Jave Yoshimoto

Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto is an Asian-American Contemporary artist and educator. Yoshimoto works primarily as a painter, but also uses a variety of other two dimensional mediums. Although born in Japan, both of his parents are of Chinese descent-his father from Hong Kong and his mother from Taipei- before he moved to San Francisco, California when Yoshimoto was 9 years of age with his mother. His artwork is heavily influenced by all of the places he has resided in the United States.