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Lynne Yamamoto is the Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art at Smith College, where she teaches courses in three-dimensional design and installation. She serves on the advisory committee for the Book Concentration at the institution.
Her artistic work engages deeply with notions of place and memory, exploring how narratives of seemingly ordinary people open out to have larger implications historically and geographically. She uses materials poetically and tactically in her installations. Her research interests include cultural memory, historical symbolism, and the relationship between everyday objects and broader social narratives.
Yamamoto's publications demonstrate a consistent focus on place-based narratives, particularly examining Hawaiian history and cultural identity through contemporary art practice. Her work shows interdisciplinary connections between art, history, and cultural studies with particular attention to material culture and spatial narratives.
Selected Awards:
- New York Foundation for the Arts Artist-in-Residence Program
- Anonymous Was A Woman
- Japan-United States Arts Program of the Asian Arts Council
- Creative Capital Foundation Grant
- Penny McCall Foundation Award
- LEF Foundation Grant
- Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship
Yamamoto has participated in numerous prestigious residencies including the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan School, National Studio Program at P.S. 1, and residencies at Urbanglass, Brooklyn; Banff Centre for the Arts; Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland; Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy; Arts/Industry Residency at Kohler Company; and the Taipei Artist Village International Artist in Residence program. She has had one-person shows at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; articule, Montreal; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; Greg Kucera Gallery and George Suyama Architect Space, Seattle; Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; and P.P.O.W., New York. She has a permanent work in the Seattle Central Library.
