Born 1957 in Gamagori-City, Aichi, Japan
Lives and works in Yamanashi, Japan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Celebrating the Publication of kurayami, Morioka Shoten, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Son Album, La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Ardeche, France
Kurayami – In Darkness, the Light, Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo, Japan
Yamamoto Masao: Tomosu, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2022 Small things in silence, FESTIMATGE 2022, Ajuntament Vell, Barcelona, Spain
La Vie Simple, Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany
BONSAI: A droplet in a hand, Mizuma & Kips, New York, NY
2021 SASANAMI, evam eva yamanashi, Japan
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, Japan
Bonsai, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2019 Itteki, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Shuchu Itteki, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Bonsai, Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany
Bonsai Microcosms Macrocosms, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Yamamoto Masao: Bonsai, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Bonsai, Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich, Germany
Bonsai Shuchu Itteki, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Tori, Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
Microcosms Macrocosms, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Microcosm Macrocosm, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
A Box of Ku, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Yamamoto Masao, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Tori, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tori, Etherton Gallery Tucson, AZ
2017 Yamamoto Masao, Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil
Tori, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
Tori, Gallery Fifty-one, Antwerp, Belgium
Yamamoto Masao, Schloss Bonndorf, Germany
Tori, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Tori, Galerie der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Tori, Tsutaya, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Tori, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Small Things in Silence, Toni Catany Foundation, Mallorca, Spain
Small Things in Silence, Galerie Marcelo Guarnieri, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Small Things in Silence, Centro Niemeyer, Avilés, Spain
2015 Small Things in Silence, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp
Small Things in Silence, espacio foto, Madrid, Spain
Kawa=Flow, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Small Things in Silence, Galeria Camera Obscura, Paris, France
Small Things in Silence, Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
Small Things in Silence, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Small Things in Silence, semina rerum, Zurich
Shizuka=Cleanse, Gallery Out of Place, Nara, Japan
Space of Serenity, Time for Prayers, Daegu Photo Biennale 2014, Korea
Yamamoto Masao, Galeria Marcelo Guanieri, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Shizuka=Cleanse, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Kawa-Flow, Galerie de Moderne, Munich, Germany
Yamamoto Masao, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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, Stadt Galerie im Schloss, Isny Allgäu, Germany
2012
Kawa=Flow Installations, Breda Photo, Breda, The Netherlands
Yamamoto Masao, Valid Foto Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Shizuka=Cleanse, Galeria Massimo Minini, Brecia, Italy
Magic Mountain, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Yamamoto Masao, Gallery Momogusa, Tajimi, Japan
Yamamoto Masao, Galeria Marcelo Guanieri, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kawa=Flow, Mugaen Museum, Hekinan, Japan
Kawa=Flow, Mizuma & One Gallery, Caochangdi Photospring 2011, Beijing, China
Kawa=Flow, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Kawa=Flow, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Kawa, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2010 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Kawa=Flow, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Kawa=Flow, Mi Camera, Milan, Italy
Kawa=Flow, Semina Rerum, Zurich, Switzerland
Kawa=Flow, ZPAF iS-KA, Krakow, Poland
Kawa=Flow, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kawa=Flow, Forum für Fotografie, Köln, Germany
Kawa=Flow, Gallery Sincerite, Aichi, Japan
Kawa=Flow, Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany
Kawa=Flow, Fifty-One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Kawa=Flow, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2008 Kawa=Flow, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Kawa=Flow, La-Condition-Japonaise, Berlin, Germany
Nakazora, Bienio, Nagoya, Japan
Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, Wave Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Yamamoto Masao, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Yamamoto Masao, Gallery Out of Place, Nara, Japan
2007 Masao Yamamoto, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Yamamoto Masao, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Yamamoto Masao, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Itlay
Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, Quinzaine Photographique, Nantes, France
Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
Installations, Hackelbury Fine Art, London, UK
é, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
é, Gallery Sincerite, Tyohashi, Japan
2005 é, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
é, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland é, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 é, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nakazora: Valiantly-that too, Pitifully-that too, White boxes, PDX, Portland, OR
Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Nakazora, Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Nakazora, Chiesa dei SS.Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo, Italy
Omizuao, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Nakazora, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Santoka, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Japan
