| Born | 1957, Gamagori-City, Japan |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2013 | "Kawa=Flow", Galeria de Moderne, München |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", Etherton Gallery, Tuscon | |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", Gallery Kochuten, Nagoya, Japan | |
| one-day exhibition by Jeff Cowen and Yamamoto Masao, PUG, Oslo | |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Städt, Galerie im Schloss, Isny Allgäu, Germany | |
| 2012 | "KAWA=FLOW", Installations, BREDA PHOTO, Breda, The Netherlands |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", VALID FOTO GALLERY, Barcelona, Spain | |
| "Shizuka=Cleanse", Galeria Massimo Minini, Brecia, Italia | |
| "Magic Mountain", YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, New York | |
| YAMAMOTO MASAO CRAIG KRULL GALLERY, Santa Monica | |
| 2011 | "YAMAMOTO MASAO", Gallery MOMOGUSA, Tajimi, Japan |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", GALERIA MARCELO GUANIERI, Sao Paulo | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Mugaen Museum, Hekinan, Japan | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", MIZUMA & ONE GALLERY (CAOCHANGDI PHOTOSPRING 2011), Beijing | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", PDX Contemporary Art, Portland | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Robert Klein Gallery, Boston | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", maerz galerie, Leipzig, Germany | |
| 2010 | "KAWA=FLOW", maerz galerie, Berlin |
| "KAWA=FLOW part II", Semina rerum, Zurich | |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Galleria Alesso Nobilli & C., Milano | |
| "KAWA", GALERIE CAMERA OBSCURA, Paris | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", WOOLRICH WOOLEN MILLS, Milano | |
| 2009 | "é", Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona |
| "KAWA=FLOW", PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", JACKSON FINE ART, Atlanta | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", MICAMERA, Milano | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Semina rerum, Zurich | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", FIFTY ONE FINE PHOTOGRAPHY, Antwerp | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Photomonth in Krakow 2009, Krakow | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", FORUM FOTOGRAFIE, Köln, Germany | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", GALLERY SINCERITE, Toyohashi, Japan | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", Gallery Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany | |
| "KAWA=FLOW", POBEDA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia | |
| 2008 | "YAMAMOTO MASAO", CRAIG KRULL GALLERY, Santa Monica |
| 2007 | "YAMAMOTO MASAO", Center for Photographic Art, Camel, U.S.A. |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland | |
| "YAMAMOTO MASAO", GALLERIA CARLA SOZZANI, Milano | |
| "Nakazora Quinzaine photographique Nantes", France | |
| "Nakazora", GALERIE GABRIEL ROLT, Amsterdam | |
| 2006 | "Nakazora", GALERIE CAMERA OBSCURA, Paris |
| "Installations", HACKELBURY FINE ART, London | |
| MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo | |
| "é", GALLERY SINCERITE, Tyohashi | |
| 2005 | "é", JACKSON FINE ART, Atlanta |
| "é", PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland | |
| "é",CRAIG KRULL GALLERY, Santa Monica | |
| 2004 | "é", STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY, San Francisco |
| "Nakazora 'valiantly-that too, pitifully-that too, white boxes'"/td> | |
| PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland | |
| "Nakazora", CRAIG KRULL GALLERY, Santa Monica | |
| 2003 | "Nakazora, 'Corridor of Consider'", Chiesa dei SS.Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo, Italy |
| "Nakazora", DANIELA FACCHINATO IMAGE GALLERY, Bologna, Italy | |
| "Omizuao", YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, New York | |
| "Nakazora", JACKSON FINE ART, Atlanta | |
| "Santoka", GALLERY SINCERITE, Toyohashi, Japan | |
| 2002 | "Nakazora", S.K.JOSEFSBERG STUDIO, Portland |
| "Nakazora", CRAIG KRULL GALLERY, Santa Monica | |
