Murakami is one of the most thoughful-and thought-provoking-Japanesse artist of the 1990s Marakami's work ranges from cartoony paintings to quasi-minimalist sculptures to giant infable ballons to performance events to factory produced watches, T-shirts.
Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1963 and received his BFA,MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Besides being an artist, he is a curator, entrepreneur, and a student of contemporary Japanesse society. In 2000, Murakami curated an exhibition of Japanese art titled Superflat, which acknowlwdged a movement toward mass-produced entertainment and its effects on contemporary aesthetics. Marukimi's work has been exhibited in prestigious museums all over the world, like Tokyo Metropolian Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Murakami has played with his work from East and West, past and present, high art and low culture. Murakami's work morphs the worlds popular contemporary Japanese cartoons and historic Japanese painting. His recurrig character, Mr DOB, appeard on t-shirts, posters, key chains.
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