Amy Yoshitsu is a sculptor, designer, and socially engaged artist deconstructing the interconnections between power, economics, labor, and race to illuminate their foundational impact on personal schemas and interpersonal relationships. Objects, installations and images result from amalgamating industrial and refuse materials, textiles and sewing, research and layers of manual and digital building. In 2010, she received an A.B. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University where she focused on sculpture, environmental analysis and critical theory. She then attended the MFA Art program at California Institute of the Arts. In 2021, she was honored to be an Artist in Residence at Esalen Institute and participated in the virtual Artist Residency Project at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown across the U.S., in New York, Boston, and San Francisco. After a decade as a software, web and graphic designer, in 2020 she cofounded the worker’s coop, Converge Collaborative is focused on empowering and supporting creatives of color and centering emotions in the labor context. Amy lives in her hometown, Berkeley, CA.
