About the artist:

Yuko Kyutoku is a contemporary artist based in New York. She was born in Gifu and grew up in Aichi, Japan. Having grown up next to both nature with mountains and rivers, and urban areas, her love of nature and the outdoors grew tremendously. Throughout herlife, Yuko has always been fascinated by images and how the world is represented through the eyes of others. Also, she was born into a doctor’s family that appreciates art, and her grandmother was also an artist who exhibited her works throughout Japan. Naturally, she was drawn to drawings and paintings. The interest was cultivated during her childhood and further developed when she opted to complete her associate’s degree in visual arts at Westchester Community College in 2016, her bachelor's degree in fine art, painting, drawing, and printmaking at SUNY Purchase College in New York in 2019, and her master’s degree in art therapy at New York University in 2022.

Yuko’s artmaking process is transformative. She loves traveling, visiting museums and galleries, reading literature, watching films, listening to music, and meeting other artists. She gets inspiration from these experiences and makes art based on them. She feels that life experiences open up many opportunities and make her artwork richer, more personal, and more unique.

Yuko held numerous shows internationally. She had solo shows at the Obuchi Gallery, the General Consulate of Japan in New York, Gallery Petite, Cafe Grumpy, Local Project Art Space, and Yada City Gallery. She also collaborated with other artists and had group shows at Local Project Art Space last year and this year. Her works and shows were featured in numerous art magazines, online platforms, and major newspapers, including Create! Magazine, Seikyo Newspaper, DoodleWash, and Globo Arte Magazine, as well as in an interview with Sakura Radio in New York.

She has received many scholarships and awards, including the Juror's Choice Award for her printmaking book from Julian Kreimer, who is a SUNY Purchase College representative, in 2015.

She has worked for the Aichi Triennale, which is an urban international art festival held at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Aichi Art Center in Japan. She works as an artist to produce artwork and plans to exhibit her recent work in solo shows this year in Japan and New York.