Morimura, Yasumasa

CV

Born in 1951 en Osaka, Japan.

Lives and works in Osaka.

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1983

  • Galerie Marronnier, Kyoto, Japan.

1984

  • Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan.

1986

  • ”Mon amour violet et autres”, Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan.

1988

  • ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
  • Gallery NW House, Tokyo.

1989

  • ”Criticism and the Lover”, Mohly Gallery, Osaka, Japan.

1990

  • ”Daughter of Art History”, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo.
  • Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.

1991

  • Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, USA.
  • Luhring Augustine, New York.

1992

  • ”Options 44”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA.*
  • ”Sculptures”, Shugo Satani Art Room, Tokyo.*
  • ”Homage to Spanish Still Life by Morimura and Fukuda” (with Miran Fukuda), Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan.

1993

  • ”9 Visages”, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France.*
  • ”Beauty unto Sickness 1-5”, Nishida Gallery, Nara, Japan.

1994

  • ”Psychoborg”, The Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo.
  • ”Psychoborg”, The Power Plant, Toronto; Walter Philips Gallery, Branff, Alberta, Canada.
  • ”Rembrandt Room”, Hara Art Museum, Tokyo.

1996

  • “Leg”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo.
  • “Beauty unto Sickness”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.
  • “From Van Gogh to Marilyn”, Satani Gallery, Tokyo.
  • “Actress Series”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo.
  • “Sharaku”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo.
  • “Self-portrait as art History 1-3”, Nishida Gallery, Nara, Japan.
  • “Actress Series”, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Musuem of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan.
  • “Hands”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo.
  • “Actress and Art History”, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia.

1997

  • ”Yasumasa Morimura, Actor/Actress”. The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA; The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA.
  • Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Paris.
  • “Monochrome”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo.
  • ”Kokoro o Kill”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo.
  • Art&Public, Geneva, Switzerland.

1998

  • ”Self-Portrait As Art History”; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kioto, Japan; Marugame Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan.
  • Galleria Severiarte, Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy.

1999

  • “New Bronze Works”, Nagai Gallery, Tokyo.
  • White Cube, London.
  • ”Daughter of Art History”, Luhring Augustine, New York.
  • ”Yasumasa Morimura: The Name with no Name, The Self with no Name”, The Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

2000

  • PhotoEspaña, La Fábrica, Madrid.
  • ”Fundacion Telefónica: Yasumasa Morimura Historia Del Arte”, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid.

2001

  • “Story of M’s Portrait”, Museum Eki, Kioto, Japan..
  • ”Self-Portraits: An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo”, Luhring Augustine, New York.
  • ”Self-Portraits: An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
  • ”Gallery Talk,” Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, New York.
  • ”A Hundred Polaroids” Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo, Japan.

2002

  • “Self-Portraits: An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo” Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid.
  • “A Story of M’s Self-portraits”, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan.
  • “A Photographic Show of murmur and hum”, Bunkamara Gallery, Tokyo.
  • “Inside the Studio, Yasumasa Morimura”, Japan Society, New York.
  • “Self-Portraits”, Ca di Fa, Milan, Italy.

2003

  • “Barco Negro on the table”, MEM, Osaka, Japan.
  • “The Artist’s treasures”, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan.
  • “Polyhedron of Yasumasa Morimura / Kalei de Scope”, B Gallery, Osaka Seiki University, Japan.

2005

  • “One Artist’s Theater”, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow.
  • “Los Nuevos Caprichos”. Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Luhring Augustine, New York; Galerie Taddeus Ropac, Paris; SHUGOARTS, Tokyo.
  • “Vermeers Room” MEM, Osaka, Japan.

2006

  • “Season of Pasión / A Réquiem: Chapter 1”, Shugoarts, Tokyo.
  • “An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo”, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc. Moscow.*
  • “Yasumasa Morimura – M´self portraits”, Galleria Cà di Frà. Milán, Italy.

