Artists

YAMAMOTO Masao

1957 Born in Aichi, Japan

Lives and works in Yamanashi, Japan


 


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Solo Exhibitions

2021


“Son Album” La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Ardeche, France


“Un monde dans la main” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France


“Mallarmé invite…Yamamoto” Musée départemental Stéphane Mallarmé, Paris, France


“Celebrating the Publication of sasanami” Morioka Shoten, Tokyo


“Bonsai” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


 


2019


“Itteki” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


“BONSAI – Microcosms Macrocosms” Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo


“Yamamoto Masao: Bonsai – Microcosms Macrocosms” Kiyosato photo Art Museum, Yamanashi, Japan


“Bonsai” Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany


“Bonsai- Microcosms Macrocosms” Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


“Bonsai” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


“Retrospectiva” Espacio 0, Huelva, Spain


“Bonsai Microcosms Macrocosms” Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany


“BONSAI: A droplet in a hand” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2018


“Tori” Galeria Valid Foto BCN, Barcelona, Spain


“Microcosms Macrocosms” Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada


“Microcosm Macrocosm” Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany


Atlas Gallery, London U.K.


“A Box of Ku” Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia


Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil


“Tori” Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


“Tori” Etherton Gallery, Tucson, U.S.A


 


2017


“KAWA=FLOW” Gabriela W., Luzern, Switzerland


“Tori” Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium


“Tori” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France


“Yamamoto Masao: O Sensei das imagens pequenas” Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil


Schloss Bonndorf, Waldshut, Germany


“Tori” PDX Contemporary Art, Portrand, U.S.A.


“Tori” Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany


“Tori” Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo


 


2016


“Tori” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


“Small Things in Silnce” Centoro Nimeyer, Avilés, Spain


Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


“petites coses en silenci” Claustre de Sant Bonaventura de Llucmajor, Majorca, Spain


 


2015


“small things in silence” Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium


“Box of Ku & Nakazora” Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, U.S.A.


“Small Things in Silence” Espaciofoto, Madrid, Spain


“Small Things in Silence” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France


“Small Things in Silence” Galeria Valid Foto BCN, Barcelona, Spain


“Shizuka=Cleanse” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2014


“Small Things in Silence” semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland


“Shizuka=Cleanse” Gallery Out of Place Nara, Nara, Japan


Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, Sao Paulo, Brazil


“Shizuka=Cleanse” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.


 


2013


Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW” Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany


Gallery Kochuten, Aichi, Japan


“Amid Nature” Galeria 12, Begur, Spain


Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany


“KAWA=FLOW” Städtischen Galerie im Schloss, Isny im Allgau, Germany


 


2012


Galeria Valid Foto BCN, Barcelona, Spain


“Shizuka=Cleanse” Galleria Massimo Minini, Brecia, Italiy


“Magic Mountain” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


 


2011


Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, Sao Paulo, Brazil


“KAWA=FLOW” Mugaen, Aichi, Japan


“KAWA=FLOW” Mizuma & One Gallery (Caochangdi PhotoSpring 2011), Beijing, China


“KAWA=FLOW” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW” Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW” maerzgalerie, Leipzig, Germany


“KAWA=FLOW” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.


 


2010


“KAWA=FLOW” maerzgalerie, Berlin, Germany


“KAWA=FLOW partⅡ” semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland


Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


“The Color of Black & White” Kavi Gupta, Chicago, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris France


“KAWA=FLOW” Galleria Nobili, Milan, Italy


“KAWA=FLOW” Woolrich Woolen Mills, Milan, Italy


 


2009


“KAWA=FLOW” Pobeda Gallery, Moscow, Russia


“KAWA=FLOW” Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany


“KAWA=FLOW” Gallery Sincerite, Aichi, Japan


“KAWA=FLOW” Forum Fotografie, Cologne, Germany


“KAWA=FLOW” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


“KAWA=FLOW” Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium


“KAWA=FLOW” Galeria ZPAF i S-KA (Photomonth in Krakow 2009), Krakow, Poland


“KAWA=FLOW” semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland


“KAWA=FLOW” MiCamera, Milan, Italy


“KAWA=FLOW” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


 


2008


Gallery OUT of PLACE, Nara, Japan


“KAWA=FLOW” la-condition-japonaise, Berlin, Germany


“Nakazora: space between sky and earth” The Print Center, Philadelphia, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


“Nakazora” Bienio, Aichi, Japan


Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.


