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Keiko Okamoto

 

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Keiko Okamoto was born in Kyoto and raised in Kamakura, Japan. She graduated Women's College of Fine Arts, majoring in textile dyeing and weaving (B.F.A.)

She started her career as a fabric designer experienced in Yuzen dyeing for kimonos and  in  western clothing.

In 2004, she earned Master of Science at Ohio State University. Her major was   Textiles & Clothing, Human Ecology, where she viewed fashion business of world famous apparel retailers. She learned that the present business styles are deeply affected by the histories of the industries.
Her present interest is to review the Japanese textile/fashion business  in relation to global business trends.


  Book Project

Solar Plate Etching with Watercolor pencils, 2004


MoMA
Contemporary Japanese textiles  at Museum of Modern Art, 1998

Private Exhibition

at  Hori Gallery, 1992

Works in Utsukushii Kimono magazine

in 1989