Ko Yamada

Education

After he completed his university training, he taught briefly in the United States. before returning to Japan.

Career

He extensively experiments with multimedia formats, combining photography with sound installations, book projects, and live performances. His photography and art projects have been exhibited in Japan, Brazil, the United States, Germany, Thailand, and Malaysia. He trained in the United States, earning both a bachelor"s degree in photography (1990) and Master of Fine Arts (1993) from Ohio University.

He has taught, as lecturer, at Nagoya University of Arts and Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design After he worked for International Symposium on Electronic Arts (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) 2002 as the vice secretary general, he also participated as the representative director of Public Affairs Committee (Photography Arts Caravan) for the International New Designers Workshop Nagoya 2009, which was a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization project 2003 記憶の星座化 The Constellating Recollections a book and performance workshop with poet Jin Murata (published by Kiokuno Seizaka) n.d.

立体めがね Three Dimensional Spectacles with Iichiro Tanaka (published by Domic, ).

Achievements

• He held a 1993 National Graduate Seminar Fellowship at The Photography Institute in New New York The following year, he won the Houston Center for Photography"s emerging photographers fellowship. He was recognized at the 2nd International Photo Meeting in São Paulo Paulo, Brazil, before he had shows at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.