Rate My Professor Jave Yoshimoto

Jave Yoshimoto is an Assistant Professor of Art and Foundations Coordinator in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Nebraska Omaha, a position he has held since 2015. Specializing in 2-Dimensional Art, he teaches courses such as Foundations Drawing and Design: 2D and Foundations Color and Visual Literacy. His academic background includes a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Syracuse University in 2012, a Master of Arts in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, a Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Studio Art from the same institution in 2008, and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2004. Prior appointments include Director of Studio Art and Assistant Professor of Art at Northwestern Oklahoma State University from 2013 to 2015, where he taught fundamentals of two-dimensional art, painting, life drawing, and other studio courses; graduate instructor in Painting at Syracuse University; teaching artist with Arts Corps in Seattle Public Schools; and art therapist at Asian Human Services in Chicago.

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).