Education
1996 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1993 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1992 Artist-in-the-Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1991 New York University, New York, NY (MA in Studio Art)
1985 Inter-University Center for Film and Critical Studies, Paris, France
1983 The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (BA in Art)
1981 University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI

One Person Exhibitions
2006 Termite Weather. Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, VT
2004 Smooth Cayenne P.P.O.W., New York, NY
2003 Smooth Cayenne. The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2001 Resplendent, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Gallery 3: P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY

This, and my heart, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI (collaboration with Mount Pleasant High School students)
1999 Eyes, Dark, Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

The Long Twilight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY
1998 New Work, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Grasp, George Suyama Architect Space, Seattle, WA
1997 Selected Work, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, LIC, NY

They all fall down, articule, Montreal, Canada
1996 Submissions, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1994 Night Waters, Art in General, New York, NY
1992 I hang my hat up after work, The James Howe Gallery, Kean College, Union, NJ
1991
Hope Springs Eternal, Art in General, New York, NY

Two Person Exhibitions
1999 Lynne Yamamoto and Drew Dominick, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1997 Degree of Separation, collaborative installation with Kerri Sakamoto, YYZ, Toronto, Canada
1996 Evidence of Memory, with Tomie Arai, Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, CT

I am not what I am, organized by Barbara Hunt and Suzy Kerr, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds, UK
1995 There to Here, with Tomie Arai, Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, PA
1993 Wash Closet, concurrent with Brennan McGaffey, Information Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Pulse Miami Art Fair, Soho Studios, Miami, FL.

Ornamental Instincts
, Wave Hill Gallery, Bronx, NY.
2006 The Studio Visit, organized by Jodi Hanel. Exit Art, New York, NY.
2005

S1MB1OS1, Centenario Severo Ochoa, Luaraca, Spain

Bodies of Evidence: Contemporary Perspectives. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI.

Simbiosis: Zonas de Contacto, organized by Celsa Fernández San Narcisco. Luarca, Asturias, Spain (collaboration with Lucretia Knapp).

Honolulu to New York, curated by Allison Wong. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

Collection Remixed, curated by Lydia Yee. Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

The Print Show. Exit Art. New York, NY

2004 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

Issho/Together: Japanese American/Japanese National Artists in America 1941-present.Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Face Value. The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI

2003 Telling Stories: Narrative Photographs. Selections from the Portable Works Collection, City Space, Seattle, WA

Fresh Talk Revisited, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Gallery, New York University, New York, NY

Only Skin Deep National Survey, International Center of Photography internet exhibition

A Theory of Relative Power, organized by Franklin Sirmans, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY

2001 Asian Pacific American Artists from the Seattle Arts Commission Portable Works Collection, organized by Mayumi Tsutakawa, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA

other, organized by Kendal Henry, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY

2000 Construction in Process VII, organized by Ryszard Wasko, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland

Welcome, organized by Jennifer McGregor, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY

“Good Business is the Best Art” Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY

akihabara TV, organized by Command N, Tokyo, Japan (project work in collaboration with Lucretia Knapp)

The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982 - 2000, organized by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, Exit Art, New York, NY
1999 The Time of Our Lives, organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (collaboration with students and teachers, Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute for the Arts and Technology)
1998 Asian-American Artists: Cross-Cultural Voices, organized by Rhonda Cooper and Young Park, Stahler Center for the Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY

Histories (Re)membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, organized by Marysol Nieves, Paine-Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY

Site of Asia, Site of Body, organized by Fu-Chia-Wen Lien and Hsiao-Ning Tu, Taipei Gallery, New York, NY

East of the Sun, organized by Fred Liang and Jason Yi, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI

Constructions in Multiple Hues, organized by A.M. Weaver, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Fermented, organized by Barbara Hunt and Amy Sadao, Aronson Galleries, New York, NY

Family Stories,
organized by Katherine Kreisher, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

Existing Things, organized by Anton Vidokle, Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil

The Compulsion to Remember, organized by Rachel Gugelberger, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1996 Incandescent, organized by Laura Cottingham, Luisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlabaek, Denmark

Measured Movement: The Art of Labor, organized by Consuelo Underwood and Alyssa Erikson, San Jose State University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA
1995 Accumulation, organized by Robin Hill, The Work Space, New York, NY

Sculpture Space: Celebrating 20 Years, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY

Telling Stories, City Site Works, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA (collaboration with Aresh Javadi and students of Booker T. Washington High School and Harland Teen Center- Boys & Girls Club)

Latent August: The Use of the Atomic Bomb, A 50-year Retrospective, organized by the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA

(dis) ORIENTED: Shifting Identities of Asian Women in America, organized by Margo Machida, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement and Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY

MINI-MUNDUS, organized by Teresa Bramlette, White Columns, New York, NY

FaceForward: Contemporary Self-Portraiture, organized by Maureen Sherlock, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, 1970 – 95, organized by Lydia Yee, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994 In-Sites: Lower East Side Artists Re-think Neighborhood Spaces, organized by Ellen Wexler, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY (collaboration with Aresh Javadi)

Sum of the Parts, organized by Gaye Chan, University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

Page 4, organized by Hilda Daniel, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

Four Story Building, organized by Skowmon Hastanan, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Construction in Process IV, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland

Dirty Ornament, organized by Amanda Trager, The Rotiunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

New Expressions in Asian American Art, organized by Shan-Hong Sheng, Eugenie Tsai, and Ray Ring, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center,New York, NY

Female Body Parts: From Geography to Fetish, organized by Betty-Sue Hertz, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY

The Curio Shop, organized by Godzilla (Asian American Artists Network), Artists Space, New York, NY

Selections: The Work of Women, organized by Carl Hazlewood, ALJIRA, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

Embrace, Enclose, Include, collaborative installation with Aresh Javadi, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Fever, organized by Jeanette Ingbermann and Papo Colo, Exit Art, NY and the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Hair, organized by Alison Ferris, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

Dirt and Domesticity: Constructions of the Feminine, organized by Jesus Fuenmayor, Kate Haug, and Fraser Ward, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York, NY

Mssr. B’s Curio Shop, organized by Saul Ostrow, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

Artist-in-the-Marketplace XII, organized by Connie Butler, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Encountered with Diversity, organized by Zdenka Gabalova, P.S. 1 The Institute for Contemporary Art, LIC, NY
1987/90 Artists of Hawai’i, Annual Juried Exhibition, Hoinolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

Collections

Munson -Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Seattle Arts Commission

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York Public Library

Museum of Modern Art

Microsoft Corporation

Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Bronx Museum of the Arts

Whitney Museum of American Art

Private Collections


Publications
2004-6 Freeze (working title) permanent work for Central Branch of The Seattle Public Library

Awards, Grants and Scholarships
2006 LEF New England Contemporary Work Fund Award
2005 Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Purchase Award
2002 Penny McCall Foundation Award
2001 Creative Capital Foundation Grant
1999 Japan-United States Arts Program, Asian Cultural Council

Special editions fellowship, Lower East Side Print Shop
1996 Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Grant
1995 Fellowship for participation in the Henry Street Settlement Studio Program
1994 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence Program
1992 Funded Residency at Sculpture Space

Diverse Forms Artists’ Projects Grants

Van Lier Fund Fellowship for participation in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
1989/88 Hawai’I State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Purchase Award

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