About Amy

Amy Yoshitsu (b. 1988), they/she, is a sculptor, designer, and socially engaged artist living and working in their hometown, Berkeley, CA. Yoshitsu’s work has been shown across the US and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. In Fall 2024, Yoshitsu presented a solo exhibition at Gallery Route One (Point Reyes, CA) and was featured in a two-person exhibition at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA). Their solo exhibition at Satchel Projects (Chelsea, NY) in 2023 earned them a Must-See by ARTnews. Yoshitsu’s work has been included in group shows at Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (Hyattsville, MD), Herter Gallery (UMass Amherst), and Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley, CA). In 2010, Yoshitsu received an A.B. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and later attended the MFA Art program at California Institute of the Arts. Yoshitsu has been in residency at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), the Artist Residency Project at the School of Visual Arts, Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA), and Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA). Yoshitsu is a co-creator of Converge Collaborative, a POGM (people of the global majority) digital creative workers co-op and artist collective.

After a decade+ as a software, web and branding designer, Amy is a founding member of the digital creative worker’s coop and arts collective, Converge Collaborative, which focuses on emotionally and economically supporting creatives of color while acknowledging personal and community responsibilities. Contact Amy if you want to work together!

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