Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo and is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist of international renown. Working with fine art mediums (painting and sculpture) as well as conventional commercial mediums (fashion, merchandise, and animation), the artist is known for blurring the line between high and low art. He coined his style 'superflat', which describes the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society. Murakami’s works have been exhibited all over the world, including prestigious institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. http://youtu.be/H1qQykCo3YQ
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Selected Exhibitions

2013
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back, The Logan Collection At Sfmoma, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
sous influences, arts plastiques et psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris

2012
"Ego", ALRIWAQ Exhibition Space, Qatar,

2011
"Beyond Limits", Chatsworth, England
“Homage to Yves Klein“, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
“A History of Editions“, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
“Solo Exhibition” Gagosian Gallery, London, England

2010
“Solo Exhibition” Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
“MURAKAMI VERSAILLES” Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

2009
Murakami, Museum Fë Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo) 
Murakami, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (solo) 
Gagosian Gallery, London, England (solo) 
“Sold Out: The Artist in the Age of Pop,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Mapping the Studio,” Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
“VRAOUM!,” La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
“Louis Vuitton and the Passion for Creation,” Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 
“Hong Kong Art Fair,” Hong Kong
“Un Certain État du Monde? A Selection of Works From Francois Pinault Foundation Collection", Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

2008
Murakami, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (solo)
“For What You Are About to Receive,” Gagosian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Encounters,” Pace Beijing, Beijing
“Agency: Art and Advertising,” McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
"Kaikai Kiki Artists," Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Comic Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Jellyfish Eyes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
My 2007, Colette, Paris, France
Murakami, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Tranquility of the Heart Torment of the Flesh - Open Wide the Eye of the Heart, and Nothing is Invisible, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2006
The Pressure Point of Painting, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
Where are we going, Selection from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Infinite Painting, Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Agnes Hotel Art Fair, Tokyo, JapanFairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Dragon Veines, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
POPulence, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
10th Anniversary Collection, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Selections from the logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Off the Shelf: News Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books, 
Vassar College print and Drawings Galleries: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Get Ready, Land of the Rising Sun! Contemporary Japanese Art from Taikan Yokoyama to the Present, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
Mass Production: Artists' Multiples and Marketplace, The university of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
Limited/Unlimited, 34 Long Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Africa

2005
Opening of Gallery Extension, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Pop Culture, Japan Society, New York, NY (solo)
Outdoor Banner Installation, Public Art Fund, New York, NY (solo)
Kaikai Kiki exhibition, Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
T1 - Turin Triennial, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Japan Pop, Helsinki Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland
Post and After, Brandeis University Rose Museum, Boston, MA
POPulance, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FranceEcstasy : In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan  
Center for CUratorial Studies Museum, Bard College, New York, NY, US  
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA  
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine  
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea  
Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia  
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia  
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium  
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France  
Musée du sourire, Paris, France  
Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France  
Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy  
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan  
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan  
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan  
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, USA