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Yasumasa Morimura


Geboren 1951 in Osaka, Japan.
Lebt und arbeitet in Osaka.


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EINZEL-AUSSTELLUNGEN

1983
Galerie Marronnier, Kyoto

1984
Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka

1988
"Mon amour violet et autres," Gallery Haku, Osaka

1988
ON Gallery, Osaka
Gallery NW House, Tokyo

1989
"Criticism and the Lover," Mohly Gallery, Osaka

1990
"Daughter of Art History," Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London

1991
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
Luhring Augustine, New York

1992
"Options," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Homage to Spanish Still Life by Morimura and Fukuda," Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya (with Miran Fukuda)
Shugo Satani Art Room, Tokyo

1993
Foundation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas

1994
Ginza Art Space, Shiseido Corporate
"Psychoborg," The Power Plant, Toronto; Walter Philips Gallery, Branff, Alberta
"Rembrandt Room," Hara Art Museum, Hara

1996
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Luhring Augustine, New York

1997
"Yasumasa Morimura, Actor/Actress," The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas.
Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France

1998
"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

1999
"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

2000
"Fundacion Telefonica:Yasumasa Morimura Historia Del Arte," Madrid, Spain


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1984
"Can't You See We Are Not Reticent?" Gallery Osaka

1985
"Smile with Radical Will," Gallery 16, Kyoto

1986
"The 4th Kyoto Art and Craft Exhibition," Kyoto Municipal Art Hall

1987
"Panache," ON Gallery, Osaka
"Yes Art Deluxe," Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo/Gallery Haku, Osaka
"November East Wind," P&P Gallery, Seoul
"Photographic Aspect of Japanese Art Today," Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

1988
"Secret Understanding of the Image", Gallery Coco, Kyoto
"ART NOW Õ88", Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
"La Biennale Di Venezia, Aperto Õ88", Venice, Italy
"East Meets West: Japanese and Italian Art Today, ART/LA Õ88", Los Angeles Convention Center

1989
"Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties," touring exhibition; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco; Akron Art Museum, Akron; MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge; Seattle Art Mu-
seum, Seattle; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
"Art Exciting '89 - Beyond the Present," The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama/Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
"Europalia '89 JAPAN - Japanese Contemporary Art 1989, "Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
"Reorienting: Looking East,"Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

1990
"Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
"Beyond the Photography Frame: 11 Recent Works," Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
"Japanese Contemporary Photography - Twelve Viewpoints, " Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Tokyo/Pavillon des Arts, Paris
"Japanische Kunst der 80 Jahre," September - November: Frankfurter Kunst; December - January 1991:
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; February - March: Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg; April - June:
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
"Images in Transition, " The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/ The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Japan Art Today - Elusive Perspective/Changing Visions, " The Cultural Centre of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
The Exhibition Hall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark/The Helsinki Municipal Museum, Helsink, Finland
The Reykjavik Municipal Museum, Helsinki
"Art of Arts Man among Men, "Gallery NW House, Tokyo
"Camera Culture: Curriculum Vitae 10:18, " Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston

1991
"Metropolis, " Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
"Japanart, "Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Art Gallery of Southern Australia, Adelaide
"Transmission, "Rooseum, Malmo
"Problem Series Part 2," Recent Gallery, Sapporo
"Zones of Love: Contemporary Art from Japan," Toyko Museum of Contemporary Art
"A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Post-Modern Japan," Tate Gallery Liverpool;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Malmo Konsthall, Sweden

1992
"Quotations," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, May- September; Dayton Art Institute,
Museum of Contemporary Art, October-November
"Post-Human," Musee dÕart Contemporain Pully/Lausanne, Lausanne; Castello di Rivoli, Turin;
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Homage to Spanish Still Life by Yasumasa Morimura & Miran Fukuda, " Nagoya City Art Museum
"Illusions et Travestissements, " A.B. Galeries, Paris

1993
"Building a Collection, Part I, " Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January-July
"Dress Codes, " Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March-May
"High Impact-After Image," Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
"Slittamenti, " Aperto '93, Venice Biennale, Venice, June-October
"Montage '93," Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, July-August; Addison Gallery of Art, Andover
"Imagemakers," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, October - January 1994
"Wit on Why: Humor in Photography," Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

1994
Luhring Augustine, New York
"Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century," Spiral Garden, Tokyo
"Psycoh-pathology of Everyday Life", Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
"Family Values," The Hammond Galleries, Lancaster Festival, Lancaster, OH
"Lest We Forget: On Nostalgia, " The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York
"Bad Girls, " The New Museum, New York
"Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky," Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York;
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
"Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography," The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC;
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas city, MO
"On Nostalgia," The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York
"Persona Cognita, " Museum of Modern Art, Heide
"From Beyond the Pale," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
"Quotation: Re-presenting History," Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

1995
"Going for Baroque," The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
"Cocido y Crudo," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
"Narcissistic Disturbance," Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
"Japan Today," Museum of Modern Art Louisiana, Denmark; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway;
Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland; Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm;
Österreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"More than Real," Royal Palace, Casaerta, Italy
"Duchamp's Leg," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida

1996
"Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves," California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
"The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Conteporary Art," Queensland Art Gallery
"10th Biennale of Sydney," Sydney, Australia
"1996 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts," Melbourne, Australia
"Everything That's Interesting Is New," Athens School Of Fine Art, Athens, Greece
"Yasumasa Morimura: From Van Gogh to Marilyn" Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition," Guggenheim Downtown, New York

1997
"Mirror Enough," Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
"Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose," Guggenheim Museum, New York
"Japanishe Photografie der Gegenwart," Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
"Altared Egos, "Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
"Spring Exhibitions," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, March- April
"1 Minute Scenario, "Le Printemps de Cahors. France
"About Face: Artists' Portraits in Photography," Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge
"Selected Works from the LINC Group Collection," Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, Chicago

1998
"Recycling Art History," Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
"La Fotografia Y La Moda," Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Elias Fine Art, Boston, MA
"Rosso Vivo," PAC-Padiglione d'Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Luhring Augustine, New York
"A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, "
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1999
"Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
"New Modernism for a new Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection,"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850- 2000,"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Who's That Girl," Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Lungarno Gambacorti, Pisa, Italy
"Skin," curated by Andrea Gilbert, Deste Foundation Center For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

2000
"Contemporary Photography from Japan," De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
"Beauty Now," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Zona F," Espai d'Art Contemporani, Castello (Valencia), Spain
"Skin," Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
"Modernite Japonaise," Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
"Making Light: Wit and Humor in Photography," The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Staged: Constructions of Reality in Contemporary Photography," Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
"Narcisse Blesse: Autoportraits contemporains 1970-2000," Passage de Retz, Paris
"Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
"Contemporary Group Show," Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium
"Olympia Redux - Contemporary Artists Look at Eduard Manet," The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
"Photography Now," curated by D. Rubin, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
"Contemporary Photography from Japan," De Pont foundation, Tilburg, Holland

2001
"A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection,Ó
CCAC Institute, Oakland California
"Identities: Contemporary Portraiture," New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Collection,"
CCAC Institute, Oakland California


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