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 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 Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has earned many awards and fellowships for her work 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 (called CATS: Charlotte Area Transit System), Charlotte, North Carolina. She has exhibited widely across the United States, including the Los Angeles County Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, and Museum of Modern Art in Kamakura, Japan, Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC among others.
Energy #2, 2014, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, 100 x 100 x 6 inches
End is Beginning, 2013, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, LED light, 40 x 40 x 16 inches
Sea & Earth, Gampi paper, stainless wire, found stick, 10 x 6 x 4 inches
Cloud #12, 2020, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, 23 x 20 x 9 inches
Embrace, 2013, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, LED light, 42 x 24 x 11 inches
Catch, 2021, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, kobo paper pulp, 27 x 18 x 14 inches
Coexist, 2021, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, LED light, 16 x 30 x 7
Cloud #11, 2020, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, LED light, 15 x 27 x 11 inches
Blue Diamond, 2021, hand cast resin, stainless steel wire, LED light, 29 x 29 x 7 inches
Cycle, Unexpected, 2021, hands cast resin, stainless steel wire, LED light, 34 x 31 x 12 inches
YURIKO YAMAGUCHI
EDUCATION
1979 MFA University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1975-76 Princeton University, Directed Study
1975 BA University of California at Berkeley
SELECTED AWARDS
2017 Werner Thoni Artspace artists residency, Barcelona, Spain, April-June (RESIDENCY)
2014 Fairfax County Art Council Strauss Individual Grant
2010 Jentel Artist Residency award (RESIDENCY)
2009 Rockefeller Foundation Bellangio Center artist residency award (RESIDENCY)
2008 Myrthine & Louis Memorial Prize for Installation, the National Academy of Museum, NY, NY
2008 Finalist for Kreeger Museum Award
2006 American Academy of Arts and Letters award
2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2005 Nominated for Kreeger Museum 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 Individual Grant
1993 Salzburg Kunstlerhaus Artist-Residency Grant, Virginia Center for Creative Arts (RESIDENCY)
1990 Virginia Prize
1988 Virginia Museum Professional Fellowship
1986 Visual Arts Residency Grant, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
1985 Nominated for Award of Visual Arts
1985 Virginia Museum Professional Fellowship
1982 Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts (RESIDENCY)
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2020 Boston Properties, Washington, DC
2017 SRI, Reston, Virginia
2015 Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
2013 Washington Dulles International Airport, Station A, “Wonder of Wonders” transferred from Bethesda
2012 Crowell and Mornig, Washington, DC
2007 Harman Center for the Arts, Shakes Theater, Washington, DC
2007 Metal work for South Corridor Light Rail Project, Charlotte, NC
2003 Wall Mural, consisting 8 patinated bronze form at the New Washington Convention Center
1999 Wall Mural; 14′ x 27′ , consisting 28 patinated bronze forms at ConcourseT, Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia. Commissioned by City of Atlanta, Department of Aviation, GA
1988 Wall Mural; 9×32 feet consisting of 41 patinated bronze forms located at 7475 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD, Sponsored by JBG Associates.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
2019 Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
2018 Museum of Haus Kasuya, Japan
2017 Werner Thoni Art Space, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX (April-August)
2016 Howard Scott Gallery, NY (Feb.-March)
2015 Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
2014 Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC, (April)
2011 Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Towson University, Asian Gallery, Towson, MD
2009 Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, The Kogod Center for the Arts, Sidwell Friends School
2009 Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
2007 University of Maryland Gallery, College Park, MD (Sept.-Dec.)
2007 Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (March)
2005 Numark Gallery, Washington, DC (Nov.)
2005 Palo Alto Art Center, California (June-Sept)
2005 Open Square, Holyoke, MA (March-May)
2005 Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY (Jan)
2004 Gallery NAF, Nagoya, Japan (Nov.)
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 (Jan. -April)
2001 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Delaware (June)
2000 “Poetic License” Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA (Sept.)
