Shuichi Murakami

Shuichi Owen-Murakami is a native of Japan who came to the United States in 1988. He received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI in 1997. BFA in Media Art from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA in 1993, and a Fellowship Award Recipient of The American Photography Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University[6]. Murakami has lectured, worked and exhibited internationally including: Rhode Island School of Design, RI, Art Club Tribeca, New York, New York, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, H.I.S. Co., and the Skymark Airlines Tokyo Japan, and Columbia University, New York. He has served on the Board of Directors at the Battle Creek Art Center, as a College Delegate Research and Exchange Representative Calhoun Area Michigan Millennium Partnership with Province of New Brunswick Canada, and has received the Shaw Family Artist in residency Program Fellowship in West Bloomfield MI, the Detroit Japan Society Award, and the Kellogg Community College Foundation Research Grant in 2000.  Murakami has taught as the head of the photography program and founded first Multi-Media Art Degree Program in State of Michigan at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, MI where he received the Excellency in Teaching Award.