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HIROKO YOSHIMOTO
b. Kobe, Japan
US citizen since 1976
Lives and works in Ventura, CA
Artist’s website: www.hirokoyoshimoto.com
Contact: aikoyoshimoto352@icloud.com
EDUCATION:
University of California, Los Angeles. MA in Art, Highest Honors at Graduation.
University of California, Los Angeles. BA in Art, Graduated with High Honors. Dean’s List Scholarships for 3 years.
Post-graduate courses: Mills College; Santa Raparata Studio, Florence, Italy; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; University of California, Santa Barbara; California State University, Northridge.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Santa Paula Museum of Art, Santa Paula, CA
2019 "Biodiversity:New Works" Gallery Rin, Tokyo Japan
2018 "Origins: Representational Images" Fox Gallery Ventura CA
2017 "Biodiversity-New Works" Solo Show LA Artcore Gallery, Downtown, Los Angeles CA October
2015 "Lines & Signs - Waterworld" Gallery Rin Tokyo, Japan Nov
2014 "Biodiversity-New Works" Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto CA
"Biodiversity" Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
2011 "Backyard Peace and Happiness-Artist of Distinction Award Exhibition" VITA Art Gallery, Ventura CA
2010 "Inspired by Science" Schneider Museum of Art, South Oregon University, Ashland OR
2009 "Rising from the Ashes" Gallery Two, Ventura College, Ventura CA
"Artists’ Gaze" VITA Art Center, Ventura CA
2005 "Face to Face: Artists’ Gaze II" New Media Gallery and Gallery II, Ventura College, Ventura CA
2004 "Lines & Signs II" Studio Channel Island Art Center, Camarillo CA
2003 "20-year retrospective Vision of Intangibles" Museum of Ventura County, Ventura
2002 "Face to Face I" Buena Ventura Gallery, Ventura CA
2000 Stage set design for ballet “L’histoire du Soldat” Ventura Chamber Music Festival, Ventura CA
1998 "Lines and Signs" Buena Ventura Gallery, Ventura CA
1995 "Four Seasons" Gallery Two and New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura CA
"Signature Festival Artist" Buenaventura Gallery for Ventura Music Festival, Ventura CA
1994 "Four Seasons" Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka Japan
"Four Seasons" Tokyo Municipal Art Space, Tokyo Japan
"New Works" Ventura County Government Center Art Gallery, Ventura CA
"Recent Works" New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura CA
1992 "Garden Series" Momentum Gallery, Ventura CA
1991 "Slice of Life" Buena Ventura Gallery, Ventura CA
1989 "New Works" New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura CA
"Selected Works" Danica House, Ventura CA
1982 "Selected Works" Gallery 932, Ventura CA
TWO AND THREE ARTIST EXHIBITIONS:
2016 "Life Force" Two-artist Show with Bob Privitte SCIART, Camarillo CA Sept.
2014 "Biodiversity" LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles CA
2009 "April" Calabasas City Hall Gallery, Calabasas CA
"3 Artists" Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sales & Rental Gallery, Los Angeles CA
"Artists’ Gaze" VITA Art Center, Ventura CA
2008 "Honoring and Dishonoring Nature" with Claudia Chapline ACIART WEST, Oxnard CA
2000 "Studio Channel Islands Invitational 3-College Art Faculty Show" SCIART, Camarillo CA
1994 "Two Artist Show" M M Shinno Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1986 "Sengai Triad" LA Artcore, Los Angeles
1985 "New works" LA Artcore, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Alfons Gallery, Milwaukee
2022 Glendale Central Library "Impending Storms" installation, Glendale, CA
Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX, June;
Wichita Falls Art Museum, Wichita Falls, TX
2021 realART Gallery, Agoura Hills
Launch Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 "Japan-Texas" Invitational Cultural Exchange Show, Yokohama,
"Crosscurrent 2019" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum 東京都美術館
"DNA" Art City Gallery, Ventura CA. Aug
VITA Art Center Gallery, Ventura CA. Dec
D.A. Davidson Gallery, Ventura CA Sept-Mar
2018 "TEN" VITA Ventura CA augwith John Nava, Jennifer Wolf, Richard Amend, Donna Granata, and others
2017 "From the Permanent Collection" New opening Museum of Ventura County
Art Expo New York City artavita April
"Natural Selections" Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale May-July
2016 "I Want the Wide American Earth" Smithsonian Institute Exhibition Museum of Ventura County, CA