2007

  • “Classroom of Art: Listen Quietrly”, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan.
  • “Yasumasa Morimura: Reflections”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Winsconsin, USA.
  • “Yasumasa Morimura. Requiem for the XX Century – Twilight of the turbulent Gods”, Foundazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venecia, Italy.
  • “Yasumasa Morimura. Requiem for the XX Century – Twilight of the turbulent Gods”, Luhring Augustine, New York.
  • “Classroom of Art: Listen Quietrly”. Yokohama Museum of Art. Yokohama, Japan.

2008

  • “Yasumasa Morimura. Requiem for the XX Century”, Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid.
  • “Yasumasa Morimura. Requiem for the XX Century – Twilight of the turbulent Gods”, Gallery Thaddeus Ropac, Paris.
  • “Yasumasa Morimura Cuato da Fillippo Maggia ”, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy

2010

  • “A Requiem / an another story” Shugoarts, Tokyo
  • “A Requiem / Art on the top of the battlefield”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Kobe.

2011

  • “Depicted People: Women and Men. The Power of the “Others”: Microcosm of Yasumasa Morimura,” the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan.
  • “A Requiem: Art on top of the Battlefield”. Galeria Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid, Spain.

2012

  • Morienniale/Imitating Art History, Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka / Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu
  • Invitation to Art History, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka

2013

  • Yasumasa Morimura: Theater of the Self at The Warhol. Andy Warhol Museum. Pittsburgh. EEUU
  • Rembrandt Room — Again, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • “Las Meninas renacen de noche”. Galería Shiseido. Tokyo

2014

  • “Las Meninas renacen de noche”. Galeria Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid

2017

  • “The history of self-portrait”. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Rusia

2018

  • “Yasumasa Morimura”. Luhring Augustine. Nueva York
  • “Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura”. Japan Society. Nueva York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1984

  • ”Can’t You See We Are Not Reticent?” Gallery Osaka, Osaka, JapAn.

1985

  • ”Smile with Radical Will”, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan.

1986

  • “The 4th Kyoto Art and Craft Exhibition”, Kyoto Municipal Art Hall, Kyoto, Japan.

1987

  • “Panache”, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
  • “Yes Art Deluxe”, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo/Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan.
  • “November East Wind”, P&P Gallery, Seoul.
  • “Photographic Aspect of Japanese Art Today”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts. Tochigi, Japan.

1988

  • ”Secret Understanding of the Image”, Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan.
  • ART NOW ’88, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan.
  • La Biennale Di Venezia, Aperto ’88, Venice, Italy.
  • “East Meets West: Japanese and Italian Art Today, ART/LA ’88”, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles.

1989

  • ”Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties”, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA; Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA; MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, England; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA.
  • ”Art Exciting’89 – Beyond the Present”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
  • ”Europalia ’89 JAPAN – Japanese Contemporary Art 1989”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gante, Belgium.
  • ”Reorienting: Looking East”, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland.

1990

  • ”Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.
  • ”Beyond the Photography Frame: 11 Recent Works”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan.
  • ”Japanese Contemporary Photography – Twelve Viewpoints”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Pavillon des Arts, Paris.
  • ”Japanische Kunst der 80 Jahre”, Frankfurter Kunst, Frankfurt; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburgo, Germany; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna.
  • ”Images in Transition”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
  • ”Japan Art Today – Elusive Perspective/ Changing Visions”, The Cultural Centre of Stockholm, Estocolmo, Sweden; The Exhibition Hall Charlottenborg, Copenhague, Denmark; The Helsinki Municipal Museum, Helsinki, Finland; The Reykjavik Municipal Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Reykjavik, Island.
  • ”Art of Arts Man among Men”, Gallery NW House, Tokyo, Japan.
  • “Camera Culture: Curriculum Vitae 10:18” Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, USA.

1991

  • ”Metropolis”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
  • ”Japanart”, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Art Gallery of Southern Australia, Adelaide.
  • ”Transmission”, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden.
  • ”Problem Series Part 2”, Recent Gallery, Sapporo, Japan.
  • ”Zones of Love: Contemporary Art from Japan” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
  • ”A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Post – Modern Japan”, Tate Gallery Liverpool, England; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Malmo Konsthall, Sweden.

