1957 Born in Gamagori-City, Aichi, Japan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Itteki, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Shuchu Itteki, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
Bonsai, Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany
Bonsai Microcosms Macrocosms, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA 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
Microcosms Macrocosms, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto Microcosm
Macrocosm, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin
A Box of Ku, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Yamamoto Masao, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Brazil
Tori, Craig Krull Gallery, L.A.
Tori, Etherton Gallery Tucson,US
2017 Yamamoto Masao, Museo Oscar Niemeyer , Brazil Tori, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
Tori, Gallery Fifty one, Antwarp, Belgium Yamamoto Masao, Schloss Bonndorf,
Germany Tori, PDX Contemporary Art, Portrand, US
Tori, Galerie der Moderne, Munich
Tori, Tsutaya, Tokyo
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 Small Things in Silence, Centro Niemeyer, Avilés, Spain
2015 Small Things in Silnce, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp
Small Things in Silnce, espacio foto, Madrid, Spain Kawa=Flow, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Small Things in Silnce, Galeria Camera Obscura, Paris, France Small Things in Silnce, Valid Foto,
Barcelona, Spain
Small Things in Silnce, 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 Shizuka=Cleanse, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2013 Kawa-Flow, Galerie de Moderne, Munchen
Yamamoto Masao, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Yamamoto Masao, Gallery Kochuten, Nagoya, Japan
one-day exhibition by Jeff Cowen and Yamamoto Masao, PUG, Oslo Yamamoto
Masao, Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany Kawa=Flow Stadt. Galerie im Schloss,
Isny Allgau, Germany
2012
Kawa=Flow Installations, Breda Photo, Breda, The Netherlands
Yamamoto Masao, Valid Foto Gallery,
Barcelona
Shizuka=Cleanse, Galeria Massimo Minini, Brecia, Italy
Magic Mountain, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2011
Yamamoto Masao, Gallery Momogusa, Tajimi, Japan
Yamamoto Masao, Galeria Marcelo Guanieri, Sao Paulo
Kawa=Flow," Mugaen Museum, Hekinan, Japan
Kawa=Flow, Mizuma & One Gallery, Caochangdi Photospring 2011, Beijing
Kawa=Flow, PDX
Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Kawa=Flow, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston Kawa, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Craig Krull Gallery, LA
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland
2010 Robert Koch Gallery, SF
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 川 KAWA = Flow, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York 川 KAWA = Flow, La-Condition-Japonaise, Berlin
Nakazora, Bienio, Nagoya
Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, Wave Gallery, Brescia, Italy Nakazora-Space in Between Sky
and Earth, The Print Center, Philadelphia Yamamoto Masao, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
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
2006 Nakazora-Space in Between Sky and Earth, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris Installations,
Hackelbury Fine Art, London
é, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
é, Gallery Sincerite, Tyohashi
2005 é, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
é, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland é, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2004 é, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Nakazora: Valiantly-that too, Pitifully-that too, White boxes,” PDX, Portland
2004 Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2003 Nakazora, Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna, Italy Nakazora, Chiesa dei SS.Jacopo e Filippo,
Certaldo, Italy Omizuao, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Nakazora, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Santoka, Gallery Sincerite,Toyohashi
2002 Nakazora, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland
Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica 2001 Nakazora, Yancey Richardson
Gallery, NewYork 2000 A Box of ‘Ku’ XI, Sepia International, NewYork
A Box of ‘Ku’ XI, Spiral Gallery, Tokyo
1999 A Box of ‘Ku’ X, Gallery Sincerite,Toyohashi
A Box of ‘Ku’ X, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
1998 A Box of ‘Ku’ X, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco 1997 A Box of ‘Ku’ IX, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
A Box of ‘Ku’ IX, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1996 A Box of ‘Ku’ VIII, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NewYork 1995 A Box of ‘Ku’ VI, Gallery Nayuta,Yokohama
1994 A Box of ‘Ku’ IV, Parco,Kichijyoji
A Box of ‘Ku’ V, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco 1993 A Box of ‘Ku’ I, Gallery White Art, Tokyo
A Box of ‘Ku’ II, Hosomi Gallery,Tokyo
A Box of ‘Ku’ III, Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Stillness, Akiko Kimura+Yamamoto Masao, evam eva yamanashi, Japan
2017 La misura dell’inespresso, Yamamoto Masao+Ettore Frani, Galleria Nobili, Milano
Les Rencontres de Bernard Plossu La Collection d'un photographe, Maison Europeenne de la
Photographie, Paris
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
Vor/Nach-Bild, Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg
2015 Land Scape FOMU foto museum, Antwerp La main Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
2014 Cowen/Minkkinen/Yamamoto, PUG, Oslo
2013 Narrow Road to the Interior: Contemporary Japanese Artists, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art, Arizona
La Route Bleue (The blue way): Villa Empain, Brussels, France 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, England
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
2006 Picturing Eden, George Eastman House
2005 Artists of Nazraeli Press, White Wall Gallery, Soul, Korea
2004 Il Nudo Tra Ideale e Realta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di BolognaArtists of Nazraeli Press Soul,
White Wall Gallery
2003 Japanese Photography 1970's-1980's, S.K.Josefsberg Studio, Portland
2000 Chorus of Light, Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
1999 Modena per la Fotografia 1999, Modena, Italy
HOLND FSTVL, Amsterdam, Holland 1998 Waterproof, EXPO'98 LISBOA
Medialogue Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
of Photography
UNDER/EXPOSED, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
1996 Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition,” Lisa Sette Gallery,Scottsdale Contemporary Japanese
Photography,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
1995 A Box of Ku VII, The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale A Box of Ku VII, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
A Box of Ku VII, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
1994 Flower Studies, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco Intimate Memories, A.O.I Gallery, Santa Fe
1990 SPIRAL Take Art Collection, Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo 1988 FOTOFEST '88, Houston, U.S.A.
New From Tokyo 11 Japanese Photographers Japanese Avantgardo, Ken Damy Gallery, Milano,
Italy New Age Art Exhibition, Shinjuku Isetan, Tokyo
Torino International Photo Biennale, Torino, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2019 Bonsai – Microcosms Macrocosms, T&M Projects
2016 Yamamoto Masao - Poems of Santoka, edition Galerie Vevais
Tori, Radius Books
2014 Small things in silence, Editorial RM
2011 KAWA=Flow, Kochuten Books
YAMAMOTO MASAO, 21st Editions
2008 Fujisan, Nazraeli Press
2005 é, Nazraeli Press
2003 Omizuao, Nazraeli Press
Santoka, Harunatsuakifuyu Sousho, Japan
2002 The Path of Green Leaves, Nazraeli Press
2001 Nakazora, Nazraeli Press
1998 A Box of Ku, Nazraeli Press
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Center for Creative Photography (CCP), Tucson, AZ
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Meison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
Quinzaine photographique Nantes, France
Musei Civici Comune di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Forum für Fotografie , Köln / Germany
Fondation d'entreprise Hermès / Paris
Art at Swiss Re, Zürich, Switzerland