Rate My Professor Jave Yoshimoto

Of multicultural background, born in Japan to Chinese parents and immigrating to the United States at a young age, Yoshimoto creates socially conscious artworks influenced by his travels across various states. He has undertaken artist residencies at Teton Art Lab in 2015, Jentel Foundation in 2014, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in 2012, Vermont Studio Center in 2012, and Art Students League of New York in 2011. Major awards and honors encompass the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2015, Printmaking Award from ARTSPACE Gallery in 2015, First Place in the Japanesque Exhibit at Overland Gallery in 2014, Second Place in the Alabama National at University of Alabama in 2014, Syracuse University Chancellor’s Award in 2011, and Earl Avitt Award from Prairie Schooner in 2012. Yoshimoto has presented solo exhibitions including Recovery at Osborne Gallery, University of Nebraska Omaha in 2025; Isolated Microcosm at Blanden Art Museum in 2024; The Melting World at Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University in 2015; and The Broken World at Lux Center for the Arts in 2017. His works appear in group exhibitions such as United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction Exhibition in 2024 and 2025, and Nebraska Biennial in 2021. Coverage includes Huffington Post (Scroll for Japan, 2012), Chicago Tribune (2015), New American Paintings (Nos. 99 and 102, 2012), and Prairie Schooner (Home, 2012).