Yasumasa Morimura
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[[Image:'Self Portrait, After Marilyn Monroe', --Gelatin-silver process-gelatin silver print-- by --Yasumasa Morimura--, 1996, --The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu--.jpg|thumb|right|'Self Portrait, After Marilyn Monroe', [[Gelatin-silver process|gelatin silver print]] by [[Yasumasa Morimura]], 1996, [[The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu]]]]
[[Image:'An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring)', photograph by --Yasumasa Morimura--.jpg|thumb|right|'An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring)', photograph by [[Yasumasa Morimura]]]]
'''Yasumasa Morimura''' (森村 泰昌, [[June 11]] [[1951]] - ) is a Japanese [[appropriation art]]ist. He was born in [[Osaka]] and graduated from [[Kyoto City University of Arts]] in 1978. Since 1985, Yasumasa Morimura has primarily shown his work in international solo exhibitions, although he has been involved in various group exhibitions.
Yasumasa Morimura borrows images from historical artists (ranging from [[Edouard Manet]] to [[Rembrandt]] to [[Cindy Sherman]]), and inserts his own face and body into them.<ref>Harumi Befu and Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, ''Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe and America'', Routledge, 2003, p142. ISBN 0415244129</ref> His work engages with issues of gender,<ref>Alyce Mahon, ''Eroticism & Art'', Oxford University Press, 2005, p262. ISBN 0192801872</ref> and challenges both Western and Japanese notions of good taste.<ref>Hugh Honour, ''A World History of Art'', Laurence King Publishing, 2005, p891. ISBN 1856694518</ref>
Among others, Morimura's exhibitions have been shown at the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]] (1992), the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jouy-en-Josas, [[France]] (1993), the [[Hara Art Museum]] in Hara, Japan (1994), the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]] (1994), the [[Yokohama Museum of Art]] in Yokohama, Japan (1996),[[Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego]] (2006), and the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia (2007).
In his most recent and most extravagant reproduction, Morimura created a series of hybrid self-portraits modeled after the art of [[Frida Kahlo]].
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Morimura, Yasumasa, ''Daughter of art history: photographs by Yasumasa Morimura'', New York, Aperture, 2003.
* Winnipeg Art Gallery, ''Quotation, re-presenting history : David Buchan, Sorel Cohen, Evergon, Dany Leriche, Al McWilliams, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman'', Winnipeg, Man., Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1994.
==External links==
* [http://morimura-ya.com Official Website] (Japanese) Official Yasumasa Morimura website
* [http://morimura-ya.com/gallery/index.html Gallery] A gallery of works at Morimura official website
* [http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=75 Yasumasa Morimura] at Luhring Augustine Gallery
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/yasumasa_morimura.htm Saatchi Gallery] Additional information on Yasumasa Morimura including artworks, articles, text panels and full biography
* [http://www.mem-inc.jp/me.html Yasumasa Morimura] at MEM INC.
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