Yoko YAMAMOTO

Printmaker. Born 1952 in Saitama Prefecture and raised in Osaka. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate Department of Western Painting. With an urban, light, stylish use of color, she creates a unique world in her copperplate prints. She fuses her art with music and poetry for collaborations that transcend genre. She has also created many bindings and illustrations for books. In 2002, held "Yamamoto Yoko's Art Amusement Park" traveling exhibition in 10 places nationwide. 2007, created stained glass for the Railway Museum, and in 2008 created stained glass mosaic for Shinjuku Sanchome Station on the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line. 2009, held a solo exhibiton of the 24 hanging scrolls from "Yamamoto Yoko's Princesses" (Kodansha) at Gallery Agenzia04 (Bologna, Italy).