Artist, born in Stockport, Cheshire, who studied at Berkshire College of Art, 1965–7, and St Martin’s School of Art, 1967–70. He gained British Council Scholarships to Paris, 1977, and Prague, 1978, and in 1988–9 was artist-in-residence at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. In 1990 his The Atomic Yard toured from Kettle’s Yard, part of his major project Seven Tales from the Twentieth Century, to be completed by the year 2000. Goto won a prize with his Nastagio in Bosnia acrylic on canvas included in John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, 1993–4. Later solo exhibitions include Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, 1997; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1998; National Portrait Gallery, as commissioned artist, 1999; and Andrew Mummery, 2000, in which large coloured digital photographs of high streets parodied great classical paintings.