Japanese, b. 1969
Mr. is a Japanese contemporary artist and a member of Kaikai Kiki studio along with artists Takashi Murakami, MADSAKI, TENGAone, Kasing Lung, Aya Takano, Chiho Aoshima, Emi Kuraya, ob, Otani Workshop, Yuji Ueda and Shin Murata.
Mr. built his career on anime and manga-style renditions to portray his personal fantasies. He has exhibited in solo and group shows at major museums and galleries worldwide.
Selected exhibitions
2019
Mr.’s Melancholy Walk Around the Town, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Carte blanche to Mr. and Pharrell Williams - A Call To Action, Musée Guimet, Paris, France
MURAKAMI VS MURAKAMI, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, China
Bishojo - Young Pretty Girls in Art History, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
Kaikai Kiki Summer Show, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Monsters, Manga and Murakami, Musée en Herbe, Paris, France
2018
Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
2017
Create Your Own Original Doraemon, Mori Art Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Murakami by Murakami, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
2016
Tokyo, the City I Know, at Dusk - It’s Like a Hallow In My Heart, Galerie Perrotin Seoul, South Korea
Sunset in My Heart, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Megane To Tabisuru Bijyutsuten, Aomori Musum of Art, Aomori, Japan
2015
lost, Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
Animamix Biennale 2015 – 2016, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2014
Live On: Mr.’s Japanese Neo-Pop, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Bishojo- Young Pretty Girls in Art History - 16 Perspectives for Studying the Idea of the bishojo, Aomori Museum, Aomori City, Japan
2013
Sweeet! Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong
2012
Metamorphosis - Give Me Your Wings, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
A Nightmare is a Dream, Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Solo Exhibition Leeahn Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Kyoto-Tokyo From Samurais to Mangas, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2009
Neoteny Japan- Takahashi Collection, Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago, Japan
Sacred Monsters, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
VRAOUM, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
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