Takeshi Yamada

Takeshi Yamada is a Japanese-American artist and rogue taxidermist.

[2] He was an international exchange student at the Osaka University of Arts before moving to the United States in 1983.

[2] In 1990, a series of 48 paintings entitled "Divine Comedy: New Orleans Mardi Gras" by Yamada were displayed in the Louisiana State Museum, and later some of them were shown in the Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo.

In 1993, he had a solo exhibition at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art.

[1] Yamada is a rogue taxidermist, creating fake creatures out of organic and inorganic materials.