1992

  • ”Quotations”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA; Dayton Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, USA.
  • ”Post-Human”, Musee d’art Contemporain Pully, Lausanne, Switzerland; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburgo, Hamburg.
  • ”Homage to Spanish Still Life by Yasumasa Morimura & Miran Fukuda”, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan.
  • ”Illusions et Travestissements”, A.B. Galeries, Paris.

1993

  • ”Building a Collection, Part I”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
  • ”Dress Codes”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA.
  • ”High Impact-After Image”, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York.
  • ”Slittamenti”, Aperto ’93, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
  • ”Montage ’93”, Addison Gallery of Art, Andover, USA.
  • ”Imagemakers”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York.
  • ”Wit on Why: Humor in Photography”, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York.

1994

  • ”Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century”, Spiral Garden, Tokyo.
  • ”Psycoh-pathology of Everyday Life”, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
  • ”Family Values”, The Hammond Galleries, Lancaster Festival, Lancaster, Ohio, USA.
  • ”Lest We Forget: On Nostalgia”, The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York.
  • ”Bad Girls”, The New Museum, New York.
  • ”Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky”, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.
  • ”Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography”, The Light Factory, Charlotte, USA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA.
  • ”On Nostalgia”, The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York.
  • ”Persona Cognita”, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Germany.
  • ”From Beyond the Pale”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
  • ”Quotation: Re-presenting History”, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.

1995

  • ”Going for Baroque”, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA.
  • ”Cocido y Crudo”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
  • ”Narcissistic Disturbance”, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.
  • ”Japan Today”, Museum of Modern Art Louisiana, Dinamarca; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland; Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stocolm; Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna.
  • ”More than Real”, Royal Palace, Casaerta, Italy.
  • ”Duchamp’s Leg”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA.

1996

  • ”Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves”, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, USA.
  • ”The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Conteporary Art”, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia.
  • 10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
  • ”1996 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts”, Melbourne, Australia.
  • ”Everything That’s Interesting Is New”. Athens School Of Fine Art, Atenas, Greece.
  • ”Yasumasa Morimura: From Van Gogh to Marilyn” Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
  • ”Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition”, Guggenheim Downtown, New York.

1997

  • ”Mirror Enough”, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York.
  • ”Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose”, Guggenheim Museum, New York.
  • ”Japanishe Photografie der Gegenwart”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
  • ”Altared Egos”, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York.
  • ”Spring Exhibitions”, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.
  • ”1 Minute Scenario”, Le Printemps de Cahors. France.
  • ”About Face: Artists’ Portraits in Photography”, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, USA.
  • ”Selected Works from the LINC Group Collection”, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, Chicago, USA.

1998

  • ”Recycling Art History”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, USA.
  • ”La Fotografia Y La Moda”, Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid.
  • ”Rosso Vivo”, PAC-Padiglione d’Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
  • ”A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.

1999

  • ”Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
  • ”New Modernism for a new Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
  • ”Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Haus der Kunst, Munich.
  • ”Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850- 2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA.
  • ”Who’s That Girl” Sandra Gering Gallery, Nueva York; Palazzo Lanfranchi, Lungarno Gambacorti, Pisa, Italy.
  • ”Skin”, Deste Foundation Center For Contemporary Art, Athens.

2000

  • ”The Paris Mint Museum Exhibition”, Museum of la Monnaie, Paris.
  • ”Le Sourires de Monna Lisa”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
  • ”Human and Gender” – The 3rd Kwangju Biennale Special Exhibition, Kwangju, Korea.
  • ”Cos-Play”, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam.
  • ”Department Store of Contemporary Art”, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan.
  • ”World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
  • ”Exhibition for children 2000”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
  • ”Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space”, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw.
  • ”Contemporary Photography from Japan”, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Holland.
  • ”Beauty Now”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
  • ”Zona F”, Espai d’Art Contemporani, Valencia, Spain.
  • ”Skin”, Deste Foundation, Atenas, Greece.
  • ”Modernite Japonaise”, Monnaie de Paris, Paris.
  • ”Making Light: Wit and Humor in Photography” The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poghkeepsie, New York.
  • ”Staged: Constructions of Reality in Contemporary Photography”, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York.
  • ”Narcisse Blesse: Autoportraits contemporains 1970-2000”, Passage de Retz, Paris.
  • ”Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography.” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA.
  • ”Contemporary Group Show”, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium.
  • ”Olympia Redux- Contemporary Artists Lookat Eduard Manet”, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawai.
  • ”Photography Now”, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA.
  • ”Contemporary Photography from Japan”, De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, Holland

