Please join the Studio Art Department in welcoming our 2026 spring term Artist-in-Residence, Kumi Yamashita. Her exhibition, Mayfly, will be on view in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery April 7 - May 3.
Artist talk 4:45 - 5:45 pm on Thursday, April 9, 2026
Gilman Auditorium, Hood Museum.
Opening reception to follow at 5:45 pm in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center
Kumi Yamashita was born in Takasaki, Japan. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Glasgow School of Art and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington.
Her solo shows include the Seattle Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Roswell Museum, Yerba Buena Center, Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, the Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Tokyo’s Art Front Gallery, NYC’s Kent Gallery and Flinn Gallery in Greenwich. Group shows include the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CODA Museum in Netherlands, Honolulu Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Liverpool Biennial, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Scottish Parliament, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları in Istanbul and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan. She continues to exhibit internationally.
Private and public collections include the Microsoft Art Collection, the New Mexico History Museum, American Express, Birmingham Museum of Art, Thoma Art Foundation, Le Meridien Shenyang, Otsuma University, Seattle City Light, Tokyo's Akiru Medical Center, Osaka's Namba Parks Tower, Stellar Place at Sapporo JR Tower, Boise Art Museum and Hamada Children's Art Museum.
In 2009, her sculpture “Pathway” commissioned by Seattle City Light was listed as one of the top 40 public works in the nation by the Public Art Network (PAN). Other awards and grants include the Pollock and Krasner Foundation grant, Artist Trust GAP, and China’s Crystal Kirin Award. Residencies include RAIR (Roswell Artist in Residence), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Millay Colony.
She lives and works in Woodstock, New York