Takeshi Murata

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Untitled (Pink Dot), 2007.
Image courtesy of the artist, Empty Gallery, Ratio 3 and Salon 94.

Multi video loop (Timewarp Experiment, No Match, Infinite Doors), 2007 – 2011.

Image courtesy of the artist, Empty Gallery, Ratio 3 and Salon 94.

Flag, 2017.
Image courtesy of the artist, Empty Gallery, Ratio 3 and Salon 94.

Image courtesy of the artist, Empty Gallery, Ratio 3 and Salon 94.

Melter 2, 2003.
Image courtesy of the artist, Empty Gallery, Ratio 3 and Salon 94.

[left] Om Rider, 2013-14.
[right] Night Moves, 2012.

Image courtesy of the artist, Empty Gallery, Ratio 3 and Salon 94.

Untitled (Silver), 2006.
Image courtesy of the artist, Empty Gallery, Ratio 3 and Salon 94.

Takeshi Murata graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Film/Video/Animation. His work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, The Kitchen, Eyebeam, New York Underground Film Festival; Smack Mellon, Deitch Projects, Anthology Film Archive, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; FACT Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, among many others. Early solo exhibitions include Black Box: Takeshi Murata at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. in 2007. Other recent solo exhibitions were held at Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway; Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; Salon 94, New York; and Ratio 3, San Francisco, United States.

Education

B.F.A. in Film/Video/Animation, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1997

Solo Exhibitions

2017
Living Room, Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo, Japan
Infinite Doors, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong
1000 Years, Ratio 3, San Francisco
2016
Second Nature, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015
Takeshi Murata, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
2014
Takeshi Murata: OM Rider, Salon 94, New York, NY
2013
Takeshi Murata: Midnight, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Takeshi Murata: Mortality, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2012
Synthesizers, Salon 94, New York, NY
2011
Get Your Ass to Mars, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2008
Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2007
Escape Spirit VideoSlime, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Damage Control, Gallery.Sora, Tokyo, Japan
Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Black Box: Takeshi Murata, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Lift 02: Takeshi Murata, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Two, The Reliance (The Approach), London
2006
Silver Equinox, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2017
Nerve Center, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Broken Language, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
After Us, curated by Lauren Cornell, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016
The Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
At Home, curated by Dan Nadel, Launch F18, New York, NY
2015 - 2016
The Metabolic Age, curated by Chus Martínez, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentin
2015
HQTBD | Still/Life, Basilca Hudson, Hudson, NY
2014
Early Man, The Hole, New York, NY
Spaced Out: Migration To The Interior, Curated by Phong Bui, Redbull Studios, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Rewritten by Machine and New Technology: Video Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Speculative Materialism Oo Oo, Leclere-Maison de Ventes aux Encheres, Marseille, France
2013
ANAMERICANA, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Empire State: New York Art Now, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
the poetics of mountains, their mutations and multifarious things, Presented by Artprojx. Verbier 3-D as part of its ‘Mutations’ programme, Verbier, Switzerland
The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, NY
The Mother of Design, Marunouchi House, New York, NY
How Things are Made, Spot Welders, New York, NY
Time Moving and Storage: Takeshi Murata, James Ferraro, Ben Jones, Loyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden