SELECTED WORKS BY Yasumasa Morimura
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Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait - After Greta Garbo 1
1996
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Everybody loves a dame. And Morimura just loves to be one! In this series of self-portraits Morimura convincingly slips into the roles of legendary silver screen goddesses, from Audrey Hepburn to Ingrid Bergman (and it doesn't stop there - he's also been art historical icons such as the Mona Lisa and Renoir's busty barmaid!). But Morimura is more than just art's most famous drag queen. Dealing with issues of cultural and sexual appropriation he is constantly exploring ideas of image consumption, identity and desire: Can Brigitte Bardot be as innocently flirtatious with angular Japanese features? Would Marilyn Monroe be as sexy if she was Japanese - and a man? And where does the line lay between Garbo's neurotic reclusivity and the paranoid expression of the down right freaky? In his photos Morimura lives out his impossible dreams of being 'other', playing the role of Asian agent provocateur infiltrating Western collective consciousness: becoming the women most lusted after, making them even more exotic. |
Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait - After Greta Garbo 2
1996
gelatin silver prints
44 x 34.5 cm |
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Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait - After Ingrid Bergman
1996
gelatin silver prints
44 x 34.5 cm |
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Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait - After Marilyn Monroe
1996
gelatin silver prints
44 x 34.5 cm |
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Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait - After Sylvia Kristel
1996
gelatin silver prints
44 x 34.5 cm |
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Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait after Brigitte Bardot 1
1996
gelatin silver prints
44 x 34.5 cm |
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Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait after Liza Minelli 1
1996
gelatin silver prints
44 x 29 cm |
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Yasumasa Morimura
Self-Portrait/After Audrey Hepburn 1
1996
gelatin silver prints
44 x 29 cm |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Yasumasa Morimura's BIOGRAPHY
1951
Born in Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Osaka
Education
1985
Columbia University, New York
1982
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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, 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
Imag(in)ing the West, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, Missouri
2003
Not Afraid, Rubell Familly Collection, Miami
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
Two Of Us, L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany
The Floating World and Beyond, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina,
Greensboro
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
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, 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
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
Who’s That Girl, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Lungarno Gambacorti, Pisa, Italy
Skin, 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
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
La Fotografia Y La Moda, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Elias Fine Art, Boston
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
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
Spring Exhibitions, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dress Codes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
High Impact-After Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
Slittamenti, Aperto ’93, Venice Biennale, Venice
Montage ’93, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, Addison Gallery of Art,
Andover
Imagemakers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn
Wit on Why: Humor in Photography, Islip Art Museum, East Islip
1992
Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, May- September; Dayton Art
Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art
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
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
A Hybrid Garden, Bigi Art Space, Kyoto
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
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
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
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
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
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