2015 Affordable Art Fair Sylvia White Gallery, New York Mar.
2014 "Cruel Season: Artists Reflecting on Fire and Drought" Museum of Ventura County
2013 "Prized Possessions: A Century of Collections" Museum of Ventura County Ventura CA
2012 International Juried Show, Sylvia White Gallery
2011 "Something Simple" Artists Union Gallery, Ventura CA
"Artist of Distinction" VITA Gallery Ventura CA
"Art Al Fresco" Museum of Ventura County, Ventura CA
2010 "Treasures From the Permanent Collection" Museum of Ventura County, Ventura Reincarnation: The Art of Recycling Invitational
SCIART Gallery Camarillo CA
Group show, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura CA
Ventura College Faculty Show, Ventura CA
2009 "Portraiture in the Permanent Collection" Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
"Art Al Fresco" Museum of Ventura County, Ventura CA VITA Art Center, Ventura CA
2008 "Art for the New Millennium: Museum Acquisitions since 2000" Museum of Ventura County, Ventura CA
Buena Ventura Gallery juried exhibition, Ventura CA
2007 "Nature Observed" Museum of Ventura County
Gallery Artists Harris Gallery, Houston TX
2006 "Color Red" Ventura County Government Center Atrium Gallery, Ventura CA
" Wet Paint" Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles CA
"Out of the Box" SCIAC Art Gallery, Camarillo CA
2005 "Encaustic; Contemporary Visions of Antiquity" SCIART Gallery on the campus of Cal State University Channel Island, Camarillo CA
"Focus on the Masters" Museum of Ventura County, Ventura CA
2004 Honored by "Mentor to Many:50 Former Students Spanning 30 Years of Teaching” SCIART Gallery, Camarillo CA
2003 "Powerful Beauty: Images of Ventura County Women" Museum of Ventura County Ventura CA
"Studio 83 Reunion" SCIART, Camarillo CA
"City of Ventura Artist Fellowship Showcase" San Buenaventura Artists’ Union Gallery, Ventura CA
"A Celebration of the Arts" Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
"Art & War" Buena Ventura Artists’ Union Gallery, Ventura CA
2002 "Asian American Experience" curated by Hiroko Yoshimoto, SCIART Gallery, Camarillo, CA
2001 "Studio Channel Island Invitational" SCIART Gallery, Camarillo CA
"City of Ventura Municipal Art Collection Exhibition" Ventura City Hall Gallery, Ventura CA
1999 "Studio Channel Island Invitational" Calif State University, Channel Island, Camarillo CA
"From the Permanent Collection" Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ventura CA
"Jackson Wheeler Collection" Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
1998 "Small Images Exhibition #13" Santa Barbara City College (Award) Santa Barbara CA
"Ventura County Museum of History and Art Invitational" Ventura CA
1997 "Asian American Women’s Art Association Exhibition" SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco CA
Juried Exhibition Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
1996 "Ventura Chamber Music Festival Competition" Best of Show Award, Third Floor Gallery, Ventura City Hall, Ventura CA
1995 "Santa Barbara City College Small Images Show" Santa Barbara CA
1994 Group Show SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco CA
1993 Group Show Illusions Gallery, Camarillo CA
1992 "10th Annual Assembly of the Arts" Ventura County Museum of History and Art
"Different Voices" University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA
Group Exhibition Los Angeles County Museum Art Sales & Rental Gallery
1988 "Spring Show" Studio 83, Ventura CA
1987 Group Show Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sales & Rental Gallery
1985 "LA Artcore Invitational" Brand Library Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
"Many Voices/Many Visions" So.Cal.Women’s Caucus for Art El Camino College, Los Angeles CA
1984 "May I Have Your Attention, Please" Wing Luke Museum, Seattle WA
"LA Artcore Invitational" Core New Art Space, Denver CO
"The Asian Spirit in Contemporary Art" M M Shinno Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1983 "Seventh Annual Assembly of the Arts" Ventura County Museum of History and Art Ventura CA
1982 "Sixth Annual Assembly of the Arts" Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ventura CA
"Sixth Annual Santa Barbara City College Small Images Show" Purchase Award Santa Barbara City College Atkinson Gallery, Santa
Barbara CA
REPRESENTED BY:
Velvenoir, Salzburg, Austria
Gallery Rin, Nihonbashi, Tokyo Japan
AWARDS/HONORS:
2015 “Silver Award in Painting” Art Forward Contests-on line contest.
