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- BIOGRAPHY -
YUZO NAKANO
1420 45th St., #35
Emeryville, CA 94608
E-mail: yuzo35409@gmail.com
Born in Osaka, Japan
PERFORMANCE/OTHER
1997 * Secret Memory: The metaphor for the brain interaction in the three worlds. (Internet Art)
URL: http://www.yuzonakano-secretmemory.com
1992 * Virtual Reality Event, "Renaissance Perspective"
VR MUSEUM: Collaboration work with Carnegie Mellon University.
1985 * "Randrum" (Video In-Road), Multimedia Performance (Directed design and composed music) at Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1985 * "Who from Where" Multimedia Performance (Directed design and composed music) at St. Andrews Church, Marin City, CA
1984 * "Noh One Knows," Multimedia Performance (Directed design and composed music) at Outside Theater, Fort Cronkite Beach, Marin,CA
1983 * Solo Music Concert (invitation), University of California, Santa Cruz,CA
* "A Zone of Silence" (Directed design and composed music), Laser Beam Theater at Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1982 * "Ankoku Buto Theater" Multimedia Performance, Designed, and composed music at Natoma Street Theater, San Francisco, CA
* Sound Design for " Four Visions in Printmaking & Dance". Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
Sponsors include:
California Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Fleishhaker Foundation.
S.H Cowell Foundation, Marin Inter Arts, Kala Institute
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Painting, Printmaking, Books)
1985 * Painting and Works on Paper, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 * Painting & Drawings, Primary Color Gallery, Sacramento, CA
* Painting & Drawings, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 * Printmaking, Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL
* Printmaking, Galerie Autonon, Berlin, West Germany
1981 * Light Sculpture on paper, Bridge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* Evolution of Light,íƒ˘ Installation, Drawings, Printmaking and Book, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1979 * Mixed Media Works, Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976 * Printmaking, Takamiya Gallery, Osaka, Japan
* Printmaking, Gallery 21, Tokyo, Japan
1975 * Printmaking, Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 * “Print Byte:the cutting edge of printmaking,” SOMART Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA.
2007 * “Cultivating Creativity,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2006 * Two persons show (painting&print), Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 * Folini Arte Contemporanea, Chiasso, Switzerland
2004 * “Kala in Uzbekistan”, Center of Modern Art, Tashkent, Uzbekistain
2003 * "Mapping the Imagination", The Mathematical Sciences Reserch Institute, Berkeley, Ca
2003 * "Printmaking", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002 * Artists from Kala Art Institute,íƒ˘ The National Museum of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.
* Japan show, paintings, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* 25th Anniversary Group shows at Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
* "Bay Area Printmakers" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 * High Touch/High Tech Conference and Exhibition at Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA and at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
1998 * The Sixth Annual New York Digital Salon (Travel Exhibition).
- Visual Arts Museum, New York
- Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
- Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy.
- Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain.
- Sala de Exposiciones CAM, Alicante, Spain.
1996 * Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco, CA
* "SoundCulture'96," Digital music and Painting at Works Gallery,San Jose, CA
* Master of the Medium, Printmakers from Kala Institute, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose, CA
1994-95 * Printmaking Possibilities: A 20-Year Retrospective from the Kala Art Institute at the University of California at Berkeley Museum,샃Blackhawk, Danville,
CA
1993 * Exchange Show at Atlantic Press, New York, NY
1992 *Exchange Show at Pyramid Press, Washington DC
1988 * 6 From Kala, Painting Exhibition, BONAPARTE, Milan, Italy
1987 * International Invitation Show, Fine Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
* Contemporary Prints from Kala Institute, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
* Impressions by KALA, Gensler & Associates/Architects, San Francisco, CA
1986 * Kala Exchange Trace, Foyer international d'Accueil de Paris, France
* Kala Institute-Exchange-Trace, Ston Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1985 * Chan Elliot Gallery, Sacramento, CA
* Vorpal Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1984 * California Bay Area Prints, New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico
* Small Project Award Winners Show, Inter Arts of Marin, Falkirk Community Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
