Profile

Born in 1951, Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Osaka


EDUCATION

1985
Columbia University, New York

1982
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Requiem For Something- Art At The Summit of the Battlefield, The Hygo Prefctural Museum Of Art Kobe, Japan
Depicted Poeple: 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, Shugo Arts, Koto, Tokyo
Requiem For Something-Art at the summit of the Battlefield, Tokyo Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan; The Hiroshima City 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 Theater, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2005
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
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
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
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
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