2014 Awarded commission painting for the main lobby of the new Community Memorial Hospital
2011 Artist of Distinction Ventura Art Walk
2010 Solo exhibition award at Schneider Art Museum, Southern Oregon University from the American Association for the Advancement of Inspired by Science” exhibition competition
2009 Ventura County Community Foundation/Ventura County Arts Council, Ventura County ArtsLIVE,Ventura College Foundation, James Irvine
Foundation consortium grant
1990 Project grant City of Ventura Cultural Affairs for stage and costume design for Ventura College/Ventura County Master Chorale and Opera Assoc. co-production of Mozart opera Magic Flute
1997 Designated as Visual Arts Mentor for Living Treasures of Ventura Organization
1982 Best of Show award, Sixth Annual Assembly of the Arts, Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Kirk De Gooyer, Roland Reiss, Scott
Schafer, jurors Purchase award “Sixth Annual Santa Barbara City College Small Images Show” Josine Ianco-Starrells Juror
1964-67 3-year Honors Scholarship UCLA, Highest Honors at Graduation for MA in Art
LECTURES/TEACHING:
2018 Chinese Calligraphy and Brush Works, Simi Valley Primary School
2017 Origin of Chinese Characters, Calligraphy, and Oriental Ink Painting, Museum of Ventura County
2016 Oxnard High School District sponsored by Carnegie Museum of art Education Program
1970-2005 Full time studio art teaching at Ventura College, Ventura CA
2003 Museum of Ventura County Educational Program for the occasion of TheVision of Intangibles exhibition at Museum of Ventura County
1999 Interviewed by Focus on the Masters, Ventura CA
1992 Symposium in the Arts College of Creative Arts, UC Santa Barbara
EXHIBITION CURATION/JUROR:
2017 Judging and Award Selection, Studio Channel Island Art Center, Camarillo CA
Judging and Award Selection, Thousand Oaks Art Association Competition
2014 Cruel Season: Artists Reflecting on Fire and Drought Museum of Ventura County, Ventura CA
2011 Four Masters: Four Legends Museum of Ventura County, Ventura CA
Santa Barbara Art Roots:Celebrating 60 Years Channing Peak Gallery,
Santa Barbara Art Association
Something Simple Ventura County Artists Union
2006 Art for Peace Ojai Art Center
2003 National Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, San Pedro CA
2002 Asian American Experience Studio Channel Island Art Center, Camarillo CA
1996 Visual Arts Curator for Ventura County Music Festival
70’s-90’s Many curatorial works for New Media Gallery and Gallery Two, Ventura College
OTHER PROJECTS/APPOINTMENTS:
2012-2018 Art Advisory Board, Community Memorial Hospital Art Collection
2009-2011 Member, Ventura County Arts Advisory Council/VC ArtsLIVE Advisory Council
2006-present Museum of Ventura County Fine Arts Committee
2001-2002 Ventura Municipal Art Acquisition Committee
80’s and 90’s Founding member, Ventura College Friends of the Arts scholarship fund raising organization
1983-1999 Founding member, Studio 83 Artists Co-op Studio and Gallery, Ventura CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PUBLICATION:
2020 Herrick, Debra, "百合匂う At first brushstroke" Lum Art Magazine, August, 2020
2015 Ursula K. Keise "Hiroko Yoshimoto Science and the Art of Abstraction" BOOM: A Journal of California, University of California Press,
Vol. 5, No. 3 Fall 2015 pp. 46-55
2015 “Silver Award in Painting” Art Forward Contests-on line contest. Published in Art Ltd.magazine
2014 “Desirables Southern California Artists” CSQ Magazine Philanthropy, Art, & Culture Edition Fall 2014 p.22
“Pulse” art ltd. magazine Mar/Apr/2014 edition p.63
Woodard, Josef, catalog essay in Hiroko Yoshimoto : Biodiversity Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA 2014 IBSN No. 0-9754014-1-6