| 2001 | "Nakazora", YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, New York |
| 2000 | A Box of "Ku" XI, SEPIA INTERNATIONAL, New York |
| A Box of "Ku" XI, SPIRAL GALLERY, Tokyo | |
| 1999 | A Box of "Ku" X, GALLERY SINCERITE, Toyohashi, Japan |
| A Box of "Ku" X, JACKSON FINE ART, Atlanta | |
| 1998 | A Box of "Ku" X, STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY, San Francisco |
| 1997 | A Box of "Ku" IX, SHAPIRO GALLERY, San Francisco |
| A Box of "Ku" IX, KOHJI OGURA GALLERY, Nagoya, Japan | |
| 1996 | A Box of "Ku" VIII, YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, New York |
| 1995 | A Box of "Ku" VI, Gallery NAYUTA, Yokohama, Japan |
| 1994 | A Box of "Ku" IV, PARCO, Kichijyoji, Japan |
| A Box of "Ku" V, SHAPIRO GALLERY, San Francisco | |
| 1993 | A Box of "Ku" I, GALLERY WHITE ART, Tokyo |
| A Box of "Ku" II, HOSOMI GALLERY, Tokyo | |
| A Box of "Ku" III, GALLERY SINCERITE, Toyohashi, Japan | |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2013 | "NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR: Contemporary Japanese Artists", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona |
| "La Route Bleue (The blue way)", VILLA EMPAIN, Bruxelles | |
| "Now Japan", KUNSTHAL KADE Amersfoort, The Netherlands | |
| "quinta essentia", semina rerum, Zürich | |
| "SEVEN SEAS", Galerie de Moderne, München | |
| "Small and Beautiful", Pobeda, Moscow | |
| 2012 | "Where they met", semina rerum, Zürich |
| "Éloge de la minitaure", Camera Obscura, Paris | |
| "5 Contemporary Japanese Photographers", University of the Pacific, Stockton | |
| "Where they met", Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium | |
| 2011 | "Les Fables", Camera Obscura, Paris |
| 2010 | "CIELS!", Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France |
| 2009 | "Poetics of Light", ETHERTON GALLERY, Tucson |
| "PHOTOGRAPHY NOW 'vision devotion revelation'", HACKELBURY FINE ART, London | |
| "Espacios imaginarios", KOWASA GALLERY, Barcelona | |
| "Uit Japan", Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands | |
| "STILL SEEN", ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY, Boston | |
| UGO FERRANT GALLERY, Roma | |
| "Roma", MUSEO DI ROMA, Rome | |
| "MEP Collection recent acquisitions and donations", Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris | |
| 2004 | "Il nudo tra ideale e realta", Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM) di Bologna |
| "Artists of Nazraeli Press White Wall Gallery", SOUL | |
| 2003 | "Japanese Photography 1970's-1980's", S.K.JOSEFSBERG STUDIO, Portland |
| 2000 | "Chorus of Light Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection", High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
| 1999 | "Modena per la Fotografia 1999", Modena, Italy |
| "HOLND FSTVL", Amsterdam, Holand | |
| 1998 | "Waterproof EXPO'98", LISBOA |
| "MEDIALOGUE Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography | |
| "UNDER/EXPOSED", Stockholm | |
| 1996 | "Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition", Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale |
| "Contemporary Japanese Photography", JACKSON FINE ART, Atlanta | |
| 1995 | A Box of "Ku" VII, The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale |
| A Box of "Ku" VII, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago | |
| A Box of "Ku" VII, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale | |
| 1994 | "Flower Studies", SHAPIRO GALLERY, San Francisco |
| "intimate memories", A.O.I Gallery, Santa Fe | |
| 1990 | "SPIRAL Take Art Collection", Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1988 | "FOTOFEST '88", Huston |
| "Japanese Avantgardo", Ken Damy Gallery, Mirano, Itary | |
| 1987 | "Torino International Photo Biennale", Torino, Italy |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA | |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| The International Center of Photography, New York, NY | |
| Center for Creative Photography (CCP), Tucson, AZ | |
| Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ | |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR | |
