RESUME
YURIKO
YAMAGUCHI
EDUCATION
1979
MFA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1975-76
Princeton University, Directed Study with Lucio Pozzi and Joan
Snyder
1975 BA,
University of California at Berkeley
SELECTED AWARDS
2009
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Artist Residency Award
2009 Jentel Artist
Residency Award
2008
Myrthine & Louis Memorial Prize for Installation, the National
Academy Museum, NY, NY
2008
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Arts and Humanities, University of
Maryland
2006
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
2005
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2005
Benesse Award (Japan)
2004
Franz & Virginia Bader Foundation Grant
2001
Virginia Museum Professional Fellowship
2000
Virginia Commission of Arts Individual Grant
1995
Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship
1994
Virginia Commission of Arts Inidividual Grant
1993
Salzburg Kunstlerhaus Artist Residency Grant, Virginia Center
for Creative Arts
1990
Virginia Prize
1988
Virginia Museum Professional Fellowship
1986
Visual Arts Residency Grant, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
1985 Virginia Museum
Professional Fellowship
1982
Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2007
Metal work for South Corridor Light Rail Project, Charlotte, NC
2003 Wall Mural,
consisting 8 patinated bronze forms at the New Washington
Convention Center
1999
Wall Mural, 14'x27', consisting 28 patinated bronze forms at
Concourse T, Hartsfield International
Airport, Atlanta, Georgia; Commissioned by City of Atlanta,
Department of Aviation, GA
1988
Wall Mural, 9'x32', consisting 41 patinated bronze forms located
at 7475 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda,
MD, Sponsored by JBG Associates
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
2007
University of Maryland Gallery, College Park, MD
(September-December)
2007
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (March)
2005
Numark Gallery, Washington, DC (November)
2005
Palo Alto Art Center, California (June-September)
2005
Open Square, Holyoke, MA (March-May)
2005
Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY (January)
2004
Gallery NAF, Nagoya, Japan (November)
2003
Numark Gallery, Washington, DC (April)
2003
Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
(February)
2002
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
(September)
2002
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (April-June)
2002
Suyama Space, Seattle, Washington (January-April)
2001
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Delaware (June)
2000
"Poetic License" Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
(September)
2000
Emon Gallery, Japan (April)
1999
Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
1999
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
1997
Emon Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1996
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, VA
1995
Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1994
Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC
1993
Middle Tennessee University, TN
1993
Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
1992
SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), Winston-Salem,
NC
1992 Inax
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990
Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1990
Penny Campbell, Newport Beach, CA
1989
Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1987
Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1986
SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), Winston-Salem,
NC
1984 Washington
Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1984
Gallery K, Washington, DC
MUSEUM
EXHIBITIONS
2008
"The Missing Peace: Artists & Dali Lama", Daikanyama Hillside
Terrace, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
2007
Riverside Museum, CA
2007
"The Missing Peace: Artists & Dali Lama", Rubin Museum of Art,
NY (catalogue)
2006
"The Missing Peace: Artists & Dali Lama", Fowler Museum, UCLA
(catalogue)
2005
Southwest School of Art & Craft Museum, (Two person), San
Antonio, TX
2005
"Soft Opening", American University Museum in Katzen Art Center,
Washington, DC
2005
Ise Contemporary Art Museum, Japan (One person), (January-April)
2004 Kanagawa Modern
Art Museum, Japan (One person), (August-October) (catalogue)
2004 Schneider Museum
of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon (March)
(catalogue)
2004
Korler Art Center in Wisconsin
2003
