Biography

Exhibitions

2010
3rd Glass Education Network (GEN) Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
2011
Tokyo Midtown Award, Japan (’12)

4th Contemporary Glass Triennial in Toyama, Japan
2012
Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, Japan

5th Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Sanyo Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan

11th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition, Japan

Rakusui-tei Museum of Art Exhibition “Decor of Summer”, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan

Toyama City New Glasswork Acquisition Exhibition, Japan

50th Japan Craft Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2013
SOFA Chicago, USA (’14)

Cheongju International Craft Biennale, South Korea

Collect, London (’14, ’15)

International Glass Ehibition, Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Notojima Art Museum, Ishikawa

7th Snow Design Competition, Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice, Japan
2014
Art Miami, USA (’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19)

Art Palm Beach, USA

American International Fine Art Fair, USA

Asia Week New York, USA

TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands (’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19, ’20, ’22, ’23)

Clark Art Institute Grand Opening Exhibition, USA

The Beauty of Materials – Yufuku Gallery Group Exhibition, Galerie Marianne Heller, Germany

Art Stage Singapore, Singapore (’15, ’16, ’17)
2015
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (’21)

Keisho Ha II : A new Materialism, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016
TOYAMA GLASS -No limit No border-, Toyama Glass Art Museum

Yufuku Gallery London Pop-up Exhibition, UK

Spring Masters New York, USA

EAF Monaco, Monaco
2017
TEFAF New York Spring, USA
2018
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, USA

Yufuku Pop-Up Exhibition New York, USA

Seattle Art Fair, USA (’19)
2019
Silhouettes of Tomorrow, Yufuku Pop-Up Exhibition (Gallery Elena Shchukina, London)

Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong
2020
Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

West Bund Art and Design, Shanghai, China (’21, ’23)
2021
The Secret Show, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

RE:OPENING CEREMONY, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

The Armory Show, New York, USA

The Elemental– Music of the Spheres –, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

Thirty Years of Toyama Institute of Glass Art Forms for the Future, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan

ART 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, China

Untitled Art Miami Beach, USA
2022
A Lighthouse called Kanata New York Pop-Up, USA

Masterpiece London, UK

The Future Eternal – a special exhibition for DESIGNART TOKYO, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Visions of the Sea, Kanata at MIKIMOTO New York, USA

Beyond the Abstract World: From Yufuku to Kanata, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

The Treasure House Fair, London, UK

Tokyo Gendai, Japan

Awards

2010 Dean’s Award, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
2011 Award of Excellence, Tokyo Midtown Award
Special Award (Second Prize), 4th Contemporary Glass Triennial in Toyama
Head of Board Award, Toyama Chamber of Commerce
Ecchu Art Grand Prize, Ecchu Art Festival
President Award, The Kitanippon Shimbun Exhibition
2012 Created the Winners’ Trophy for Tokyo Midtown Award 2012 Design & Art Competition
Award of Excellence (Second Prize), 5th Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Sanyo Onoda
Award of Excellence, Ecchu Art Festival
2013 Selected, Cheongju International Craft Biennale
Gold Prize, 7th Snow Design Competition
2014 Grand Prize, Art Fair Toyama Art Award (’16)
2015 Izak Prize, Art Fair Toyama Art Award
2016 Grand Prize, Art Fair Toyama

Public Collections

Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
Tokyo Midtown, Japan
Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice, Japan

米元優曜 Masaaki
Yonemoto Masaaki
Yonemoto

Skyscraper XLIV (2021)

H85 x W21 x D17 cm

Masaaki
Yonemoto

Profile

1987 Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture
2010 Completed course in Glass Sculpture, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
Graduated head of class “Headmaster Award”, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
2012 Completed graduate course, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art
Established as an individual artist, currently lives and works in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

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If the metropolises of the next millennium are futuristic pyramids in glass, Masaaki Yonemoto’s (b. 1987 –) skyscrapers would reign bright in the night sky, glistening softly in their incandescent splendour. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture and recently moving back to his birthplace to build his own independent studio, Yonemoto is a young artist, yet his talent is undisputed. Graduating head of his class at the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts in 2010, and further completing his graduate studies at the Toyama City Institute
of Glass Art, Yonemoto has received more than 10 major awards in glass in the three years since leaving university, and his works embody the great aesthetic potential of glass as a major sculptural material.