1946年アメリカ・サンノゼ生まれ。日系3世のアーティスト。弟ブルースと共に、ブルース＆ノーマン・ヨネモトとして、1976年からビデオやフィルムなどメディアを駆使した作品を発表。マイク・ケリー氏やジョン・バルデッサリ氏とのコラボレーションなど、幅広い制作活動を展開し、国際的な評価を獲得してきた。ブルースとのコラボレーションを終えた現在も、お互いにアメリカ西海岸を代表する作家として、世界各地で展覧会を行う。1999年には、ロサンゼルスの日系アメリカ人博物館でブルース＆ノーマン･ヨネモトの大規模な回顧展が催された。LA在住。
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Santa Clara University (1965-67)
University of California, Berkeley (1967-68)
University of California, Los Angeles (1968-70)
American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies (1972-73)
VOCATIONAL BACKGROUND
FOUNDER Interactive Fictions, Multi-media and Interactive
Media Production, Los Angeles, CA(2000-Present).
GUEST PANELIST, Annenberg School for Communication, University
of Southern California, “Interactive Frictions”, Los Angeles,
CA (1999).
GUEST PANELIST, Harvard School of Design, “Third Space”, Cambridge,
MA (1998)
CO-FOUNDER (with Bruce Yonemoto) Kyodai Productions, Video
Art Production, Los Angeles, CA (1979-Present).
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Occidental College, Film and Video, Pasadena,
CA (1995).
INSTRUCTOR, UCLA School of Art, New Genres, Los Angeles, CA
(1990-92).
INSTRUCTOR, Art Center College of Design, Video, Pasadena,
CA (1991).
GUEST LECTURER, UCSD, San Diego, CA (1990); Fashion Institute
of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles, CA (1983-88); University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (1988); Chicago Art
Institute, Chicago, IL (1987); Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA (1987); CalArts, Valenica, CA (1986); New
York State University, Buffalo, NY (1985).
SECOND UNIT DIRECTOR, Harley Davidson Motor Co., PromoVideo
(1988)
VIDEO DIRECTOR, Modern Artist Co. and Pipeline, "Psycho
Opera" (starring John Fleck and directed by David Schweizer)
(1987)
VIDEO CONSULTANT, Agoraphobe Productions, Motion Picture,
"Inside Out" (1985)
SCREENWRITER, Samuel Arkoff Productions, "Body Count"
(1985)
NORMAN YONEMOTO: AWARDS AND GRANTS
(NORMAN YONEMOTO)
CITY OF LOS ANGELES 2002-03 CULTURAL GRANT
(WITH BRUCE YONEMOTO)
THE 1998 ROCKEFELLER GRANT
THE 1993 MAYA DEREN AWARD FOR INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO ARTISTS
THE 1993 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEOMAKER
GRANT
BEST NEW NARRATIVE (1991 & 88), THE ATLANTA FILM AND VIDEO
FESTIVAL
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, NEW GENRES (1990)
CITY OF LOS ANGELES CULTURAL GRANT (1990&1994)
OPEN CHANNELS PRODUCTION GRANT, THE LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART
(1988)
GOLD PLAQUE AWARD, CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (1986)
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, TELEVISION PRODCTION GRANT
(1985)
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIPS (1983
& 85)
PHELAN AWARD, VIDEO ART/DOCU-DRAMA, SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
(1983)
NEA, MEDIA ARTS TELEVISION PRODUCTION GRANT (1980)
INTERACTIVE DRAMA (Created by Norman Yonemoto) CYCLE DRAMA (1999)
PRINTS (Norman Yonemoto) SHUNGA SERIES (2002-2003)
FILMS (Norman Yonemoto)
BROTHERS, 80 min. 16mm film (1972), SECOND CAMPAIGN, 20 min.
16mm film (1969)
(with Bruce Yonemoto)
GARAGE SALE, 70 min. 16mm film (1975), JAPAN IN PARIS IN L.A.,
30 min. 16mm film (1997),
SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEOS
(with Bruce Yonemoto)
BASED ON ROMANCE, 25 min. 3/4" (1979), AN IMPOTENT METAPHOR,
55 min. 3/4" (1979), LOVE LINES, one min. 3/4" (1979),
ROMANIC, 10 min. 3/4" (1980), GARAGE SALE II, 30 min.
3/4" (1980), GREEN CARD: AN AMERICAN ROMANCE, 75 min.
