YAMAMOTO Masao

2024

“Living Things ≅ Still Life” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

“Son Album” Espace Chabrillan, Montélimar, France

“Animal Spirit” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.

“Celebrating the Publication of kurayami” Morioka Shoten, Tokyo

2023

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

“Yamamoto Masao” Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany

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

“Kurayami – In Darkness, the Light” Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo

“Tomosu” Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium

“Yamamoto Masao: New Works” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A.

2022

“Small things in silence” FESTIMATGE 2022, Ajuntament Vell, Barcelona, Spain

“La Vie Simple” Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany

“BONSAI: A droplet in a hand” Mizuma & Kips, New York, U.S.A.

2021

“SASANAMI” evam eva yamanashi, Japan

“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

2024

“Yamamoto Masao y Alisa Sibirskaya” Festival OFF de PhotoESPAÑA, Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain

“Notre Mer” Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium

“In the Library: Photography and the Book Arts from the 21st Editions Collection” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

2023

“À toi de faire, ma mignonne” Musée national Picasso-Paris, France”Fragments d’un paradis” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France

2022

“Detente, instante. Una historia de la fotografía” Fundación Juan March Madrid, Spain

“wabi-sabi” Japan Museum Sieboldhuis, Leiden, Netherlands

 “BONSAI” Galerie Momogusa, Gifu, Japan

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

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.

2023 “Kurayami” iikki books, France

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” 21^st 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.