Corcoran Gallery of Art's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
2002
"American Spectrum: Smith College Museum of Art Collection"
(catalogue, audio)
2002
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, (June-September)
2002
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (February-September)
2002
Memorial Art Gallery of University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
(October-January)
2001
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
(June-September)
2001
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (March-May)
2001
Norton Museum of Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL (October-January)
2000 National Academy
Museum, New York, NY (June-September)
2000
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa (February-April)
1993 "Karesansui-Art
of Peaceful Contemplation", Riverside Art Museum, CA (catalogue)
1993 "Off the Mall:
Inside Washington's Foremost Art Galleries, The Art Museum of
the Organizational
American States", Washington, DC
1992
"Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper", National Museum of
American Art, Washington, DC
1992
"Mono ni / Mono to: Artists Today", Yokohama Citizens Gallery,
Yokohama, Japan (catalogue)
1991
"Smith Collects: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture from the
Alumnae Collection", Smith College
Museum of Art, MA (catalogue)
1990
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Traveling Exhibition,
Japan (catalogue)
1990
The Museum, Tokyo Bunka Mura, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Kanagawa Modern Art Museum, Kamakura, Japan
1990
Sapporo Tokyu, Hokkaido, Japan
1990
Tenjin Iwate, Fukuoka, Japan
1990
Umeda Daimaru, Osaka
1990
Nagano Tokyu, Nagano, Japan
1990
Hiroshima Museum of Fine Arts, Hiroshima, Japan
1990
Matsusakaya Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya
1990
"Common/Uncommon Ground", Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA
(catalogue)
1988
"Group Show" organized by the Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts, The Deutsch-Amerikanishces
Institut in Regensburg, Germany (catalogue)
1987
"Avant-Garde in the 80s", Los Angeles County Museum, Los
Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1986
"American Experience: Contemporary Immigrant Artists", the Balch
Institute for Ethnic Studies,
Philadelphia, PA and Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences,
Peoria, IL (catalogue)
1986
"1985-86 VCCA Touring Art Exhibit", Bayly Museum,
Charlottesville, VA
1986
Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
1986
The Mash Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
1986
Roanoke Museum, Roanoke, VA
1986
Maier Museum, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA
1986 Athanaeum Museum,
Ashland, VA
1986
Virginia Beach Arts Center, Virginia Beach, VA
1985
"The American Artist: Immigrant Experience 1930-1985", Bass
Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
(catalogue)
1985
"Washington Show", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(catalogue)
1984
"Content, Contemporary Focus, 1974-84", Hirshhorn 10th
Anniversary Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (catalogue)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan (2004)
Ise
Contemporary Art Museum, Japan (2003)
United States of
America's Embassy in Abu Dhabi (2002)
Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1999)
Corcoran Gallery of
Art (2002)
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
(1990)
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
(1990)
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (1989(
Microsoft Corporation (2004)
Prudential Insurance (1999)
KPMG Peat Marwich, Washington, DC (1997)
Other private
institutions
PRESS COVERAGE
2008
Michael Laris, "Artist Untangles Roots of Creativity",
Washington Post, May 30
2008
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, "Yuriko Yamaguchi", Art US Issue 21
2007 Blake Gopnik,
"She Just Felt It In Her Bones", Washington
Post, October 14
2007
Michael O'Sullivan, "The Quiet Pull of the 'Bader Fund' Show",
Washington Post, January 12
2005
Dan R. Gooddard, "'Floating' Worlds Occupy Gallery Space",
San Antonio Express News, November
2005 Nord Wennesrstom,
"Critics Picks: Washington, DC/ Yuriko Yamaguchi",
Art Forum, November
2005
Jessica Dawson, "Come On In, The Installation's Fine",
Washington Post, November 19
2005 Susan
Bear, "Painting the town: Washington artists create important
works, but often they are better
known elsewhere than here at home. Here's a look at five of the
city's most renowned."
