Takashi Murakami Biography, Age, Height, Family, Net Worth

Takashi Murakami is a famous Japanese contemporary pop artist. He works in fine arts media including paintings, sculptures, as well as commercials such as fashion, merchandise, and animations. Takashi is well known for blurring his arts in between fine arts and commercial arts. He coined the term “super flat” which describes both the aesthetic and characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition. Takashi Murakami creates paintings, sculptures, and films populated by repeated motifs and mutating characters of his own creation. His wide-ranging work embodies an intersection of pop culture, history, and fine arts.

Takashi is the founder and president of Kaikai Kiki Co, Ltd, through which he gives a platform for several younger artists.

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“ We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future. Even if it’s momentarily, it is the moment in which, even if we don’t completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call Art” – Takashi Murakami

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Born on February 1, 1962, Takashi is a contemporary Japanese artist. From early on, he was a fan of anime( Hand-drawn and computer animations) and Manga(Comics and graphics originating from Japan). He attended “Tokyo University Of Arts” to acquire the drafting skills necessary to become an animator, but eventually majored in Nihonga(Japanese paintings from about 1900 onwards respectively). Murakami earned a BA, MFA, and Ph.D. from Tokyo University of Arts. In 1996 he established the Hiropan Factory, a studio/ workshop that in subsequent years grew into an art production and artist management company now known as Kaikai Kiki Co, Ltd.

Murakami was dissatisfied with the state of contemporary arts in Japan believing and comparing that it should be deep with appreciation with western style trends. His famous pieces of artistic creation lies in the infamous My Lonesome Cowboy(1998) and Hiropon(1997). The sculpture is of a naked anime character with blonde spiky hair with a spiral trail of semen circling him. He gradually became disillusioned with its insular, highly political world and started to explore more contemporary artistic styles, media and strategies.

Real Name	Takashi Murakami
Nick Name	Takashi
Birth Place	Tokyo, Japan
Date Of Birth	February 1, 1962
Age(as of 2021)	59 Years
Zodiac Sign	Aquarius
Nationality	Japanese
Profession	Artist



Takashi Murakami Age

As per Takashi Murakami’s date of birth, his age is 59 Years(as of now, in 2021). 

Takashi Murakami Height and Weight

Takashi Murakami’s height is an unknown source of information as of now but we will update you regarding this soon and his weight is approximately 60 kg.

Takashi Murakami Career 

Takashi’s career took off to the point of huge success when he created the infamous sculpture “My Lonesome Cowboy” which became the most expensive piece to date selling for $ 15.2 m  at Sotheby’s New York auction in 2008. Efforts from this period include performance art (Osaka Mixer Project, 1992), parodies of the “Message” popular art of Japan in the 90s.

He also began developing his own pop icon “Mr. DOB” which on later developed into a form of self-portraiture, the first of several endlessly morphing and recurring motifs are seen throughout his work. Though he garnered attention, many of his early pieces were not initially well-received in Japan.

Murakami has expressed since early on a frustration with the lack of a reliable and sustainable art market in post-war Japan. Largely for this reason he formulated a strategy wherein he first established himself in the western art world and then import him back to Japan, building a new type of art market in the process of gaining a name for his aesthetic masterpiece collection of sculptures and artworks.

Takashi Murakami Achievement’s

In 1994, Murakami received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council and participated in the PS1 international studio program in New York City. During his stay, he was exposed to and highly inspired by western contemporary artists such as Anselm Kiefer(A famous german painter and sculptor)

In 2002, at the invitation of designer Marc Jacobs, Murakami began his long-lasting collaboration with the fashion brand Louis Vuitton. He began by contributing artwork that was used in the design of series in branded handbags. The series re-envisioned the company monogram and was a huge commercial success.

Takashi Murakami Collaboration’s

Takashi in 2007 provided the cover artwork for rapper Kanye West’s album graduation and directed an animated music video for west’s song “ Good Morning”.He also provided cover artwork for west’s 2018 collaboration album “ Kid See Ghosts with Kid Cudi which became a 

major appreciation piece or work and gained huge appreciation from the audience for both artists.

In 2018, he collaborated with the fashion designer, Virgil Abloh on a series of artworks, bringing the fashion world to the art world but ultimately transcending both to create something more. Both of the renowned artists appeared as a feature cover of Magazine’s Fall 2018.

In March 2019, Billie Eilish released the official music video “For you should See Me In Crown” directed and animated by Takashi Murakami. The video features the “Blohsh”, Eilish signature logo as well as Murakami artwork flowers.