Artists: Bruce Yonemoto

Bruce Yonemoto

Bruce Yonemoto was raised in Santa Clara Valley (now Silicon Valley) as the son of Japanese Americans interned during WWII by the American government. His work is informed by his family’s history of racial discrimination and forced incarceration. His work as a video and digital installation artist, educator, writer, and curator (many of the works done in collaboration with his brother, Norman) began in the mid-1970s. The body of single-channel video artwork was created from 1976 to the late 1980s examined the effects of the mass media on our perceptions...

Artist Talk: Tam Van Tran & Bruce Yonemoto

Vietnamese/American artist Tam Van Tran and Japanese/American artist Bruce Yonemoto talk about their art practices. Tam Van Tran is a Los Angeles based artist. He was born in Vietnam and studied in NY at Pratt Institute. Tran is known for his abstract paintings and 3 dimensional shaped paintings that use a combination of organic vegetable materials mixed with acrylic paint that reference maps, architecture and science fiction themes. He was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and has shown at such museums as the ICA Boston and the Museum of...