Ben Sakoguchi (born 1938) is a Japanese-American player who was born in San Bernardino, California. At age five, his relatives was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona.
In 1960, Sakoguchi earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1964, Sakoguchi earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles.
Sakoguchi was an art school at Pasadena City College from 1964 until his retirement in 1997.
Sakoguchi is best known for his little paintings that were created in series, often bearing in mind socially relevant themes, such as slavery and the internment of Japanese Americans. Sakoguchi is known for his Orange Crate Label series.Aphrodisiac Brand, in the store of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is a mock orange-crate label. Is shows a rhinoceros slaughtered for its horn, which is erroneously believed to be an aphrodisiac or a cure for cancer in Traditional Chinese Medicine as Cornu Rhinoceri Asiatici (犀角, xījiǎo, “rhinoceros horn”). The Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, SC), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane, Australia), and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are in the course of the public collections holding do something by Ben Sakoguchi.
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