Yasuo Kuniyoshi (国吉 康雄, Kuniyoshi Yasuo, 1889 – 1953) was a Japanese-American painter, photographer, and printmaker.
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi (国吉 康雄, Kuniyoshi Yasuo, 1889 – 1953) was a Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker. Kuniyoshi was born on September 1, 1889 in Okayama, Japan. He immigrated to America in 1906, choosing not to attend military school in Japan. Kuniyoshi originally intended to study English and return to Japan to work as a translator. He spent some time in Seattle, before enrolling at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design.
In 1935, Kuniyoshi was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He was also an Honorary member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and first president of Artists Equity Association, now known as New York Artists Equity Association.

In 1948, Kuniyoshi became the first living artist chosen to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1952, Kuniyoshi also exhibited at the Venice Biennial.

In the early 1950s, Kuniyoshi became sick with cancer, and ended his career as an artist with a series of black-and-white drawings using sumi-e ink. He died on 14 May 1953.