Yuriko Kitamura

Yuriko Kitamura was born in Hokkaido, Japan. She completed a BSc degree in Pharmacology before immigrating to North America in 1963, where she began her career as an artist in Edmonton. Yuriko uses a variety of subjects to express her thoughts and emotions. Her attraction to the divergent aspects of nature such as the powerful grandeur of the mountains, the delicate timelessness of flowers, and the beauty of the human figure is reflected in her paintings. Her statement is often indirect, as in a painting of a flower that captures the immediate moment, yet also captures a fragile moment in time and space.

Selected Exhibitions
2003 "Journey", Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB (solo)
2002 McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB
2000-2002 "Bridging a New Century", ASA 7oth Anniversary travelling exhibition, Alberta
2000 McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
2000 The Works International Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton
2000 Scott Gallery, Edmonton
1998 "Process", Kensington Gallery, Calgary, AB
1996 "Process", Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1995 "Growing Well", McMullen Gallery, WC MacKenzie Health Sciences Center, Edmonton, AB
1994 "Spring Florals", Horizon Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1994 "New Works", Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1993 "Instructors' Exhibition", U of A, Extension Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1992 "Artist In Wilderness", Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
1991 "Visions", Alberta Society of Artist, Japan Tour, Edmonton, AB
1990 "View From Alberta", Muttart Art Gallery, Alberta Tour
1989 "Winter Shadows", Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1987 "Scenes From Alberta", Tomakomai Gallery, Kokkaido Minato Gallery, Ginza, Japan
1986 "Royal Institute of Painting in Watercolour and Federation of Canada Artists Travelling Show, Vancouver,BC., Seattle, Washington, London, England
1984 TH Morgan Fine Art, Edmonton, AB
1983 Oppertshauser Gallery, Stony Plain, AB
1981 "Land And Floral", Fireweed Gallery, Edmonton, AB

Selected Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Alberta Culture, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canadian Western Bank
Cross Cancer Institute Edmonton, AB
Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, AB
Alberta House, Hong Kong
Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, AB
Stony Plain Multicultural Heritage Centre, Stony Plain, AB
Suncor Corporation
TELUS
University of Alberta, Health
Sciences Centre, Edmonton, AB

 

e-mail the gallery about this artist at info@scottgallery.com

---