Yoshiko Suzuki

Yoshiko Suzuki was born and raised in Kyoto City, Japan. She received her BFA, and completed MFA in 1983, majoring in Nihonga Painting from Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto Shiritsu Geijutsu Daigaku), one of the most esteemed and the oldest fine arts school in Japan. Her specialties are in Nihonga, Painting, Drawing, and Japanese Art History and Theory. She holds a Certificate of Curator and a Teaching Certificate licensed by the Ministry of Education in Japan.

Since 1979, her artwork has been exhibited in Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto, Japan), Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts and Culture (Kyoto, Japan), Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan), Tobei Gallery (Kyoto, Japan), and Traveling Exhibition in Lima, Peru and Italy. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and Western Michigan University have exhibited her artworks recently.

In Japan, she had more than ten years of teaching experience and rendered a wide range of professional service in the field of art, design, and historical architectural restoration. Her paintings and artwork are in the collections of Ikenobo (the oldest floral art school in Japan), Dai Nippon Printing, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, and other private and public institutions.

Since 1998, She has taught and conducted workshops at The Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and the Michigan Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. She is currently an instructor at the Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University.