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): Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein • Carmine Coppola • Hugh Laurie • Joey Graham • José Bové • Lucy Pickens • Magda Gabor • Peter Dinklage • Sandra Schmirler • Sebastian Bayer

Born in the same month (June 1951): Arnold Mühren • Ayman al-Zawahiri • Brad Delp • Brian Cookson • Bronisław Malinowski (runner) • Dan Fouts • Deniece Williams • Francesco Moser • Gary Gilmour • Howard Leese • Humphrey Ocean • John Redwood • Leigh Kennedy • Mark Shand • Mary McAleese • Melanie Phillips • Miriam Flynn • Starhawk • Steve Walsh (musician) • Tress MacNeille • Vance A. Larson