Bio

Amy Yoshitsu is a sculptor and multidisciplinary designer intent on the relationship between the individual and systems. Driven by identity and heritage, her work investigates cultural, political, and economic structures interconnecting, mediating, and impacting interpersonal dynamics and individual emotional and psychological experiences.

Yoshitsu’s practice starts with the desire to explore the relationships between her perspective, circumstances, and lineage—defined by multi-generational trauma and isolation incurred from attempts at ambitious striving within gas-lighting white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, as well as systemic patterns, myths, and power. In this process, Yoshitsu seeks to incorporate other individuals and/or the collective human experience. With an eye towards healing, her work recognizes complexity, interconnectivity, and nuance at multiple scales.

Yoshitsu locates her engagement with sculptural materiality and imagery within the greater context of labor, object-making, and landscapes. Literal infrastructure (pylons, utility covers, traffic signs) are site-specific objects whose aesthetics are primarily influenced by technology, time, and ownership. As physical markers of large-scale systems, they affect private conditions and psychic spheres but are often overlooked or hidden. Conceptually, infrastructure relates to the support function, the act of human intervention in the natural environment, and the many who labor to build and maintain our unsustainable global practices.

Amy received her B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University. She has a background in software, AI, web, and identity design. Along with allies, Yoshitsu is building a digital creative worker’s cooperative, Converge Collaborative.

www.amyyoshitsu.com