Takashi Murakami

On View

Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)

Through August 4, 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York
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For the first time in twenty-four years, Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo returns to public display. Originally published in 1856–58, the series captures the evolving socioeconomic and environmental landscape of the city that would become Tokyo. The exhibition includes the full set of prints and other complementary objects drawn from the museum’s collection, as well as new paintings by Takashi Murakami, created in direct response to Hiroshige’s masterpiece.

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Takashi Murakami
Unfamiliar People—Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego

September 15, 2023–February 12, 2024
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
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In this exhibition of work by Takashi Murakami the artist uses monsters as a central motif to address the complicated nature of the world around us. The show includes large-scale paintings and sculptures and several newly created works that respond to the impact of the global pandemic and a shift toward virtual interaction. Paintings of distorted figures reflect the swelling egos of individuals relentlessly promoting themselves on social media, while works recording the artist’s creation of NFTs, including avatars, look with optimism toward a digitally liberated future.

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Takashi Murakami
MurakamiZombie

January 26–April 16, 2023
Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
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This large-scale retrospective features paintings, sculptures, installations, and video art by Takashi Murakami, including some of the artist’s earliest pieces which have never before been shown publicly. This is the fourth exhibition in the series Lee Ufan and His Friends, in which international artists respond to Ufan’s practice. The works on view deploys a “zombie aesthetic” emblematic of the collective anxiety of the contemporary world and increasingly prevalent throughout pop culture. 

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Takashi Murakami
Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow

May 21–September 25, 2022
The Broad, Los Angeles
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This exhibition, which includes all of Takashi Murakami’s works in the Broad collection as well as key loans, features eighteen works created throughout his career and new immersive environments developed in tandem with the artist and his studio, Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. In these works, spanning sculpture, painting, wallpaper, and immersive installations, the artist explores subject matter such as globalization, postwar Japan, pop culture, and religious iconography.