Bruce Yonemoto

1949　Born in San Jose, California, USA

MFA, Otis Collage of Art and Design, Los Angels, California, USA
Sokei Bijitsu Gakko (Sokei Art Insitute), Tokyo Japan
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
BA, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA
Professor and Chair, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, USA
Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, CA, USA

2006
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2005
Sounds Like the Sound of Music, Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Convento de Santo Domingo, Qorikancha, Cuzco, Peru(project Amauta)

2003
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

2002
"Naturlichkeit" Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

2001
"Screen Gems" Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, KansasCity, MO, USA
"The Time Machine" Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA, USA
"Bruce Yonemoto : Disappearance of Memory" Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1999
"Bruce Yonemoto : Disappearance of Memory" ICC Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
"Bruce Norman Yonemoto : Memory, Matter and Modern Romance, Japanese American" National Museum, Los Angels, CA, USA(curated by Karin Higa)

1998
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1997
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA

1995
"Bruce and Norman Yonemoto : Three Installations" Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1994
Espaco Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1993
"Disintegration" Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Three Locations / Three Points of View" (with John Baldessan) Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1992
"Land of Projection" Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
United States Information Center, American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

1991
"A History of Clouds" Insitute of North American Studies, Barcelona, Spain, Film Archives at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Kunstverein, Saarbrucken, Germany
"A History of Clouds" ZDF Television, Germany

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1990
"Made in Hollywood" ZDF Television, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
Insitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
"Framed" Mandeville Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

1989
"Framed" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA

1987
"Made in Hollywood" Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
"Framed" Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA "Kappa" (in collaboration with Mike Kelley), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Berkeley, CA, USA

1986
"Kappa" (in collaboration with Mike Kelley) Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1985 "Vault" American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Hall Walls" Buffalo, NY, USA

1984
"Spalding Gray's Map of L.A." Kitchen Center for Performing Arts, New York, NY, USA
"Godzilla on the Beach" (collaboration with Mike Kelley), Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Vault" Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY, USA
"Green Card : An American Romance" Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Hare Museum Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japn
"Vault" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1982
"Based on Romance" Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, USA
"Green Card : An American Romance" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Based on Romance, and An Impotent Metaphor" Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

1980
"Based on Romance" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
"Garage Sale II" Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Group Exhibitions

2007
Exile of The Imaginary, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
2006
Los Angeles : 1955 -1985, Pompidou Center, Paris, France (catalogue)
In Other Words, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Consider This..., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2004
Oliver Kamm, New York, NY, USA
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
AIM, Pasadena, CA, USA

2003
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2002
47th Corcoran Biennial : Fantasy Underfoot, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Videotopiques, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France 59th Minute : Times Square Astrovision, New York, NY, USA

2001
Televisions, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria(curated by Joshua Decter)

2000
Made In California : Art, Image & Identity, 1900 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Tempis Fugit, Nelson - AtKins Museum, Kansas city, MO, USA

1998
American Stories - Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan
Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
Akita Prefectural Integrated Life Cultural Hall, Akita, Japan

1997
American Stories - Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Contemporary Collections '97, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1995
Sampler 2, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA(curated by Diana Thater)
Color and Space : Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Dentro Brasil, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
Intelligent Ambience, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
P.L.A.N. : Photography Los Angeles Now, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1994
Screening Space, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1993
5th Fukui International Video Biennale 1993, Fukui Audio Visual Center, Fukui City, Japan
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

1992
European Media Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Generiques 1 -Des Ordres, Gallerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
Trans - Voices, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
The American Center, Paris, France and New York, NY, USA
Canal Plus, Paris, France
Relocations and Visions : The Japanese Internment Reconsidered, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
Hollywood, Hollywood, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA
A Day Without Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1991
The Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, GA, USA
Fact / Fiction, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Freeways from J Town, L.A. Freeways Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Televisions ; Channels for Changing TV, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA

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1990
The Body, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, USA
American Film Institute Video Festival, AFI Center for Advanced Film Studies, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Decade Show : Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's, The New Museum, New York, NY, USA
Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands
Pacific fim Archives, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

1989
Open Channels, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
The Blinky Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
New California Video, A Survey of Open Channels, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA

1988
Videonale, Bonn, Germany
Spirit of Place, The Learning Channel, PBS, USA

1987
Terrorizing the Code : Recent U.S. Video, Australian Video Festival
Asian American Film and Video Festival, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Biennial 1987, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

1986
Ghosts in the Machine, Channel Four, England
Alive from Off Center, PBS, USA
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
Das Kleine Ferhensehspiel, ZDF, Germany
TV Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1985
Video from Vancouver to San Diego, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Biennial 1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA Tokyo JVC Victor Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan

1984
Carplays, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bay Area Rapid Transmission, Comune di Venezia Centro di Documentazione di Pallazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

1983
Festival of American Video, California Olympic Arts Program, Los Angeles, CA, USA
New Narrative ; Recent Video Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands
The New Soap, Institute of Contemporary of Art, Boston, MA, USA

1982
New Imagery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
San Francisco Video Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA

1980
11th Biennale de Paris, Paris, France

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AWARDS AND GRANTS

2000
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department

1993
Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists
American Film Institute Independent Film & Videomaker Grant

1991
Best New Narrative, The Atlanta Film and Video Festival

1990
National Endowment for the Arts
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department

1988
Rocky Mountain Institute of Film and Video Production Grant
Open Channels Production Grant, The Long Beach Museum of Art
Best New Narrative, The Atlanta Film and Video Festival

1987
Art Matters, Inc.

1986
Gold Plaque Award, Chicago International Film Festival

1985
National Endowment For the Arts
National Endowment For the Arts

1984
Foundation for Art Resources
Work of Excellence, JVC International Video Festival
Phelan Award, JVC International Video Festival

1983
Rocky Mountain Institute of Film and Videi Production Grant
National Endowment For the Arts

1980
National Endowment For the Arts

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