White Kitten, Yellow Sponge, Puppy

White Kitten & Yellow Sponge, 2012
wood cube, glue, acrylic, and varnish (left) 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 2 5/8 in. (right) 7 x 10 x 7 in.



Puppy (stroll ver.), 2012
wood cube, glue, acrylic, lacquer, collar and leash 12 x 10.5 x 4.5 in.

Playing The Game

 
My first show in Italy! Sono davvero contento!

PLAYING THE GAME @ O' Artoteca, Milan, Italy - October 27, 28

NIPPLE

 
NIPPLE, a new series since last year! This series simply bring to show the beauty of the women body in 8-bit, pixelated, and like computer-language style. I created this series by mixing two ideas that I was considering for a last few years. The first one is to make something erotic because the famous Murakami teaches the younger artists should have artworks contain the themes like Love, Life and Death, Sex, all those kinds of humankind things that I haven't had. The another idea is very simple, I just wanted to make something with only bitmaps and put the two ideas together.

Piano, Violin, and Note!

Piano, 2012
wood cube, glue, acrylic, lacquer, and hinge 22 x 18 x 30 in.
Note,
2012 wood cube, glue, acrylic, and lacquer 20 x 14 x 6 in.
Violin,
2012 wood cube, glue, acrylic, and lacquer 28 x 14 x 5.5 in.

These three 3D-8Bit sculptures were made for the group show of Beethoven Festival 2012 in Chicago on last Sep. Here shows how we made.

Beethoven Festival 2012

It's a nice opportunity to be part of a great festival and trying something new! Those my new three sculptures such as Piano, Violin, and Note on the floor were shown there in Chicago.

Beethoven Festival: REVOLUTION 2012, September 8-17
International Beethoven Project

Parks in Italy and Japan!

 
Random Sempione Park, 2012
stamp ink and resin on claybord each 5 x 5 inches

Some new works for group show PLAYING THE GAME in Italy!

New Icons!

 
New icons for new 2 map works of parks in Italy and Japan!

Parco Sempione
http://goo.gl/maps/BLh6k

Tokyo Imperial Palace
http://goo.gl/maps/THoHE

Beautiful Forms

 
Best beautiful forms I ever saw that I found when I was painting with acrylics!

Random #8bit NYC

Random NYC, 2012
stamp ink and resin on claybord each 5 x 5 in.

This series show some part such as, yellow cab, tall buildings, Central Park, a lot of squirrels, and sightseeing points in New York City! I use my orginal designed stamps to make and putting a resin for coating. Each piece is original as well but I put really cheap price because now I am not a popular yet so just want more people own my work. Please try this Random NYC to start enjoying my art world, thanks :-)

Available on my web shop!

Open Studio for Go!

There is an open studio for GO as an exhibition of Brooklyn Museum last weekends! We were actually not part of it because to be just late to apply to it... but our building have some galleries on the first floor and a lot of artists' studio so people came and it was still really good opportunity :-)

http://www.gobrooklynart.org/

Vanilla Bubbles for Citydrift

Vanilla Bubbles:
Vanilla smelled bubbles are wafting with my desire and hope that Bushwick will be a place where people will gather. A lot of dessert, flower, and fragrance shops might open around this area in the near future. Do you smell vanilla around here today? Does anyone know a new ice cream shop opened recently?

September 7, 2012

Love street after all

I really love the street after all!
The moving makes me so feel good and turn to the totally positive. It's kind of a drug, I think :-(

Boco around people!

A lot of Boco-chan is around people now!
Here's bunch of photos took by them. Thanks my friends!

I Am Sad Now in Tower Records

I Am Sad Now is coming up in Tower Records in Tokyo now!

I Am Sad Now (sample sounds here)
Amazon.co.jp

I Am Sad Now

I Am Sad Now is released now!
It's a Japanese solo musician Shishidohinata's another instrumental project, and this features my original character Boco-chan as really good as you can see.

I Am Sad Now (sample sounds are here)
Amazon.co.jp
Shishidohinata

8-bit sketches for ComicFoto

My 8-bit sketches design for iPhone photo stamp app is now on sale!