2002 Nakazora, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Nakazora, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2000 A Box of ‘Ku’ XI, Sepia International, New York, NY
A Box of ‘Ku’ XI, Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999 A Box of ‘Ku’ X, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Japan
A Box of ‘Ku’ X, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
1998 A Box of ‘Ku’ X, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 A Box of ‘Ku’ IX, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
A Box of ‘Ku’ IX, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 A Box of ‘Ku’ VIII, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1995 A Box of ‘Ku’ VI, Gallery Nayuta, Yokohama, Japan
1994 A Box of ‘Ku’ V, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Box of ‘Ku’ IV, Parco, Kichijyoji, Japan
1993 A Box of ‘Ku’ III, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi, Japan
A Box of ‘Ku’ II, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Box of ‘Ku’ I, Gallery White Art, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 À toi de faire, ma mignonne, Musée national Picasso-Paris, France
Fragments d’un paradis, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
2022 Detente, instante. Una historia de la fotografía, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
wabi-sabi, Japan Museum Sieboldhuis, Leiden, Netherlands
BONSAI, Galerie Momogusa, Gifu, Japan
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, GA
Stillness, Akiko Kimura+Yamamoto Masao, evam eva yamanashi, Japan
Mementos, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2017 La misura dell’inespresso, Yamamoto Masao+Ettore Frani, Galleria Nobili, Milan, Italy
Les Rencontres de Bernard Plossu La Collection d'un photographe, Maison Europeenne de la
Photographie, Paris, France
2016 Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Le parti pris des oiseaux, La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Ardeche, France Backstory, Gallery Fifty-One,
Antwerp, Belgium
Vor/Nach-Bild, Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany
2015 Land Scape FOMU foto museum, Antwerp 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, AZ
La Route Bleue (The blue way): Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Now Japan: Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, The Netherlands
quinta essentia: semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland
Seven Seas, Galerie de Moderne, Munich, Germany
Small and Beautiful, Pobeda, Moscow, Russia
2012 Where they met, semina rerum, Zurich, Switzerland
Eloge de la miniature, Camera Obscura, Paris, France
5 Contemporary Japanese Photographers, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
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 Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
Museo Di Roma, Rome, Italy
Imaginary Spaces," Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Photography Now: vision, devotion, revelation," Hackelbury Fine Art, London, UK
2008 l'invito alla mostra Immagine la vita," Fotografia E Immagine Contemporanea, Italy
Zoom On In Out Japan, Wave Photo Gallery, Brecia, Italy
Bas de Cuer. Une Japonais, une Finlandais et cinq Mohawks, Maerzgalerie, Leipzig, Germany
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
In Palmo di Mano, La Nuova Pesa Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Spagio Gerra: l'Invito alla Mostra Immagine la Vita, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2007 Quinzaine Photographique, Nantes, France
Small is Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
2006 Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2005 Artists of Nazraeli Press, White Wall Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004 Il Nudo Tra Ideale e Realta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
2003 Japanese Photography 1970's-1980's, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
2000 Chorus of Light, Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1999 Uno Sguardo sul Giappone, Modena per la Fotografia 1999, Modena, Italy
HOLND FSTVL, Amsterdam, Holland
1998 Waterproof, EXPO'98, Lisbon, Portugal
Medialogue Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography, Japan
UNDER/EXPOSED, subway stations in Stockholm, Sweden
1996 Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Contemporary Japanese Photography, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
1995 A Box of Ku VII, The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale, Japan
A Box of Ku VII, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
A Box of Ku VII, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Flower Studies, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Intimate Memories, A.O.I Gallery, Santa Fe, CA
1990 SPIRAL Take Art Collection, Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo
1988 FOTOFEST '88, Houston, TX
Japanese Avant-garde, Ken Damy Gallery, Milano, Italy
New Age Art Exhibition, Shinjuku Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Torino International Photo Biennale, Torino, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2021 Son Album, T&M Projects, Japan
2020 sasanami, iikki books, France
2019 BONSAI – Microcosms Macrocosms, T&M Projects, Japan
2017 Tori, Radius Books, U.S.A.
The Poems of Santoka, Galerie Vevais, Germany
2014 Small Things in Silence, RM/Seigensha, Spain/Japan
2011 Where We Met, Lannoo, Belgium
Kawa, Kochuten Books, Japan
Yamamoto Masao, 21st Editions, U.S.A.
2008 Fujisan, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2005 é, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2003 Omizuao, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
Santouka, Harunatsuakifuyu Sousho, Japan
2002 The Pass Of Green Leaves, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2001 Nakazora, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
1998 A box of ku Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art at Swiss Re, Zürich, Switzerland
Center for Creative Photography (CCP), Tucson, AZ
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, FL
Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Paris, France
Forum für Fotografie, Köln, Germany
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Musei Civici Comune di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Quinzaine photographique Nantes, France
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK