Lynne Yamamoto
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2007
Lynne Yamamoto’s installations, photography, and videos evoke ideas of place and memory, and feature histories of women—both familial memoirs and fictional narratives. She currently lives and works in Northampton, MA, where she is the Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art at Smith College.
Yamamoto participated in in the Whitney Independent Study program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency. Her work has been shown in museums throughout the country, including the Mattress Factory (PA), P.S.1 (NYC), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC). Yamamoto’s awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital Foundation grant, and Joan Mitchell Foundation grant.
During her time in the Arts/Industry residency, Yamamoto created works inspired by a series of WWI souvenirs made by English potteries.
