Yoshiyuki Komada

Preferred Name:
Paul Komada
Dept:
Arts, Humanities & Social Sci
Title:
Part Time Faculty
Email:
Yoshiyuki.Komada@seattlecolleges.edu
Campus:
North Seattle College
Mailstop:
3NC2312
Phone:
206/306-4566

Courses

Design (LEC) — Class#25654
  • Course Title: Design
  • Subject: ART
  • Catalog #: 101
  • Credits: 5
  • Class Day: ARR
  • Start Time: ARR
  • End Time: ARR
  • Building: Online (NSONL)
  • Room:
  • Section: D1
  • Class#: 25654
Design (LAB) — Class#25655
  • Course Title: Design
  • Subject: ART
  • Catalog #: 101
  • Credits: 5
  • Class Day: ARR
  • Start Time: ARR
  • End Time: ARR
  • Building: Online (NSONL)
  • Room:
  • Section: D1L
  • Class#: 25655
No classes were found this quarter.

Personal Statement

Paul Komada was born in Seattle. In 2002, he completed MFA program at the University of Pennsylvania.  Between 2003-06, he worked at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo. Today, he lives and works in Pioneer Square, Seattle.

 

Paul paints “abstraction.” However since he started knitting as an alternative to painting while he had became a stay-at-home dad for his son in 2007, he has incorporated knitting into the paintings.  Now he continues to combine knitting and painting in his studio exploring the boundary between Art and Craft. He has since been extending his search of “hybrid paintings” into digital media using chroma-key tool. Paul combines his photography and paintings in the space between computer and physical studio. He also produces videos of the process of painting over the photos, which further investigates the meaning of Painting as an enduring art form.

 

He has exhibited works in Seattle, Portland OR, New York, as well as internationally in Toronto, The Hague Netherlands and Tokyo Japan.

His work is in the following Public and Private Art Collections: Rijnstate Kunstcollectie, Arnhem, Netherlands, City of Seattle (SPU Portable Works), King County Public Art Collection, the University of Washington, Microsoft Corporation and Meta.

 

Recent honors include:

In 2015, he was a finalist for the Neddy Award and a nominee for the Northwest Contemporary Art Awards and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.

In 2016, Paul’s works were selected for the NW Biennial “Art Now”  at Tacoma Art Museum and he was selected again as a finalist for the Neddy Award.

In 2017, he was awarded a fellowship at Virginia Center for Creative Arts funded by Columbus School for Girls Endowment.