Bruce Yonemoto
American film maker

Bruce Yonemoto

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American film maker
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1 January 1949
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Biography

Bruce Yonemoto (born 1949) is a Japanese-American multimedia artist. His work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Maya Deren Award for Experimental Film and Video, and a mid-career survey show at the Japanese American National Museum, in addition to major solo exhibitions at the InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, the Institute of Contemporary Art the University of Pennsylvania, and the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, MO. Yonemoto was featured in the 2002 Corcoran Gallery Bienniel, in Washington D.C. Yonemoto was also a recipient of the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award in 2008.

Yonemoto attended the University of California, Berkeley and Otis College of Art and Design. He is a Professor of Art at University of California, Irvine.