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山本 優美 / Masami YAMAMOTO

Education

M. Ceramic Department, L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, Belgium

B.A.  Art and Craft Depertment, Kanazawa College of Art, Japan

2009

2007 

 

Solo Exhibitions

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2012      2009 

Earthen Skin / Gallery OUT of PLACE/ Nara, Japan

Untitled gardens / Shinjyuku Takashimaya Gallery / Tokyo, Japan

Untitled garden-The time of subxtance-/ Suisei Art Gallery/ Kanazawa, Japan

Everyday life glows faintly / Gallery HAYASHI + Art Bridge / Tokyo, Japan

Texture of memory/ Hiinaaction Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan

out grow / Gallery OUT of PLACE, Tokyo, Japan

reading space, relationship and memory / Gallery Muryo, Tonami, Japan  

Pale Skin / Sabo Issyo, Kanazawa, Japan

Feeling of existence / Wacoal Corp. Head office, Kyoto, Japan

Spiral Independent Creators Festival Grand Prize Artist's Exhibition ''UTSUSHIMI'' / Spiral,  Tokyo, Japan

Air's Memory / Gallery Ten,  Kanazawa, Japan

Masami YAMAMOTO / Galerie de L'ô, Brussels, Belgium

Group Exhibitions

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2014

2013

2012

2011

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2008

2007

Living with Us/Spiral Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Noto Peninsula Earthquake Reconstruction Charity Exhibition 「co-」/ Egen Gallery / Tokyo

 

Natsu Nakajima BUTOH performance / ISHIGURO Building /  curated by Suisei-Art, Kanazawa

 

Our Hearts Beat / Suisei-Art, Kanazawa

 

CADAN showcase 02 -Summertime Blues'2020 / CADAN YURAKUCYO, Tokyo ​

 

 

Please Come Yesterday / Curation by Suisei-Art, Kanazawa

Premonition of Beauty -∞ eight directions-/ Takashimaya /  Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya 

MATERIAL×ART / Ishikawa Prefectural Traditional Products and Crafts Museum, Kanazawa

 

SHIBUYA STYLE vol.10/ SEIBU Shibuya Gallery, Tokyo

Wear the Art​  LUMINE Yurakucho 5th Anniversary Exhibition / LUMINE Yurakucho, Tokyo

WE WANT TO SEE Japan-Belgium International Art Exhibition21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa People's Gallery B  

Nous  -sewing and living- / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa  Secret Wardrobe -Meet Lingerie- / Spiral, Tokyo

SIBUYA  STYLE Vol.9 / SEIBU SHIBUYA Art Gallery, Tokyo

Why did I laugh tonight?  Saori MIYAKE ・Masami YAMAMOTO / Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO

from 8 selection/collection / Gallery OUT of PLACE, NARA 

Spiral Independent Creators Festival2014 Prizewinner's works Exhibition / Spiral, Tokyo

Agnès Loves Japon / angnès b. Aoyama, ISETAN Sinjyuku, Tokyo

Killing me softly Reina KAKUREZAKi and Masami YAMAMOTO exhibition / Gallery OUT of PLACE, Tokyo

去無存菁 / Fu-Guei Tuan Gallery,  Taiwan

Spiral Independent Creators Festival  SICF15 / Spiral,  Tokyo

61 in 3 / Gallery Ten,  Kanazawa  

 

Open Call for Art Projects / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,  Hiroshima

Next Craft / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art,  Kyoto

SICF14 / Spiral,  Tokyo

 

Kick Ceramic! / Cultuurcentrum't Vonfrl Halle,  Brussels

 

Objets # Contre-Objets  / Ianchelvichi Museum,  Louvier,  Belgium

Dit-moi ce que tu mange / Hôtel Van De Velde,  Brussels

 

Triennale de Coup de CoeurL'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, Brussels 

Tremplin / WCCーBF,  Mons, Belgium

Talente2009 / International Handwerksmesses Munchen,  Munchen

Marché de Noel  /  Gallery L'ISELP,  Brussels

So Contemporary! /Kanazawa Citizen's Art Centre,  Kanazawa

Art Fairs

Art Fair  ASIA FUKUOKA/ Gallery OUTof PLACE booth/ HOTEL OKURA FUKUOKA

Art Collaboration KYOTO / Gallery OUT of PLACE booth,  Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto

ART OSAKA / Hotel Granvia OSAKA

3331ART FAIR​ / 3331Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

the art fair +plus-ultra  2016 / Spiral, Tokyo

Art Fair ART OSAKA / Gallery OUT of PLACE booth, HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA 

AOSANDO ART FAIR2015/ Epoi Room, Tokyo

Art Fair ART OSAKA/Gallery OUT of PLACE booth, HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA 

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Awards

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2007-2009    

Won the Grand Prize /15th Spiral Independent Creators Festival

Won the Special jury Prize / Open Call for Art Projects,Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Selected 8 best Artist Prize / Talente2009

Scholarship of Rotary Foundation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPIRAL (wacol art center Corp.)

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