* Japan Ima Show, Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
* Printmaker Show, Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL
* Stage Design and Performance Documentation show, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1983 * Exchange Exhibition of Prints & Drawings, Seoul/San Francisco, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angels, CA
* International Exchange Exhibition of Prints & Drawings,
* Cultural and Arts Foundation Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1982 * Cabor Frio International Print Biennial íƒÙ82, Cabor Frio, Brazil
* Galerie Autonon, Berlin
* ƒAn Exhibition In Honor of the 25. Anniversary of the University of Michigan, Flint, MI
* ArtistsíƒÙ Book Show, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1981 * The Second Print Biennial of the American Museo Municiple des샃Arts Graficas, Maracaibo, Venezuela
* Typographical Printmaking, World Print Council Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* California Printmaking: A Bay Area Perspective, Fort Wayne, IN
1980 * May Members and Advisors Exhibition, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1979 * June Kala Show, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
* Four Men Show, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1979 * 13the Internationals Biennial of Graphics Arts, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
* Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
* Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's' College, Moraga, CA
1978 * Japan Print Association Show, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1978 * June Kala Show, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
* Print Show, Chaboa College, Hayward, CA
1977 * The Sixth Exhibition of Prints, Sponsored by the Japan Print
* Dealers Association of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
EDUCATION
1987-1989 Studied computer graphics & videography - KTVU channel 2, Oakland, CA (Artist-In-Residence)
1980-1986 Studied Computer music, Kala Art Institute, self-taught, Berkeley, CA
1971-1973 Studied printmaking, under Stanley W. Hayter, Atelier 17, Paris, France
1965-1969 Studied painting, Tokyo Gendai Art Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
1974 - present Co-Founder and Co-director of Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
1993 founder of Kala Multimedia Center (EMC), Berkeley, CA
TEACHING
1993 - Present Computer graphics & web-page design, Kala Media Center, Berkeley,CA
1984 Directed Performance Workshop, Sponsored by California Art Council
1974-1980 Taught printmaking, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
1975 Taught printmakings, University of California, Davis, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LEONARDO < Sixth Annual New York Digital Salon > 1998
Ann Elliott Sherman < Sculpture sound itself at WORKS/San Jose > the April 18-24, 1996 issue of Metro.
Bernard Weiner San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 17, 1985
Sentinel USA 19 < Think Piece > Sept/26, 1985
Al Morch The San Francisco Examiner, June 30, 1985
Suzan Boettger < Slow Ceremonies > ARTWEEK, September 29, 1984
Janise Rose < Austerity marks outdoor dance> The Tribune, September 17, 1984
Dennis Duerden Art Critic London, September 20, 1984
Jack Van der Meulen <íƒ˘Noh One Knowsíƒ˘ is a conceptual performance> Pacific sun 14-20, Sept 20, 1984
Bernard Weiner < A Mesmerizing Dance by the Sea > San Francisco Chronicle, 1984
Bernard Weiner < Laser-Beam Theater > San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 1983
Cathy Curtis < An eerie íƒÚZone of SilenceíƒÙ > Berkeley Gazette, June 29, 1983
Cathy Curtis < The Era of Seeing > Express, August 26, 1983
Charles Shere < Light sculpture > Oakland Tribune, 1982
Dennis Duerden < Lines and shapes of Growth > ARTWEEK, April 4, 1981
Charles Shere. Gallery roundup, Oakland Tribune, March 31, 1981
Judith L Dunham ARTWEEK, July 26 1975
INTERVIEWS
1996 "A Question of Access Technology and the Arts, " by Barbara Fisher, Artweek, February 1996
1992 " Virtual Reality," Media magazine, San Francisco, CA
1988 Christian Science Monitor Radio World Service
1984 Fuji Television, San Francisco, CA
1982 City Arts Magazine, San Francisco, CA
1981 Art Waves Television, Oakland, CA
1979 Tokyo Television, San Francisco, CA
Print News, World Print Council, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
1984-1985 California Arts Council, Artist-In-Residence Grant
Group: California Arts Council.
National Endowment for the Arts.
Fleishhaker Foundation.
S.H Cowell Foundation.
1984 Inter-Arts of Marin, Small Project Award
1976 Japan Print Society Award
1975 New American Graphics Award
COLLECTION
The Mathematical Sciences Reserch Institute, Berkeley, Ca
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Art, San Francisco
San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco
Hasting Law School Collection
Ateria 17
Kala Institute
A.T.& T
Stanley W. Hayter------------------------------
Peter Selz