2001

  • ”Debut”, Rice Gallery, Tokyo.
  • ”ABBILD – Recent Portraiture and Depiction” Landsmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
  • Comunicacion Entre las Artes, Bienal de Valencia, Spain.
  • ”Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel”, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, USA.
  • ”Morimura Self-Portraits” An Inner Dialogue With Frida Kahlo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
  • ”A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Loga Collection” CCAC Institute, Oakland, CA, USA.
  • ”Identities: Contemporary Portraiture” New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, Nueva Jersey, USA.
  • ”Installed Collections/Collections Installed” Mason Gross School of the Arts/Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
  • ”Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art”, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New York.

2002

  • ”Tableaux Vivants. Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film and Video”, Kunstalle Wien, Vienna.
  • ”Wonderland”, Aeroplastics, Brussels.
  • ”Chameleon Dreams”, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, USA.
  • ”Future Plan”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan.
  • ”Masquerade”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, USA.
  • ”Two of us”, L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • ”The Floating World and Beyond”, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA.
  • ”Art Downtown”, Wall Street Rising, New York.

2003

  • ”Happiness”, Mori art Museum, Tokyo.
  • ”Supernova: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection”, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA.
  • ”Influence, Anxiety & Gratitude”, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • ”Genomic Issue(s): Art and Science”, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York.
  • ”The History of Japanese Photography”, Organized by the Japan Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA.
  • ”Role Play Self-Portrait Photography”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

2004

  • ”20th Anniversary Exhibition: The Copy Age – From Duchamps Through Warhol to Morimura”, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan.
  • ”The 1st Contemporary Art Concours”, (Director and Producer), Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan.
  • ”Takarazuka: The Land of Dreams”, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo; Sogo Museum, Yokohama, Japan.
  • ”Confronting Tradition: Contemporary Art from Kyoto”, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA.
  • ”Commodities Celebrities Death & Disaster”, Salina Art Center, Kansas, USA.
  • ”Made in Mexico”, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA, USA; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
  • ”Camouflage, Surrogates, and Other Divisionary Tactics”, The Rashofsky House, Dallas, TX, USA.
  • ”Imag(in)ing the West: Photographs by Michiko Kon, Dinh Q. Le, Nikki Lee, Yasumasa Morimura and Tseng Kwong Chi” The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louise, MI, USA.
  • “N(E)ORRETRATOS” Juana de Aizpuru Gallery. Madrid.

2005

  • ”Here Comes the Bogey-Man”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York.
  • ”Recent Acquisitions 2005: Some Versions of the Portrait”, International Center of Photography, New York.
  • ”Rising Sun, Melting Moon. Contemporary Art in Japan”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
  • ”Post Modern Portraiture”, The Logan Collection, Vail Colorado, USA.
  • “Fusion – Aspects of Asian Culture in the Musac Collection”, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain.
  • “Superstars – Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.
  • “Superstars: Von Warhol bis Madonna”. BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
  • “On Conceptual Clothing”, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan.
  • “Here Comes The Bogey-Man”, CAM – Chelsea Art Museum, New York.
  • “Nueva tecnología-nueva iconografía-nueva fotografía” Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain.
  • “Smoke and Mirrors”, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

2006

  • “Masquerade: Role-Playing in Self-Portraiture”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA, Los Angeles.
  • “Marilyn”, The Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX, USA.
  • “Up To Date – Monsen Collects Contemporary” Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  • “Das Achte Feld – Geschlechter, Leben u. Begehren in der bildenden Kunsts. 1960” Museum Ludwig, Am Dom, Colonia, Germany.
  • “Figures of the Player, theParadox of the Actor” Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.
  • “Acting the Part – Photography as Theatre” National Gallery of Canada – Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • “Collection on View” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.
  • “Collection 1”, The National Museum of Art – Osaka, Japan.

