Bruce Yonemoto

Bruce Yonemoto works in overlapping intersections of art and commerce, the gallery world and cinema, with a focus on Hollywood cinema’s fictionalization of Asian Americans. His works juxtapose cultural material from different international communities, such as Japanese American and Nipo-Brasiliero communities. Yonemoto has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Film Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Maya Deren Award for Experimental Film and Video. He and his brother Norman were subjects of a major mid-career exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles). The Yonemotos have had retrospectives at The Tate Modern (London), the Kunstverein Hamburg (Germany), and Anthology Film Archives (New York). Yonemoto’s solo installations, photographs and sculptures were featured at St. Louis Museum of Art, ICC (Tokyo), ICA (Philadelphia), Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles), and Kemper Museum (Kansas City). His work was featured in Los Angeles 1955-85 at the Pompidou Center (Paris), the Generali Foundation (Vienna), The Getty Research Center (Los Angeles), and the 2008 Gwangju Biennial (Korea). Yonemoto is Professor of Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.