Koichi yamamoto biography sample

Koichi Yamamoto was born in Osaka, Japan in 1967. In 1983, at age 16, he moved to Dayton, Wyoming in the USA. Yamamoto completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 1992.

He then moved to Krakow, Poland in a search for lithography stones.

Koichi yamamoto biography sample

He continued producing works in Warsaw, Poland until 1993 and attended Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia in 1994, where he studied copper engraving with printmaker Dusan Kallay. In 1995 he produced a series of monotypes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland.

He later worked as a textile designer in Fredericia, Denmark.

Yamamoto moved to Alberta, Canada and graduated with an MFA from the University of Alberta in 1999. From 2000 to 2006, he was Assistant Professor at Utah State University in Logan, Utah and Assistant Professor at University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware before moving to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

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