Dream temple mariko mori

As one of Japan's representative artists, Mariko Mori works internationally and is currently based in New York, her work featured in numerous solo exhibitions in art museums and galleries abroad.

Mori's professional career began in the mid-nineties, attracting attention for photographic works in which she herself features in the futuristic portrayals of young women in Japanese urban settings.

This was followed by a shift to a more profound and spiritual perspective, and in recent years Mori has been creating large-scale, highly finished three-dimensional works. Every new work by Mori adds to her reputation. Major solo exhibitions have been held at the Prada Foundation in 1999, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2002, and the University Museum's Koishikawa Annex at the University of Tokyo in 2004.

Most recently Mori garnered wide acclaim for her representative work Wave UFO, exhibited at the 2005 Venice Biennale.

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