YAMAMOTO MASAO

BORN
1957 Gamagori-City in Aichi Prefecture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
"New Work from 'KAWA=FLOW', PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010
Robert Koch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009
KAWA=FLOW, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
KAWA=FLOW, Mi Camera, Milan, Italy
KAWA=FLOW, Semina Rerum, Zurich, Switzerland
KAWA=FLOW, ZPAF iS-KA, Krakow, Poland
KAWA=FLOW, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
KAWA=FLOW, Forum für Fotografie, Köln, Germany
KAWA=FLOW, Gallery Sincerite, Aichi, Japan
KAWA=FLOW, Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany
KAWA=FLOW, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
KAWA=FLOW, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2008
KAWA = Flow, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
KAWA = Flow, La-Condition-Japonaise, Berlin
Nakazora, Bienio, Nagoya
Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, Wave Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, The Print Center, Philadelphia
Yamamoto Masao, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Yamamoto Masao, Gallery Out of Place, Nara, Japan

2007
YAMAMOTO MASAO, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
YAMAMOTO MASAO, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
YAMAMOTO MASAO, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano - Italia
Nakazora, Quinzaine photographique Nantaise – France
Nakazora, GALERIE GABRIEL ROLT, Amsterdam

2006
Nakazora, Camera Obscura, Paris
Installations, Hackelbury Fine Art, London
é, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
é, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi

2005
A Thousand Hounds, Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV
é, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
é, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
é, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2004
A Thousand Hounds, Seibu Department Store, New York, NY
A Thousand Hounds, KeihanGallery, Osaka, Japan
A Thousand Hounds, University of Maryland Baltimore, MD
Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
é, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003
Nakazora, Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Nakazora, Chiesa dei SS.Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo, Italy
Omizuao, YanceyRichardson Gallery , New york
Nakazora, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Santoka, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Japan

2002
Nakazora, S.K.Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2001
Nakazora, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY

2000
A Box of "Ku" XI, Sepia International, New York, NY
A Box of "Ku" XI, Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1999
A Box of" Ku" X, Gallery Sincerite,Toyohashi, Japan
A Box of" Ku" X, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

1998
A Box of" Ku" X, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997
A Box of" Ku" IX, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
A Box of" Ku" IX,Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996
A Box of" Ku" VIII, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY

1995
A Box of" Ku" VI, Gallery Nayuta, Yokohama, Japan

1994
A Box of" Ku" IV, Parco, Kichijyoji, Japan
A Box of" Ku" V, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993
A Box of" Ku" I, Gallery White Art, Tokyo, Japan
A Box of" Ku" II, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japn
A Box of" Ku" III, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Group Show, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2009
Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
Museo Di Roma, Rome, Italy
Imaginary Spaces, Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Photography Now: vision, devotion, revelation, Hackelbury Fine Art, London, England

2008
l'invito alla mostra Immagine la vita, Fotografia E Immagine Contemporanea, Italy
ZOOM ON IN OUT JAPAN, Wave Photo Gallery, Brecia, Italy
Bas de Cuer. Une Japonais, une Finlandais et cinq Mohawks, Maerzgalerie, Leipzig, Germany
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
In Palmo di Mano, La Nuova Pesa Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Spagio Gerra: l'Invito alla Mostra Immagine la Vita, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2006
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

2004
Il nudo tra ideale e realta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM) di Bologna
Artists of Nazraeli Press, White Wall Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2003
Japanese Photography 1970's-1980's, S.K.Josefsberge Studio, Portland, OR

2000
'Chorus of Light' Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

1999
Modena per la Fotografia 1999 , Modena, Italia Holnd Fstvl, Amsterdam, Holland

1998
"Waterproof" Expo'98 Lisboa
Medialogue Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98 , Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Under/Exposed , Stockholm

1996
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
Contemporary Japanese Photography,Jackson Fine Art,Atlanta

1995
The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale,A Box of" Ku" VII
A Box of" Ku" VII, Lisa Sette Gallery , Scottsdale
A Box of" Ku" VII, Catherine Edelman Gallery , Chicago

1994
"Flower Studies" Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
"intimate memories" A.O.I Gallery , Santa Fe

1990
"Spiral Take Art Collection" Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo

1988
Fotofest '88, Huston, U.S.A.
"New From Tokyo 11 Japanese Photographers"
"Japanese Avantgardo" Ken Damy Gallery, Mirano, Itary
"New Age Art Exhibition", Shinjuku Isetan department store, Tokyo

1987
Torino International Photo Biennale , Torino , Italy

COLLECTIONS
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
Quinzaine photographique, Nantes, France
Musei Civici Comune di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Sir Elton John Collection, London

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2011 "Where We Met," Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Belgium
2008 "Fujisan," Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2005 "é," Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
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.