Yoshiko Ratliff

Yoshiko Ratliff is a painter and an award-winning ceramicist. She was born and raised in Japan and uses her artwork to show the beauty and authenticity of the culture and her heritage. She lives in Falls Church, VA, and paints and shows her work at her studio 203 at Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA. She also creates elegant porcelain Crystalline glazed ceramic pieces at her home studio.

Ratliff has exhibited her work at the CCACC Art Gallery, Creative Crafts Council Biennial Exhibition, the Mansion at the Strathmore, Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD, and other galleries nationwide. Her work is found in private and corporate collections in the US, Japan, and Brazil; she has received many awards; and she has been featured in publications and radio interviews. Ratliff is a juried member of the Scope Gallery at Torpedo Factory Art Center and the Kiln Club of Washington DC since 2004.