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Founded by artist Takashi Murakami, the gallery opened in 2008 as a place to introduce artists managed by Murakami in Japan. In addition to creating social value for art through the management and sales of artists' work, it also contributes to the development of the Japanese art scene as a whole by providing prominent overseas artists with opportunities to exhibit in Tokyo. Major artists include Mr., Aya Takano, Chiho Aoshima, Ob, Emi Kuraya, Madsaki, Tengaone, Otani Workshop, and Mori Murata. Guest artists include Futura, Kasing Lung, T9G, Shoko Nakazawa, and Hideyasu Moto.

Otani Workshop “When I was Seventeen, I learned about Giacometti from my art teacher and became drawn to sculpture— and so I make sculptures now.”