Misako Inaoka is a Japanese visual artist born in Kyoto, Japan who studied fine arts in the United States and Italy. She received a B.F.A. in printmaking from Rhode School of Design and an M.F.A. from Mills College, CA. From 1999-2000, Inaoka spent a year in Rome as a part of the European Honors Program. She works with mixed media in sculpture and site-specific installation, currently based in Ventura, CA. Her work has been shown in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, de Young Museum, de Saisset Museum, San Jose ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Johansson Projects, Boca Raton Museum of Fine Art, Bakersfield Museum of Modern Art, as well as galleries in New York, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Japan, England, China, and Italy. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award, S & R Foundation’s Washington Award, and has had Fellowships to the Headlands Center for the Arts, De Young Museum, MacDowell, Montalvo Art Center, I-Park, and Vermont Studio Center.
Misako Inaoka
Studios
Alexander
Misako Inaoka worked in the Alexander studio.
Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…