Resume

Yoko Tahara

  • Solo Exhibitions:     
    • Lichen Drawings, University of California, Berkeley (Extension), SF Campus, CA , November 5 – 30, 2016
    • Dreams and Fantasies, Woodside Library, Pop-up Gallery, CA, December 13, 2014 – January 30, 2015
    • My Monochromatic World, San Gregorio General Store, San Gregorio, San Mateo, CA, March 2, 2020 – February 28, 2021
  • Juried Exhibitions:         
    • Silicon Valley Sculpture 2022 (SVS 2022) – Menlo College, Atherton, CA,  September 23-25, 2022  
    • Statewide 2D competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, March 11 – April 23, 2017
  • Group Exhibitions:        
    • Mélange – Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA , February 20 – March 15, 2020                             
    •  Punch Magazine Exhibition –  Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA,   February 6 – February 26, 2020                          
    • Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, March 8 – 22, 2019
    • Now and Then – Graphic Arts Workshop 65th Anniversary Exhibition, Negative Space Gallery, San Francisco, February 2 – March 30, 2018                                      
    • San Francisco – Yokohama Joint Show, Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco and Launch Pad Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, September 9 – October 1, 2016
    •  5 Bay Area Printmakers, Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco, CA,  April 1 – 30, 2016
    •  Pacific Art League’s 94th Anniversary Exhibition, Palo Alto, CA, September 4 – 24, 2015
    • South Coast Artist Alliance (SCAA) Annual Show, Pescadero, CA, August 2008 – 2012 and 2014 – 2021   
  • Education:  
    • Master of Fine Arts (MFA), California College of the Arts(CCA), San Francisco, CA, May 2019
    •  Workshop of photo-etching (with scholarship), Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA,  August 12 – 17, 2018
    • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Arts with Distinction, University of California, Berkeley(Extension), CA, 2016
    •  Graphic Design and Web, Certificate, Cañada College, CA , 2010
    •  B.A. in Communications, Notre Dame de Namur University, CA, 1993
  • Residency:          Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, on-going
  • Born:                    Hiroshima, Japan