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Biography
Yoko Akino was born in Kyoto, Japan, and studied drawing from the age of nine. Having spent four years as a draftsperson in an architect’s practice in Tokyo she returned to Kyoto in 1991, where she produced a collection of line drawings incorporating gauche. In 1996 she came to Ireland, began work at Graphic Studio Workshop and participated in the Temple Bar International Print Show. Yoko has decided to stay in Ireland and is now a member of Graphic Studio Dublin.
Yoko was honored with the O’Sullivan Graphic Supplies prize for ‘Best Print’ at the RHA annual exhibition, 2007. Yoko uses the principles of minimalism and stillness to render her works as dreamlike, dissociative narrative, at once both haunting and compelling. Yoko Akino is surrounded by views of the ocean at her home on the Cooley Peninsula, and is drawn to the dramatic shapes of the coastline. Her pared down expanses of vivid colour, adjacent to detailed blocks of patterned lines, represent views from the east and west coasts of Ireland, that are influenced by her memories of the Honshu coastline, between the Japanese and Pacific Ocean.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2018 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2013 Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2005 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2003 The Front Lounge, Dublin
1998 Maronne Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Decennium, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2023 Geomancy / Oscillation, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2022 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2022 Ebb & Flow, Helen O’Sullivan & Yoko Akino, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2022 Ulysses Imagined, Graphic Studio, Dublin
2021 Summer Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2021 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2021 Winter Exhibition 2021, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2021 Sunkissed, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2021 Kanreki, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2020 Kanreki, The Model, Sligo
2018 Here Comes The Night, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2017 Inner Worlds, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2016 History, Blue House Gallery, Schull, Co. Cork
2016 A Terrible Beauty: WB Yeats, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2016 Urbis Felicitas, Graphic Studio Gallery group show, Dublin
2016 from islands to other seas, Graphic Studio Gallery group show, Dublin
2015 Impresssions and portraits of WB Yeats, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2015 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition
2015 May Quartet, four person show, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2015 Frequency, collaboration and two person show, Blue House Gallery, Schull, Co. Cork
2015 A Little Autumn Collection, two person show, The Printmakers’ Gallery, Dublin
2015 A lonely impulse of delight, WB Yeats 150 Years, SO Fine Art Editions group show, Dublin
2013 Launch, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin