Ayako Yoshida is an independent curator seeking to increase public awareness and access to Japanese and Japanese-American art. During her nine years at LACMA, she worked on “Made in California” and 10 exhibitions with the European Painting and Sculpture Department. At LACMA in 2008, she curated a permanent collection installation “Kanemitsu in California during the 1960s and 1970s.” She initiated “June Wayne’s Narrative Tapestries: Tidal Waves, DNA, and the Cosmos” at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. She co-curated "Takuma Kamine: Myo-o in the Shell Interpretations of Buddhist Sculpture" at The Japan Foundation Los Angeles in 2019. Yoshida continues to research and to actively seek opportunities to show 20th and 21st century Japanese and Japanese-American artists’ works, which have been influential in the history of modern and contemporary American art.