Koichi Yamamoto

On View March 15, 2022 - April 23, 2022

ARTIST TALK | WYO THEATER | Fri, March 18th | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |

ARTIST RECEPTION | Fri, March 18th | 6:30-7:30 PM | Refreshments by Verdello

ARTIST WORKSHOP | Sat, March 19th | 9 am - 2pm

Supporting Sponsors | Ryan & Rachel Landis, Rollie Hruza- State Farms

Additional Support: AlphaGraphics Sheridan and funding from the Wyoming Arts Council.

Please contact SAGE at 307-674-1970 or visit 21 W. Brundage Street, Sheridan, Wyoming, with purchase inquiries. Shipping options may be available. Open Tuesday thru Saturday (closed Sunday & Monday).

Koichi Yamamoto is an artist who merges the traditional and contemporary by creating unique and innovative approaches to the language of printmaking.

Koichi was born in Osaka, Japan 1967. He moved to Dayton, Wyoming in 1983 age 15. His experience in Northern Wyoming formed interest towards to natural science and art. He completed BFA in 1992 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon then move to Krakow, Poland for producing works and later at Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia to study traditional copper engravings. He studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 1996. After that he completed MFA at University of Alberta, Canada in 1999. He also worked as a textile designer in Fredericia, Denmark in 2000.

Koichi’s prints explore issues of the sublime, memory, and atmosphere.
He has exhibited internationally. He has taught at Utah State University and University of Delaware and currently a professor at University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

For further information, visit is website at www.yamamotoprintmakin.com