Washingtonian, October
2005
Jack Fischer, "Natural Acts", San Jose
Mercury, July 3
2005
Yoko Morihiro, "People: Sculptor Yuriko Yaaguchi",
Hokubeimainichi, July 2
2005 "Works by Nikkei
Artists at Palo Alto Art Center",
Hokubeimainichi, June 17
2004
"My Favorite Things: From Shape to Shape, Yuriko Yamaguchi,
Metamorphosis #95, 98, 99, 97, 101",
Geiyutsu Shinchou
2004
"Kanji Wakae, Yuriko Yamaguchi: Two Veterans Who Reflect on Our
Cultures", Yomiuri Shinbun
2004
Haruo Mita, "Today's Artists IX Kanji Wakae, Yuriko Yamaguchi",
Mainichi Shinbun, September 6
2004 Kousei Katsura,
"Expressing Life Cycle", Kanagawa Shinbun,
September 2
2004
Fujio Yagyuu, "Art Critique of Kanagawa",
Bunka, September 3
2003
Paula Owen, "Quotidian Practice, Inordinate Content",
Art Lies 40, Fall 2003
2003
Sarah Tanguy, "Washington, DC Yuriko Yamaguchi, Numark Gallery",
Sculpture, December
2003
Joe Shannon, "Yuriko Yamaguchi at Numark",
Art in America, September
2003
Jessica Dawson, "Yamaguchi's Tangled 'Web', Ensnaring the
Imagination", The Washington Post,
May 29
2003 Joanna
Shaw Eagle, "Yamaguchi's 'Web', Numark installation evokes
life's changes", The
Washington Times, May 24
2002
"Artist Yuriko Yamaguchi's show to open at Sheehan Gallery",
Marquee, August 28-September 4
2002 Galleries, Koplin
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Times,
May 30
2002 Kazuko
Nakane, "Installation by Yuriko Yamaguchi",
International Examiner
2002
Sheila Farr, "Yuriko Yamaguchi spins a web of poetic
sculptures", Seattle Times, February
15
2001 R. B.
Strauss, "July brings no slowdown at DCCA",
Art Matters, July
2001
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts,
Sunday News Journal, June 24
2001
"Delaware art center offers variety of exhibits",
Greenvillage Community News, July 17
2001 Gary Mullinax,
"Begin picture-perfect exhibitions tour at DCCA",
Sunday News Journal, July 15
2000
Deborah McLeod, "Memorable Achievements",
Style Weekly, December 26
2000
Jiso Komuro, "Yuriko Yamaguchi", JIS
Newsletter
2000
"Yuriko Yamaguchi: Georgia on My Mind", Atlanta, GA
Sculpture, November
2000
Jenny Ramirez, "Visual Poetry", Style
Weekly, October 10
2000
Roy Proctor, "Some smile-producing thought provocative pieces,"
Richmond Times, October 8
2000
Shoichi Inoue, Art Exhibitions Commentary,
Summer
2000 Joanna
Shaw Eagle, "Divergent Artistic Views Emerge as Group at Numark",
The Washington Times,
July 15
2000 Sarah
Tanguy, "Yuriko Yamaguchi", Numark Gallery,
Sculpture, May
2000
Shoji Inoue, "Yuriko Yamaguchi's Exhibition",
Chunichi Shinbun, April 24
2000
Listed in Who's Who American and in
Women Who's Who American
1999
Ferdinand Protzman, "The Form of a Question: Yuriko Yamaguchi's
Enigma Variations", The
Washington Post, September 16
1999 Joanna Shaw
Eagle, "Metamorphosis, Changing as Cycles of Life Progress",
The Washington Times,
September 18
1999
Scarlet Cheng, "Yuriko Yamaguchi: Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles",
Art News, July
1997
Carol L. Struve, "Metamorphosis/Fragments", Herter Art Gallery,
University of Massachusetts
Catalogue
1997
Katsumoto Ishizaki, "Yuriko Yamaguchi's Case: Sora Kakeru
Hakubutsukan", Lady's Slipper,
September
1997
Shoji Inoue, "The Mysetrious Atmosphere Resembling the Tribal
Ceremony, The Arrangement which
Intercommunicates the Human Spirit with Animal World",
Chunichi Shinbun, May 8
1996
Peter Frank, "Art Picks of the Week: Max Weber, Keith Sonnier,
Yuriko Yamaguchi", LA Weekly,
August 16
1995
Gordon Lubold, "Artist Striving for Common Ground: Giving Form
to Her Vision", The Vienna Times,
January 26
1995
Ferdinand Protzman, "Yamaguchi, Looking for the Essentials",
The Washington Post, November 25
1995 Ferdinand
Protzman, "Sculpture Shows that Break the Mold",
The Washington Post, October 7
1995 Jura Koncius,
"Creative Seating Plans", Washington Home (cover),
Washington Post, June 8
1994
John Dorsey, "Schemata Exhibit is Thoughtful and Satisfying",
Baltimore Sun, September 5
1994
Eugenia E. Skarstrom, "Artists Equity Symposium: Four Artists
Four Elements", Washington Artist
News, Summer
1993
Jean L. Cohen, "Yuriko Yamaguchi", Art News,
September
1993 Jeff
Fleming, "Accounts Southeast: Yuriko Yamaguchi",
SECCA, December-February
1993
Eric Gibson, "Sculptural Thought in Yamaguchi's Exhibit",
The Washington Times, March 25
1993 Brigitte Lindner,
"Kunstlerin aus USA in Gastaelier/Artist in Residnece",
Stadkultur, May
1993
Mary McCoy, "Yamaguchi's Meditations on Life",
The Washington Post, May 29
1993
Tom Patterson, "SECCA Shows Contemplative Mood",
Winston-Salem Journal, January 10
1993 Paulette
Roberts-Pullen, "Hands on Experience",
Style Week, January 26
1993
Paul Ryan, "Touch: Beyond the Visual", Art
Papers, October
1993
Margaret Shearin, "In Search of Divine Mysteries",
Style Magazine, January 13
1993
Rex Weil, "Bad Mother: Yuriko Yamaguchi at the Baumgartner
Galleries", Washington City Paper,
March 26
1993 Jane
Wilson, "Sculpture's Springtime Mutations",
