the Turbulent Gods,” Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy “Yasumasa Morimura - Requiem for the XX Century. Twilight of the Turbulent Gods,” Luhring Augustine, New York “Yasumasa Morimura: Los Nuevos Caprichos,“Shugo Arts, Tokyo “Yasumasa Morimura: My Life Through A Looking-Glass,” Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006	“An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo,” Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia
2005	"One Artist's Theater," Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia “Los Nuevos Caprichos,” Galerie Taddeus Ropac, Paris, France Galeria Juana De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain “Los Nuevos Caprichos,” Luhring Augustine, New York “Los Nuevos Caprichos,” Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan
2003	“Barco Negro on the table”, MEM, Osaka “The Artist’s Treasures” Shugoarts, Tokyo “Polyhedron of Yasumasa Morimura / Kalei de Scope” B Gallery, Osaka Seikei University
2002	“Yasumasa Morimura” Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid “A Story of M’s Self-Portraits” Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki “A Photographic Show of Murmur and Hum” Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo “Inside the Studio, Yasumasa Morimura,” Japan Society, New York (talk) SITE SantaFe, Santa Fe, New Mexico “Self-Portraits”, Ca di Fa, Milan, Italy “An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Self-Portraits), Gallery Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
2001	“Story of M’s Portrait” Museum Eki, Kyoto “Self-Portraits: An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo,” Luhring Augustine, New York “Self-Portraits: An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France “Gallery Talk,” Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY “ A Hundred Polaroids,” Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo, Japan
2000	PhotoEspana, La Fabrica, Espacio de Cultura, Madrid “Fundacion Telefonica:Yasumasa Morimura Historia Del Arte,” Madrid, Spain
1999	“New Bronze Works”, Nagai Gallery, Tokyo. White Cube, London “The Time with No Name, The Self with No Name”, The Art Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok “Daughter of Art History”, Luhring Augustine, New York “Yasumasa Morimura: The Name with no Name, The Self with no Name”, The Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
1998	“Morimura”, Studio Guenzani, Milano “Self-Portrait As Art History”; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Marugame Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa Galleria Severiarte, Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
1997	“Monochrome”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo “Kokoro o Kill”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo / Art&Public, Geneve “Yasumasa Morimura, Actor/Actress”. The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France
1996	“Leg”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo “Beauty unto Sickness,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama “From van Gogh to Marilyn”, Satani Gallery, Tokyo “Actress Series”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo “Sharaku”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo “Self-portrait as art History 1-3”, Nishida Gallery, Nara “Actress Series”, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art “Hands”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo Yasumasa Morimura 3 “Actress and Art History”, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne / Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama / Luhring Augustine, New York
1994	“Psychoborg,” The Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo “Psychoborg”, The Power Plant, Toronto; Walter Philips Gallery, Branff, Alberta “Rembrandt Room”, Hara Art Museum, Hara
1993	9 visages,” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas “Beauty unto Sickness 1-5”, Nishida Gallery, Nara Foundation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas
1992	“Options 44,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh “Sculptures”, Shugo Satani Art Room, Tokyo The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh “Homage to Spanish Still Life by Morimura and Fukuda”, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya (with Miran Fukuda) Shugo Satani Art Room, Tokyo
1991	Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston Luhring Augustine, New York
1990	“Daughter of Art History”, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1989	“Criticism and the Lover”, Mohly Gallery, Osaka
1988	ON Gallery, Osaka Gallery NW House, Tokyo
1986	“Mon amour violet et autres,” Gallery Haku, Osaka
1984	Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka
1983	Galerie Marronnier, Kyoto

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