Education
| Studied painting under supervision of Goro Saito in Gamagori City, Japan |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | Son Album, La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Ardeche, France Un monde dans la main, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France Mallarmé invite…Yamamoto, Musée départemental Stéphane Mallarmé, Paris, France Celebrating the Publication of sasanami, Morioka Shoten, Tokyo Bonsai, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A. |
| 2019 | BONSAI: A droplet in a hand, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Itteki, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.A. BONSAI – Microcosms Macrocosms, Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo Yamamoto Masao: Bonsai – Microcosms Macrocosms, Kiyosato photo Art Museum, Yamanashi, Japan Bonsai, Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany Bonsai- Microcosms Macrocosms, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. Bonsai, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A. Retrospectiva, Espacio 0, Huelva, Spain Bonsai Microcosms Macrocosms, Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany |
| 2018 | Tori, Galeria Valid Foto BCN, Barcelona, Spain Microcosms Macrocosms, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada Microcosms Macrocosms, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany Atlas Gallery, London U.K. A Box of Ku, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil Tori, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Tori, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, U.S.A |
| 2017 | KAWA=FLOW, Gabriela W., Luzern, Switzerland Tori, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium Tori, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France Masao Yamamoto: O Sensei das imagens pequenas, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brazil Schloss Bonndorf, Waldshut, Germany Tori, PDX Contemporary Art, Portrand, U.S.A. Tori, Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany Tori, Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo |
| 2016 | Tori, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Small Things in Silence, Centoro Nimeyer, Avilés, Spain Solo Show, Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil petites coses en silenci, Claustre de Sant Bonaventura de Llucmajor, Majorca, Spain |
| 2015 | Small Things in Silnce, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Belgium Small Things in Silnce, espacio foto, Madrid, Spain Kawa=Flow, JACKSON FINE ART, Atlanta, USA Small Things in Silnce, GALERIE CAMERA OBSCURA, Paris, France Small Things in Silnce, VALID FOTO, Barcelona, Spain Small Things in Silnce,「小さきもの、沈黙の中で」MIZUMA ART GALERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | Small Things in Silnce, semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland Shizuka=Cleanse, GALLERY OUT OF PLACE, Nara, Japan Space of Serenity, Time for Prayers, Daegu Photo Biennale2014, Daegu, Korea YAMAMOTO MASAO, GALERIA MARCELO GUANIERI, Sao Paulo, Brazil Shizuka=Cleanse, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, USA |
| 2013 | KAWA=FLOW, Galerie de Moderne, Munich, Germany YAMAMOTO MASAO, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA YAMAMOTO MASAO, Gallery Kochuten, Nagoya, Japan one-day exhibition by Jeff Cowen and Yamamoto Masao, PUG, Oslo, Norway YAMAMOTO MASAO, Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany KAWA=FLOW, Städt. Galerie im Schlos, Isny Allgäu, Germany |
| 2012 | KAWA=FLOW, Installations, Breda Photo, Breda, Netherlands YAMAMOTO MASAO, Valid Foto Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Shizuka=Cleanse, Galeria Massimo Minini, Brecia, Italy KAWA=FLOW, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, New York, USA |
| 2011 | YAMAMOTO MASAO, Gallery Momogusa, Tajimi, Gifu, Japan YAMAMOTO MASAO, Galeria Marcelo Guanieri, São Paolo, Brazil KAWA=FLOW, Mugaen Museum, Hekinan, Aichi, Japan KAWA=FLOW, CaoChangDi Photo Spring 2011, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China KAWA=FLOW, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA KAWA=FLOW, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA KAWA=FLOW, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, New York, USA KAWA=FLOW, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA KAWA=FLOW, maerz galerie, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2010 | KAWA=FLOW, maerz galerie, Berlin, Germany KAWA=FLOW part II, semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland KAWA=FLOW, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA KAWA=FLOW, Galleria Alesso Nobilli & C., Milan, Italy KAWA=FLOW, Camera Obscura, Paris, France KAWA=FLOW, Woolrich Woolen Mills, Milan, Italy |
| 2009 | [e], Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA KAWA=FLOW, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA KAWA=FLOW, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA KAWA=FLOW, Micamera, Milan, Italy KAWA=FLOW, semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland KAWA=FLOW, Fifty One Fine Photography, Antwerp, Belgium Krakow Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland KAWA=FLOW, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | YAMAMOTO MASAO, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA Nakazora, Gallery Bienio, Nagoya, Japan KAWA=FLOW, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, New York USA Nakazora, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA KAWA=FLOW, Gallery la-condition-japonaise, Berlin, Germany YAMAMOTO MASAO, Gallery OUT of PLACE, Nara, Japan |
| 2007 | YAMAMOTO MASAO, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California USA YAMAMOTO MASAO, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA YAMAMOTO MASAO, Galeria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy Nakazora, Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes, France Nakazora, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2006 | Nakazora, Camera Obscura, Paris, France Installations, HackelBury Fine Art, London, UK [e], Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [e], Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan |
| 2005 | [e], PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA [e], Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA [e], Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 2004 | [e], Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Nakazora valiantly-that too, pitifully-that too, white boxes, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA |
| 2003 | Nakazora, Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna, Italy Nakazora, Chiesa dei SS. Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo, Italy Omizuao, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, New York USA Nakazora, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Santoka, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan |
