Motoi Yamamoto

Kanazawa College of Art

2023.
_____'Shrouded in Time', Izura Institute of Art & Culture, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan

_____'Staying in Time', YUKIKOMIZUTANI, Tokyo, Japan

2022.
________'Shrouded in Time', Former Morikawa Residence, Takehara, Hiroshima, Japan

________'Staying in Time', PLACE, Portland, Oregon, USA

________'STRAIT', galleria PONTE, Kanazawa, Japan

2021.
________'LABYRINTH -WHITE DIARY-', eN-arts, Kyoto, Japan

________'Sakura Shibefuru -Falling cherry petals-', Setouchi City Art Museum, Okayama, Japan

2018. 'Floating Garden', Ierimonti Gallery, New York, USA

2015. 'Return to the Origin', Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan

2014.
________'Return to the Sea', Weber State University, Ogden, USA

________'Return to the Sea', Westminster College, Salt Lake City, USA

________'Floating Garden', La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France

2013.
________'Floating Garden', Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

________'Floating Garden', Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany

________'Return to the Sea', Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, USA

________'Return to the Sea', The Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA

________'Floating Garden', Setouchi City Museum, Okayama, Japan

________'Floating Garden', Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012.
________'Return to the Sea', Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

________'Return to the Sea', Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, USA

2011. 'To the White Forest', Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan

2010.
________'Floating Garden', eN-arts, Kyoto, Japan

________'Labyrinth', Jesuitenkirch Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

________'Floating Garden', Art-O-Rama, Marseille, France

2009.
________'Sakura', Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

________'Labyrinth', Grosse Bleichen Bilder, Hamburg, Germany

________'Labyrinth', L MD Gallerie, Paris, France

2005.
________'Reinigen', Mitsubishi Estate Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan

________'To the White in White', Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan

________'White Salt', Ierimonti Gallery, Milan, Italy

________'Labyrinth', CAI, Contemporary Art International, Hamburg, Germany

2024. 'Medium as the Muse', India Art Fair, India

2024. 'Sudhaus – Art with Salt and Water', Sudhaus, Bad Ischl, Austria

2023.
________'Shin Japanese Painting: Revolutionary Nihonga', Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

________'Oku-Noto Triennale 2023', Ishikawa, Japan

________'Arts and Crafts that Brighten Spring', Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Ishikawa, Japan

________'Rethinking the Japanese Tea Ceremony', Kitaro Nishida Museum of Philosophy, Japan

2022. 'WALL ART PROJECT 2045 NINE HOPES', Hiroshima, Japan

2021. 'Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+', Ishikawa, Japan

2020.
________'Fantasy Galaxy –Motoi Yamamoto x Yoshimasa Tsuchiya', The Ginza Space, Tokyo, Japan

________'SHIKANSUIYO - Art of the one hundred year forest', Meiji Shrine Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2018. 'Altering Home - Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa -', Gencyan-House + 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

2017.
________'Takamijima-Kyoto: On the Far Side of Daily Life', Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan

________'A Corridor of Art through the Mountain and Seas', Momo-shima island, Hiroshima, Japan

2016.
________'UNIVERS' sel', Aigues-Mortes, France

________'Roppongi Art Night 2016', Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan

________'Setouchi Triennale 2016', Takami-jima Island, Kagawa, Japan

________'Biwako Biennale 2016', Omi-hachiman, Shiga, Japan

2015. 'Salone del Giappone', Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan, Italy

2014. 'La Nuit Blanche', Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2013.
________'Mono no Aware - The Beauty of Things', The Hermitage State Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

_____'Narrow Road to the Interior', Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA

2012.
________'Making Mends', Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, USA

________'Reliefs', Fondation espace _ecureuil pour l’art contemporain, Toulouse, France

2011. 'City Net-Asia 2011', Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2010. 'MOT Annual 2010', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2009.
________'Togo Murano x Motoi Yamamoto', Kanazawa Artgummi, Ishikawa, Japan

________'Hundred Stories about Love', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

2008. 'Brack, White and Gray', MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007. 'Artist in Residence, Onomichi', Izumi’s House, Hiroshima, Japan

2006.
________'C.A.R.K.2006', Ishikawa International Salon, Ishikawa, Japan & Patras, Greece

________'Force of Nature', Van Every -Smith Gallery, Davidson College, North Carolina, USA & Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

2005.
________'hoch hinaus', Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland

________'Rising Sun, Melting Moon-Contemporary Art from Japan-', The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2004.
________'Gwangju Biennale 2004 - EcoMetro Project -', Gwangju, Korea

________'The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - Emerging Resonances', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

2003.
________'The First Steps; Emerging Artists from Japan', MoMA S.1, New York, USA

________'Mutated Zen: The Art of Surviving', The Nunnery, London, UK

________'respiri', Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan, Italy

2000. 'Installation', Garden of the Sculptures, Veracruz, Mexico

2020. 'Fantasy Galaxy – Motoi Yamamoto x Yoshimasa Tsuchiya', The Ginza Space, Tokyo, Japan

2019. 'Press Releases for New Products of Royal Copenhagen', 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan

2018. 'OFX CM – Tracing Memory', Kanazawa College of Art, Ishikawa, Japan

2005. 'Display for Ginza Komatsu', Tokyo, Japan