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HIROKO YOSHIMOTO - A Brief Biography 

​Hiroko Yoshimoto is a visual artist residing in Southern California. She was born and raised in Japan and moved to Los Angeles as a teen. She has BA and MA (summa cum laude) in Art from UCLA.
​Her recent exhibitions include "SCIART25" at Studio Channel Island Art Center in Camarillo, CA, Launch Gallery in Los Angeles, "The Masters" in Ventura County Museum in Ventura CA, "Hiroko Yoshimoto" at Launch Gallery in Los Angeles, and prints show at VITA Art Center in Ventura CA in 2024; "Sages" at Museum of Art and History in Lancaster in 2023; "Hiroko Yoshimoto New Works" at Santa Paula Museum of Art, Santa Paula CA in 2022.   

​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/Ventura County Master Chorale 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 SCIART in 2003 and “Four Legends - Four Masters” for Museum of Ventura County in 2010-2011. Her museum solo exhibition, "Biodiversity" in 2014 at Carnegie Art Museum of Oxnard was one of the highest attended exhibitions there in recent history.

Yoshimoto was one of the founders of Studio 83 (1983-1999), an artists’ co-op group. She taught at Ventura College as a tenure professor until her retirement.