Yoshiko Ratliff is a painter and an award-winning ceramicist. She was born and raised in Japan and expresses the beauty and authenticity of the culture and her heritage through her art work. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia and paints and shows her work at her studio 203 at Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia.

She has exhibited her work at DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities I Street Gallery, the Mansion at the Strathmore, the Athenaeum Gallery, the CCACC Art Gallery, three times at Creative Crafts Council Biennial Exhibition, Glenview Mansion and other galleries nationwide as well. Her work is found in US and international private and corporate collections and in the 2022 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities fine art collection (acquired through the Art Bank program). She has received many awards, and has been featured in publications and radio interviews.