Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto (吉本学鳴 ジェイブ) | |
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 Yoshimoto, 2017 [1] | |
| Born | September 17th, 1974 |
| Known for | painting |
| Notable work | Harbinger of Late Winter Day’s Dusk (2012), In a New York Minute (2013), |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
| Website | http://www.javeyoshimoto.com |
Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto is an American painter.
Jave Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan on September 17, 1974. [2] His parents are Chinese and he immigrated to California when he was nine years old. [3] He has lived all over the United States and received his Bachelors of Art in Studio Art from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2004. He received a Masters of Art in Art Therapy in 2007 and he has also received a Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing in 2008 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He then received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting at Syracuse University in 2012. [4]
Yoshimoto worked as an art therapist in Chicago, Illinois in 2008. He has been an Artist in Residence in a number of different states since 2010. These include Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Wyoming. Yoshimoto was a Graduate Instructor in drawing and painting at Syracuse University from 2010 to 2012. He worked as a teaching artist for Arts Corps in Seattle Public Schools before moving on to work as the Director of Studio Art, and Assistant Professor of Art at Northwestern Oklahoma State University from 2013-2015. In 2015, Yoshimoto accepted the position as an Assistant Professor of Art and the Foundations Coordinator at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 2015, he was nominated and received the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painters and Sculptors grant, and is currently an artist fellow at Tulsa Artist Fellowship in 2017. [4] Since 2012, Yoshimoto has exhibited in 115 national and international exhibitions and 16 solo exhibitions as of 2017.[ citation needed ]
Yoshimoto works primarily as a painter, but also uses a variety of other two dimensional mediums. Although born in Japan, both of his parents are of Chinese descent-his father from Hong Kong and his mother from Taipei- before he moved to San Francisco, California when Yoshimoto was 9 years of age with his mother. His artwork is heavily influenced by all of the places he has resided in the United States. [5]
Refugees [6]
Disaster [6]
Godzilla Invading [6]
Horses of Honor Omaha [11]
Yoshimoto currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska and Tulsa, Oklahoma.[ citation needed ]
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