Mr.
Japan
19 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Works by Mr.
Mr.’s vivid, chaotic, cartoon-like compositions take aesthetic cues from the Japanese otaku subculture, which comprises manga and anime fanatics. Like fellow Superflat artists such as Takashi Murakami, Mr. combines elements of high and low culture as he examines Japanese society at large. Since graduating from Tokyo’s Sokei Academy of Fine Art and Design in the mid-1990s, Mr. has been the subject of exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, and beyond. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, and Daegu Art Museum in South Korea have all collected his work. Following the 2011 Japanese tsunami and Fukushima reactor meltdown, Mr. began a series of material experiments—he incorporated rough abstract brushwork into his paintings and even burned, trampled, and tore his canvases.
Mr. Solo Exhibitions include:
Carte blanche à Mr. et Pharrell Williams; A Call To Action, Musée Guimet, Paris (2019); Tokyo, the City I Know, at Dusk: It's Like a Hollow In My Heart, Galerie Perrotin Seoul(2016); LIVE ON: MR.'S JAPANESE NEO-POP, Asian Art Museum, Seattle (2014); Nobody Dies, Lehmann Maupin New York (2008); Mr., Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (2006); Venus #2, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago (2000); Mr., Painter of Alps, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (1998).
Mr. Group Exhibitions include:
Bishojo: Young Pretty Girls in Art History, Museum of National Taipei University of Education (2019); Bubblewrap, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (2018); A Nightmare is a Dream, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo (2012); Kyoto-Tokyo: From Samurais to Mangas, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (2010); KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art, Vancouver Art Gallery (2008); RED HOT: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2007), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)