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MORIMURA Yasumasa Works and Info

Self-Portraits of Youth (Shunsuke Matsumoto / Where Am I Standing? 1)
2016/2018, chromogenic print, 160x124cm, ed.5 [15855]
Self-Portraits through Art History (Two Caravaggios / David Painting Goliath)
2016, chromogenic print, transparent medium, 158x119cm, ed.5 [15856]
Self-Portraits through Art History (Van Eyck in a Red Turban)
2016 /2018, chromogenic print, transparent medium, 32x25cm, ed.10 [15852]
Self-Portraits through Art History (Dürer's Hand Is Another Face)
2016/ 2018, chromogenic print, transparent medium, 66x48cm, ed.10 [15851]
Self-Portraits through Art History (What Leonardo's Face Says)
2016 /2018, Japanese paper, piezograph, 32x21cm, ed.10 [15849]
Self-Portrait through Art History(Van Gogh/Blue Flame)
2016/2018, inkjet print on canvas, 65x54.5cm, ed.10 [15079]
Vermeer Study: What to Pour into My Town
2019, pigment print on canvas, 45.5x41cm, frame: 72x67cm, ed.10 [14494]
Une Moderne Olympia 2018
2017-2018, chromogenic print, transparent medium, frame, 210x300cm (frame: 325x235cm), ed.5 [13055]
Boys' Kafka
2016, chromogenic print, 145x111cm, ed.7 [12988]
In praise of Velásquez: Distinguished ones in confinement
2013, chromogenic print, 60×50cm, ed.10 [10807]
An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns)
2001, chromogenic print, 120x96cm, ed.10 [05880]
Self-portrait/ White Marilyn
1996, type C print, 120x95cm, ed.10 [10788]
Self-portrait as Marilyn in Tokyo University, Komaba campus
1995/2008, gelatin silver print, 137x137cm, ed.7 [07958]
A Requiem: Unexpected Visitors / 1945, Japan
2010, chromogenic print, 187.5x150cm, ed.5 [08849]
Mona Lisa in its Origin
1998, chromogenic print, image: 77x54.5cm, frame: 99x76.5cm, ed.10 [04550]
Mona Lisa in its Pregnancy
1998, chromogenic print, image: 77x54.5cm, frame: 99x76.5cm, ed.10 [04550]
Mona Lisa in the Third Place
1998, chromogenic print, image: 77x54.5cm, frame: 99x76.5cm, ed.10 [04550]
Self Portrait (Myself as a Stage)
2003, chromogenic print, ed.10: sheet: 60.0x240.0cm frame: 64.0x244.0x4.5cm, ed.18: sheet: 40.2x126.4cm, image 13x113cm [05403]
Self-portrait(Actress)/after Brigitte Bardot 2
1996, chromogenic print, 120x95cm, ed.10 [11655]
White Darkness
1994/2008, gelatin silver print, sheet: 168x135cm frame:183x150x6cm, ed.7 [07860]
Portrait (Shounen 1, 2, 3)
1988, chromogenic print, transparent medium, frame, 209x118.5cm each, frame: 227x137cm each, 3pcs, ed.5 [15103]
MORIMURA-AT-MUSEUM(M@M) Installation view
2018, MORIMURA-AT-MUSEUM, photo by Kazuo Fukunaga [E00628]
overview
Born in Osaka, Japan in 1951. Currently lives and works in Osaka. Ever since Morimura created his self-portrait photograph in 1985, disguising himself as Van Gogh in one of his self-portrait paintings, the artist has incessantly produced “self-portrait-like artworks” where Morimura alters himself into “others” beyond time, race and gender. While maintaining his practice to become someone other than himself, the artist gazes at the indisputable fact that he is still himself and continues to question its meaning. Understanding both the contemporary and historical framework and inserting his own analysis of others, their artistic achievements and historical events, Morimura continues to employ his own body as well as photography, video and performance into his art practice, which has influenced many.
Selected solo exhibitions: My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Higashiyama Cube, Kyoto, 2022; Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Morimura Yasumasa A Gift of the Sea, M-Style Morimura Yasumasa’s Auto-Mytholo, Artizon Museum, Tokyo, 2021; Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2020; YASUMASA MORIMURA: EGO OBSCURA, Japan Society, New York, 2018; My Chronicle 1985 - 2018, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2018; Yasumasa Morimura. The history of the self-portrait, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 2017; The Self-Portraits of YASUMASA MORIMURA: My Art, My Story, My History, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2016; Yasumasa Morimura: Theater of the Self, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2014; LAS MENINAS RENACEN DE NOCHE, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2013; Yasumasa Morimura: Rembrandt Room Revisited, Hara Museum, Tokyo, 2013; Selected publications: Jigazonoyukue, Kobunsha; Utsukushiittenandaro? Bijutsunosusume, Rironsha; Bijutsunokaibogakukogi, Chikuma gakugei bunko. Opened his own museum named M@M in Osaka, 2018.
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Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections

24 March 2023 – 8 January 2024
MORIMURA Yasumasa, Yuji ONO, Tomoko YONEDA

ShugoArts Show

2021.2.6 Sat - 2.27 Sat
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MORIMURA Yasumasa, Ritsue MISHIMA

“Where I Am Standing” Installation movie, 2021, ShugoArts

2021.10.30 Sat - 12.18 Sat
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MORIMURA Yasumasa, Ritsue MISHIMA

Where I Am Standing

2021.10.30 Sat - 12.18 Sat
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Solo Show: Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020

2020.6.9 Tue - 7.12 Sun
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My Art, My Story, My Art History 1985-2018

"MORIMURA Yasumasa: My Art, My Story, My Art History 1985-2018" was published on October 20, 2018.

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“My Chronicle 1985 – 2016” Set of 40 polaroid style prints

Animated Slide-Show
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Interview 2018.30 at his atelier

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My Chronicle 1985 – 2018

2018.10.20 Sat - 11.24 Sat

Opening hours: Tue-Sat 11am-7pm, closed on Sun, Mon and Public Holidays

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Solo Exhibition : EGO OBSCURA
Japan Society, New York

2018.10.12 Fri - 2019.1.13 Sun
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Yukio FUJIMOTO, Shigeo TOYA, MORIMURA Yasumasa

Participate: Starting Points: Japanese Art of the ‘80s
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2018.7.7 Sat - 10.21 Sun
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Lecture Performance : “Yasumasa Morimura’s ‘Nippon Cha Cha Cha !’” Theater Commons Tokyo 2017-18

2018.3.2 Fri - 3.4 Sun

Dates:March 2nd [Fri] / 19:00-
March 3rd [Sat] / 17:00-
March 4th [Sun] / 14:00- *Talk (after the performance)

Venue:Minato Gender Equality Center “Libra”, Libra Hall

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participate: The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017 “Multiple Future”

2017.2.10 Fri - 2.26 Sun

10:00−20:00
Closed on Mondays (Final day until 18:00)
Venues:Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,etc

MORIMURA Yasumasa: Lounge Talk
2/25 Sat. 13:45-14:45
TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM 2F Lobby

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