CV

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Born: Osaka, Japan

Education:
California Institute of Arts (BFA program), Valencia, California (2004 - current)
Santa Monica College Art Mentor Program (2002 - 2003)
Pasadena City College

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibition:
2004 Site specific installtion, Alpine Plaza (Chinatown), Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Michiko Yao", Stevenson Blanche Devereux gallery, CalArts, Valencia
2004 "Fill It In", Gallery 825, CA
2003 "Color in as You Wish", Upstairs at the Market Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Juried Exhibition :
2005 "Mixed Bag", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Kimberly Light, Lightbox)
2005 "50/50 show", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Jamie Wilson)
2005 "Innocnce Lost", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Eleana Del Rio, Koplin Del Rio Gallery)
2004 "visual Vernacular", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Noel Korten, Independent Artist Curator)
2004 "Outsiders", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Bert Green, Bert Green Fine Art)
2004 "Between One and Ten", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Jack Rutberg, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts)
2003 "Icon-O-clash", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Christina Ochoa, Director of Visual Arts, Self Help Graphics)
2003 "Things D' Art", Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Mark S. Greenfield, Director Harbor Art Centers, CAD)

Group Exhibition :
2005 "Pattern", Bamboo Lane/Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2005 "A Window Between Worlds", Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 "Jeju International Free Festival", Gallery Asto, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Graduates of the Arts Mentor Program Exhibition", Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 "Castella”", Stevenson Blanche Devereux Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2004 "Jeju International Free Festival", Kidang Museum, Jeju, Korea Jeju Cultural Art Center, Jeju, Korea
2004 "Open Call LA 2004", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Return to Compulsion", Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Return to Los Angeles", year of the monkey", Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2003 "Cash & Carry", Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2003 "Petite Works", Gallery 825, Santa Monica, CA
2003 "The Inaugural Receptions", Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2003 "Exposed", Gallery Exposed, Venice, CA
2003 "256 cubic feet", Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 "Two-person show", Air117 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Awards and grants:
Stratton-Petit Sosin Art Mentor Student Award

Review of exhibition:
New American paintings, issue No.55, 2004 Pacific Coast Competition (juror: Michael Klein, Microsoft Art Collection)
May Calendar of Openings and Special Events", ArtScene, May 2004, p.25.
“Reviews”, Artweek, July/August 2004, p24

Juried member of the Gallery 825 / LAAA since 2003