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| YOKO INOUE is a multi-disciplinary artist. In the form of installation, sculpture, public intervention projects and performance art, her work engages issues of globalization, immigrant assimilation, identity and cultural merging.
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Inoue’s large scale installations typically incorporate hand cast ceramic objects derived from mass-produced items found in the multicultural urban market place, reflecting her observations of the commoditization of culture and calling attention to the historical connotations of mundane objects.
Originally from Kyoto, Japan, she moved to New York in 1990. While working at National Museum of Ethnology, a research institution in Osaka, Japan and at the Japan Society, a non-profit cultural organization in NY, she began questioning ideas behind the representation of culture, and how identity issues are discussed. Inoue earned an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College, NY and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000. In New York, her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, SculptureCenter, the Rubin Museum, the Bronx Museum, LMCC, Greene Naftali Gallery and Art in General among other places. She has had solo exhibitions at Momenta Art and Von Lintel Gallery. Her national venues include the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, UCLA, Yerba Buena in San Francisco, CA.
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She has received awards and grants including the NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture (2003) and subsequently the NYFA Fellowship in Cross-disciplinary & Performative work (2007) from the New York Foundation for the Arts; the Lambent Fellowship (2004-06) from Tides Foundation, Franklin Furnace Award for Performance Art (2005); The Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant (2005); a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2006); GAPS (Grant for Art in Public Spaces) from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council / 9-11 Fund, Jerome Foundation Travel and Research Grant (2007); and the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2008). Residencies include Skowhegan, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Art Omi, LMCC Workspace, the Center for Book Arts and the Civitella Ranieri Center Residency in Italy and .ekwc (European Ceramic Work Center) in The Netherlands.
She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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CONTACT
yoko@yokoinoue.com
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