Daisuke Murata


Daisuke Murata
  • PhD Candidate
  • Modern and Contemporary Japanese Visual Arts, 19th–21st Centuries
  • Issues in Classical Gardens of China and Japan, 15th–19th Centuries
  • Korean and Japanese Ceramics, 5th Century–1945
  • ​Modern and Contemporary Korean Art

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Biography

Daisuke Murata’s main interest is East Asian Art with focus on the Japanese and global modernisms. Before coming to the department, he worked for the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2003–2013) and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (2015­–2020). Curated exhibitions include Ron Mueck (2008), Hiroshi Sugimoto—History of History (2008), and Kyosai Kawanabe (2019).



Fields of Study

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Visual Arts, 19th–21st Centuries

Issues in Classical Gardens of China and Japan, 15th–19th Centuries

Korean and Japanese Ceramics, 5th Century–1945

​Modern and Contemporary Korean Art

Education

M.A. in Art Histor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
M.A., Kwansei Gakuin University
B.A., Kwansei Gakuin University