b. New Haven, CT

Living in Santa Clara, CA

EDUCATION            

MFA, Washington University 1994

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

*indicates solo show

2009    The Museum of Historical Makeovers, Swarm Gallery - Oakland, CA*

            Print Exchange, Saga Art University/Santa Clara University - Kyoto, Japan

            Monster Draw Rally, Southern Exposure – San Francisco, CA

            Regime Change, Swarm Gallery - Oakland, CA

2008    Battle of Kawaii, Next Art Fair - Chicago, IL*           

            Women in Comics, Past and Present, Mohr Gallery - Mountain View, CA

            Santa Clara Faculty Exhibition, Heritage Bank - San Jose, CA

            Glasgow International Arts Festival, Market Gallery - Glasgow, United Kingdom

2007    Passage to Kawaii, LMAN Gallery - Los Angeles, CA*

            The Little Show, Swarm Gallery - Oakland, CA

            Opposite City Hall, Pacific Art League - Palo Alto, CA

            Banzai/Godzilla, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery - San Francisco, CA

            Faculty Works, deSaisset Museum, Santa Clara University - Santa Clara, CA

2006    Construction of Modern Girlhood: Glamour Rules, Reese Bullen Gallery –

            Arcata,CA*           

            Cult of the Cute, San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose, CA*

            Construction of Modern Girlhood, Smith Andersen Editions - Palo Alto, CA*

            See Jane Run, Bedford Gallery - Walnut Creek, CA

2005    Invitational Relief Print Show, Tuska Gallery, University of Kentucky - Lexington,

            KY

            Heritage Bank 11th Anniversary, Santa Clara Univ. faculty, Heritage Bank - San 

            Jose, CA           

            Pirated: A Post Asian Perspective, SOMARTS Cultural Center Gallery, San

            Francisco, CA

            Trillium Fund, Trillium Press, SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery - San Francisco, CA

            Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, Univ. of Hawaii - Hilo, HI

            Issho/Together, Meridian Gallery - San Francisco, CA

2004    Champions of Market Street, Public Art Poster Series - San Francisco, CA*

            Solo Exhibition, Southern Nevada Community College - Las Vegas, NV*

            Pacific Prints 2004, Palo Alto Art League - Palo Alto, CA

            Go West, Richmond Art Center - Richmond, CA

            Collection 2004, San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose, CA

            Hard Candy, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art - San Jose, CA

            City Life, Euphrat Museum - Cupertino, CA

            Figment of the Machination, Santa Clara Univ. Art Gallery - Santa Clara,             CA           

2003    ProArts Juried Annual, ProArts Gallery - Oakland, CA

            Pictoplasma II, Future Is Now Gallery - New York, NY

            Out of Line, Oakland Art Gallery - Oakland, CA

            Brave New Girl, Douglas Flanders Gallery - Minneapolis, MN

            Grabado Sin Fronteras, Berkeley, San Francisco (April), Quito,Ecuador (October)

2002    Supertough Relief Prints, Cafe Royale - San Francisco, CA*           

           Toys in Babeland, Richmond Art Center - Richmond, CA

            Hysterical, Sam Davidson Gallery - Seattle, WA

            Fight Like A Girl, three-person show, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA

            New in 2002, Solomon Dubnick Gallery – Sacramento, CA

2001    Whimsey, Elizabeth Leach Gallery - Portland, OR

            Recent Acquisitions of California Works on Paper, Legion of Honor Museum –

            San Francisco, CA

            That Girl, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery - Oakland, CA Pro Arts - Oakland, CA

2000    Recent Acquisitions: Achenbach Collection, Legion of Honor Museum, San

            Francisco, CA

1999    Dangerous Dolls, Roq La Rue Gallery – Seattle, WA

            Resilient Images, Japantown - San Francisco, CA

1998    Poptarts, One Eleven Minna Gallery - San Francisco, CA 

            Introductions, Michael Himovitz Gallery - Sacramento, CA

1997    Katherine Aoki: Recent Prints, Women’s Studio Workshop - Rosendale, NY*

           Big Tools and the Women Who Use Them, Berkeley Art Center - Berkeley, CA*

           Sightlines International Printmaking Co-operative Exhibition - Alberta             Canada.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Nataraj, Nirmala.  "Faux Real: Kathy Aoki's 'Museum of Historical Makeover' Uncovers Societal       Truths Through Fiction", San Francisco Chronicle. p.12, September 2009

“Graphica: Kathy Aoki.” Artful Dodge (Volume 48/49), Ohio based literary magazine, 2009           

Grady, Pam, “Tradition, Anime Mesh in US Art:”, San Francisco Chronicle, p.12,             July, 2007

“Open Door Policy”, The Wave Magazine, May,2006           

“Of Note”, Palo Alto Weekly, April 2006

 “Asian-American artists view new piracy” Oakland Tribune (Inside Bay Area), May, 2005

”Twisted Visions of Youth,” San Jose Mercury News p. 5E, February, 2004

Messina, Marianne, ”Studio Studies,” Silicon Valley Metro, April, 2004

Gestalten, Die, Pictoplasma II, Germany, 2003

Thaler, Peter, “Out of Line,” SFStation.com Arts review,  August, 2003

“Chicks Awry,” EastBay Express, Scenes, July, 2003

The Other, 2nd issue, San Francisco, CA, 2003

“Hysterical: Girl Comics,” Seattle Times, November 2002

“Fight Like A Girl,” Artweek Review, May 2002

Zyzzyva, Spring 2002.

“Fight Like A Girl” Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 2002

Kroth, Maya, “That Girl,” SFStation.com, Arts review,  December 2002

“Whimsey,” The Oregonian, Arts And Entertainment,  November 2002

“Colonist Creates Images…” Peterborough Transcript, June, 2001

“Submit to the Flesh.” Arts and Life, National Post, Canada, 2000                       

“Promising Introductions.” Encore 8 Sacramento Bee, July, 1998

“”Introductions 1998” A & E Sacramento News And Review 1998           

Zyzzyva. Winter 1998

“Katherine Aoki, George Rivers, Stan Sours”, Artweek Previews: July/August 1998

COLLECTIONS

City of Seattle, Seatlle, WA

Fine Arts Museums San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

Mills College, Oakland, CA

New York Public Library, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS