artist

Yuko Edwards

biography

Yuko Edwards (b. 1975, Iowa City) is an American artist who lives and works in Bristol, England. She uses video as a tool to express social, cultural and political realities. Her work addresses concepts of self and social identity; notions of space and place are often present. She uses history as a reference in her work to demonstrate how we have developed and changed over time. She was a recipient of a NYFA artist fellowship in 2000. The video “Politics from a Black Woman’s Insides” screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and festivals around the world.

website

www.yukoedwards.com