RAiR | 1996-97

Yoshiko Kanai

Yoshiko Kanai works in sculpture, watercolor and video. She graduated with her BA and MFA from Tama Art University, Tokyo. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Her residencies have included the John-Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and The Artists’ Work Program at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. She has also been awarded numerous fellowships, including the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, MoMA P.S.1 International Studio Program in New York; Bamboo Curtain Studio Program in Taipei, Taiwan; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship. (From RAiR 50th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog, 2017)

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