Masao Yamamoto Biography
1957 Born in Gamagori, Japan
Collections:
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, Museum Contemporary of Photography , Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The International Center of Photography, New York, Center for Creative Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, Portland Art Museum, OR, USA
Selected Exhibitions
2008 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2008 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2008 The Print Center, Philadelphia
2007 Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2007 Quinzaine photographique Nantes, France
2007 Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2007 Center for Photographic Art, Camel, U.S.A.
2007 PDX Contemporary Art, Portland
2007 Quizaine Photographique, Nantaise, France
2006 Nakazora, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (solo)
2006 Installations, Hackelbury Gallery, London (solo)
2006 Picturing Eden, George Eastman House
2005 PDX Contemporary Art, Portland (solo)
2005 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica (solo)
2004 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
2004 Nakazora, PDX, Portland (solo)
2004 Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica (solo)
2004 Il nudo tra ideale e realta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM) di Bologna
2004 Artists of Nazraeli, Press White Wall Gallery, Soul
2003 Japanese Photography 1970's-1980's, S.K.Josefsberg Studio, Portland
2003 Nakazora, Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna, Italy (solo)
2003 Nakazora, Chiesa dei SS.Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo, Italy (solo)
2003 Omizuao, Yancey Richardson Gallery , New York (solo)
2003 Nakazora, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta (solo)
2003 Santoka, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi (solo)
2002 Nakazora, S.K.Josefsberg Studio, Portland (solo)
2002 Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica (solo)
2001 Nakazora, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (solo)
2000 A Box of "Ku" XI , Sepia International , New York (solo)
2000 A Box of "Ku" XI , Spiral Gallery , Tokyo (solo)
2000 Chorus of Light' Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection , High Museum of Art, Atlanta
1999 Modena per la Fotografia 1999 , Modena, Italia
1999 HOLND FSTVL, Amsterdam, Holland
1999 A Box of" Ku" X, Gallery Sicerite, Toyohashi (solo)
1999 A Box of" Ku" X, Jackson Fine Art, ATLANTA (solo)
1998 A Box of" Ku" X, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
1998 Waterproof, EXPO'98 Lisboa
1998 MEDIALOGUE Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98 , Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
1998 UNDER/EXPOSED , Stockholm
1997 A Box of" Ku" IX,Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
1997 A Box of" Ku" IX, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya (solo)
1996 A Box of" Ku" VIII, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (solo)
1996 Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery,Scottsdale
1996 Contemporary Japanese Photography,Jackson Fine Art,Atlanta
1995 The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale,A Box of" Ku" VII
1995 A Box of" Ku" VII, Lisa Sette Gallery , Scottsdale
1995 A Box of" Ku" VI, Gallery Nayuta, Yokohama (solo)
1995 A Box of" Ku" VII, Catherine Edelman Gallery , Chicago
1994 Flower Studies, Shapiro gallery , San Francisco
1994 intimate memories, A.O.I Gallery , Santa Fe
1994 A Box of" Ku" IV, Parco, Kichijyoji (solo)
1994 A Box of" Ku" V , Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
1993 A Box of" Ku" I, Gallery White Art, Tokyo (solo)
1993 A Box of" Ku" II, Hosomi Gallery,Tokyo (solo)
1993 A Box of" Ku" III, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi (solo)
1990 SPIRAL Take Art Collection, Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo
1988 FOTOFEST '88, Huston, U.S.A.
1988 New From Tokyo 11 Japanese Photographers
1988 Japanese Avantgardo, Ken Damy Gallery, Mirano, Itary
1988 New Age Art Exhibition, Shinjuku Isetan department store, Tokyo
1987 Torino International Photo Biennale , Torino , Italy
Literature
2003 Omizuao, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2003 Santoka, 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.
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