YUKA IMATA RESUME

EDUCATION

2001 - 2007 The Art Students League of New York

1997 - 2001 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

ADDITIONAL STUDY

2008 Independent Study in Spain

2000 Scuola Lorenzo de Medici, Florence, Italy

HONORS AND AWARDS

2007 Frederick S. Church SCNY Award, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2006 Directors Choice Award, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Xavier Gonzales and Ethel Edwards Travel Grant, Art Students League of New York

       Phyllis H. Mason Grant

       William Alfred White Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club Jan, 2006

2005 Best Drawing Award, The Art Students League of New York

       Harry R. Ballinger memorial Award, Salmagundi Club

2004 Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club

       Honorable Mention, New England Realist Art Center

       Merit Scholarship, The Art Students League of New York

       Certificate of Merit, Salmagundi Club

2003 Leila Gardin Sawyer Award, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club

       Certificate of Merit, Salmagundi Club

2001 Fine Art 2D Auction Award, Massachusetts College of Art

1998 Studio Foundation Recognition of Achievement Award, Massachusetts College of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Works by Yuka Imata, Gallery Feel, Fukuoka, Japan

2003 Recent Works: Yuka Imata, Hirokos Place, New York, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 The ASL Portrait Exhibition, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY

2007 The ASL Portrait Exhibition Gensler, New York, NY

       Emerging Artists, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

       Awakening, Copley Society of Art

       Spring Auction Exhibition,Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Annual Members Combined Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       New Members Show 2007, Copley Society of Art

       BISOU, Kyoto Museum, Kyoto, Japan

2006 Small Work Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA

       Junior & Scholarship Members Annual Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Small Work Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA

       Annual Members Combined Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2005 Small Work Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA

       Java Salon Show, Java Studio, Brooklyn, NY

       It's about the time! Gallery of Graphic Arts, New York, NY

       Allied Artists of America, 92nd Annual Exhibition , National Arts Club, New York, NY

       Fall Auction Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Then and Now, 135th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, NY

       Sculpture and Graphics Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Red Dot Exhibition, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY

       Java Studio Show, Java Studio, Brooklyn, NY

       Art Renewal Center, 2nd International ARC Salon Competition, On line exhibition.

       Finalist in the drawing category out of 1,500 applicants.

     www.artrenewal.org/articles/2005/Salon/winners8.asp

2004 The Art Students League of New York Exhibits of Works by Grant and Scholarship Winners

       Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

       Annual Combined Members Show, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Annual Thumb-Box Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Fall Auction Exhibition,, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Juried Members Exhibition, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY

       Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club , 108th Annual Exhibition, The National Arts Club, New York, NY

       The First Annual Selected Figure Drawing Exhibition, Juried by Ted Seth Jacobs

       New England Realist Art Center, Boston, MA

       Water Show, Redhook, NY

       Junior & Scholarship Members Annual Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       The Contemporary Portrait, Cureated by Stephen Doherty, Editor in Chief of American Artist Magazine

       The Gallery at The Rye Arts Center, NY

2003 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 107th Annual Exhibition, The National Arts Club, New York, NY

       Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper House Art Center, New York,NY

       Annual Non-Members Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

       Realism 2003, Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY

2000 Painting Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

       Scuola Lorenzo de Medici Art Exhibition , Florence, Italy

1998 Figurative Art from Mass Art, First Expression Gallery, Boston, MA

       Realism: A Student Perspective, First Expression Gallery, Boston, MA

       Form Centric, South Hall Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

CURATION

2007 BISOU, Kyoto Museum, Kyoto, Japan, Curated NY section.

PUBLICATION

2007 Yomi Time Weekly (May Issue) New York Japanese news paper

        Japion, Weekly New York Japanese news paper

2005 Japion, Weekly New York Japanese news paper, Career as an artist(October Issue)

       Diverse City - Humanist Center of Cultures, Monthly Queens Multi Cultural new paper(February issue)

       Yuka Imata, an emerging artist in our community