 


2007


“Nakazora” Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Netherlands


“Nakazora” Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise 2007, Nantes, France


Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy


PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, U.S.A.


 


2006


“Uwanosora” Nadar / Shibuya 355, Tokyo


“Nakazora” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France


“Installations” Hackelbury Fine Art, London, U.K.


“é” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


“é” Gallery Sincerite, Aichi, Japan


 


2005


“é” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


“é” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.


“é” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


 


2004


“é” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


“Nakazora -valiantly-that too, pitifully-that too, white boxes”, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


“Nakazora” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.


 


2003


“Nakazora Corridor of Consider” Chiesa dei SS.Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo, Italy


“Nakazora” Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna, Italy


“Omizuao” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


“Nakazora” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


“Santoka” Gallery Sincerite, Aichi, Japan


 


2002


“Nakazora” S. K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, U.S.A.


“Nakazora” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.


 


2001


“Nakazora” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


 


2000


“A Box of Ku Ⅺ” Sepia International, New York, U.S.A.


“A Box of Ku Ⅺ” Spiral Gallery, Tokyo


 


1999


“A Box of Ku Ⅹ” Gallery Sincerite, Aichi, Japan


“A Box of Ku Ⅹ” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


 


1998


“A Box of Ku Ⅹ” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


 


1997


“A Box of Ku Ⅸ” Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


“A Box of Ku Ⅸ” Kohji Ogura Gallery, Aichi, Japan


 


1996


“A Box of Ku Ⅷ” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.


 


1995


“A Box of Ku Ⅵ” Gallery Nayuta, Kanagawa, Japan


 


1994


“A Box of Ku Ⅴ” Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


“A Box of Ku Ⅳ” PARCO Kichijyoji, Tokyo


 


1993


“A Box of Ku Ⅲ” Gallery Sincerite, Aichi, Japan


“A Box of Ku Ⅱ” Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo


“A Box of Ku Ⅰ” Gallery White Art, Tokyo


Group Exhibitions

2020


“Fragments d’un paradis” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France


 


2019


“Japanese Photography and the Collotype” Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China


 


2018


“Silver Belles: Holiday Show” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


“Stillness” Akiko Kimura+Yamamoto Masao, evam eva yamanashi, Japan


“Mementos” Etherton Gallery, Tucson, U.S.A.


 


2017


“La misura dell’inespresso” Yamamoto Masao+Ettore Frani, Galleria Nobili, Milan, Italy


“Les rencontres de Bernard Plossu: La collection d’un photographe” Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France


 


2016


“Why are we doing what we are doing?” Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


“A Stand of Pine in a Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


“les oiseaux” Centre d’Arts Plastiques de Royan, Royan, France


“VOR / NACH-BILD oder: wie wollte ich werden als ich jung war?” Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany


“BACKSTORY” Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium


“Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography” MOPA, San Diego, U.S.A.


“Le parti pris des oiseaux” La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Saint-Pierreville, France


 


2015


“Let’s Get Lost” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


“Land Scape” FOMU foto museum, Antwerp, Belgium


“Festival du Regard” Saint-Germain-en-Laye​, Ile-de-France, France


“The Pistil’s Waltz” Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium


“la main” Camera Obscura, Paris, France


 


2014


“// COWEN // MINKKINEN // YAMAMOTO //” Blomqvist, Oslo, Norway


“Origins, Memories & Parodies” Daegu Photo Biennale 2014, Korea


“Mountain” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


“No Show” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


 


2013


“The Blue Route” Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium


“Now Japan” Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands


“Narrow Road to the Interior: Contemporary Japanese Artists” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, U.S.A.


“Sonnets of Light” Etherton Gallery, Tucson, U.S.A.


“Amid Nature” Galeria 12, Begur, Spain


“quinta essentia” semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland


“Small and Beautiful” Pobeda, Moscow, Russia


“Jeff Cowen and Yamamoto Masao” PUG, Oslo, Norway


“SEVEN SEAS” Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany


“KAWA=FLOW/Eschaton/New Works” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


 


2012


 “where they met – and further” semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland


“Eloge de la miniature” Camera Obscura, Paris, France


“5 Contemporary Japanese Photographers” University of the Pacific, Stockton, U.S.A.


