Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男 Yamamoto Masao?, born 1957 in Gamagori City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a freelance photographer known for his small photographs, which seek to individualize the photographic prints as objects.
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Biography
Yamamoto studied oil painting under Goro Saito in his native city. He presently uses photography to capture images evoking memories. He blurs the border between painting and photography however, by experimenting with his printing surfaces. He dyes, tones (with tea), paints on, tears his photographs. His subjects include: still-lives, nudes, and landscapes. He also makes installation art with his small photographs to show how each print is part of a larger reality.
Individual exhibitions
"A Box of Ku" XI, Sepia International, Inc. and The Alkazi Collection of Photography, New York, NY "A Box of Ku" XI, Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"A Box of Ku X," Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Japan "A Box of Ku X," Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
"A box of Ku X," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"A box of Ku IX," Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA "A box of Ku IX," Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
"A box of Ku VIII," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
"A box of Ku VI," Gallery Nayuta, Yokohama, Japan
"A box of Ku V," Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA "A box of Ku IV," Parco, Kichijyoji
"A box of Ku III," Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi "A box of Ku II," Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "A box of Ku I," Gallery White Art, Tokyo, Japan
"PNEUMA," Shibuya Seibu Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Naturarist Notes (A creature, A Still Life) VI," One-Oh-Nine, Tokyo, Japan
"Naturarist Notes (A creature, A Still Life) V," Seibu Art Spot, Chiba "Naturarist Notes (A creature, A Still Life) IV," Graphic Station, Tokyo, Japan "Naturarist Notes (A creature, A Still Life) III," Sibuya Seibu Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Naturarist Notes (A creature, A Still Life) II," Gallery Sin, Kouchi "Naturarist Notes (A creature, A Still Life) I," Kodak Photo Salon, Ginza and Osaka, Japan
Group exhibitions
"Modena per la Fotografia 1999," Modena, Italy "Attack!," Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, Holland
"Waterproof," EXPO '98, Lisboa "Medialogue Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
"Contemporary Japanese Photography," Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA "Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition," Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
"A box of Ku VII," Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL "A box of Ku VII," Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ "The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale, A Box of Ku VII," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
"Intimate Memories," A.O.J. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM "Flower Studies," Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Spiral Take Art Collection," Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"New Age Art Exhibition," Shinjuku Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, Japan "Japan and India Sculpture Camping Documentary Photography, Gallery am, Tokyo, Japan "Japanese Avantgardo," Ken Damy Gallery, Mirano, Italy "New From Tokyo 11 Japanese Photographers" "Fotofest '88," Houston, TX
"Torino International Photo Biennale, Torino, Italy
- 1979-81
"Group CAN.TA.TA," Tokyo, Japan
Public collections
- Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
