Special Art Forum: Bruce Yonemoto
Wednesday 10 October, 4pm
Bruce Yonemoto works within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the gallery world and cinema screen. Yonemoto’s imaginative and theoretically-informed media artworks explore the interconnectedness of cinema and politics, and the key role that visual culture plays in both describing and executing the colonization of non-Western cultures. Through film, video, and objects, Yonemoto plays with the conventions of Hollywood and Post-War American iconography, incorporating narrative, kitsch, and formal experimentation. Yonemoto is renowned as a pioneering media artist and leader in Asian-American cultural circles, particularly for twenty years of collaborative practice with his brother, Norman Yonemoto.
Yonemoto's work has been widely exhibited, including exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. He has been included in the Corcoran Biennial (2002); Fukui International Video Biennale (1993); the Whitney Biennial (1993, 1987). In 1999, he was honoured with a retrospective at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Bruce Yonemoto is Professor and Chair of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine.
More information on the artist is available in this interview. Other links to Yonemotos work can be found here and here.
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Please note change of regular day and venue
Venue: Cinema 2, School of Film and TV, Building 861, Grant St (near St Kilda Rd Corner)
Southbank campus
Further enquiries: Contact the
Margaret Lawrence Gallery on
03 9035 9400 or email Scott Miles
Free admission and all welcome
Image: Bruce Yonemoto, Untitled (NSEW 4), 2007, Digital Print, 24" x 18", Edition of 7 with 1 AP, Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
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