Motoi Yamamoto — Biographie — Slash Paris

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"