1962 Born in Tokyo, Japan

1986 BFA, Japanese Painting Course, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

1988 MFA, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

1993 Ph.D., Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music[Dissertation : The meaning of the nonsense of the meaning]

1995 Asian Cultural Fellowship, P.S 1 International Studio Program in New York, NY

1998 Visiting Professor, School of the Art and Architecture at the UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Lives and Works in Asaka, Saitama and Brooklyn, New York. Organizing a group of young artists, "HIROPON FACTORY," and producing an exhibition.

 

Selected Exhibitions:

2009 Murakami ©, Museum Fë Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)

2009 Murakami ©, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (solo)

2008 Murakami ©, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (solo)

2007 Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2007 Comic Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2007 Jellyfish Eyes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2007 My 2007, Colette, Paris, France

2007 Murakami ©, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

2007 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)

2006 Where are we going, Selection from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

2006 Infinite Painting, Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy

2006 Agnes Hotel Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan

2006 Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

2006 Dragon Veines, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL

2006 POPulence, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

2006 10th Anniversary Collection, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2006 Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

2006 Selections from the logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2006 Off the Shelf: News Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books, Vassar College print and Drawings Galleries: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

2006 Get Ready, Land of the Rising Sun! Contemporary Japanese Art from Taikan Yokoyama to the Present, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art

2006 Mass Production: Artists' Multiples and Marketplace, The university of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH

2006 Limited/Unlimited, 34 Long Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Africa

2005 Opening of Gallery Extension, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)

2005 Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Pop Culture, Japan Society, New York, NY (solo)

2005 Outdoor Banner Installation, Public Art Fund, New York, NY (solo)

2005 Kaikai Kiki exhibition, Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2005 T1 - Turin Triennial, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2005 Japan Pop, Helsinki Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland

2005 Post and After, Brandeis University Rose Museum, Boston, MA

2005 POPulance, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

2005 Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2005 Ecstasy : In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2004 Funny Cuts, Stuttgart Museum of Art, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)

2004 Takashi Murakami: Inochi, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

2004 Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art, Marfa, TX

2004 Monument to now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

2004 Biennale de Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, UK

2004 Walker without walls, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2004 Inochi, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2004 GEISAI 5, Big Site, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama

2004 Tokyo Girls Bravo, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2003 GEISAI Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan

2003 GEISAI 4, Big Site, Tokyo, Japan

2003 GEISAI 3,Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama

2003 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Super Flat Monoglam, Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Takashi Murakami Kaikaikiki, Kawaii! Vacances d'ete, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France.7.27-10.27. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2002 Tokyo Girls Bravo 2 , Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Coloriage, Fondation Cartire popur l 'art contemporain, Paris, France

2002 GEISAI 1, Tokyo Tower Amusement Hall, Tokyo, Japan

2001 Zombie Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2001 Takashi Murakami Solo Exhibition:summon monsters open the door heal or die, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2001 Takashi Murakami: Made In Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , MA

2001 Takashi Murakami: Mushroom, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2001 Takashi Murakami:WINK: An Installation of New York by Takashi Murakami, Grand Central Terminal Vanderbilt Hall, New York, NY

2001 Takashi Murakami: KAI KAI KI KI, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

2000 Second Misson Project Ko2, P.S.1, New York, NY

2000 KAI KAI KI KI: SUPER FLAT, ISSEY MIYAKE MEN, Tokyo, Japan

2000 SUPERFLAT , The MOCA Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2000 Henry Art Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1999 Tokyo Girls Bravo, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan

1999 Hiropon Show, Parco LOGOS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1998 Ero Pop Tokyo, George's, Los Angeles, CA