Continuing the Spring 2026 Fine Arts Lecture Series, the MassArt Graduate Programs and the 2D and 3D fine art departments are pleased to welcome Lynne Yamamoto. Please join us in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall at 12:00pm on Wednesday, March 25. 

Lynne Yamamoto 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; P.P.O.W., New York; Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. Her work was included in the first Honolulu Biennial. Grants and Awards she has received include the Diverse Forms Artists' Projects Grant; New York Foundation for the Arts Artist-in-Residence Program; Anonymous Was A Woman; Asian Arts Council; Creative Capital Foundation; Penny McCall Foundation, LEF Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship. She has a permanent work in the Seattle Central Library.

She received a B.A. in Art from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and an M.A. from New York University. She participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program and Skowhegan School. She was selected for the National Studio Program at P.S. 1, and residencies at Urbanglass, Brooklyn; Henry Street Settlement, NYC; Banff Centre for the Arts; Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland; Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy; the Arts/Industry Residency at Kohler Company, Wisconsin, and the Taipei Artist Village International Artist in Residence program. She is the Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: Lynne Yamamoto, Paper Experiments, 2021-22.