KATHY AOKI/ABOUT/CV/SELECTED WORKS
GALLERY > KATHY AOKI > ABOUT" width="268" height="215"/>Kathy Aoki received her M.F.A in printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis in 1994. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of SFMoMA, the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, the Harvard University Art Museums, and the City of Seattle. Past exhibitions have been held in San Francisco; Las Vegas; Seattle; Minneapolis; NYC; Kobe, Japan; and Quito, Ecuador.
Past grants include a strategic planning grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), an Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council Silicon Valley, a public art grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Art on Market Street Program, and a Women’s Studio Workshop Artist Book Production Grant.
Aoki has participated in artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito; the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley; Djerassi in Woodside; the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire; and the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her recent series, “The Museum of Historical Makeovers,” includes pieces inspired by her residency in Paris.
Aoki currently lives and works in Santa Clara, California, where she is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Santa Clara University.
Kathy’s past shows at Swarm include Beauty in Landscape (2012), Things are Expanding (2010), Museum of Historical Makeovers (2009), Regime Change (2009), and The Little Show (2007).
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