Yasumasa Morimura
CV
B. 1951, Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Osaka, Japan
Education
1978
B.A. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Art
Awards
The International Research Center for the Arts, Kyoto, artist-in-residence Fellow
Selected public collections
• The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA
• MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, USA
• Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA), Boston, USA
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
• Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Leon, Spain
• Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
• Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
• Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, Japan
• Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Yasumasa Morimura: Self-Portraits. Luhring Augustine, Tribeca, New York, USA
Yasumasa Morimura: A Symposion on Self-Portraits. Galería Juana De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Yasumasa Morimura: Égo Sympósion, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
2022
Morimura Yasumasa: My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths. Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2020
Yasumasa Morimura – Ego Obscura. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Yasumasa Morimura – My Chronicle 1985 – 2018. ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
Yasumasa Morimura – In the Room of Art History. Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA
Yasumasa Morimura High, Red, Central, Action. MEM, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Yasumasa Morimura – In the Room of Art History. Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA
2017
Yasumasa Morimura. The history of the self-portrait. Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2016
Yasumasa Morimura, The Genesis of “I”. MEM, Tokyo, Japan
Yasumasa Morimura: My Art, My Story, My Art History. National Museum of Art Osaka (NMAO), Osaka, Japan
2014
Yasumasa Morimura – Las Meninas Renacen de Noche (Las Meninas Reborn in the Night). Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Yasumasa MorimuraGalería. Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
2013
Yasumasa Morimura – Rembrandt Room Revisted. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yasumasa Morimura: Theater of the Self. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, USA
Yasumasa Morimura – Las Meninas Renacen de Noche (In Praise of Velázquez : Handmaidens Reborn in the Night). Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Requiem for the XX Century: Self Portraits in Motion. Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore.
Yasumasa Morimura: Morienniale. Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
2011
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: Another Story,” ShugoArts, Koto, Tokyo (catalogue)
A Requiem: Art on Top 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
The Power of the ‘Others’: Microcosm of Yasumasa Morimura. Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Contemporary Art Japan, Hyogo, 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 (catalogue)
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
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 (exh. cat.)
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 (exh. cat.)
Sculptures. Shugo Satani Art Room, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Exotermia: Semiótica de la ubicación en la Colección MUSAC. Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y León, Leon, Spain
Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA
In The Eye of The Beholde—r: Gender Through the Camera Lens. Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, USA
Collection1 80/90/00/10. National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1st Collection Gallery Exhibition 2023–2024. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Before/After. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2022
At Home/On Stage: Asian American Representation in Photography and Film, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Fanatic Heart, Para Site, Hong Kong
Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne Windfohr Marion. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, USA
Queer. National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia
Sunset/Sunrise. Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
2021
Morimura Yasumasa And Mishima Ritsue – Where I Am Standing. ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
Break the Mold: New Takes on Traditional Art Making. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
Pictures and Promises. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
ShugoArts Show. ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
2020
True Fictions. Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
On Mono, Koto and Body – Six Perspectives. MEM, Tokyo, Japan
Orlando. McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2019
Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
Gazing Portrait. Gallery Toki No Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan
Naturally Naked. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self. Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Prints and Editions. Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
2018
The Eighties as Starting Points. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art – Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
ShugoArts Show. From the 1980s to the 2010s. ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
Elèctric i llunyà. Fotografía contemporánea colección olorVISUAL. Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L´Hospitalet, Spain
2019
Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
Prints and Editions. Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
2018
The Eighties as Starting Points. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art – Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
ShugoArts Show. From the 1980s to the 2010s. ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
Elèctric i llunyà. Fotografía contemporánea colección olorVISUAL. Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L´Hospitalet, Spain
2017
A Trip through the Tokyo Station Gallery Collection. From Railway Art to Picasso. Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo Japan
doing identity. Die Sammlung Reydan Weiss. Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
De La Habana ha venido un… – Exposición Colectiva. Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Purification. AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Optional Art Activity: Letters. Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Mémoire et lumière Photographie japonaise 1950-2000. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Art in Art. Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland
Cranach. Meister – Marke – Moderne. Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
10 years old. Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy
2016
People, Places, ThingsTracy Williams, LtdNew York City, USA
Mir ist das Leben lieber/I Prefer Life – Sammlung Reydan Weiss. Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Dell’infingimento – Quello Che Noi Crediamo Di Sapere Della Fotografia. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Lissone, Lissone, Italy
Portrait De L’artiste En Alter. FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
PoPism. Emergence International Urban Actions Festival, Messina, Italy
Medycyna w sztuce. Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland
Medicine in Art. Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland
2015
See you at the barricades. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Momat Collection. National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan
…y el tiempo se hizo. Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron. Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Picasso in Contemporary Art. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
ShugoArts Show. ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
Inexhaustible and Limitless. Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC), Hong Kong
Collection Becoming. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
Song of Myself. Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, USA
2014
Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gorgeous, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hyper-resemblances, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Image Search: Photography from the Collection, Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL
In Character: Self Portrait of the Artist as Another, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
The Marseillaise(s) / Fifteen Years of Collecting, Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012
Boys or Girls? Who Cares!? CONTEXT Art, Miami, FL.
