JUNKO YAMAMOTO
EDUCATION
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Cum Laude, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cosmic Web, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Solo Exhibition TBA, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2020 Visions: Gage Academy of Art at 30 – Phyllis Lamphere Gallery, Washington State Convention
Center, Seattle WA
2019 Brighter Future To be heard. To be seen. To be free - ARTS at King Street Station, Seattle WA
Under the Influence - SAM Gallery, Seattle WA
Brighter Future To be heard. To be seen. To be free - ARTS at King Street Station, Seattle WA
2018 Junko and Kamla – Feast Arts Center (Two man-Kamla Kakaria), Tacoma WA
Butterfly Flutter -Time Difference 時差 vol.3 New York-Seattle-London-Tokyo, with Art Beasties, Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum, JAPAN
December group show - Kailua Gallery, Curated by Ruth Sorensen, Kailua HI
Bold types - SAM Gallery, Seattle WA
Behaving Differently, Plank Gallery, curated by Elizabeth Lee Arzani, Seattle, WA
Re:definition 2018, Paramount Theatre, curated by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, Seattle, WA
In the shadow of Olympus, Soil Artist Run Gallery curated by Art Beasties, Seattle, WA
2017 Optimism, TASTE at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Between Consciousness installation at Pratt Fine Arts Center window at TK Building Seattle, WA
Eileen Fisher/Renew 5th Annual Chop Challenge for SEEDArts, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
Off the Walls, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle WA
Out of Sight 2017, Presented by Vital 5 Productions, curated by Greg Lundgren, Seattle, WA
5th Annual Chop Challenge/ Eileen Fisher/Renew, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle WA
2016 Works, Arts West, (Two man – Akiko Masker), Juror, Susanna Bluhm, Seattle, WA
Going the Distance, Select Art Marathon Artists, CoCA, Seattle, WA
Bellevue College Alumni Exhibition, Bellevue College, Bellevue WA
2015 Juried group exhibition, Flow Art Space, Juror, Sylvia White, St. Paul, MN
The Moon is Free, Arts West, Juror, Susanna Bluhm, Seattle, WA
Valdosta National 2015, Valdosta State University Arts Gallery, Susan Welsh Juror, Valdosta, GA
2013 Last three years, TASTE at Seattle Art Museum (Two man- Olivia Britt), Seattle, WA
Nihon/WA: White River Valley Museum, Curated by Greg Watson, Auburn, WA
Artists’ Choice, 40th Anniversary Celebration, SAM Gallery (Seattle Art Museum), Seattle, WA
2012 Clusters and a drop, Fetherston Gallery (Two man – Elizabeth Jameson), Seattle, WA
2011 Silence, KOBO, Seattle, WA
Sen-nin-bari (One thousand stitches for Japan) KOBO at higo, Curated by Rumi Koshino, Seattle, WA
2010 I will see you again, E/C Gallery, Chicago, IL
Expressions Northwest, Northwind Arts Center, Suzanne Beal Juror Port Townsend, WA
2009 Onomatopoeia -Corocoro, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
Experiment, UrBANGILD, Collaboration with Soft, Kyoto, JAPAN
Abstract in Series, Gage Art Academy, Curated by Margaret Watson, Seattle, WA
2008 Traveling, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
Picture of Health, City Hall Galleries, Harborview Medical Center collections Seattle, WA
35th Anniversary Celebration SAM Gallery (Seattle Art Museum), Seattle, WA
Groups exhibition, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
2007 Wright Now, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House Foundation, Springfield, OH
now and then, SAM Gallery (Seattle Art Museum), Seattle, WA
2006 New Works, IT! Gallery, Boise, ID
Shuynata, Gallery Lotus Roots, Osaka, JAPAN
Shuynata, J-Trip Art Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
Color/Texture show Designers Gallery @ Design Source International, Tualatin, OR
2004 Tra Est e Ovest, Gas Art Gallery, Torino, ITALY
Material Witness, Kirkland Arts Center Kirkland, WA
Shuynata, AT. 31, Seattle, WA
2003 Grand Opening Gala , Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
Cornish College of the Arts Alumni Exhibition, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
30th Anniversary Celebration , Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Shuynata, Art Star Project, Seattle, WA
2000 Shuynata, King County Art Gallery (AKA 4 Culture), Seattle, WA
Introduction , Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pacific Northwest Annual Juried Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Brian Wallace Juror, Bellevue, WA
1999 Shuynata, Odeum Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pacific Northwest Annual Juried Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, John Tupper Juror, Bellevue, WA
2nd Annual Juried Print Exhibition, Kirkland Art Center, Tom Collins, Juror, Kirkland, WA
Shuynata, Cornish College of the Arts B.F.A. Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1998 Neuro networks, Raw Gallery, Seattle, WA
Exchange exhibition, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
1st Annual Juried Print Exhibition, Kirkland Art Center, Sam Davidson, Kirkland, WA
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2022 OFF THE WALL, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Allied Arts Foundation – Emerging Artist Award $1000, Seattle WA
2016 City of Seattle - Office of Arts and Culture, Public Art Boot Camp recipient, Seattle, WA
2015 Artist Trust Grant for Artist Projects recipient $1500, Seattle WA
2007 Wright Now, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House Foundation, Springfield OH
1998-99 Cornish College of the Arts Merit Scholarship - Seattle WA
