Takako Yamaguchi

2024 Stepping Stone Grantee

Born and raised in Japan, Takako Yamaguchi (b. Okayama, 1952) is a long-time resident of Southern California. She has exhibited her paintings there, in New York and other American cities. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held in Japan, Berlin and Mexico City. She is a recipient of artist grants including Anonymous Was a Woman (2024) the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists (2024), Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant (2018), California Community Foundation/Getty Fellowship Grant (2008), Gottleib Foundation Grant (2006), and a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (2004). Her work is in the collections of Musee d’art Moderne, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Nevada Museum, Reno, Nevada; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan, Utah and The Buck Collection of the University of California, Irvine. Yamaguchi received her BA from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. An exhibition of Yamaguchi’s new and recent paintings will open in June at MOCA, Los Angeles.