2000 Emon Gallery, Japan (April)
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2015 “Interconnected: Art, Nature, Science and Technology”, Figge Museum, Iowa, Jan.-May (solo show)
2014 “K@20”, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC (Feb.-July)
2013 “Washington Art Matters:1940s-1980s”, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center,
Washington, DC
2013 “Nature’s Toolbox:Biodiversity, Art and Invention”, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
2012 “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention”, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
2011 “Unison/Washington Artists”, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
2010“Cocoran Collection from 1945” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2008 “The Missing Peace: Artists & Dali Lama”, Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Riverside Museum, CA
2007 “The Missing Peace: Artists & Dali Lama”, Rubin Museum of Art, NY (catalogue)
2006 “The Missing Peace: Artists & the Dali Lama”, Fowler Museum, UCLA (catalogue)
2005 Southwest School of Art & Craft Museum, (Two persons)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) (COMMUNITY PROJECT)
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)
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, June 16-September 8
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, February 16-September 8,
Memorial Art Gallery of University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Oct. 28-Jan. 13
2001Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. June 29-Sept.30
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, March 4-May 28
Norton Museum of Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL., Oct. 28-Jan. 7
2000 National Academy Museum, New York, NY, June 21-Sept. 10
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, Feb 5- April 23
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “40 – 4 – 40”, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
2015 “2015 Sondheim Semi Finalist Exhibition”,Meyerhoff and Decker gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2013 “Seeds, Pods and Saplings: The Convergence of Three”, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
2012 “Sublime: Nature, Science and the Divine in Contemporary Art”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, CA
2012 “Four Perspectives: Becoming MPA”, Mclean Project for the Arts, VA
2010 “Catalyst, 35 years of Washington Project for the Arts”, American University Museum, DC
2010 “WPA auction”, American University Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC
2010 “On/Off the Grid” Irvine Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2009 ‘from sketchbook to suspension” , Mitchell Gallery, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD
2008 “Man Made” East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2008 The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy
Museum & School of Fine Arts, NY, NY
2006 Award Recipients exhibition of Franz and Virginia Bader Foundation Grant, Brady Gallery,
the George Washington University, Washington, DC
2006 Awards Recipients exhibition and Invitational Exhibition of painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
2005 “Searching for a Pass”, Towson University Art Center, MD
2005 “2005 Art Alumni group show”, Worth Ryder Gallery, U.C. Berkeley, CA
2005 “Secret Places/ Silent Journey”, Capital One, VA
2005 Collaboration as a Medium, 25 years of Pyramid Atlantic”, Washington, DC
2004 “An Exhibition of South Corridor Light Rail Project Artists’ Proposals”, Charlotte, NC
2003 “Off the Wall; 7 Virginia Sculptors at Riverviews”, Riverview Art Center, VA
2003 “Dean Nimmer and Yuriko Yamaguchi”, Sidney College of Art Gallery, Austlaria
2003 “Curator’s Choice”, WPA/Corcoran Auction at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (March)
2003 “Art from Hart”, Sonoma state University Art Gallery, CA (Feb)
2002 “Art Alumni Group Exhibit”, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA (Sept.)
2002 “Pushing Paper: Prints & Artists Books from Pyramid Atlantic”, Hand Workshop Art Center, VA 2002 “Art from Heart”, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, CA (Feb)
2002 “Curator’s Choice”, WPA/Corcoran Art Auction, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Jan)
2001 “Cross Currents: The work of Pyramid Atlantic”, The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland,
College Park, MD (Nov)
2001 “Regional Asian Artists”, Howard County Center for the Arts, MD (Oct.)
2001 “Outside Japan”, Howard Scott Gallery, NY, NY (Jan.)
2000 “Totem,” St. Mary’s College, MD (Sept.)
“Art from the Heart”, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA (Feb.)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Yale University Museum
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa (2015)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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)
University of Texas, Medical School
Microsoft Co. (2004)
Prudential Insurance (1999)
KPMG Peat Marwick, Washington, DC (1997)
Other private institutions
