Artist: Kagaku Murakami ( - )
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Inoue Yasuji, [No. 21: Murakami Hikoshiro seizing the brocade banner], 19th century

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Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Superflat: An Exhibition of Provocative Contmeporary Japanese Art
The term superflat was coined by Murakami to describe the simplified and increasingly two-dimensional forms that have become the staple of a hip, new visual language employed by a generation of young Japanese artists. Whereas the tendency toward...
Walker Art Center: Supreflat Openes at the Walker
In his essay A Theory of Super Flat Japanese Art (2000), Murakami suggests a direct line of historical descent between the flatness of the prints of the 19th-century master Katsushika Hokusai, for example, and the 1970s television ...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Superflat
Organized by artist Takashi Murakami, the exhibition includes painting, photography, works on paper, video, computer animation, graphic design, cartoons, and sculptur...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation
The exhibition features work by Takashi Murakami, Mariko Mori, Paul McCarthy, and Charlie White among others. This exhibition was originally curated by Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, and Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Director of the Des Moines Art Ce...
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art: Japan:Rising - Contemporary Art from Japan
"Japan:Rising lives somewhat at the margins of dominant trends in contemporary Japanese art," Rush says. "As such it celebrates the diverse and extensive variety of artistic activity in Japan today." While Murakami’s comic book-inspired app...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon: Under Pressure: Air Pressure in All Its Forces
All the pieces in the show from the thirty foot inflated stegasaurus to the black rubber military mines all play with the notion of balloons, happy, playfull, but ultimately explosive. Robert Mahoney from Time out New York writes: Under P...
Contemporary Arts Center: My Reality: The Culture of Anime
The work in the show explores anime's slick conventions, such as futuristic technology, cyborgs, fantastical creatures and post-apocalyptic landscapes, as well as such themes as changing gender roles and the explosion of consumerism. My ...
Vancouver Art Gallery: The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture
Modern culture’s representation of the cyborg shuttles between a celebratory fascination with the machine and an intense anxiety around masculinity and mechanical equipment. Key historical works will include a 19th century automaton, 19th Century...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: SUPERNOVA: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection
The exhibition takes its title from Takashi Murakami’s tour de force painting Super Nova, 1999, which depicts “the destruction of an earthly terrain by atomic weapons whose mushroom clouds are rendered in ravishingly colorful detail,” according to...
Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art: My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation
My Reality features the work of Japanese artists Taro Chiezo, Mika Kato, Mariko Mori, Mr. (Masakatu Iwamoto), Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Momoyo Torimitsu and Kenji Yanobe, and the Korean artist Lee Bul. These artists merge their primary inf...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: Public Offerings: Works by 25 Young Artists Shaping International Contemporary Art
The exhibition features significant works from the late 1980s and early 1990s by Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Thomas Demand, Renée Green, Michael Joaquín Grey, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Toba Khedoori, Sharon Lockhart, Sarah Lucas, Steve McQueen, ...
Tampa Museum of Art: My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation
While anime has its origins in American animation, it is equally ...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: ALMOST WARM AND FUZZY: Childhood and Contemporary Art
The exhibition features several kinetic and interactive pieces. Among the many captivating installation works are: Sandy Skoglund’s Shimmering Madness, a d...
San Jose Museum of Art: Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens
Nara invokes a voice that reaches and touches the masses. His works, which enjoy a cult status in Japan and are among the most recognizable of contemporary art images, appeal to a range of generations, nationalities, and temperaments and are peppe...
Walker Art Center: Painting at the Edge of the World
Rather than presenting a conservative and nostalgic celebration of the tradition of painterly practice, Painting at the Edge of the World will provide an examination of the recent genetic mutation of that tradition. In light of Yves Al...
San Jose Museum of Art: Michiko Kon: Still Lifes
Often compared to Edward Weston's still life photographs and Arcimboldo's fruit figure paintings, Kon's work creates a de...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age
With the exhibition Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg will present an exploration of the possibilities of pictorial invention open to painting in the age of photographic and digital media. Since th...
Carnegie Museum of Art: 1999 Carnegie International Artists Announced
For more than one hundred years, Carnegie Museum of Art has played an important role among American museums with its presentation of the International, said Richard Armstrong, the Henry J. Heinz II director of the museum. With Madelein...

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