Motoï Yamamoto
Born in 1966 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan.
Solo exhibitions
2014
La (deuxième) Galerie Particulière, Paris
La Nuit Blanche, Hôtel de Ville, Salle des Tapisseries
2013
Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg
Erunst Barlach Haus, Hamburg
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, USA
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA
Setouchi City Museum, Okayama, Japan
2012
Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, USA
2011
The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kagnagawa, Japan
2010
Art-O-Rama/L MD Gallery, Marseilles, France
Kunst Station St. Peter, Cologne, Germany
eN-arts, Kyoto, Japan
2009
LMD Gallery, Paris, France
Grosse Bleichen 34 , Hamburg, Germany
Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2006
Ginza Komatsu Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Ierimonti Gallery, Milan, Italy
Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
CAI, Comtenporary Art International, Hamburg
2002
T.L.A.P, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery K2, Ishikawa, Japan
2000
Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
300DAYS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery G2, Fukui, Japan
1999
Gallery Bellini Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Gallery LeDeco, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Gallery Moe, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Arai, Shizuoka, Japan
1997
Galerie Ando, Tokyo, Japan
Gallrey Rasen, Toyama, Japan
1996
Gallery Myu, Tokyo, Japan
1994
Kanazawa Yomiuri Hall, Ishikawa, Japan
Group exhibitions
2013
Mono no Aware -The Beauty of Things- / The Hermitage State Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Narrow Road to the Interior / Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, U.S.A.
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude / Kanazawa Art Gummi, Ishikawa
Peace Meets Art! / Hiroshima Prefectural Museum, Hiroshima
The 6th Internationnal Contemporary Art Biennale of Melle, France
Biennale Online 2013
Fieldwork from Periphery / Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design,Kyoto, Japan
2012
Making Mends / Bellevue Arts Museum, Wasington, U.S.A.
2011
City-Net Asia 2011 / Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Reliefs / Fondation Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France
2010
MOT ANNUAL 2010; Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2009
Machiya-Junyu, Konichi - Soy sauce factory / Ishikawa, Japan
Hundred Stories about Love,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Togo Murano x Motoi Yamamoto, Kanazawa Artgummi, Ishikawa, Japan
Tanagokoro 9 / Radium-roentgenwerke, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Conceptions take from / Funa-asobi, Ishikawa, Japan
Landschaft / Radium-roentgen, Tokyo, Japan
Text of Life, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
Brack, Whrite and Gray, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
AIR Onomichi2007, 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, Japan
2005
Rising Sun, Melting Moon -Contemporary Art from Japan-, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
hoch hinaus / Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerlamd
The Road not Taken’05 KYOTO / Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
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, Verecruz, Mexico
1999
The World tour / Kanazawa citizen’s art center, Ishikawa, Japan
Standing in the Future / Telecom-center, Tokyo, Japan
1998
The library Kanazawa / Kanazawa citizen’s art center, Ishikawa, Japan
Previous Opening Event, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
1997
Hiroshima Art Competition / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Exchange Society ‘97-’98 / Shinkiba Soko Gallery etc, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Representation of Contemporary Art / Kanazawa citizen’s art center, Japan
1995
Art Festival in Tsurugi ‘95 (‘96- ‘97- ‘98) / Ishikawa, Japan
1994
The 20th France-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, L- Prize
International Competition Tannan Art Festival ‘94 (‘95 -’01) / Fukui, Japan
1992
The 31th Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition, Grand Prize / Ishikawa, Japan
Represented artists
- Anne-Lise Broyer
- Anthony Goicolea
- Byung-Hun Min
- Cesar del Valle
- Claudine Doury
- David Hilliard
- Ethan Murrow
- Floriane de Lassée
- Friederike von Rauch
- Kate MccGwire
- Laurent Millet
- Levi van Veluw
- Mathieu Dufois
- Michael Wolf
- Motoï Yamamoto
- Pierrick Naud
- Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison
- Stéphane Couturier
- Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques
- Todd Hido
- Ville Lenkkeri
Guest artists
- Adam Panczuk
- Agnès Propeck
- Anne-Camille Allueva
- Arnaud Vasseux
- Audrey Casalis
- Berni Searle
- Céline Cléron
- Chang Ki Chung
- Constance Nouvel
- François Chaillou
- Françoise Vanneraud
- Gilles Coulon
- Grégory Markovic
- Guillaume Amat
- Joe Biel
- Joseph Smolinski
- Juan de Sande
- Karim Kal
- Laurent Fievet
- Mona Kuhn
- Neal Rock
- Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo
- Pascal Pesez
- Patrice Pantin
- S&P Stanikas
- Sabine Mirlesse
- Stephan Balleux
- Tom Callemin
- Virgile Ittah
