Biography
Yuriko Yamaguchi is an artist and sculptor whose work spans mixed-media sculpture, installation, public art, and works on paper. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and her BA from the University of California at Berkeley.
Her works are held in prominent museum collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art (Kanagawa, Japan), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Yamaguchi has executed major public commissions at Hartsfield International Airport (Atlanta, GA), the Washington Convention Center (Washington, DC), and the Light Rail Project for the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) in Charlotte, NC.
Awards & Fellowships
- National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
- Joan Mitchell Award
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency
- Jentel Artist Residency (Summer 2010)
Selected Exhibitions
- Interconnected: Science, Nature, and Technologies — Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC (April 11 – June 14, 2014)
- Interconnected — Figge Museum, Davenport, Iowa (January 24 – May 31, 2015)
- One-person exhibit — Towson University Asian Art Gallery, Towson, MD (September – December 2010)
- One-person show — Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA (March 2011)
- Group show — Rivera & Rivera, Los Angeles, CA (October 2011)
- Solo show — Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY (September 2011)
- Web/Pray — National Cherry Blossom Festival (2013)
Gallery Representation
Yuriko Yamaguchi is represented by Adamson Gallery, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, and Howard Scott Gallery.