National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland; UBS Art Collection, Zurich. Awards Awards 2011: The Order of the Purple Ribbon 2011: Photographic Society of Japan Award 2011: 24th Kyoto Artistic Culture Prize 2016: Osaka Culture Prize Nominations 1996: Nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize 2006: Nominated for the Kyoto Cultural Merit Award 2007: Nominated for the Minister of Education for Fine Arts 2011: Nominated for the 52nd Mainichi Art Award Honorary titles 2004–2006: Artist-in-Residence Fellow, International Research Center for the Arts, Kyoto, Japan 2013: Selected as Person of Cultural Merit in Kyoto City 2014: Artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan Publications 1996: The Sickness Unto Beauty: Self-Portrait as Actress 1998: Morimura Yasumasa: Self-Portrait as Art History 2003: Daughter of Art History: Photographs by Yasumasa Morimura 2007: On Self-Portrait: Through the Looking-Glass External links Yasumasa Morimura CV - Shugo Arts Yasumasa Morimura CV - Luhring Augustine Official website (Japanese) References 1951 births Living people Japanese photographers Kyoto City University of Arts alumni People from Osaka Artists from Osaka Prefecture Japanese contemporary artists