ComicFoto (English)
ComicFoto 写真加工カメラアプリ

写真加工アプリ【ComicFoto】スタンプ提供アーティスト！vol.2～SHINJI MURAKAMI～

Cats Town Cafe Opened!

My friend and her husband opened cafe in Tokyo on May 22. Congratulations!
And they have my latest original work Cats Town made for them!

BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS 2012

On last weekend I was joining in BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS with my studio mate!

Bushwick Open Studios 2012
Bushwick Open Studios 2012 - CHAIN, SHINJI MURAKAMI

My first collected work

My artwork "Chippewa Square" was accepted to be the collection of Telfair Museums in Georgia, as my first donation. Yay!

Chippewa Square

Chippewa Square, 2012
acrylic and resin on wood panel 48 x 48 in.

Google Maps 8-bit for NES

The boom of 8-bit map is coming now! Yay!

Limited Edition Items available!

The new some limited edition items are now available on my web shop!
http://shinjimurakami.bigcartel.com/

Other artists of Game Change!

Over ten talented artists are working on this great exhibition together!
I mostly love Mary Flanagan's work [pile of secrets: jump].

Game Change: Videogames as Art Medium and inspiration

My museum debut!

Some photos from my brilliant museum debut at Telfair museum in Savannah, Georgia on last Monday! I am still very exciting about this great opportunity.

Game Change: Videogames as Art Medium and inspiration

Game Change: PULSE Art and Technology Festival 2012

http://telfair.org/museum-events/specialevents/pulse-2012/pulse-2012-schedule/
http://telfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/8.5-x-11-pulse-schedulev2.pdf


Dear Friends,

I am so happy to announce the group exhibition Game Change of the art festival PULSE Art and Technology Festival 2012 at Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia. The festival will be started on February 27 until March 3, but the group exhibition is going through to April 1.

The exhibition brings you my 6 artworks from some new works and a selection of past works. If you plan on being in Georgia between next Monday February 27 and Sunday April 1 you may be able to check out my brilliant museum debut!


このグループ展で、僕は新作と過去の作品を含めた６作品を展示します。　もし2/27(月)〜4/1(日)にジョージア州に行かれる予定がある方 は、僕のミュージアム・デビューをぜひご覧になって下さい。　よろしくお願いします！


Best,
Shinji

Some new works

Life and Death, 2012
wood block, glue, acrylic and resin 7 x 6 x 5 in. each

Strategy Guide

Here is the 2 Strategy Guide that I got a little while ago!
I had already had much Japanese strategy guides, but the language expression between Japanese and English is pretty different, that's why I still need.

Wii and new Zelda!

Finally! I got a Wii and new Zelda as the reward for myself to finished the recent art work.

Bonsai Fine Arts!

Last Friday, professional art shippers were coming from Bonsai Fine Arts and packing my stuff as very very well for the art fair on this March!

I just thought the 2 guys were like a young packing skywalker and his master. They have nice force for art :-) The time to see their work is really useful for my future. Now I know where I can get the cheap packing stuff. Yey!

Bonsai Fine Arts
ULINE

Maurizio Cattelan: All

Saw a show "Maurizio Cattelan: All" a few days ago at Guggenheim Museum.
It's a best brilliant solo show ever!

I actually don't like kind of art that to understand hard for people don't have some knowledge for art history. But his are different because a lot of kids are coming and very very exciting about it :-) I know of course his art has a tough concept and long history. I hope I could make kids very exciting with my own stuff one day.

My first profile photo!

I took my first profile photo.
Thanks again, Taka-san!!

Photo by Takahiro Ogawa

Modern Painters Presents 100 Artists To Watch

I can't believe this happening that now my artwork is choosen on the list of Modern Painters Presents 100 Artists To Watch, here. I knew this happened yesterday as the last day of 2011, and today is a best brilliant new year day ever!

http://artinfo.com/photo-galleries/modern-painters-presents-100-artists-to-watch-part-4-of-5?image=12