Yoko Takashima

"So much of what Yoko Takashima does evokes laughter.  There is humour in almost everything she makes.  It is not the negative humour of the satirist that we experience in her work.  Rather, it is humour that does not denigrate its subject.  

We are invited into a world that isn't public, but it is also a world where the body is in a state of transition - the body that is being groomed is unfinished, far from perfect, even grotesque in the medieval sense. "

pp. 23 -24,  "Grotesque Laughter", written by Mowry Baden, from catalogue "Yoko Takashima", 2003

Born and raised in Japan, Yoko has exhibited her works since 1995.  The selected solo exhibitions are at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,  Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, Western Front, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.  The selected group exhibitions are at Site Santa Fe, Vancouver Art Gallery, Bonne Kunst Museum, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark, MOCA Tokyo, Glenbow Museum, Charlies H Scott Gallery, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff.  

Courses:

Art 261 (Digital Media)