ARTISTS

Hiroka YAMASHITA

Hiroka Yamashita, “At the Medicine Garden”, 2022, Oil on linen, 162 x 130 cm © Hiroka Yamashita / Photo: Kenji Takahashi

Hiroka Yamashita was born in 1991 in Hyogo, Japan. She earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (New York) in 2017 and an MFA in Arts & Design from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) in 2019. Since returning to Japan she has been based in Okayama, and has held solo shows in the US, Germany, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and elsewhere. In 2022, she took part in the Fürstenberg Zeitgenoessisch residency program in Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include “Project N 84” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Tokyo, 2021), and group exhibitions include “Yes You Can: The Strength of Life through Art” at What Museum (Tokyo, 2022). Taka Ishii Gallery presented solo exhibition with Yamashita in 2023.

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