vita

Bruce Yonemoto
Education:
	Otis Art Institute, MFA (1977 - 1979) Sokei Bijitsu Gakko (Sokei Art Institute) Tokyo, Japan (1973 -1975 Colorado State University (1969 - 1970) University of California, Berkeley, BA (1967 - 1972)
Selected One and Two-Person Exhibitions:
2003	Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo "Spaceship Earth " Lemon Sky Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002	"Fantasy Underfoot" Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial, Washington, D.C. "Video Topique" Musees de Strasbourg, France "Spinning" MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2001	"Screen Gems," The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO "The Time Machine," Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA "Bruce Yonemoto: Disappearance of Memory," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1999	"Bruce Yonemoto: Disappearance of Memory," ICC Intercommunication Center, Tokyo (catalogue) "Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: Memory, Matter and Modern Romance," Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Karin Higa), (catalogue)
1998	Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997	Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
1995	"Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: Three Installations," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
1994	Espaco Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1993	Disintegration, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Three Locations/Three Points of View" (with John Baldessari), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1992	"Land of Projection," Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA United States Information Center, American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
1991	Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona, Spain "A History of Clouds," UCLA Film Archives, University of California, LosAngeles, CA Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Kunstverein, Saarbrucken, Germany "A History of Clouds," ZDF Television, Germany
1990	"Made in Hollywood," ZDF Television, Germany "Made in Hollywood," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "Made in Hollywood," The Kitchen, New York, NY "Made in Hollywood," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA "Framed," Mandeville Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1989	"Framed," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1987	"Made in Hollywood," Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA "Framed," Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY "Kappa," (in collaboration with Mike Kelley), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
1986	"Kappa," (in collaboration with Mike Kelley) Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1985	"Vault," American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA Hall Walls, Buffalo, NY
1984	"Spalding Gray’s Map of L.A.," Kitchen Center for Performing Arts, New York, NY "Godzilla on the Beach," (in collaboration with Mike Kelley), Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA "Vault," Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY "Green Card: An American Romance," Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan "Green Card: An American Romance," Hare Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan "Vault," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1982	"Based on Romance," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY "Green Card: An American Romance," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Green Card: An American Romance," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA "Based on Romance," and "An Impotent Metaphor," Pacific Film Archives,University of California, Berkeley, CA
1980	"Based on Romance," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Garage Sale II," Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
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 "Video Time," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Tempis Fugit," Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1998	"American Stories - Amidst Displacement and Transformation," Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui; Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki; Akita Prefectural Integrated Life Cultural Hall, Akita
1997	"American Stories - Amidst Displacement and Transformation," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba (catalogue) "Contemporary Collections '97," Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
1995	"Sampler 2", David Zwirner, New York (curated by Diana Thater) "Color and Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture," David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, (catalogue) "Dentro Brasil," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Intelligent Ambience," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "P.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994	"Screening Space," Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993	5th Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui Audio Visual Center, Fukui City, Japan "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1992	European Media Festival, Osnabruk, 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; The American Center, Paris and New York; and Canal Plus, France "Relocations and Visions: The Japanese Internment Reconsidered," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Hollywood, Hollywood," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA "A Day Without Art," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1991	The Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, Georgia "Fact/Fiction," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Freeways from J Town," L.A. Freeways Festival, Los Angeles, CA "Televisions; Channels for Changing TV," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1990	"The Body," The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL American Film Institute Video Festival, AFI Center for Advanced Film Studies, Los Angeles, CA "The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980’s," The New Museum, New York, NY Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag, Holland Pacific Film Archives,” University of California, Berkeley, CA
1989	"Open Channels," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "The Blinky Show,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "New California Video, A Survey of Open Channels," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1989	"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 " Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1986	"Ghosts in the Machine," Channel Four, Great Britain "Alive from Off Center," PBS, USA Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL Das Kleine Ferhensehspiel,” ZDF, West Germany " TV Generations," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1985	"Video from Vancouver to San Diego," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Tokyo JVC Victor Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan
