Mike Saijo
b. 1974
mike.saijo@gmail.com
Education
1994-1998 Pasadena Art Center College of Design BFA Fine Art / Film
1992-1994 Pasadena City College Pasadena, California Graphics Design / Fine Art
Awards and Honors
2021 Best Film, Cinema Olympics Film Festival, Tainan, Taiwan
2019 Public Choice Award – CA 101 Redondo Beach, California
2018 1st Place and Public Choice Award – CA 101 Redondo Beach, California
2016 2nd Place and Public Choice Award – CA 101 Redondo Beach, California
2015 AARP Future of Transportation Award, LHS LAUSD, Los Angeles California
2014 Occupy Award, Cal State University Long Beach, Getty Museum, California
2012 Institute for Arts and Olfaction – Research Fellow, Los Angeles, California
2007 Columbia University Medical Center Community Relations, NYC New York
2006 28th Annual Wallworks Juried Competition LA Artcore, LA Brewery Annex
2006 2nd Annual International Artists Festival in Thailand, Bangkok
Presentations
2023 Guest Speaker, AAPI Heritage Month Edwards M. Schwartz Federal Building, San Diego
2023 Guest Speaker, AAPI Heritage Month The Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, California
Public Art and Commissions
2024 Portrait, Ulrike Ochs, Los Angeles
2024 Fabrication for Nancy Uyemura’s Little Tokyo Tower Public Art Project, Los Angeles
2024 Four Agreements, Jasper Brand, Los Angeles
2023 Intersections, Mathew Park in Boyle Heights, City of LA DCA and Dept. of Rec and Parks
2022 Portrait of Will Rogers, commissioned by Ted Danson and Mary Steembergen,
2020 Under the Bridge with Flora Kao, Maiden LA, Grand Canal in Marina Del Rey
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Intersections A Proposal, BG Gallery, Santa Monica
2021 Q|O Quantum Ocean & Mutant Mountain, BG Gallery, Santa Monica
2020 Q|O Pier 2 Art Center Artist Residency Exhibition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018 Spiritual Legacy Project, Akiba Art Lab, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Spiritual Legacy LA Art Core Union Center for the Arts
2018 Portrait Factory LA Art Show Los Angeles Convention Center
2017 Spiritual Legacy Installation, Union Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2017 Terminal Island Installation, USC IGM, Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Inaka, Sparc Gallery, South Pasadena
2016 Inaka, USC IGM Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Sophia Gaia, installation LA Artcore Brewery Annex
2015 Recent Works LA Artcore Brewery Annex
2014 Living Legacy of Ethel Percy Andrus, USC IGM Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 We Are Spiritual Machines, Porch Gallery, Ojai California
2014 Soft Machine: DNA 2 USC IGM Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Portraits at Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles
2011 Soft Machine: DNA USC IGM Art Gallery Los Angeles
2010 Dream Deferred Bleicher Galleries Los Angeles
2009 One Piece Bleicher / Golightly Gallery Santa Monica
2008 3000 Worlds in a Moment. LA Artcore, Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
2008 Down By Law, Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Corpus Xeroxysm 4 LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
2006 Corpus Xeroxysm 3 Tompkins Square Library East Village, NYC
2005 Corpus Xeroxysm 2 INRI Studios LA
2004 Corpus Xeroxysm 1 611 Studio LA
Group Exhibitions
2024 Art Villain, Works of Art Hair Salon Hollywood, CA
2024 Gen X Forever, BG Gallery Santa Monica, CA2023 Now and Then Curated by Juri Knoll, BG Gallery Santa Monica
2023 LA Art Show, Portrait of Leadbelly Los Angeles Convention Center, CA
2022 CA 101, Big Wave, Redondo Beach, CA
2022 Art Market San Francisco, Prospector, BG Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2022 LA Art Show, Lily, Los Angeles Convention Center, CA
2022 Quaranta, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Legends, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Black and White, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
