Yoshie Sakai

Yoshie Sakai is a multidisciplinary artist, working in video, installation, performance, and sculpture. She received her BFA from California State University Long Beach and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. She attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and Ali Youssefi Project Artist Residency. Sakai is the recipient of the 2021/22 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship in Design and Visual Arts, 2012 California Community Foundation for Visual Artists Emerging Artist Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and the bar-fund Artist Grant.

She has shown work throughout the United States in film festivals and art exhibitions at institutions such as the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, California State University Dominguez Hills University Art Gallery, Verge Center for the Arts, Antenna, University of Albany University Art Museum, Chinese American Museum Los Angeles and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as internationally in Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Korea. This year she is excited to be an Artist in Residence at the Marble House Project, Bemis Center, and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency in Foundry at the Kohler Company.