YOSHITOMO SAITO

Yoshitomo Saito was born in 1958 in Tokyo, Japan. After finishing college work and some professional training in glassblowing, Saito came to the United States to study glass art at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Yoshitomo Saito relocated to the Bay Area in 1983 to attend the California College of the Arts in Oakland. At CCA, he studied glass under Marvin Lipofsky and sculpture under Dennis Leon and Linda Fleming. It was during this period that Saito began using bronze. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture with High Distinction in 1987.

Immediately after graduating, Saito began exhibiting his work at leading contemporary art showcases in San Francisco, including the world renowned Haines Gallery. Saito received the Visual Artists Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994. His bronze is included in many prestigious collections in the Bay Area such as the city of San Francisco own M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the city of Oakland Museum of California.

Since moving to Colorado in 2006, Saito has had numerous solo and group shows in galleries, arts centers and museums in the state, and joined the William Havu Gallery in 2017. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presented YOSHITOMO SAITO : MILLIONYEARSEEDS in 2017.