ABOUT YOSHIKO
At my studio in the Railroad Square Art Park in 2014
ABOUT YOSHIKO
Yoshiko has a B.A. degree in art, as well as an MBA. In younger days, she was an artist painting in oils in Japan and then in the U.S. After a twenty year layoff while working as an accountant in Pennsylvania, she and her husband retired to Tallahassee, and she returned to art, taking up watercolors.
Signature memberships earned:
--Tallahassee Watercolor Society in 2007
--Georgia Watercolor Society in 2013
--Southern Watercolor Society in 2024
--Florida Watercolor Society in 2024
SOLO EXHBIT
--Kool Beanz Cafe, March 28 - June 28, 2019
--Westminster Oaks, Parry Center, Tallahassee, July - Sep., 2018
--Frames Plus in Tallahassee during July, 2017
--Picture Frames Unlimited in Tallahassee from Sept. 4 through Oct. 28, 2015
--Artport Gallery at Tallahassee Airport from Jun 22 through Aug 31, 2009
--Leroy Collins County Public Library during May 2007
JURIED EXHIBITS
--Missouri Watercolor Society 2025 International Juried & judged Exhibition.
--Artists' League of the Big Bend of Florida Summer Annual:Returning 2022 (Third Place), 2023, and 2024
--Art Show International Gallery (Teravarna Art Gerraly) the 2023 5th Figurative (Talent Prize Award) and the 2024 3rd Nature (Honorable Mention)
--American Artists Professional League Associate Artists Member Show 2022
--JIWI Autumn International Watercolor Exhibition, Japan 2021
--Society of Watercolor Artists International Exhibition in 2020
--Southern Appalachian Artist Guild National Juried Show in 2013 (Honorable Mention) and 2014.
--Florida Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition in 2012 （The Palm Beach Watercolor Society Award; The Jack Richeson Award), 2022, and 2024
--Georgia Watercolor Society National Exhibition in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2023 and 2024
--Georgia Watercolor Society Members Exhibition in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013(Membership Award), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
--Florida Watercolor Society’s Associate Member Online Show in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 (The Third Place), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (Merit Award), 2022 (Merit Award), 2023 and 2024
--Southern Watercolor Society’s Annual Exhibit in 2008, 2014 and 2024
--Florida Senior Art Showcase in 2008 (3rd place), 2009 (HM) and 2011.
--Tallahassee Watercolor Society’s Tri-State Juried Warter Media Exhibition in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 (Gold Award), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021(HM), 2022, 2023, and 2024
--Thomasville Summer Showcase in 2005, 2006 and 2008
--Artists’ League at Museum of Fine Art at FSU Summer Annual Exhibit in 2006, 2016, 2017 and 2018
--Creative Tallahassee by COCA in 2005, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (The Mayor's Purchase Award), 2022 and 2023
--Tallahassee Watercolor Society’s Brush Strokes Annual Exhibit in 2004(3rd place), 2005(HM). 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (M Gallery Award), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016(Silver Award), 2017 (Vivian Sherlock Memorial Award) 2018 (HM), 2019, 2020 (3rd Excellence), 2021(3rd Excellence), 2022 (Gold Award), 2023 and 2024 (3rd Excellence).
--Art in Gadsden Annual Exhibit in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 (the second place)