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Mariko Mori was born in Tokyo in 1967. The daughter of an art historian and an inventor, Mori studied fashion design in college and briefly worked as a model. Mori then pursued art at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London (1989?92) and at the Whitney Museum of American Art s Independent Study Program in New York (1992?93). In her early photographs, such as Subway (1994) and Play with Me (1994), Mori appears as the cyborg heroine of a film who navigates the environs of Tokyo. In the performance Tea Ceremony (1995), Mori wore the garb of a prototypical Japanese female office worker and mechanically served tea to businessmen who passed her on the street.https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/mariko-mori