2021 LA Art Show, Prospector, BG Gallery Los Angeles Convention Center
2021 Greyscale Wonderland, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
2021 California Lite, Curated by Julie Rico, Arcade Project, NYC.
2020 Artists with Beirut Emergency Fund Online Auction
2020 Photo Flux: Unshuttered LA, curated by Jill Moniz, The J Paul Getty Museum
2020 Art Under the Influence, Ave 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Greyscale Wonderland, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Portrait Factory, BG Gallery Scope Miami, Miami Florida
2019 Portal, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Flowers, USC IGM Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 CA 101 Redondo Beach California
2019 Japanese Artist Group Show, Loft at Liz Los Angeles, CA
2019 LA ARTShow, Portrait Factory BG Gallery Los Angeles Convention Center
2018 Kaoshuing Photo – Spiritual Legacy Project, Kaoshuing, Taiwan
2018 Jene Nete Art Installation CA 101, Redondo Beach CA
2018 Pacific Asia Museum Fundraiser Gala – Pasadena CA
2018 CA 101, Japanese Fishermen of Terminal Island, Redondo Beach, California
2018 LA ARTShow, Portrait FactorySpectrum Gestalt BG Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2017 Anti-Defamation League – Artworks Fundraiser Exhibition at Pritzker Residence (ADL)
2017 Attention to All Persons: Japanese American National Museum (JANM) LA, CA
2017 Ship Building, LA Yacht Club, San Pedro, CA
2017 Terminal Island Installation, CA 101, Redondo Beach
2016 ELEMENTS, Sophia Gaia installation Loft at Liz’s Los Angeles, CA
2015 ADL Artworks Exhibition, Malibu, CA
2015 AES Redondo Beach Power Plant, Redondo Beach, CA
2015 Intersections, LA PLAZA de la Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Greyscale Wonderland, Bleicher Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 CUSTOM, Bleicher Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 IDENTITY Snap! Orlando, Orlando, Florida
2014 Living Legacy of Ethel Percy Andrus, Ojai Valley Museum, Ojai, CA
2014 CUSTOM Bleicher Gorman Gallery, Bergamont Station, LA, CA
2014 INTERSECTIONS at the Breed Street Shul. Boyle Heights, California
2014 Diverted Destruction, Loft at Liz’s Los Angeles, CA
2014 MOPLA Photography Exhibition at Loft at Liz’s. Los Angeles, CA
2013 Ojai Art Festival, Porch Gallery, Ojai, California
2013 ADL ArtWorks Exhibition Curated by Caspar Martin, Pritzker Residence
2013 Nostalgia Bold, Bleicher Gallery, Santa Monica
2013 Ramajangala University of Technology Rattanakosin
2013 9th Annual International Arts Festival Pho Chan Campus Thanvaburi, Bangkok
Bibliography
Interiors. 2012
Angeleno Magazine, Arts Issue. 2012
Acorn Newspaper. 2011
Studio Guest Interview (A Dream Deferred), by Tony Valdez, Fox 11 News Television. March 27, 2011
Los Angeles Times, Thursday Pick of the Week. 2011
Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives. University of California Press, 2009
Los Angeles Times, Sunday Home Section. 2009
Rafu Shimpo Newspaper. October 2008
Shelter Magazine. 2007
Upper Manhattan Arts Stroll, by Mike Fitelson, Manhattan Times. 2007
Artists at Work, by Carla Zanoni, Westside The Spirit. August 30, 2007
In a Doorway, a Gentle Call to Arms (Pollack Equation), by Carla Zanoni, New York Times. August 19, 2007
The Mathematics of Jackson Pollock on a Street Corner in Inwood, by Rachel Wolff, New York Magazine. August 6, 2007
New York Magazine, Art Candy. July 2007
Manhattan Times, Inwood Edition, by Mike Fitelson. July 12, 2007
Cal State Fullerton Inside Magazine. May 2007
Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives: Nikkei Farmers in Pre-World War II Orange County, by Michiko Tamura, Rafu Shimpo. February 10, 2007
Los Angeles Magazine, Design Issue. 2007
Let Go Magazine, Issue #2. 2007
At Home Magazine. 2006
2nd Annual International Arts Festival in Thailand, Catalog. Summer 2006
Canvassing the Future, Lifescape Magazine. 2006
Art LA, Catalog. January 2006
Mike Saijo, by Mia Taylor, The Book LA. Spring 2005
(Updated Jan. 2024)