2008 MA, Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art
2007 Guest student of Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensse, Germany
2006 BA, Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art
Exhibitions
2018
Solo Exhibition Secret Garden, Abante Gallery, Stockholm
2013
Group Exhibition Sverkersgatan 2, Stockholm
Group Exhibition, Detroit Stockholm Gallery, Stockholm
2012
Group Exhibition, Detroit Stockholm Gallery, Stockholm
2008
Hiroshima Art Project 2008 CAMP BERLIN, BVG-Hallen, Berlin, Germany
Exhibition of Graduation Works, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima
2007
Group Exhibition Versprechen HAPPEN STUDIO, Berlin, Germany
2006
Exhibition of Graduation Works, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima
Solo Exhibition Hiromi Yamamoto, Gallery P2, Hiroshima
She received her master's degree in liberal arts at Hiroshima City University, where she studied for 6 years. She also spent a large part of the master's program at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee.
Since 2010 she has lived in Sweden and works in Stockholm. She mostly works with installations but also visual art. A consistent theme of her art is about women's identity in Japan.
Japanese society is full of restrictions on women, a dead end. Society is shadowed by a dark cloud of anxiety where traditional identities are still deeply rooted. Many Japanese women are unconsciously affected by the traditional values and an outdated female identity.
She wants to show how society still imposes on women old ideas and a traditional gender role that no longer fits modern views. At the same time, with art she wants to show hope for a new path, a new female existence and gender role for the future.
By living in Sweden, she has been able to maintain an objective point of view - here the role of women is more equal to that of men. Now she can compare women's roles in Japan and in Sweden from a neutral position, a place where she can also live.
Through her works, she wants to create opportunities to think and give space for women, a new path in the future.