Background
Ayomi is also the third in a succession of three generations of women artists in the family, her grandmother Fujio Yoshida (1887–1987) and her mother Chizuko preceding her.
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Ayomi Yoshida
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Career
She is best known at the present time for her room-sized installations of woodchips that have been created for galleries and museums in Japan and the United States. Prior to this, between 1979 and 1997, woodblock prints were her main medium. She is especially important because her basic approach to the art of woodblock printing has radically broadened an already varied Yoshida artistic tradition.
Ayomi"s parents, Hodaka Yoshida (1926–1995) and Chizuko Yoshida (born 1924), had each expanded that tradition in different ways.
All three in fact lived together for 20 years in Hodaka’s home in a Tokyo suburb. A succession of women artists like this is a rare phenomenon in Japanese art history.
Neither of Ayomi"s parents prompted her to become an artist. But the process of making prints and the results were a part of her home-life and must have stimulated her own sensitivity.
She did not begin to create works until after her study of art at Wakō University in Japan.
Her first efforts were with silkscreen at Mendocino Art Center in California in 1979. Her first award came for a woodblock print in the Sunshine Print Grand Prix exhibit in 1980. She has exhibited also in the College Women's Association of Japan, the British Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and in other venues including international print biennials.
Membership
Fujio was 93 years old, Ayomi was 23) She is a member of the Japan Print Association and her work was featured on the cover of their 1999 exhibition catalogue.
