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A native of Japan, Chiyomi Taneike Longo immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. She studied in Illinois and Hawaii before completing her undergraduate and graduate degrees in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA.

“Longo looks for the inner spirit present in her surroundings and in herself. The paintings mark the path of her exploration, and function in this way as maps of the previously uncharted journey.” –Debra Koppman, Artweek, March 2007.