Yumi Okubo

Artist

Dancer and model born in Tokyo in 1982. Okubo graduated from the Department of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts.
While at the university, she ran a sushi restaurant in Yushima in Bunkyo City. After graduation, Okubo took part in various creative activities such as appearing in performance pieces, and in 2011 she opened Bar Coconots offering Latin music, dance, food and drink.
Since the bar’s closure in 2013, she has worked as a life drawing model.

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