Caractères. Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France
In Character: Artists’ Role Play in Photography and Video. Addison Gallery of American Art, Androver, Massachusetts
WAR / PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Role Models- Role Playing. Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2010
The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life. Galerie Lelong, New York
Il Trucco e le Maschere. Curated by Danilo Eccher, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy.
Decadence NOW! Visions of Excess. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic.
Look Again. Curated by Casey Fremont and Karline Moeller, Marlborough Chelsea, New York (catalogue)
More Photographs than Bricks. Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Portraiture – A Voice from Silent Figures. the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Twenty Five. Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Until Now. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2009
Beyond Appearances. Lehman College Art Gallery, West Bronx, New York
In to the Atomic Sunshine in Sakima: Post – War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9. April 11 – May 17, 2009, Sakima Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Look Again. Curated by Casey Fremont and Karline Moeller, Marlborough Chelsea, NY (catalogue)
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph. January 16 – May 3, 2009. International Center of Photography, New York
Self Portraits. July 9 – September 4, 2009. Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Art Is For The Spirit: Works from The UBS Art Collection. February 2 – April 6, 2008. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Darkside – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Zurich), Switzerland (catalogue)
Into the Atomic Sunshine – Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9. The Puffin Room, New York, NY and Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Starstruck: Contemporary Art and the Cult of Celebrity. 25 April – 15 June, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK. (catalogue)
The Masked Portrait,“ January 11 – February 9, 2008, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2007
An Incomplete World: Works from The UBS Art Collection. May 19 – July 29, 2007, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia; Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan
Celebrity. Jan. 20 – Apr. 29, 2007, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (catalogue)
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
NY C Photo. Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY
Role Exchange. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art. Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
2006
Gary Tatinsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Portraits of Artists: A selection of photographic works from the collection of Rex Capital, Rhode Island. In collaboration with Olivier Renaud-Clement. Luhring Augustine, New York.
Masquerade: Representations and the self in contemporary art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.(exhibition catalogue)
2005
Here Comes the Bogey – Man. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions 2005: Some Versions of the Portrait. International Center of Photography, New York
Rising Sun, Melting Moon. Contemporary art in Japan. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Post Modern Portraiture. The Logan Collection Vail, CO
2004
20th Anniersary Exhibition: The Copy Age-From Duchamps Thorough Warhol to Morimura. The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Takarazuka: The Land Of Dreams. Suntory Museum, Osaka. Travelled to Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery; Sogo Museum, Yokohama, Japan
Commodities Celebrities Death & Disaster. Salina Art Center, Kansas
Confronting Tradition: Contemporary Art from Kyoto. Smith College museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Camouflage, Surrogates, and Other Divisionary Tactics. The Rashofsky House, Dallas, TX
Maestros in Early Period. Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Marilyn: From Anastasi to Weege. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City
The Pretenders. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Revisiting History. Self-Portrait Photography. Cristinerose Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
The 1st Contemporary Art Concours” (as director and producer), Osaka contemporary Art Center, Osaka
Disguise. Manchester City Galleries, Manchester
Made in Mexico. Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA, travels to UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Imag(in)ing the West: Photographs by Michiko Kon, Dinh Q. Le, Nikki Lee, Yasumasa Morimura and Tseng Kwong Chi, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, Missouri
2003
Not Afraid. Rubell Familly Collection, Miami, FL
Happiness. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. SFMOMA, San Francisco
Influence, Anxiety & Gratitude. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Genomic Issue(s): Art and Science. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
The History of Japanese Photography. organized by the Japan Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Role Play Self-Portrait Photography. Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Wonderland. Aeroplastics, Brussels
Chameleon Dreams. Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
Future Plan. Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
Masquerade. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Two Of Us. L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany
The Floating World and Beyond. Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Art Downtown”. Wall Street Rising, New York
Tableaux Vivants. Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film and Video. Kunstalle Wien, Austria
2001
Debut. Rice Gallery, Tokyo
Yasumasa Morimura, Sawako Goda. Kochi Prefectural Museum
The body and the sin. The 1st Valencia Biennale, ,Valencia
ABBILD – Recent Portraiture and Depiction. Landsmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Comunicacion Entre las Artes. Valencia Biennale, Spain
Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel. Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton
Morimura Self-Portraits. An Inner Dialogue With Frida Kahlo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection. CCAC Institute, Oakland California
Identities: Contemporary Portraiture. New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Installed Collections / Collections Installed. Mason Gross School of the Arts / Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick, NJ
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art. Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle
2000