2012 Chianese, Robert, Art Inspired by Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division 2012.
pp.10-13, pp.32-33 ISBN; 978-0-9849810-0-7
2011 Woodard, Josef “Locally Grown and Operated Art” for Santa Barbara Art Roots:Celebrating 60 Years Santa Barbara Scene Apr 1, 2011
2009 Chianese, Robert, “Our Local Hillsides Do Burn: An Artist Alerts Us to the Dangers” Ventura Hillsides Conservancy Outlook Sept. 2009
Alicia Doyle “Charcoal and Ashes from Wildfires Show Their Horror”
Ventura County Star Aug. 26, 2009
Doyle, Alicia, “Art of Community” Ventura County Star Jan. 18, 2009
“Honoring and Dishonoring Nature” Ventura County Star Time Out Section Dec. 26, 2009
2006 D’Amore, Nicole, “After Nurturing Student Talent, Teacher Is Blooming” Ventura County Star Dec. 22 2006
2005 Woodard, Josef, “Exhibition Is a Brush with Painter’s Past” Los Angeles Times
Full run Nov. 25, 2005
2002 Graumlich, Anne, catalog essay Hiroko Yoshimoto Vision of Intangibles catalog for Splendors of the Season solo exhibition
Ventura County Museum of History and Art 2002
“Splendors of the Season Gala December 8th Features Vision of Intangibles: The Art of Hiroko Yoshimoto” Heritage & History
Ventura County Museum of History & Art November/December 2002
2000 Woodard, Josef, “Classic Excitement” Los Angeles Times (May 12, 2000)
1998 Woodard, Josef, “Artistic Interplay, Conceptual Show Explores the Link Between Visual and Musical Cultures”
Los Angeles Times (April 30, 1998)
1996 Woodard, Josef, “Old Jail Site Opens Doors to Art.” Los Angeles Times (May 23, 1996)
1995 Woodard, Josef, “Powerful Impression Created With Simple, Elegant Structure.” Los Angeles Times (June 15, 1995)
Lam-Gregory, Kim, “Four Seasons Traces Life Through Portraits,” Ventura County Star, (May 20, 1995)
1992 Woodard, Josef, “Garden of Delights,” Los Angeles Times (May 28, 1992)
Quint, J.S., “A Garden of Eve,” Ventura County & Coast Reporter (May 28, 1992)
Mason, Dave, “Worlds Merge in Art of Yin, Yang,” The Press-Courier (June 11, 1992)
Praxis, A Forum of Social Change, Vol.1 Issue 2, (Feb. 25, 1992)
Crowder, Joan, “Cultural Diversity in ‘Different Voices’”Santa Barbara News Press (Mar. 6, 1992)
1991 Woodard, Josef, “Slice of Home,” Los Angeles Times, (June 27, 1991)
1990 Jarvis, Elena, “Magic Flute Played with Flair,” Star Free Press (June 2, 1990)
1989 Burg, Marla, “Perspective on Art - Different Approaches to Abstraction in Art,” Star Free Press, (February 16, 1989)
1984 Hackett, Regina, “3 Themes Dominate Show at Wing Luke,” Seattle Post Intelligencer (July 16, 1984)
VIDEO:
2014 "Biodiversity 2012-2014," Media 8
1989 Production and art direction for educational video "Sumi-e & Western Watercolor"
Production and art direction for educational video "Art and Anatomy"
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Ventura County, CA
Schneider Art Museum, University of Southern Oregon, Ashland OR
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula CA
Community Memorial Hospital Art Collection
City of Ventura Municipal Art Collection
Ventura College Art Collection
Santa Barbara City College Art Collection
Many corporate and private collections in California, Japan, Washington D.C., Salzburg, Austria, New York City, and other locations
