Yoko Inoue, Ceramics
Inoue is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, collaborative projects, and public intervention performance art. Her work explores the commoditization of cultural values and assimilation and identity issues. Originally from Kyoto, Japan, 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, Sculpture Center, 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, and the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft in Oregon. She has received many awards and grants including the NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture (2003) and subsequently the NYFA Fellowship in Cross-disciplinary and Performative work (2007) from the New York Foundation for the Arts; the Lambent Fellowship (2004–06); from Tides Foundation; the Franklin Furnace Award for Performance Art (2005); The Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant (2005); 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 ekwc (European Ceramic Work Center, The Netherlands), Art Omi, LMCC Workspace, AIM Program, and Civitella Ranieri Residency in Italy. Currently she serves on the artist advisory board of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MFA, Hunter College. Inoue has been a visiting faculty member at Bennington each fall term since 2004.
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