Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.

Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents. | MARTA BUSO, COURTESY OF FAOU FOUNDATION

Nov 6, 2026

Mariko Mori no longer uses herself as the canvas and subject of her art. But even now, dressed all in white and standing among her works at the Mori Art Museum, she radiates light, the motif that has run through her work for more than three decades.

“It has long been a dream to exhibit my work at the Mori Art Museum, and the timing feels right,” the 59-year-old artist told the media on Oct. 30, one day before the opening of her retrospective exhibition, “Mariko Mori: All That Shines.”

Co-curators Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum, and Alexandra Munroe, senior curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, agree that it was high time for this Japanese artist’s homecoming.

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