Yukiko Nakashima is an Asian American artist who currently lives and works in New York City. She was born in Hiroshima, Japan and was brought to the US at age thirteen. Her primary focus has been on Abstraction with oil-based medium on canvas which connotes to the history of Hiroshima, psychological entanglement of being bicultural, and unverbalized traumas. Her paintings call to mind the energy of Abstract Expressionism, the ritualistic manner of Japanese calligraphy and the urgency of the visual voices of street art.

Since receiving a BA from The City College of New York, CUNY in 2000, and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey in 2003, her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at The Clemente, New York, NY, Miller Gallery, JCAL Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Teaneck NJ, Foggy Bottom Arts Center, Washington, DC, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, MD, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY, The Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ and hpgrp Gallery, New York, NY, just to name a few. She was also a curator for a group show called “Emotionally Coded” at the Clemente and a resident artist at Cooper Union Residency.