Chie Yamayoshi

My videos and films often interrogate the viewer's desire to ascribe Japanese femininity to my work, an imperative of Western culture wherein the "artist-as-other" must reference identity politics as a primary footnote to their work.

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Chie Yamayoshi, a Los Angeles and Sydney-based video artist and filmmaker, was raised in Japan where she was a TV director and newscaster. After leaving commercial industry and starting an avant-garde art-making practice, Yamayoshi moved to the US under the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists and received a MFA in Film and Video from CalArts and a MFA in Studio Art from UC, Irvine. She has shown her work prolifically and internationally including, Laguna Art Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Art Chicago, Flint Institute of Arts, Directors Lounge in Berlin, Collectif Jeune Cinéma in Paris, "Kino Pavasaris" at Vilnius in Lithuania, A Street in Poznan, Poland, Flint Institute of the Arts, and Gallery Suzuki at Kyoto, Japan.Video Stills from "A Love Story": Performed at the arrival gate in Los Angeles International Airport in 2007