We Are The Square Jocular Clan 10

TAKASHI MURAKAMI 

We Are The Square Jocular Clan 10

offset print and cold stamp

475 x 475 mm each 

Takashi Murakami (b.1962) trained in Nihonga at Tokyo University of the Arts (PhD, 1993). Around 2000 he introduced Superflat, his influential theory linking the planar aesthetics of Japanese art—from Edo screens to manga—to postwar consumer culture. His work has been the subject of major surveys including “©MURAKAMI” (MOCA LA; Brooklyn Museum; MMK Frankfurt; Guggenheim Bilbao, 2007–09), “Lineage of Eccentrics” (MFA Boston, 2017–18), and “Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow” (The Broad, 2022; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025). He founded Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., a studio-publisher that sustains his large-scale paintings and sculptures and a globally collected print program spanning silkscreens, archival pigment works, and offset lithographs, often enhanced with metallic foils and high-gloss varnishes. Murakami describes his practice as a continual “backcrossing” of historical and pop vocabularies, an art of joyful surfaces and complex memory.

"We Are the Square Jocular Clan #10" is an offset lithograph created by Takashi Murakami for his 2018 series "We Are the Square Jocular Clan". From the edition of 300, the artwork is signed and annotated lower right