Rick Yoshimoto (b. 1948, American)

Rick Yoshimoto was born in Honolulu in December of 1948. His grandparents emigrated from Okinawa to work on plantations on Kauai. He left the the islands in 1969 to travel and study art at California State University Long Beach and UC Irvine. After graduate school, he moved to Inverness in coastal northern California in 1977. Shortly after, he began working with the sculptor JB Blunk, first as an assistant, and ultimately as a collaborator. Their friendship and working relationship continued until JB passed away in 2002. Recent exhibitions include Anthony Meier, Mill Valley, CA, Blunk Space, Point Reyes Station, CA and Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA. Since 2015, Yoshimoto has lived and worked in Lamy, New Mexico.