Mariko Mori

Mariko Mori is considered to be one of the most important Japanese artists working today. She creates photographs, video art, sculpture, drawings, and installation work that explores the interconnected nature of our universe. Interested in manifestations of culture—from Manga and the cyber world to ancient history—Mori executes colorful art that blends a pop culture aesthetic with art historical imagery and conflates past and present in alternate realities; through her artistic practice, too, Mori has managed to marry technology-related themes with quieter reflections on mysticism and religion. This combination of disparate ideas has resulted in a singular and poignant body of work that ranges from early images of Mori herself costumed as a cyborg heroine to later series concerned with ancient cultures such as that of Japan’s Jomon period or Europe’s Celtic civilization.

Mori’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at notable institutions worldwide including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum, the Japan Society in New York, the Groninger Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, the Prada Foundation in Milan, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.