The Washington Post, March 20
1992
"Visual Poem about Nature on the Wall",
Asahi Shinbun, January 11
1992
"Yuriko Yamaguchi Exhibition", Mainichi
Shinbun, January 10
1992
"Yuriko Yamaguchi", Ryusei, March
1992 "Artists Today
Exhibition", Yomiuri Shinbun,
December 1
1992
"The 28th Artists Today Exhibition: Questions in Contemporary
Issues", Art, December
1992
"Various Issue Consciousness, Artists Today Exhibition",
Mainichi Shinbun, December 1
1992
"Exhibitions Disclosing the Newest Contemporary Art
Expressions", Art Weekly (Japan),
November
1992
"Matured Issue Consciousness", Tokyo
Shinbun, November 27
1992
Leza Lowiz, "Turning the Tables: Two Original Artists",
Asahi Evening News, January 16
1992 Martha
McWilliams, "Getting Back to Abstracts",
The Washington City Paper, August 21
1992
Akihika Takami, "Yuriko Yamaguchi, Inax Gallery, Tokyo",
Bijutsu Techo, April
1992
Chikako Tanaba, "Water, Earth, Air, Fire #2",
Nikkei Monthly Image Card, April
1992 Janet Wilson,
"Revered Earth at Watkens Art Gallery and Franklin Square",
The Washington Post,
February 22
1992
Toshio Yamanashi, "Toward Things/With Things: Transformation of
the Relationship Between Human
Beings and Physical Matter", The 28th
Artists Today Exhibition, November-December
1992
Michael Welzenbach, "Women's Art Without an Agenda",
The Washington Post, February
1992 Otto E. Eskin,
"Without a Sculpture Exhibition", Baumgartner Galleries,
Washington, DC, Sculpture,
May-June
1992
Patrick Finnigan, "Star Search", Museum &
Arts Washington, September-October
1992
Eric Gibson, "Wall Based Sculpture Exhibition Stands Tall",
The Washington Times, November 22
1992 J. W. Mahoney,
"Sculptural Languages of Power", Sculpture,
May-June
1992 John
Strand, "Four Sculptors at Addison/Ripley",
The Washington Post, November 10
1992
Michael Welzenbach, "Yamaguchi: Wisdom in Wood, At Middendorf,
Subtle Slice of Nature", The
Washington Post, June 23
1989
Lee Fleming, "Nature's Calling", City Paper,
April 7, 1989
1989
Mohka Laget, "Yuirko Yamaguchi, Middendorf Gallery",
New Art Examiner, Summer
1989
Jo Ann Lewis, "Yamaguchi's Distinctive Vocabulary",
The Washington Post, April 8
1989
Terry Parmelee, "Yuriko Yamaguchi, New York",
Eye Wash, April
1989
Wray Punch, "Bethesda's New Direction",
Museum & Arts Washington, November-December
1989
Florence Rubinfield, "Close Encounters",
Museum & Arts Washington, March-April
1989
Mary Swift, "Colden Florance/Architect",
Washington Review, June-July
1988
Daniel Barbiero, "ACC Ten, Arlington Art Center",
New Art Examiner, January
1988
Lenore Miller, "Arlington Art Center: Tenth Anniversary
Exhibition Part II", Washington Review,
February-March
1987
Daniel Barbiero, "Yuriko Yamaguchi, Middendorf Gallery",
New Art Examiner, June
1987
Marlena Donahue, "Avant-Garde in the Eighties",
Sculpture, September-October
1987
Pamela Dessler, "A Show of Hands", The
Washington Post, December 12
1987
Paul Richard, "Yuriko Yamaguchi at Middendorf Gallery",
The Washington Post, March 21
1987 Alice Thorson,
"Galleries", The Washington Times,
March 19
1986
Joanna Shaw Eagle, "The Fine Art of Developing Bethesda",
New Art Examiner, November
1986
Margaret Truman, "Murder in Georgetown",
Arbor House
1985
Nicolas Coleman, "Who's Buying, Who's Selling",
The Washington Post, September
1985 Benjamin Forgey,
"Neighborly Salute the the New", The
Washington Post, June 29
1985
Jo Ann Lewis, "WPA Auction", The Washington
Post, November 9
1985
Jo Ann Lewis, "New Talent", The Washington
Post, November 9
1985
J. W. Mahoney, "New Talent", New Art
Examiner, October
1985
Ann Schecter, "Addison Shows Uniqueness of Ten Artists",
Lowell Sun, October
1985
Linda Thern Smith, "An Interview with Washington Sculptor Yuriko
Yamaguchi", Washington Review,
April-May
1985
Joanna Shaw Eagle, "Poems on the Wall",
Washington Post, July 9
1985
Roberta Smith, "Endless Meaning at the HIrshhorn",
Art Forum, April 1985
1984
Jane Addams Allen, "Three Young Sculptors Show their Best",
The Washington Times
PUBLIC
LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
- Panel discussion
at the Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, 2009
(May)
- Dialogue with Rex Weill that is in conjunction with
the exhibit "Interdigitate", University of Maryland Gallery,
2007 (October)
- Panel discussion at the National Japanese
American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2007 (May)
- Gallery talk
at Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California, 2005 (June)
-
Museum talk at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa,
Japan, 2004 (August)
- Museum talk at Schneider Museum of
Art, South Oregon University, 2004 (March)
- Slides talk at
Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, VA 2003 (August)
- Slides
and gallery talk at Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla
Walla, Washington, 2002 (September)
- Slides talk at Kreeger
Museum, 2002 (May)
- Gallery talk at Koplin Gallery, 2002
(April)