3/4" (1982), VAULT, 10 min. 1" (1984), SPALDING
GRAY'S MAP OF L.A. (with Spalding Gray), 28 min. 1" (1984),
KAPPA (with Mike Kelley), 25 min. 1" (1986), BLINKY (with
Jeffrey Valance), 15 min. D-2 (1988), MADE IN HOLLYWOOD, 58
min. D-2 (1990), A HISTORY OF CLOUDS, 34 min. D-1 (1991),
AHISTORY, one min. D-1 (1992), PRODUCED FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
(Norman Yonemoto)
CHATTERBOX (1974), SAVAGE STREETS (1981), PERFORMANCES
(with Bruce Yonemoto)
BASED ON ROMANCE, Franklin Furnace, New York, N.Y. (1982),
GODZILLA ON THE BEACH, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, Ca. (with
Mike Kelley) (1984)
INSTALLATIONS
(Norman Yonemoto)
“SELF” PORTRAIT, 2002 (2002), “SELF” PORTRAIT, 1999 (1999),
WALLCLOCK SERIES (2002-2003)
(with Bruce Yonemoto)
FRAMED (1989), LAND OF PROJECTION (1992), THREE LOCATIONS/THREE
POINTS OF VIEW (with John Baldessari) (1993), ENVIRONMENTAL
(1993), EXOTICA: Le Cabinet Chinois (1994), A MATTER OF MEMORY
(1995), LA VIE SECRETE (1997), SILICON VALLEY (1999)
SOLO EXHIBITION
(Norman Yonemoto)
2004 ?2005 It is about time……, LMAN gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(Norman Yonemoto)
2003 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Show, Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery, LA, CA.
2002 Mixed Feelings: Art and Culture in the Postborder Metropolis,
USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2001 Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2001 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
2000 6 th International triennial, Umetnostina Gallerija Maribor,
Maribor, Slovenia
1999 Interactive Frictions, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA.
(with Bruce Yonemoto)
2000 6 th International triennial, Umetnostina Gallerija Maribor,
Maribor, Slovenia.
1995 Dentro Brasil, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
CA.
1994 Opening Exhibition The American Center, Paris, France.
1993 Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists, the 1993 Phoenix
Triennial, Pheonix, Arizona.
1993 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York,
1992 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany, Generiques
1-Des Ordres, Gallerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Galerie
Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany, Trans-Voices, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York; 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
1991 Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, Fact/Fiction,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Freeways from J Town, L.A.
Freeways Festival, Los Angeles
Tele-visions: Channels for Changing TV, Long Beach Museum
of Art, Long Beach, Ca.
1990 The Body, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, American
Film Institute Video Festival, AFI Center for Advanced Film
Studies, Los Angeles, The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity
in the 1980's, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag, Holland, Pacific Film
Archives, University of California, Berkeley
Das Kleine Ferhensehpiel, ZDF, Germany
1989 The Blinky Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles,
New California Video, A Survey of Open Channels, Long Beach
Museum of Art, Long Beach, Ca
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1988 Videonale, Bonn, Germany, Spirit of Place, The Learning
Channel, PBS, USA, Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta,
Georgia
1987 Terrorizng the Code: Recent U.S. Video, Australian Video
Festival, Asian American Film and Video Festival, New York,
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York
1986 Ghosts in the Machine, Channel Four, Great Britain, Alive
from Off Center, PBS, USA, Chicago International Film Festival,
Chicago, Das Kleine Ferhensehspiel, ZDF, West Germany, TV
Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1985 Video from Vancouver to San Diego, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Musuem of American Art,
New York, Tokyo JVC Victor Video Festival, Tokyo
1984 Carplays, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, Bay Area Rapid Transmission, Comune di Venezia Centro
di Documentazione di Pallazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, Festival
of American Video, California Olympic Arts Program, Los Angeles,
New Narrative: Recent Video Acquisitions, Museum of Modern
Art, New York
SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
(with Bruce Yonemoto)
1999 Matter, Memory and Modern Romance (Mid- career Retrospective)
Japanese American National Museum
1997 A Matter of Memory Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY
1995 A Matter of Memory, Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA.
1995 Three Installations Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio.
1994 Exotica, Espaco Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
1993 Three Locations/Three Points of View (in collaboration
with John Baldessari) Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica,
CA.
1993 Disintegration Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1992 Land of Projection, Japanese American Cultural and Community
Center, Los Angeles, CA.
1991 A History of Clouds, UCLA Film Archives, Los Angeles,
CA., A History of Clouds, ZDF Television, Germany.
1990 Framed, Mandeville Gallery, UC San Diego, San Diego,
CA., Made in Hollywood, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.,
Made in Hollywood, The Kitchen, New York, Made in Hollywood,
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1989 Framed, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, Framed,
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
1986 Kappa (in collaboration with Mike Kelley), Baskerville+Watson
Gallery, New York.
1985 Vault, American Film Institute, Los Angeles
1984 Godzilla on the Beach (in collaboration with Mike Kelley),
Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles., Green Card: An American Romance,
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo., Spalding Gray’s Map
of LA, The Kitchen, New York., Vault, The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles., Vault, Anthology Film Archive, New York.
