Yoko Wakatsuki (1954 - )
Born 1959 in Aichi, Japan, she completed her studies at the Nagoya College of Art and Design in 1981. In the same year, she joined the print studio Aiueo, but gave up copperplate engraving temporarily after getting married and having a baby. Since then, she has produced and exhibited tableaux and woodblock prints. In 2011, she won the Yamamoto Kanae Triennial Excellence Award, and in 2015, the Sumio Kawakami Woodblock Print Exhibition Jury's Special Award. Since then, she has held solo and group exhibitions in Japan.
＜Solo exhibitions＞
1981 Gallery OH
1999 Gallery Sawa
2001/ 03/ 05/ 07/09 Gallery Meiho-do
2006 Gallery Jingara
2008 Gallery Aoi
2008 Inagaki Cosmic
2009/ 11 / 13 / 15 / 18 Tisane Infusion
2012 Morioka Shoten, Gallery Stokes, Gallery bianc Meihoudo
2014 SORA
2017 / 20 Gallery A・C・S
＜Group exhibitions and awards＞
2001 Selected for Liquitex Biennale
2007 "Art of Higashi Mikawa" - exhibited as an artist associated with the local area
2009 Participated in Art Tornado
2011 1st International Woodblock Print Conference, Yamamoto Ting Triennial Prize of Excellence
2012 Kanuma City Kawakami Sumio Woodblock Print Exhibition
2013 Kanuma City Kawakami Sumio Woodblock Print Exhibition, etc.
2015 Kanuma City Kawakami Sumio Woodblock Print Exhibition, Judge's Special Prize
2016 Kawakami Sumio Prize, Kanuma City Kawakami Sumio Woodblock Print Exhibition, Yamamoto Ding Triennial
2017 Toyohashi Hoshi Shingo Prize Exhibition
2020 CCGA Contemporary Graphic Arts Centre, 'Resonant Time'.
