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Yoko Omomi is a Japanese artist, with a main focus on contemporary painting and printmaking, as well as some drawing and installation work. She is also an experienced teacher & lecturer, covering all levels from children to adult, including art college.
Born in Madagascar she spent most of her childhood in Japan. Having studied fine arts in London, Winchester and Barcelona she now lives and works in Munich for over 10 years. Yoko exhibited her work extensively in England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Italy and Germany. She won a number of stipends and awards, and received commendations from the renowned Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the Jerwood Drawing Prize in Cheltenham. Her artwork can be found in public collections, e.g. at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, or the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung in Munich. |
Education
Awards & Residencies
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Public Collections
Teaching Experience
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Exhibitions (selection)
- 2020 London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Arts (substitute online event "LOPF Online")
- 2020 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
- 2019 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Hamburg
- 2019 From Paper To Print, DA2, München
- 2018 ARTMUC, Praterinsel, München
- 2016 Schloßausstellung „Trautes Heim“, group exhibition, Dachau castle
- 2015 Kunstverein Dachau, group exhibition together with Günther Urban and Andreas Kreutzkam
- 2014 Annual Exhibition (Jahresausstellung), Kunstverein Ebersberg, Galerie „Alte Brennerei“, Ebersberg
- 2013 Das Kleine Format, Kunstverein Aichach, Aichach
- 2013 Gastkünstler, Galerie Glasbau, Pfarrkirchen
- 2012 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
- 2011 Aspekte, Galerie im Donau-Einkaufszentrum Regensburg
- 2010 Schwarze Kunst, Aspekte Galerie (Gasteig), München
- 2009 Lemonstreet Gallery, Dublin, Irland
- 2008 Mary Street Gallery, Waterford, Irland
- 2007 Annual Exhibition 2007, Kunstverein Rosenheim (Städtische Galerie), Rosenheim
- 2007 Annual Exhibition 2007, Kunstverein Ebersberg (Galerie Alte Brennerei), Ebersberg
- 2006 Interior – Exterior, Galerie Goethe 53, München
- 2005 Beggar Fairy, Goethe-Institut, München
- 2004 Summer Exhibition, The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
- 2003 Solo Exhibition, Café Gallery, Mary Ward Centre, London
- 2003 The 5th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries
- 2002 The Hunting Art Prizes 2002, The Royal College of Art, London
- 2002 Acts of Renewal: Japanese Art Re-Interpreted, The Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 2001 Artists Interpret Psychoanalysis, Rumanian Asademy in Rome, Italy
- 2001 University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 2001 Recent Prints by Yoko Omomi, solo (touring) exhibition as part of the Japan Festival 2001, University of Ulster, Belfast
- 1999 Harlech Printmaking Open 2000, Theatre Ardudwy, Harlech, Wales
- 2000 New Work from Seacourt Print Workshop, Kerlin Gallery, Belfast, Clotworthy Arts Center, Antrim, and Flowerfield Arts Center, Portstewart, Northern Ireland
- 1999 Salon des Graphiques, Curwen Gallery, London
- 1998 Participation in the 'network arts' Anglo-Japanese interactive arts project, London Guildhall Univ./Musashino Art Univ., Japan
- 1998 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Künstlerwerkstatt Bahnhof Westend, Berlin, and University of Lincolnshire, Hull
- 1998 In Print, Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge
- 1998 Show me something beautiful, The Brickhouse, London
- 1997 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, and University of Lincolnshire, Hull
- 1997 Solo Exhibition, Christopher Hull Gallery, London
- 1997 Düsseldorf International Art Fair („Art Multiple“), Düsseldorf
- 1996 The Royal Institute of Oil Painters – Winsor & Newton Young Artists’ Award 1996, Mall Galleries, London
- 1996 Eighth Oriel Mostyn Open Exhibition, North Wales’ Premier Centre for the Visual Arts, Llandudno, Wales
- 1996 Panorama Solo Show, panorama space, Barcelona, Spain