France

Motoï Yamamoto

Born in 1966 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan.



EDUCATION


1995

- B.A. Kanazawa College of Art
- Now, stay in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, JAPAN

    
2002         

- Prize ; Philip Morris Art Award 2002


2003         

- Grant ; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. New York


2010         

- Grant ; Voyager + AIT scholarship program, Tokyo


            
SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2015

- Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo


2014

- Shaw Gallery, Salt Lake City, USA
- Westminster College, Salt Lake City, USA
- La (deuxième) Galerie Particulière, Paris


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
    

2014

- Kanazawa Toryoe Autumn / Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum, Kanazawa
- Nuit Blanche / Hôtel de Ville de Paris, France

    
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
r- espiri / 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
       

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