Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
| Bruce Yonemoto | |
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| Born | 1949 San Jose, California |
| Education | 1971 BA, University of California at Barkley 1979 MFA, Otis Art Institute of Art and Design Graduate Studies at the Sokei Academy of Fine Art & Design |
| Occupation | Visual artist, Professor of Art at University of California, Irvine and resident-faculty for video, experimental media, film theory |
| Years active | 1976 - |
| Notable work | Garage Sale II Memory, Matter, and Modern Romance |
| Relatives | Norman Yonemoto (brother) |
| Website | http://bruceyonemoto.net |
| Norman Yonemoto | |
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| Born | 1946 California, U.S.A. |
| Died | February 28, 2014 Venice, Los Angeles, California |
| Education | Santa Clara University University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles 1972 MFA, the American Film Institute |
| Occupation | Visual artist, screen writer, producer |
| Years active | 1976 - |
| Notable work | Garage Sale II Memory, Matter, and Modern Romance |
| Relatives | Bruce Yonemoto (brother) |
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Granted by 1995 CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists as a mid-career artist 1998 Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship |
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Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto are two Los Angeles, California-based video/installation artists of Japanese American heritage.
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto's family was among the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. Their mother, Fumiko Rosie Hitomi, was placed with her family at Tule Lake in Northern California. Their father, Tak Yomemoto, had been drafted into the United States Army. When Rosie's uncle was brutally murdered in camp, Tak sent condolences and rekindled their relationship. Soon after, they were given permission to marry and leave the camp. Rosie was then allowed to relocate to Chicago, where Norman was born in 1946.
Once the war ended and Japanese Americans were released, the family relocated to Northern California where their father worked as a carnation grower and plant pathogist. Bruce was born in 1949 in San Jose. They have two other brothers, Gerald and Roger.
Growing up in the 1950s in Santa Clara, California the two brothers were actively a part of the post-war idealism and the culture of movies and television shows. Some 8 mm home movies, projection screens, and television sets became a part of everyday life. Perhaps even more importantly, their mother went against the cultural grain of the time and talked to her sons about the Japanese American incarceration experience.
Norman Yonemoto's training was in film. After Santa Clara University, University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, he attended the American Film Institute for two years where he earned his MFA in 1972. Bruce Yonemoto, however, sought his training in the visual arts. After UC Berkeley, he went to Tokyo studying at the Sokei Bijitsu Gakkō. Once he returned to California, he obtained his Masters in Fine Art at Otis Art Institute. He is currently the chair and professor of the Art Department at the University of California, Irvine.
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