Staying in Time

Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima in 1966. Graduated in Painting from Kanazawa College of Art in 1995. He has had numerous exhibitions in Japan and internationally including, MoMAP.S.1 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hermitage Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Hakone Open-Air Museum, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Setouchi Triennale.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
“Staying in Time“, YUKIKOMIZUTANI / Tokyo
2022
“Shrouded in Time“, Former Morikawa Residence / Takehara, Hiroshima
“Staying in Time“, PLACE / Portland, Oregon
“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” Waber State University / Ogden, USA
“Return to the Sea” Westminster College / SaltLake 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
“Returnto 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


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023
“Arts and Crafts that Brighten Spring” / Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
2022
“WALL ART PROJECT 2045 NINE HOPES” / Hirohima, 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 Coorridor 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 Triennnale 2016″ / Takami-jima Island, Kagawa, Japan
“Biwako Biennnale 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
“Narrow Road to the Interior”, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art / Arizona, U.S.A.
“Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude”, Kanazawa Art Gummi / Ishikawa
“Peace Meets Art!”, Hiroshima Prefectural Museum / Hiroshima, Japan
“The 6th Internationnal Contemporary Art Biennale of Melle”, France
“Fieldwork from Periphery”, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design / Kyoto, Japan
2012
“Making Mends”, Bellevue Arts Museum / Bellevue, U.S.A.
2011
“Reliefs”Fondation espace _ecureuilpour l’art contemporain / Toulouse, France
“City Net-Asia 2011”, Seoul Museum of Art / Seoul ,Korea
2010
“MOT Annual 2010”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / 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, Whrite and Gray”MA2 Gallery /Tokyo, Japan
“Text of Life”Ashikaga Museum of Art / Tochigi, 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 & Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston / South Carolina, U.S.A.
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 Artist from Japan”, MoMA P.S.1 / New York, U.S.A.
“Mutated Zen: The Art of Surviving”, The Nunnury / London, UK
“respiri”, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele / Milan, Italy
2000
“Installation” Garden of the Sculptures / Veracruz, Mexico


SELECTED AWARDS
2002　PHILIP MORRIS K.K. ART AWARD 2002, P.S.1 Art Award
2003　Received Grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
2010　Received Grant from Voyager + AIT Artist Support Program
2014　KOBAYASHI Wasaku Prize
2019　40th Kanazawa City Cultural Activity Award
2022　45th Ishikawa Television Award