2007

  • “Life as a Legend – Marilyn Monroe”, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
  • “Marilyn Monroe – Life as a Legend”, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA.
  • “Celebrity”, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
  • “An Incomplete World: Works from the UBS Art Collection”, The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney, Australia.
  • “Colección Norte de Arte Contemporáneo”. Casas del Águila y la Parra de Santillana del Mar, Santander, Spain.

2008

  • “La Performance Expandida”. Caja Sol. Sevilla, Spain.
  • “Art is for the spirit: Works from the Ubs Art Collection” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
  • “Into the Atomic Sunshine”. The Puffin Room. New York.
  • “The Masked Portrait”. Marianne Boesky Gallery. New York.
  • “Imagenes Magicas” Founfation Rafael Boti. Cordoba, Spain
  • “Still/Motion: Liquid Crystal Painting”, Mie: Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Osaka: National Museum of Art, Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography,
  • “Prospect.1 New Orleans”, The U.S. Mint Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • “Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love”, Bangkok Art Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
  • “Asian Dub Photography“, FONDAZIONE Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy
  • “Busan Biennale 2008”, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Gwangalli Beach, APEC Naru Park…etc
  • “International triennnale of contemporary Art 2008”, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
  • “ART IS FOR THE SPIRIT: Works from The UBS Art Collection” Mori Museum, Tokyo
  • “GOYA Les Caprices” Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
  • “The Images of Human Being”, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma

2009

  • “Camuflajes”. La Casa Encendida. Madrid. Spain.
  • “¡Grande Hazaña! Con muertos. Sala Puertanueva. Córdoba, Spain
  • “IMPACTE!” Fundacio Vallpalou, Lleida, Spain
  • “HUÉSPED colección music en el MNBA”, Museo de Arte de Castilla, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2010

  • “Camuflajes” Itinerancy of the exhibition in Casa Encendida, Madrid. Espacio para el Arte Caja Madrid, Zaragoza. Museo del Patrimonio Municipal de Málaga. Barcelona. Spain.
  • “De Pictura en defensa de la belleza”. EMAT Espai Metropolità d’Art de Torrent. Valencia, Spain.
  • ARCO’10. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. Madrid, Spain.
  • FRIEZE. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. London, United Kingdom.
  • “The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life,” Galerie Lelong, New York
  • “Il Trucco e le Maschere” Curated by Danilo Eccher, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy.
  • “Decadence NOW! Visions of Excess” Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • “Look Again,” Curated by Casey Fremont and Karline Moeller, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
  • “More Photographs than Bricks” Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
  •  “Portraiture – A Voice from Silent Figures” the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  •  “Twenty Five” Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
  • “Until Now” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

2011

  •  “Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation” Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.
  • “Role Models- Role Playing” Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
  • FRIEZE. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. London, United Kingdom.

2012

  • ART BASEL. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. Basel

2014

  • ZONA MACO. Stand Juana de Aizpuru gallery. México

2015

  • “Mundo digno de ser amado”. Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museo de Arte Contemporáneo

2016

  • “Mirad las Ecke Homo humanos modernos seres”. Museo Nacional de Arte. Osaka
  • “Performing for the camera”. TATE Modern. Londres

2018

  • Cultura y simulacro. Reflexiones en torno a la identidad en la Colección Norte. Biblioteca Central de Cantabria, sala Concepción Arenal. Spain

WORK IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

MUSAC. León, Spain.
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Museo de Bellas Artes Santander, Spain.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles.
Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, USA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington.
Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu. Honolulu, Hawaii. USA.
Museum Of Fine Arts. Boston, Massachusetts. USA.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, Texas. USA.