Yoshiko Ratliff is a DC-Metro area-based painter and 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. Her works rely on abstract organic underpainting with shapes and shades forming integral elements of the finished pieces.
She is a Member Artist at Touchstone Gallery in Washington DC, Falls Church Arts, and has exhibited her work at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities I Street Gallery, the Athenaeum Gallery, the Touchstone Gallery, the Mansion at the Strathmore, the CCACC Art Gallery, three times at the Creative Crafts Council Biennial Exhibition, Glenview Mansion and other galleries nationwide as well. She had two designs and ten stormwater covers installed for the City of Alexandria Old Town North Stormwater Cover Design Project. Her work is found in US and international private and corporate collections and in the 2022 and 2025 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities permanent collection (acquired through the Art Bank program). She has received many awards and has been featured in publications and radio interviews.