Yoshiko Ratliff is a painter and an 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 lives in Falls Church, Virginia and paints and shows her work at her studio 203 at Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia.

She has exhibited her work at a solo show at the CCACC Art Gallery, three times at Creative Crafts Council Biennial Exhibition, the Mansion at the Strathmore, Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD and other galleries nationwide as well. Her work is found in private and corporate collections in the US, Japan and Brazil, and in the 2022 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities fine art collection (acquired through the Art Bank program). She has received many awards, and has been featured in publications and radio interviews.