Bruce Yonemoto
Bruce Yonemoto was raised in Santa Clara Valley (now Silicon Valley) as the son of Japanese Americans interned during WWII by the American government. His work is informed by his family’s history of racial discrimination and forced incarceration. His work as a video and digital installation artist, educator, writer, and curator (many of the works done in collaboration with his brother, Norman) began in the mid-1970s. The body of single-channel video artwork was created from 1976 to the late 1980s examined the effects of the mass media on our perceptions...