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 most recent series of more than 130 canvases in oil, "Biodiversity", which began in 2012 and still on-going, was shown at Studio Channel Island Art Center, "CIART25" (2024), Lancaster MOAH Museum "Sages" (2023), Santa Paula Art Museum (2022), LA Artcore Gallery (2017-solo), Launch Gallery, Los Angeles (2021, 2023-solo, 2024-solo), at Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto (2014-solo), and at Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard (2013-2014-solo).
She has shown in group exchange shows in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Osaka Municipal Contemporary Art Center. 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 and 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 served for the Museum of Ventura County Fine Arts Committee for more than ten years and Community Memorial Hospital Art Collection Committee for five years. She curated exhibitions including Contemporary Asian American Art Exhibition at SCIART, Camarillo, CA, in 2010-2011. Yoshimoto was one of the founders of Studio 83 (1983-1999), an artists' co-op group and for the Ventura College Friends of the Arts, a non-profit art scholarship fund-raising organization.
UCLA. Her most recent series of more than 130 canvases in oil, "Biodiversity", which began in 2012 and still on-going, was shown at Studio Channel Island Art Center, "CIART25" (2024), Lancaster MOAH Museum "Sages" (2023), Santa Paula Art Museum (2022), LA Artcore Gallery (2017-solo), Launch Gallery, Los Angeles (2021, 2023-solo, 2024-solo), at Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto (2014-solo), and at Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard (2013-2014-solo).
She has shown in group exchange shows in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Osaka Municipal Contemporary Art Center. 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 and 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 served for the Museum of Ventura County Fine Arts Committee for more than ten years and Community Memorial Hospital Art Collection Committee for five years. She curated exhibitions including Contemporary Asian American Art Exhibition at SCIART, Camarillo, CA, in 2010-2011. Yoshimoto was one of the founders of Studio 83 (1983-1999), an artists' co-op group and for the Ventura College Friends of the Arts, a non-profit art scholarship fund-raising organization.