Takato Yamamoto CV

1960	January 15, born in Akita Prefecture
1983	Graduated from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University
1991-1993	Experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style
1994-	He further refined and developed his Ukiyo-e Pop style to create his "Heisei Estheticism" style, producing illustrations for mainly esthetic novels, fantasy novels, sensual novels, and period novels, and he also did cover paintings for cultural magazines and hardback books, and publicity illustrations for commercial media
1998	Held the Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Heisei Esthetics" (at the Creation Gallery G8, Ginza) Anthology of Takato Yamamoto drawings "Scarlet Maniera" (Treville)
2001	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Azure Peep Window" (HB Gallery, Omotesando) Digital works "Night of the Handsome Youth," "Night of the Beautiful Girl," and "Night of Bizarre" (East Press) Reissue of "Scarlet Maniera" (Editions Treville)
2002	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Altar of Narcissus" (Span Art Gallery) Takato Yamamoto drawings: "Altar of Narcissus" (Editions Treville) Issue of Print Set 1: Banquet Under the Moon
2003	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Lunar Eclipse Nocturne" (TACOche, Nakano)
2004	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Allure of Pharmakon" (Span Art Gallery) Takato Yamamoto drawings: "Allure of Pharmakon" (Editions Treville) Issue of Print Set 2: Makeup of Darkness
2005	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Makeup of Darkness" (Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome)
2006	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Frolicking Under the Moon" (produced by Yaso: Lucite Gallery) Takato Yamamoto drawings: "Divertimento for A Martyr" (Editions Treville) Issue of Print Set 3: Secret Traces of Night
2006-2007	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Takato Proibito" (Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome)
2007	Reissue (3rd Edition) of "Scarlet Maniera" (Editions Treville) Reissue of "Altar of Narcissus" and "Allure of Pharmakon" (Editions Treville)
2008	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Vampire" (Yaso; Parabolica-bis) Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Fantastic and Aesthetic Art of Takato Yamamoto: A 10 Year Retrospective" (Kinokuniya) Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Rib of a Hermaphrodite" (Gotanda Sonic) Takato Yamamoto drawings: "Rib of a Hermaphrodite" (Editions Treville) Reissue of "Divertimento for A Martyr" (Editions Treville) Issue of Print Set 4: Night Mirror
2010	Takato Yamamoto Exhibition: "Coffin of a Chimera" (Kinokuniya) Takato Yamamoto drawings: "Coffin of a Chimera" (Editions Treville) Issue of Print Set 5: Chimera Tombstone