Yasumasa Morimura

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Yasumasa Morimura (森村 泰昌, born in Osaka, Japan in 1951) is a Japanese appropriation artist. He graduated from Kyoto City University of Art in 1978. Since 1985, Yasumasa Morimura has primarily shown his work in international solo exhibitions, although he has been involved in various group exhibitions.

Yasumasa Morimura borrows images from historical artists (ranging from Edouard Manet to Rembrandt to Cindy Sherman), and reproduces them as his own. Morimura often reproduces images in terms of political representation, touching on issues of gender, race, etc.

Among others, Morimura's exhibitions have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992), the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jouy-en-Josas, France (1993), the Hara Art Museum in Hara, Japan (1994), the Guggenheim Museum (1994), and the Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, Japan (1996).

In his most recent and most extravagant reproduction, Morimura created a series of hybrid self-portraits modeled after the art of Frida Kahlo.

[edit] External links

  • Official Website (Japanese) Official Yasumasa Morimura website
  • Gallery A gallery of works at Morimura official website
  • Yasumasa Morimura at Luhring Augustine Gallery
  • Saatchi Gallery Additional information on Yasumasa Morimura including artworks, articles, text panels and full biography
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