Yuriko Yamaguchi


Yuriko Yamaguchi received her MFA from the University of Maryland and her BA from the University of California at Berkeley. Her works are in museum and public collections, among them The Library of Congress, the Fine Art Museum Houston, the Yale University Museum, the Museum of Haus Kasuta, Japan, the Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Figge Art Museum. She has earned many awards and fellowships including Jentel Artist residency, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Joan Mitchell award and National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship. Yamaguchi has executed major public commissions at the Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC and the Light Rail Project, Charlotte, North Carolina. She has exhibited widely across the United States, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, the Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, the Los Angeles County Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, the Field Museum, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Kreeger Museum, Washington DC, the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC among others; she has also exhibited internationally at the Museum of Haus Kasuya, Japan, the Cobra Museum, Netherlands, and the Museum of Modern Art, Japan. She is currently an adjunct professor of Sculpture at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.