Lynne Yamamoto | Resume

Education
1996 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1993 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1992 Artist-in-the-Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1991 New York University, New York, NY (MA in Studio Art)
1985 Inter-University Center for Film and Critical Studies, Paris, France
1983 The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (BA in Art)
1981 University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI

One Person Exhibitions

2010
Genteel. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Genteel. Oresman Gallery, Smith College, MA

2006
Termite Weather. Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, VT

2004
Smooth Cayenne. P.P.O.W., New York, NY

2003
Smooth Cayenne. The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

2001
Resplendent, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY

2000
Gallery 3: P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
This, and my heart, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI (collaboration with Mount Pleasant High School students)

1999
Eyes, Dark, Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
The Long Twilight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY

1998
New Work, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Grasp, George Suyama Architect Space, Seattle, WA

1997
Selected Work, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, LIC, NY
They all fall down, articule, Montreal, Canada

1996
Submissions, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

1994
Night Waters, Art in General, New York, NY

1992
I hang my hat up after work, The James Howe Gallery, Kean College, Union, NJ

1991
Hope Springs Eternal, Art in General, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
Racism: An American Family Value. The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
20 Going on 21: An Exhibition of Contemporary Hawai'I Artists. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition. University of Hawai’I Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2008
Labyrinth: From Mythology to Reality. Exit Art, New York, NY
There to Here. Then and Now. Organized by Michiko Okaya, Lafayette College Art Gallery.

2007
Ornamental Instincts, organized by Wennie Huang, Wave Hill House, Bronx, NY Common Ground, organized by Matt Ferranto, Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Valhalla, NY

2006
Reconstructed Memories, organized by Aaron Kerner. University of Hawai’I Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, organized by Allison Wong. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI The Studio Visit, organized by Jodi Hanel. Exit Art, New York, NY

2005
Bodies of Evidence: Contemporary Perspectives. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI Simbiosis: Zonas de Contacto, organized by Celsa Fernández San Narcisco. Luarca, Asturias, Spain (collaboration with Lucretia Knapp) Honolulu to New York, curated by Allison Wong. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Collection Remixed, curated by Lydia Yee. Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY The Print Show. Exit Art. New York, NY

2004
Issho/Together: Japanese American/Japanese National Artists in America 1941-present. Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA Face Value.
The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI
179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

2004
The 179th Annual, The National Academy, Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY

2003
Fresh Talk Revisited, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Gallery, New York University
Only Skin Deep National Survey, International Center of Photography internet exhibition
A Theory of Relative Power, organized by Franklin Sirmans, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY

2001
Asian Pacific American Artists from the Seattle Arts Commission Portable Works Collection, organized by Mayumi Tsutakawa, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA
other, organized by Kendal Henry, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY

2000
Construction in Process VII, organized by Ryszard Wasko, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
Welcome, organized by Jennifer McGregor, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY
“Good Business is the Best Art” Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
akihabara TV, organized by Command N, Tokyo, Japan (project work in collaboration with Lucretia Knapp)
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982 - 2000, organized by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, Exit Art, New York, NY

1999
Lynne Yamamoto and Drew Dominick, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
The Time of Our Lives, organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (collaboration with students and teachers, Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute for the Arts and Technology)

1998
Asian-American Artists: Cross-Cultural Voices, organized by Rhonda Cooper and Young Park, Stahler Center for the Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY
Histories (Re)membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, organized by Marysol Nieves, Paine-Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY
Site of Asia, Site of Body, organized by Fu-Chia-Wen Lien and Hsiao-Ning Tu, Taipei Gallery, New York, NY
East of the Sun, organized by Fred Liang and Jason Yi, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
Constructions in Multiple Hues, organized by A.M. Weaver, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

1997
Degree of Separation, collaborative installation with Kerri Sakamoto, YYZ, Toronto, Canada
Fermented, organized by Barbara Hunt and Amy Sadao, Aronson Galleries, New York, NY
Family Stories, organized by Katherine Kreisher, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Existing Things, organized by Anton Vidokle, Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil
The Compulsion to Remember, organized by Rachel Gugelberger, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

1996
Evidence of Memory, with Tomie Arai, Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, CT
I am not what I am, organized by Barbara Hunt and Suzy Kerr, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds, UK
Incandescent, organized by Laura Cottingham, Luisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlabaek, Denmark
Measured Movement: The Art of Labor, organized by Consuelo Underwood and Alyssa Erikson, San Jose State University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA

1995
There to Here, with Tomie Arai, Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, PA
Accumulation, organized by Robin Hill, The Work Space, New York, NY
Sculpture Space: Celebrating 20 Years, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Telling Stories, City Site Works, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA (collaboration with Aresh Javadi and students of Booker T. Washington High School and Harland Teen Center- Boys & Girls Club)
Latent August: The Use of the Atomic Bomb, A 50-year Retrospective, organized by the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
(dis) ORIENTED: Shifting Identities of Asian Women in America, organized by Margo Machida, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement and Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
MINI-MUNDUS, organized by Teresa Bramlette, White Columns, New York, NY
FaceForward: Contemporary Self-Portraiture, organized by Maureen Sherlock, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, 1970 – 95, organized by Lydia Yee, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1994
In-Sites: Lower East Side Artists Re-think Neighborhood Spaces, organized by Ellen Wexler, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY (collaboration with Aresh Javadi)
Sum of the Parts, organized by Gaye Chan, University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Page 4, organized by Hilda Daniel, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Four Story Building, organized by Skowmon Hastanan, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

1993
Wash Closet, concurrent with Brennan McGaffey, Information Gallery, New York, NY
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Construction in Process IV, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
Dirty Ornament, organized by Amanda Trager, The Rotiunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
New Expressions in Asian American Art, organized by Shan-Hong Sheng, Eugenie Tsai, and Ray Ring, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Female Body Parts: From Geography to Fetish, organized by Betty-Sue Hertz, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY
The Curio Shop, organized by Godzilla (Asian American Artists Network), Artists Space, New York, NY
Selections: The Work of Women, organized by Carl Hazlewood, ALJIRA, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Embrace, Enclose, Include, collaborative installation with Aresh Javadi, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY

1992
Fever, organized by Jeanette Ingbermann and Papo Colo, Exit Art, NY and the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Hair, organized by Alison Ferris, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Dirt and Domesticity: Constructions of the Feminine, organized by Jesus Fuenmayor, Kate Haug, and Fraser Ward, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York, NY
Mssr. B’s Curio Shop, organized by Saul Ostrow, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Artist-in-the-Marketplace XII, organized by Connie Butler, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Encountered with Diversity, organized by Zdenka Gabalova, P.S. 1 The Institute for Contemporary Art, LIC, NY

1987-90
Artists of Hawai’i, Annual Juried Exhibition, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

Collections
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute
Seattle Arts Commission
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Public Library
Museum of Modern Art
Microsoft Corporation
Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art

Awards, Grants and Scholarships
2002 Penny McCall Foundation Award
2001 Creative Capital Foundation Grant
1999 Japan-United States Arts Program, Asian Cultural Council
Special editions fellowship, Lower East Side Print Shop
1996 Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Grant
1995 Fellowship for participation in the Henry Street Settlement Studio Program
1994 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence Program
1992 Funded Residency at Sculpture Space
Diverse Forms Artists’ Projects Grants
Van Lier Fund Fellowship for participation in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
1989-88 Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Purchase Award