Margaret Yuko Kimura
Biography
Margaret Yuko Kimura was born in 1968 in Oakland, California and was raised in Tokyo. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design in 1997 and her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994. She studied at the Lacoste School of Art in Lacoste, France, during the summer of 1993. She has received several awards including the Kenneth F. Bates Enameling Scholarship, the First Agnes Gund Traveling Award, and the Frank Wilcox Memorial Printmaking Award (all from the Cleveland Institute of Art)and the Horace H. Rackham Merit Fellowship and the Rackham Thesis Grant (both from the University of Michigan). In 2004, she was for the Nesnadny and Schwartz Visiting Critics Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.
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Using my own intaglio prints, old Japanese paper, book pages, and fabric, I create complex layers in my mixed media pieces and installations. The notion of recycling and history is central to my art making.
