Motoi Yamamoto Biography

Education

1995
  • BFA Kanazawa College of Art

Selected solo shows (after 2000)

2013

FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France

2011
  • To the white forest, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
  • Helen Gory Galerie
 Melbourne, Australia
 October, 2011
2010
  • Floating Garden, eN-Arts, Kyoto, Japan
  • Labyrinth, Kunst-Station St.Peter, Cologne, Germany
  • Floating Garden, Art-O-Rama, Marseille, France
2009
  • Labyrinth, L MD galerie, Paris, France
  • Grosse Bleichen Bilder, Hambourg, Allemagne
  • Sakura, Cherry Blossom , Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2006
  • Ginza Komatsu Art Space, Tokyo
2005
  • Ierimonti Gallery, Milan
  • Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
  • Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
  • CAI, Comtenporary Art International, Hamburg
2002
  • T.L.A.P, Tokyo
2001
  • Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo
  • Gallery K2, Ishikawa
2000
  • Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo
  • 300 DAYS Gallery, Tokyo
  • Gallery G2, Fukui, Japan

Selected group shows (after 2000)

2012

Bellevue Arts Museum Bellevue. WA. USA. March, 2012

2011
  • Silent Significance, L MD galerie, Paris, France
  • Labyrinth, Fondation Ecureuil pour l’art contemporain, Toulouse, France
  • MOVE!, L MD galerie, Paris
2010
  • AN10 MOT Annual 2010: Ornament, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2009
  • Machiya-Junyu, Konichi — Soy sauce factory / Ishikawa, Japon
  • Tanagokoro 9, Radium- roentgenwerke, Tokyo
  • Hundred Stories About Love, 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • Togo Murano & Motoi Yamamoto, Kanazawa Artgummi, Ishikawa
2008
  • Conceptions take from / Funa-asobi, Ishikawa,
  • Landschaft / Radium, Tokyo
  • Text of Life, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
  • Black, White and Gray, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
2007
  • Artist in Residence, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Force of Nature part 2, Sumter County Gallery of Art, SC, U.S.A.
2006
  • Force of Nature, Van Every / Smith Gallery, Davidson College, NC, U.S.A.
  • Force of Nature, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC, U.S.A.
  • C.A.R.K.2006, Ishikawa International Salon, Kanazawa, Japan
  • C.A.R.K.2006, Maragopoulos, Patras, Greece
  • The Library, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi & Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo
2005
  • Rising Sun, Melting Moon Contemporary Art from Japan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Hoch hinaus / Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
  • The Road not Taken’05・KYOTO / Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto
2004
  • The Encounters in the 21st Century : Polyphony — Emerging Resonances 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  • Gwangju Biennale 2004 " Eco-Metoro Project" / Korea
2003
  • The First Steps; Emerging Artist from Japan / P.S.1, New York
  • Landschaft / rontgenwerke, Tokyo, Japan
  • Mutated Zen / The Nunnury, London, UK
  • Respiri / Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milano, Italy
2002
  • Philip Morris Art Award 2002 / Tokyo, Japan
  • Corresponding sites: Four spaces-Four artists / Hamburg, Germany
2000
  • Philip Morris Art Award 2000 / Ebisu Garden Place, Tokyo, Japan
  • Installation / Garden of the Sculptures, Veracruz, Mexico

Prices and grants

2002
  • Prize: Philip Morris Art Award 2002
2003
  • Grant: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. New York

Selected Publications

2009
  • Yumi Yamaguchi “The Power of Japanese Contemporary Art”
    “Art It No. 23”
2008
  • Takeshi Fujii “TOIRO”
2007
  • Akira Takemura “Nikkei Magazine”
  • “SLEEK” (German)
2006

Mark Sloan & Brad Thomas “Force of Nature”

2005
  • Fanni Fetzer “hoch hinaus, Kunstmuseum Thun”
  • Sen Naganawa “Shiroki-Shirohe”
  • Hisako Hara “Aera”
  • Naoko Aono “Vogue Nippon”
  • Yukiko Matsusihta “Illustration”
  • “Art Magagine”(German)
2004
  • Kai Ozawa & Naoko Usuki “Motoi Yamamoto”
2003
  • Sally O’Reilly "The Time Out London"
2002
  • Kai Ozawa "Kojimachi Gallery"
  • Naoko Usuki "BT" (Monthly Art Magazine)
  • Jun Nakano "CONFORT 54"

Motoi Yamamoto

Contemporary

Drawing

Japanese artist born in 1966 in Onomichi, Japan. 

Localisation
Kanazawa, Japan
Website
www.motoi.biz