1984	"Carplays," Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA " 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 "New Narrative; Recent Video Acquisitions," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag, Holland "The New Soap," Institute of Contemporary of Art, Boston, MA
1982	"New Imagery," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY San Francisco Video Festival, San Francisco, CA
1980	"11th Biennale de Paris," Paris, France
Bibliography
2001	Fulcher, Dawn, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 33, 2001, p. 84-85 Klonarides, Carole Anne, "Bruce Yonemoto, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia," Artext, no. 74, Augist - October 2001, p. 85
1999	Ollman, Leah, "Bruce and Norman Yonemoto at the Japanese American National Museum", Art in America, September 1999, p. 134 LaBelle, Charles, "Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles," Art/Text, May - July 1999, p.86 Buruma, Ian, Karin Higa and Timothy Martin, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: memory, matter and modern Romance exhibition catalogue Klonarides, Carole Ann, Disappearance of Memory, exhibition catalogue Gonzalez-Day, Ken, "Bruce and Norman Yonemoto at the Japanese American National Museum, Art issues., Summer 1999, number 58, p. 45 Knight, Christopher, "Insightful, Social Special Effects," Los AngelesTimes, p. F1 & F23 Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, "Forms of Identification," Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 24, 1999, p. 6 & 69
1996	Higa, Karin, "Some Thoughts on National and Cultural Identity: Art by Contemporary Japanese and Japanese American Artists," Art Journal, Fall 1996, p. 6-13 Horrigan, Bill, "Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: Assimilated," Art + Text, September/October 1996, p. 54 - 59 Marks, Laura U., "Dentro Brazil", Artforum, January, 1996, p.89 Schwendener, Martha, "Sampler 2: More Videos from Southern California," Time Out, January 31 - February 7, 1996, p. 25 Smith, Roberta, "Sampler 2: Single Channel Video from Southern California," The New York Times, January 26, 1996
1995	Kandel, Susan, "Yonemotos' Installation Gets a Layered Look," Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1995, pF6 Kandel, Susan, "Video In, Video Out," Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1995, p. F9 - 10
1994	James, David, Art Issues, January - February 1994, No. 31, p. 36 Kugelman, Kerry, Visions, Spring 1994, pp.33,34
1993	Frank, Peter. "Art Pick of the Week: Bruce & Norman Yonemoto with John Baldessari," L.A. Weekly, September 3-9, 1993, p. 114 Kandel, Susan, "Yonemotos Look at Purity and Find a New Meaning," Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1993, p. F9 Pagel, David. "Background Footage Brings New Life to Old Views," Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1993, p. F2 Rasenberger, Jean. "A conversation with Bruce Yonemoto," Artweek, February 4, 1993, p. 5
1992	Adachi, Diane. "Made in Hollywood," The Japan Times, May 24, 1992, p. 10 Apple, Jackie. "Televisioned Spaces," Visions Art Quarterly, Fall, 1992, pp. 37-38 Gamblin, Noriko. "Relocations and Revisions: The Japanese American Internment Reconsidered " (Exhibition Catalogue). Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Gerstler, Amy. "Framed," Artscribe International, September/October, 1992, pp. 86-87 " Land of Projection," Land of Projection (Exhibition Catalogue), Los Angeles, Japanese American Community Cultural Center, 1992, pp. 5-6
1991	Lelong, Russell, ed. Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Art, Los Angeles, CA "Paris in Tokyo in L.A.," Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts, Los Angeles, UCLA Asian Studies Center,1991, pp. 96-99
1990	Dick, Kirby. “Made in Hollywood,” Montage (IFP/West Publication), February, 1990 Klein, Norman M.. "Audience and Culture and the Video Screen, Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art," New York; Aperture Foundation, Inc,. 1990, pp. 376-77, 393 McKenna, Kristine. "On the Outside Looking In," Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1990, p. 6, pp. 95-97 Nash, Michael. “Video Vs. Television,” LA Style, June 1990, pp. 173-74, 235-37
1989	"The Medium Is the Mess...Age," Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1990, pp. 242-48 "T.V. Lamp," From Receiver to Remote Control: the T.V. Set (Exhibition Catalogue), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1990, p.82 Martin, Timothy. "What’s Wrong With This Picture?" Framed (Exhibition Catalogue), Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, 1989, pp. 9-16 Miller, John. "Bruce and Norman Yonemoto at the Long Beach Museum of Art," Art Issues, Number 4, 1989
1987	Nash, Michael. "Video Poetic: A Contemporary Survey," High Performance, Issue 37, 1987, p. 69 Knight, Christopher. “Kappa,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, February 15, 1987, p. E3
1986	Houston, Beverle. "Television and the Video Text: A Crisis of Desire," Resolution: A Critique of Video Art. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, 1986, pp. 110-24
1985	Sturken, Marita. "Feminist Video: Reiterating the Difference," Afterimage, 9, April 1985, pp. 9-11
1984	Podheiser, Linda. Revising Romance: New Feminist Video (Exhibition Catalogue), New York: The American Federation of the Arts, with the co-operation of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1984
1983	"Ante-Social: The Work of Ante Bozanich 1975-1982," Video 80, No. 9, Winter, 1983 "Criticism of Japanese Reality," Artweek, Vol. 14, No. 43, 1983
1982	James, David. "Questioning the Signifiers," Artweek, September 11, 1982, p. 51
1980	"Survey Australia: Video and Bookwork," Artweek, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1980
Permanent Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Donnell Library Collections, New York, NY La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Awards and Grants Individual Artist Grant, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (2000) The 1993 Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists The 1993 American Film Institute Independent Film & Videomaker Grant Best New Narrative (1991 & 1988), The Atlanta Film and Video Festival National Endowment for the Arts, New Genres (1990) City of Los Angeles Cultural Grant (1990) Rocky Mountain Institute of Film and Video Production Grant (1988 & 1983) Open Channels Production Grant, The Long Beach Museum of Art (1988) Art Matters, Inc., Media Production Grant (1987) Gold Plaque Award, Chicago International Film Festival (1986) National Endowment For the Arts, Television Production Grant (1985) National Endowment For the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowships (1983 & 1985) Foundation for Art Resources, Performance Grant (1984) Work of Excellence, JVC International Video Festival (1984) Phelan Award, JVC International Video Festival (1984) National Endowment For the Arts, Media Arts Television Production Grant (1980)