Murakami Takashi’s Superflat Consideration on Contemporary Ceramics

Takashi Murakami (Curator)
Born in 1962 in Tokyo, Murakami completed his doctoral work at Tokyo University of the Arts’ School of Fine Arts, becoming the first person at the university to earn a Ph.D. in Nihonga. He is the founder and president of Kaikai Kiki, an art production and management company. Murakami is one of today’s most internationally recognized contemporary artists. In 2008, Murakami was selected as one of TIME magazine’s “The 100 Most Influential People.” In addition to his solo exhibitions held in museums across the globe, Murakami is also known as a film director and producer of up-and-coming artists.
In 2015, Murakami held Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, his first exhibition in his home country of Japan in 14 years. The following year he took the Japanese art world by storm at Yokohama Museum of Art with Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection ―From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer―, an exhibition that showcased antiques and contemporary artworks from Murakami’s vast personal collection.

Exhibiting Artists
Masanobu Ando, Ryo Aoki, Chiho Aoshima, Tomoko Arakawa, Kazunori Hamana, Tetsuya Ishiyama, Hideto Kamiizumi, Naoki Koide, Aso Kojima, Klara Kristalova, Yukiharu Kumagai, Takuro Kuwata, Shoji Matsushita, Shigeyoshi Morioka, Yuji Muraki, Shin Murata, Yoshitomo Nara, Akio Nukaga, Atsushi Ogata, Teppei Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Otani Workshop, Shiro Shimizu, Rosemarie Trockel, Keiji Tsuruno, Yuji Ueda, Takayuki Watanabe, and Andro Wekua