1998 Cornish College of the Arts Faculty Select Exhibition, 2nd Place – Seattle WA
RESIDENCIES
2020 Cornish Art Incubator Residency as ART BEASTIES, New York-Seattle-London-Tokyo-Osaka
2015 Pratt Fine Arts Center Professional Artist in Residence for $1500, Seattle WA
2014 Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner WY - February-March
SELECTED RELATED ART EXPERIENCE
Panel/Jury
2018-19 Mukilteo Art Contest, Mukilteo, WA
2016 Edwin T Pratt scholarship, Pratt Fine Arts Center - Seattle WA
Arts and Parks, Office of Arts and Culture - Seattle WA
Professional- Artist-in-Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Center - Seattle WA
Lecture
2015 Pratt Fine Arts Center - Lecture, Seattle WA
2010 Digipen Institute of Technology/ Lecture, Redmond, WA
2007 Dayton Art Institute / Lecture Dayton Ohio
Curation/Co-Curation
2018 Co-Curation, In the shadow of Olympus, Soil Artist Run Gallery curated by Art Beasties, Seattle, WA
2013 Kikuko Dewa memoir exhibition, KOBO at Higo – Seattle, WA
Teaching
2019 Gage Academy – Abstract painting, Seattle WA
2018 Seattle Artist League – Abstract painting, Seattle WA
2017 Seattle Art Museum – Drop in Studio: Infinite Reflections during Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Seattle, WA
2011 Wing Luke Museum -YouthCAN Program, Seattle, WA
2003 & 2004 Seattle Asian Art Museum Youth and family Program, Seattle, WA
Affiliations
2017-current Art Beasties, Artist collective, New York-Seattle-London-Tokyo
2011-current Artists for JAPAN /Co-Founder, Seattle, WA
1995-2001 Degenerate Art Ensemble / Photographer/Set Designer/ Costume Designer, Seattle, WA
SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE ART COLLECTION
City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Art Interruptions 2016, Budget $4000, Created temporary art in Rainer Valley neighborhood., Seattle, WA
The Aspen Hotel Group - Hotel Max, Seattle, WA
Children and Family Justice Center, 4 Culture - King County, Seattle, WA
City of Bellevue Portable Artworks, Mini City Hall, Bellevue, WA
Citigroup Private Bank, Seattle, WA
Emery Reddy LLC, Seattle WA
Google Corporate Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Group Health Bellevue Medical Center, Bellevue, WA
Haeger Orthodontics, Maple Valley, WA
The Hideout, Seattle WA
HarborView Medical Center/ UW Medicine, Seattle, WA
Idaho Trust National Bank, Boise, ID
Microsoft Corporate Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Mugitoro, Tokyo Japan
Mulvanny G2 Architecture – Bellevue, WA
Swedish Medical Center Foundation Collections, Swedish Issaquah, Issaquah, WA
Swedish Medical Center Foundation Collections, Swedish Ballard, Seattle, WA
Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA
Theron Baker DDS Office, Seattle, WA
UW Medicine-Seattle, WA (*Alphabetical)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA/BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Portfolio Magazine one of their authors Shlomit Oren’s blog https://shlomitf.wixsite.com/so- art1/blog/the-secret-art-of-microsoft
Yamamura, Hitoshi, Chief Curator Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. “Among the ten artists’ work displayed, I personally found….and Junko Yamamoto’s mobile,
Atmospheric Consciousness, to have made the strongest impression on me”. Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2018 catalog, Cover, Page 41,45, 49, 50, 54 & 57
2018 Paramount Theatre interview video; Re:definition, Seattle, WA 2018
Pratt Fine Arts Center Auction interview video, Seattle, WA 2018
2016 Nancy Guppy /Art Zone, Seattle Channel, October 2016
Urban Streets Seattle Magazine, Fall 2016 issue, Page21
2013 Delta Airlines SKY Magazine, May/June, Page 21
2010 Dluzen, Robin.“But what’s surprising in the works’ relationship to the graffiti-like references –that are often connoted as loaded and gritty—is the enduring lightness and
sweetness of the finished paintings”. Chicago Art Magazine, May 25
2009 Norris, Molly. “Junko is an abstract art contender!” Art Access, June issue.
2008 Kangas, Matthew. "What the painting loses in chromatic variety, it gains in references to thick forest and abundant rainfall, both defining characteristics not only of the
Japanese landscape, but also of the Pacific Northwest". Art in America, November issue.
2007 Kangas, Matthew. “With her deft brushwork, and oscillating color-grounds of greens, blues and browns, Yamamoto employs the brighter colors as almost industrial
contrasts. The dialogue between the pop culture references and formal elements that is simmering below the surface of these small, glowing works also might emerge
more explicitly with great potential rewards”., Art Ltd. Magazine, Nov issue.
2004 Stoesz, David. "Yamamoto applies and gouges away with a joyful, intoxicating inventiveness. “Seattle Weekly, Sep. 15-21 Stoesz, David. "airy abstractions of big ideas"
The Stranger, Vol 13, Jan.8-14
2002 Stoesz, David. "They are dream like, but also focused toward some goal, however obscure" Seattle Weekly, Sep.18-24 Stoesz, David "Junko Yamamoto paints
gorgeously weathered abstractions in warm cool colors enlivened by the occasional pink pillow shape" Seattle Weekly, Sep.25-Oct.1
2000 Hackett, Regina. "Junko Yamamoto's landscapes are weightless, drifting worlds" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July.11
King County Art Gallery Web Site, “emanating from nothing, and always empty: wordless thoughts without a thinker" March.2-31
1998 Hackett, Regina. " find a different way to stamp their abstractions with a Post-pop sensibility" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June