Biography
Mitsu Yoshikawa was born in Japan. He studied photography under Peter Stackpole at Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and moved to New York City where he worked for Yomiuri Newspaper and as a freelance photographer. After several years, he accepted a nine-month assignment taking photographs in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka for airline travel magazines. Following that assignment, he returned to Tokyo, where he continued to work as a freelance photographer and expanded his experience to include photographing, editing and publishing yearbooks.
He photographs nature and wilderness scenes of the San Francisco Bay Area with large format camera also started using digital photography recently.
Follow him at instagram-----mitsu.yoshikawa
Exhibition
Yeiser Art Center ---Art though The Lens Paducah KY 2020
Golden Gate Park 150th Anniversary Show HMPC CA2020
Marine Society of Artists Expression 2020 A National Juried Exhibition CA 2020
Gray Loft Gallery Oakland Kindred Sprite exhibition 2019
Juried Exhibition Photo review PA 2019
Juried Exhibition Midwest center for Photography Wichita, KS 2019
International Juried Exhibition Jadite Gallery New York Center Photographic Art 2019
Gray Loft Gallery Juried Exhibition Oakland CA, 201
International Juried Exhibition, Center for photograhic Art Carmel 2018
SF Camerawork’s 2018 Annual Juried Exhibition
Vanishing point- Rhonda Goldman Plaza SF 2017
Vanishing Point Sequoia Rotunda Art Gallery SF 2017
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juried Exhibition "Portrait "
http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/portraits-martha-schneider/
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juried Exhibition "Still Life" 2015
http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/still-life-with-del-zogg/
Houston Center for Photography 2014
32nd Annual Juried Membership Exhibition
Juror: Malcolm Daniel, Curator in Charge, Department of Photography,The Museum of Fine Art, Houston
http://www.hcponline.org/exhibits/exhibitions/view/27/32nd-annual-juried-membership-exhibition
Piedmont Center for the Art 2013
Juried group exhibition Piedmont, CA
Juror: Rene De Guzman, curator of Oakland Museum California.
The Art of Photography Show Oct 2013
Juried group exhibition San Diego Art Institute,
Juror: Julia Dolran, Curator of photography at Oregon Art Museum.
http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/
San Francisco Rec & Park McLellan Lodge 2014
Harvey Milk Photo Center Juried group exhibition Rec & Park SF, 2103
Group Show Juried exhibition Arc Gallery SF, May 2013
Group Show Juried exhibition Arc Gallery SF, May 2012
Harvey Milk Photo Center Juried group exhibition Rec & Park SF, 2102
Publication
Black&White 2016
Portfolio contest Merit Award
ND(Natural density) Awards 2015
Nature:other 1st Gold Award
http://ndawards.net/winners-gallery/nd-awards-2015/professional/other/297/gold-award
BLACK & WHITE Magazine
Spider Awards Nominee in Still LIfe
http://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/9th/gallery.php?g=w&x=p&cid=265&fid=137952
Black & White magazine 2014
Single image contest winner, Issue 101 Feb 2014.
http://www.bandwmag.com/galleries/bw/contests/16/categories/2/photographs/54506
Books
Stow Lake http://www.blurb.com/b/4423771-stow-lake
Banana Plant http://www.blurb.com/b/4729027-b-a-n-a-n-a-p-l-a-n-t
Article
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Mitsu-Yoshikawa-captures-Stow-Lake-4888982.php
Lens Culture
https://www.lensculture.com/mitsu-yoshikawa
Member
San Francisco Camerawork
Houston Center for Photography
Center for Fine Art Photography CO
Mitsu Yoshikawa was born in Japan. He studied photography under Peter Stackpole at Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and moved to New York City where he worked for Yomiuri Newspaper and as a freelance photographer. After several years, he accepted a nine-month assignment taking photographs in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka for airline travel magazines. Following that assignment, he returned to Tokyo, where he continued to work as a freelance photographer and expanded his experience to include photographing, editing and publishing yearbooks.
He photographs nature and wilderness scenes of the San Francisco Bay Area with large format camera also started using digital photography recently.
Follow him at instagram-----mitsu.yoshikawa
Exhibition
Yeiser Art Center ---Art though The Lens Paducah KY 2020
Golden Gate Park 150th Anniversary Show HMPC CA2020
Marine Society of Artists Expression 2020 A National Juried Exhibition CA 2020
Gray Loft Gallery Oakland Kindred Sprite exhibition 2019
Juried Exhibition Photo review PA 2019
Juried Exhibition Midwest center for Photography Wichita, KS 2019
International Juried Exhibition Jadite Gallery New York Center Photographic Art 2019
Gray Loft Gallery Juried Exhibition Oakland CA, 201
International Juried Exhibition, Center for photograhic Art Carmel 2018
SF Camerawork’s 2018 Annual Juried Exhibition
Vanishing point- Rhonda Goldman Plaza SF 2017
Vanishing Point Sequoia Rotunda Art Gallery SF 2017
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juried Exhibition "Portrait "
http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/portraits-martha-schneider/
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juried Exhibition "Still Life" 2015
http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/still-life-with-del-zogg/
Houston Center for Photography 2014
32nd Annual Juried Membership Exhibition
Juror: Malcolm Daniel, Curator in Charge, Department of Photography,The Museum of Fine Art, Houston
http://www.hcponline.org/exhibits/exhibitions/view/27/32nd-annual-juried-membership-exhibition
Piedmont Center for the Art 2013
Juried group exhibition Piedmont, CA
Juror: Rene De Guzman, curator of Oakland Museum California.
The Art of Photography Show Oct 2013
Juried group exhibition San Diego Art Institute,
Juror: Julia Dolran, Curator of photography at Oregon Art Museum.
http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/
San Francisco Rec & Park McLellan Lodge 2014
Harvey Milk Photo Center Juried group exhibition Rec & Park SF, 2103
Group Show Juried exhibition Arc Gallery SF, May 2013
Group Show Juried exhibition Arc Gallery SF, May 2012
Harvey Milk Photo Center Juried group exhibition Rec & Park SF, 2102
Publication
Black&White 2016
Portfolio contest Merit Award
ND(Natural density) Awards 2015
Nature:other 1st Gold Award
http://ndawards.net/winners-gallery/nd-awards-2015/professional/other/297/gold-award
BLACK & WHITE Magazine
Spider Awards Nominee in Still LIfe
http://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/9th/gallery.php?g=w&x=p&cid=265&fid=137952
Black & White magazine 2014
Single image contest winner, Issue 101 Feb 2014.
http://www.bandwmag.com/galleries/bw/contests/16/categories/2/photographs/54506
Books
Stow Lake http://www.blurb.com/b/4423771-stow-lake
Banana Plant http://www.blurb.com/b/4729027-b-a-n-a-n-a-p-l-a-n-t
Article
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Mitsu-Yoshikawa-captures-Stow-Lake-4888982.php
Lens Culture
https://www.lensculture.com/mitsu-yoshikawa
Member
San Francisco Camerawork
Houston Center for Photography
Center for Fine Art Photography CO