| 2002 | Nakazora, S. K. Josefsburg Studio, Portland, Oregon, USA Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA |
| 2001 | Nakazora, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, New York USA |
| 2000 | A Box of "Ku" XI, Sepia International, New York City, New York, USA A Box of "Ku" XI, Spiral Gallery , Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | A Box of "Ku" X, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan A Box of "Ku" X, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 1998 | A Box of ”Ku” X, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 1997 | A Box of "Ku" IX, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan A Box of "Ku" IX, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 1996 | A Box of "Ku" VIII, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, New York, USA |
| 1995 | A Box of "Ku" VI, Gallery Nayuta, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 1994 | A Box of "Ku" IV, PARCO, Kichijyoji, Tokyo, Japan A Box of "Ku" V, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 1993 | A Box of "Ku" I, Gallery White Art, Tokyo, Japan A Box of "Ku" II, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan A Box of "Ku" III, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2020 | Fragments d’un paradis, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Japanese Photography and the Collotype, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Silver Belles: Holiday Show, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, U.S.A. Stillness, Akiko Kimura+Yamamoto Masao, evam eva yamanashi, Japan Mementos, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, U.S.A. |
| 2017 | La misura dell’inespresso, Yamamoto Masao+Ettore Frani, Galleria Nobili, Milan, Italy Les rencontres de Bernard Plossu: La collection d’un photographe, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France |
| 2016 | Why are we doing what we are doing? , Mizuma Gallery, Singapore“A Stand of Pine in a Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A. les oiseaux, Centre d’Arts Plastiques de Royan, Royan, France VOR / NACH-BILD oder: wie wollte ich werden als ich jung war?, Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany BACKSTORY, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography, MOPA, San Diego, U.S.A. Le parti pris des oiseaux, La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Saint-Pierreville, France |
| 2015 | Land Scape, FOMU foto museum, Antwerp, Belgium La main , Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France |
| 2014 | Cowen/Minkkinen/Yamamoto, PUG, Oslo, Norway |
| 2013 | NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR: Contemporary Japanese Artists, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA La Route Bleue (The blue way), Villa Empain, Bruxelles, Belgium Now Japan, Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Amsterfoort, Netherlands quinta essentia, Semina Rerum , Zürich, Switzerland SEVEN SEAS, Galerie de Moderne, München, Germany Small and Beautiful, Pobeda, Moscow, Russia |
| 2012 | Where they met, semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland Eloge de la miniature, Camera Obscura, Paris, France Japanese Photographers, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA Where they met, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2011 | Les Fables, Camera Obscura, Paris, France |
| 2010 | CIELS!, Musee Malraux, Le Havre, France |
| 2009 | Poetics of Light, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA PHOTOGRAPHY NOW “Vision Devotion Revelation”, HackelBury Fine Art, London, UK Espacios imaginarios, Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Uit Japan, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands STILL SEEN, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA UGO Ferrant Gallery, Rome, Italy Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy MEP Collection Recent Acquisitions and Donations, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France |
| 2008 | l’invito alla mostra Immagine la vita, Spazio Gerra – Fotografia e imagine contemporanea, Reggio Emilia, Italy Wave Gallery, Brecia, Italy, by Magazine Zoom In Palmo di Mano, La Nuova Pesa Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy maerzgalerie, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2006 | Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, New York City, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Artists of Nazraeli Press, White Wall Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2003 | Japanese Photography 1970′s-1980′s, S. K. Josefsburg Studio, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| 2000 | Chorus of Light, Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 1999 | Modena per la Fotografia 1999, Modena, Italy HOLND FSTVL, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 1998 | Waterproof, Expo ’98 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal MEDIALOGUE: Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art ’98, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan UNDER / EXPOSED, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1996 | Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Contemporary Japanese Photography, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 1995 | 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale, A Box of "Ku" VII, Tokyo, Japan A Box of “Ku" VII, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA A Box of “Ku” VII, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1994 | Flower Studies, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA intimate memories, A.O.I Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 1990 | SPIRAL Take Art Collection, Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1988 | FOTOFEST ’88, Houston, Texas, USA New From Tokyo 11 Japanese Photographers Japanese Avantgardo, Ken Damy Gallery, Mirano, Italy New Age Art Exhibition, Shinjuku Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1987 | Torino International Photo Biennale, Turin, Italy |
Public Collections
| Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA International Center of Photography, New York City, New York, USA Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, USA Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California, USA Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes, France Musei Civici Comune di Reggio Emilia, Italy Forum für Fotografie, Köln, Germany Fondation d’enterprise Hermès, Paris, France Art at Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland |
