YASUTO MASUMOTO

Born in Hiroshima, Japan 1981.
Lives and Works in Tokyo.

Education

2004-2006
Tokyo Polytechnic University M.A Media Art
2000-2004
Tokyo Polytechnic University B.A Photography

Solo Exhibitions

2009
"The World", ZAIM gallery, Yokohama
"Delicate Tongue", gallery Archipelago, Tokyo
"The World" KABEGIWA, Tokyo
2008
"Bird Watching" Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon, Portugal
2005
"ALL NOTES ON" art & river bank, Tokyo
2004
"ALL NOTES OFF" art & river bank, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2010
"Hana Buzz", Noge HanaHana, Yokohama
2009
"Viarco Express", Museu da Presidência da República, Lisbon, Portugal
"Bright World", A.I.T Room, Tokyo
"CAMERA INFINITA", Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2008
"absolute distance - Meiro Koizumi x Yasuto Masumoto", Otto Mainzheim Gallery, Tokyo
"Kotobuki Creative Action", Kotobuki-cho, Yokohama
2007
"Everything but the word?..." Instituto Camões, Lisbon, Portugal
"screaming video screening 2" art & river bank, Tokyo
2006
"@nimation in COLUMBIA" COLUMBIA (Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design), Aichi
"Looking is Believing" Hinomoto Bldg, Tokyo
2005
"screaming video screening" gallery archipelago, Tokyo
"12 DIVERS AT THE MOUNTAIN GATE" Yamaguchi shoe shop, Tokyo
2004
"do fim ao fim" art & river bank, Tokyo

Performance / Screening / etc...

2010
"Korinbo Video Art Meeting" (Screening), NTT Korinbo bldg, Kanazawa
"Runaway Laboratory" (Screening and performance), radlab., Kyoto
2009
"Ping-Pong Critic" (Screening and discussion), Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
"Löwe Screening" (Screening), UFO Galerie und Kunstraum, Halle, Germany
"Small Talk, Big Talk" (Talk show as a performance), Cultural Typhoon, Tokyo
"Beginners" (Public filming as a live performance), Matsubara community hall, Beppu
"Time to cook delicious dish" (Public filming as a live performance), Kotobuki-cho, Yokohama
2008
"Random Art vol.1- vol.4" (Talk show as performance), Tokyo
"VideoRelay" (Screening), muzz program space, Kyoto
"how to make an animation with many people" (workshop), YNKB, Copenhagen, Denmarka

Residency Program

2007
Maumaus -Escole de Artes Visuais-, Lisbon, Portugal

Grants

2007
Grant of the Nomura Cultural Foundation, Japan