The Paris Mint Museum Exhibition. Museum of la Monnaie, Paris
Le Sourires de Monna Lisa. Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
The 3rd Kwangju Biennale Special Exhibition – Human and Gender. Kwangju, Korea Cos-Play; Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Department Store of Contemporary Art. Yamanashi Prefectural Musuem of Art, Yamanashi
World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Exhibtion for children 2000. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space. Center for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw
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 Lookat Eduard Manet. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Photography Now. curated by s. Rubin, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Contemporary Photography from Japan. De Pont foundation, Tilburg, Holland
1999
Fame: After Photography. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tendence. Abbaye Saint-André d’art contemporain, Meymac, France
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century. – Regarding Beauty in Performance and the Media Arts. Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Haus der Kunst, Munich
Kunstwelten im Dialog. Museum Ludwig, Köln
The 2nd Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. Bangkok, Thailand
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Contemporary Arts Museum
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
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
1998
Arret sur Image. Art&Public, Geneve
Rene Magritte and contemporary art, an influence on ideas and facts, or the puzzle never solved. Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
Electronically Yours. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The 80’s. Culturgest, Lisbon
LIFESTYLE-International Art in the Border Areas of Fashion, Design, Styling, Interiors. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Fetishes & Fetishisms. Passage de Retz, Paris
Issey Miyake. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain”, Paris
Technotherapy. Osaka City Central Public Hall
Tastes and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990s. New Delhi National Modern Museum, New Delhi, India
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
1997
Queer-Homosexuality in Art. Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen / Fils
Sous le Manteau. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Lust und Leere. Kunsthalle Vienna; Arken Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Countenance. Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Short Cuts: Links to the Body. German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition, Dortmund
Shasin. Kobe Fashion Musuem, Kobe; Shinjuku Mitsukoshi, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural
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
1996
1996 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. Melbourne, Australia
Prospect ’96. Kunstverein Frankfurt (exh.cat.)
Inbetweener. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Everything That’s Interesting New. Athens School of Fine Art, Athens Greece
The Hugo Boss Prize: 1996. Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York (exh.cat.)
Face and Figure in Contemporary Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sharaku Interpreted by Japanese Contemporary Artists. touring exhibition
Images of Women in Japanese Contermporary Art 1930’s-90’s. Shoto Museum, Tokyo
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
1995
Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives – Rethinking Modernism. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Going 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; Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; Deichtorhallen in Hamburg
More than Real. Royal Palace, Casaerta, Italy
Duchamp’s Leg. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
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
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, September – January 1994
Imagemakers. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, October – January 1994 (exhibition catalog)
Wit on Why: Humor in Photography. Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1992
Quotations. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, May- September; Dayton Art
Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art, October-November
Post-Human. Musee d’art Contemporain Pully / Lausanne, Lausanne; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Homage to Spanish Still Life by Yasumasa Morimura & Miran Fukuda. Nagoya City Art Museum
Illusions et Travestissements. A.B. Galeries, Paris
1991
Compound of the Maniera. Machida City Musem of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
Trans / Mission. Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden (exh. cat.)
TRANS – ART. Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
Japanese Anti-Art: Now and Then. The National Musem of Art, Osaka
The Image of Human Body in the Past and Present. Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Problem Series Part 2. Recent Gallery, Sapporo
Zones of Love: Contemporary Art from Japan. Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (exh. cat.)
A Hybrid Garden. Bigi Art Space, Kyoto (exh. cat.)
Metropolis. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Japanart. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Art Gallery of Southern Australia, Adelaide
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
1990
Reorienting: Looking East,” Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (exh. cat.)
Printed Art”, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
Subversive Classicism Subverted,” L.A. Louver, Venice, California
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; July – August: Museum
Moderner Kunst, Wien
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, Reykjavik, Iceland
Art of Arts Man among Men”, Gallery NW House, Tokyo
Camera Culture: Curriculum Vitae 10:18 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
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 Museum, Seattle; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (through February 1991)
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
1988
Secret Understanding of the Image. Gallery Coco, Kyoto
ART NOW ’88. Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
La Biennale Di Venezia, Aperto ’88. Venice, Italy
East Meets West: Japanese and Italian Art Today, ART/LA ’88. Los Angeles Convention Center
1988 – 1987
Photographic Aspect of Japanese Art Today. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
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
1986
The 4th Kyoto Art and Craft Exhibition. Kyoto Municipal Art Hall
1985
Smile with Radical Will. Gallery 16, Kyoto
1984
Can’t You See We Are Not Reticent? Gallery Osaka