“KAWA=FLOW Installations” Breda Photo, Breda, Netherlands


“GODAI” Palazzo Borgatta, Liguria, Italy


“inbetween-show” semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland


“Where they met” Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium


 


2011


“Uchida Kouichi V+ Yamamoto Masao” Galerie Momogusa, Gifu, Japan


“Photographie” Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany


“Les Fables” Camera Obscura, Paris, France


 


2009


“Poetics of Light” Etherton Gallery, Tucson, U.S.A.


“Photography Now: Vision, Devotion, Revelation” Hackelbury Fine Art,  London, U.K.


“les nuages… là-bas… les merveilleux nuages” Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France


“Espacios imaginarios” Kowasa Galelry, Barcelona, Spain


“STILL SEEN” Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.


“MEP Collection recent acquitions and donations” Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France


“Picturing Eden” The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, U.S.A.


“Roma: luogo della Memoria, luogo della Visione” Museo di Roma, Italy


“Collettiva” Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma, Italy


“Uit Japan” Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands


“Picturing Eden” Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, U.S.A.


 


2008


“Bas de Cuir. Une Japonais, une Finlandais et cinq Mohawks” maerzgalerie, Leipzig, Germany


“In Palmo di Mano” La Nuova Pesa, Roma, Italy


“Picturing Eden” Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, New York, U.S.A.


“Zoom on / in / out Japan” Wave Photogallery, Brescia, Italy


“Immagine la vita” Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia, Italy


 


2007


“Picturing Eden” Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, U.S.A.


“Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise” Nantes, France


“Small is beautiful” Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany


“Picturing Eden” University of Iowa Museum of Art, U.S.A.


 


2006


“The Kids Are Alright” Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Netherlands


“Picturing Eden” George Eastman House, New York, U.S.A.


 


2005


“Group Show” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.


 


2004


“Artists of Nazraeli Press” Whitewall Gallery, Seoul, Korea


“Il nudo fra ideale e realtà” Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy


 


2003


“Japanese Photography 1970’s-1980’s” S.K.Josefsberg Studio, Portland, U.S.A.


 


2000


“Chorus of Light” Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


 


1999


“HOLND FSTVL” Amsterdam, Holland


“Uno Sguardo sul Giappone” Modena per la Fotografia 1999, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy


 


1998


“Under/Exposed” subway stations in Stockholm, Sweden


“Waterproof” EXPO’98, Lisbon, Portugal


“MEDIALOGUE Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art ’98” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography


 


1996


 “Contemporary Japanese Photography” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.


“Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition” Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, U.S.A.


 


1995


“A Box of Ku Ⅶ” Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, U.S.A.


“A Box of Ku Ⅶ” Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.


“-ism ’95: The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography


“Seven Japanese Contemporary Artists” St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia, Bulgaria


 


1994


“intimate memories” A.O.I Gallery, Santa Fe, U.S.A.


“Flower Studies” Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.


 


1990


“SPIRAL Take Art Collection 1990” Spiral Garden, Tokyo


 


1988


“Japanese Avant-garde” Ken Damy Gallery, Milan, Itary


“FOTOFEST ’88” Huston, U.S.A.


 


1987


“Torino International Photo Biennale” Italy


Public Collection

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.


Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.


Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, U.S.A.


The International Center of Photography, New York, NY, U.S.A.


Center for Creative Photography (CCP), Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.


Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.


Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.


Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, U.S.A.


Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, U.S.A.


Victoria&Albert Museum, London, U.K.


Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France


Quinzaine photographique Nantes, France


Forum fur Fotografie, Koln, Germany


Fondation d’entreprise Hermes, Paris, France


Art at Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland


Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.


Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, FL, U.S.A.


Publications

2021 “Son Album” T&M Projects, Japan


2020 “sasanami” iikki books, France


2019 “BONSAI – Microcosms Macrocosms” T&M Projects, Japan


2017 “Tori” Radius Books, U.S.A.


2017 “The Poems of Santoka” Galerie Vevais, Germany


2014 “Small Things in Silence” RM/Seigensha, Spain/Japan


2011 “Where We Met” Lannoo, Belgium


2011 “Kawa” Kochuten Books, Japan


2011 “Yamamoto Masao” 21st Editions, U.S.A.


2008 “Fujisan” Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.


2005 “é” Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.


2003 “Omizuao” Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.


2003 “Santouka” Harunatsuakifuyu Sousho, Japan


2002 “The Pass Of Green Leaves” Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.


2001 “Nakazora” Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.


1998 “A box of ku” Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.