Kim Yasuda

Professor
Spatial Arts, Sculpture

Kim Yasuda's site-specific installations incorporate a range of media to activate both interior exhibition and outdoor public space. Her three-dimensional works investigate the relationship between identity and location within the modern landscape. Her current investigations of the spatial realm center on ways in which creative practices influence social transformation. Her work has been presented in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) Camerawork Gallery (London); the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York); The Whitney Museum of American Art (Connecticut) and MIT List Gallery (Boston). She has been the recipient of visual arts fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, US/Japan Foundation, Howard Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation in Sculpture and Anonymous was a Woman Foundation. Her commissions include public projects throughout California, including subway facilities for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Los Angeles and permanent public installations for the Holllywood Redevelopment Agency. Yasuda was commissioned to produce a permanent public installation for the city of San Jose, commemorating the life and work of Mexican American activist/scholar, Ernesto Galarza (1908-1984). She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California.

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