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Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto are two Los Angeles, California -based video / installation artists of Japanese American heritage. Family background and birth. Bruce and Norman Yonemoto's family was among the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.
Mar 4, 2014 · Norman Yonemoto, a Los Angeles artist who along with his younger brother, Bruce, created innovative video installations that often explored mass media, Hollywood and other forms of pop culture, has...
Jul 4, 1999 · January 23 - July 04, 1999. Japanese American National Museum. This provocative exhibition surveys the film, video, and video installation art of Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Los Angeles-based, Sansei (third generation Japanese American) brothers who have worked collaboratively since 1976.
California-based artists Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, brothers who produced a body of collaborative videos beginning in 1976, deconstruct and rewrite the hyperbolic vernacular with which the mass media constructs cultural mythologies.
Oct 26, 2022 · Satirizing 1980s Los Angeles and the city’s burgeoning art scene, Green Card betrays the Yonemotos’ fascination with the melodramatic clichés of American soap operas and the films of Douglas Sirk, drawing on the vernacular of Southern California’s entertainment industry.
The Yonemoto brothers base their videotapes on familiar narrative forms and then circumvent convention through direct, over-eager adoption of heavily clichéd dialogue, music, gestures, and scenes that click in the viewer’s memory without being identifiable.
Mar 3, 2014 · Norman Yonemoto dies at 67; L.A. artist created video installations
