Atsuko Yamagata (b. 1982, Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan) has been practicing visual arts since 2006. Yamagata obtained her degree in Foreign Studies from Tokyo University with a major in Indonesian language: Southeast Asian Cultural Studies.

In 2012 she entered Musashino Art University in Tokyo, but withdrew after a year as she moved to the Philippines. Yamagata had numerous solo exhibitions since: Uncontrolled Artificiality at Finale Art File; Born Softly at MO_Space; Belongingness at West Gallery; ; Breathing, Breeding, Blowout at Artinformal; Borrowed Scenery at Underground gallery; and Made Roots Here at Hotel Nikko Sapporo. On the same year, she participated in the 6th Nakanojo Biennale in Gunma Prefecture(Japan). She has been participating in numerous exhibitions mainly in the Philippines, but has exhibited internationally: Japan (from 2012-2019), Indonesia (2016) and Singapore (2018 and 2015).