Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of recognizable artworks and figures from art history, history, and mass media through his adoption of personas that transcend national, ethnic, gendered, and racial boundaries. Across his photographic and performative series, Morimura's works explore a number of interconnected themes, including: the nature of identity and its ability to undergo change, postcolonialism, authorship, and the Western view of Japan – and Asia, more broadly – as feminine.

11 June 1951

Born on the same birth day (11 June): Alexander Peacock • Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein • Ayaka Sasaki • Ben Jonson • Dave Cash (baseball) • George Wither • Henry Hill • Hugh Laurie • James F. Schenck • Joey Graham • John W. O'Malley • Johnny Neel • Kit Pedler • Lynsey de Paul • Marsel İlhan • Richard Strauss • Stephen Graham (basketball) • William Baziotes • William Styron

Born in the same month (June 1951): Alan Hudson • Brad Delp • Eva Bayer-Fluckiger • Howard Leese • James Newton Howard • Julia Duffy • Leigh Kennedy • Mick Cronin (rugby league) • Mona-Lisa Pursiainen • Stanley Clarke • Stephen Hopper • Tony Mundine (boxer) • Ulf Andersson