BRUCE YONEMOTO
Department Chair and Professor (MFA 1979, Otis Art Institute; graduate
studies at the Sokei Art Institute in Tokyo, Japan), teaches both
theory and studio courses in video and experimental media. Before UCI,
he was a visiting professor at UCLA, Art Center College of Design and
Art, the Otis Art Institute as well as internationally.

Yonemoto has developed a body of work which positions itself within
the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the
gallery/museum world and the television screen. His work attempts to
manipulate an audience with narrative, and a simultaneous recognition
of the machinations of the manipulation. He believes that the
composition of mass media has become a new historical site of the
domination of human behavior. During his twenty-year collaboration
with his brother, Norman, Bruce has been honored with numerous awards
and grants from 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. His installations, photographs and
sculptures have been featured in major one-person shows at the ICC in
Tokyo, the ICA in Philadelphia, and the Kemper Museum in Kansas City.
He is currently working on gallery shows for Blum & Poe gallery in Los
Angeles and Tomio Koyama, Tokyo. He was featured in the 2002 Corcoran
Biennial.

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