Hiroko Yoshimoto was born and raised in Japan and moved to Los Angeles as a teen. She has BA and MA degrees in Art from UCLA. She exhibits actively and is a studio art instructor at Ventura College.

She considers the following solo and group exhibitions to be her major accomplishments: “Rising from the Ashes” at Ventura College Gallery Two (2009); “Lines & Signs” at Studio Channel Islands Art Center on the campus of Calif. State University, Channel Islands (2004); “Lines & Signs” at Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sales and Rental Gallery (04); Ventura County Museum of Art and History Retrospective (2002-03); “Four Seasons” at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Center and Osaka Contemporary Art Center; “Sengai Triad” solo show at L.A. Artcore Gallery ; Group shows at Barnsdale Art Gallery, Buena Ventura Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Ventura College, Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Carnegie Museum, Oxnard,  and many other private galleries. Some of her solo shows were the result of merit awards or grants in art competitions juried by important artists.

She was the featured solo artist for Ventura Chamber Music Festival in 1996 and the Visual Art Curator for VCMF Art Exhibitions ’98. She designed the stage set and costumes for the opera “Magic Flute” for Ventura College opera production in 1990, for “Unicorn” production by Ventura County Master Chorale in 1991 and for “L’histoire du Soldat” for Ventura Chamber Music Festival in 2000. She was a member of the Ventura Municipal Art Acquisition Committee 2001-2002. She curated many exhibitions including the Contemporary Asian American Art Exhibition at SCIAC in 2003.

Yoshimoto was one of the founders of Studio 83, an artists’ co-op group, which was in operation for 16 years and for the Ventura College Friends of the Arts, a non-profit art scholarship fund-raising organization. Please contact hirokoyoshimoto@sbcglobal.net for further information.