CV

 

Education
1994–1998 | Pasadena Art Center College of Design — BFA Fine Art / Film
1992–1994 | Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA — Graphic Design / Fine Art

Public Art & Commissions
2024
• Fabrication of Nancy Uyemura’s art installation, Little Tokyo Towers, LA, CA
• Tanaka Photo Archives, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
2023
• Intersections, Mathew Park, Boyle Heights (City of LA DCA and Dept. of Rec & Parks)
2022
• Portrait of Will Rogers, commissioned by Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
2020
• Under the Bridge with Flora Kao, Maiden LA, Grand Canal, Marina Del Rey

Collections
• The Skirball Cultural Center, Pritzker Collection
• Collection of Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
• Orange County Museum of Agriculture and Nikkei Heritage
• West Los Angeles College

Curatorial Projects
2025
• Valmiera Graffito Research Project, Valmiera, Latvia
• Memory Lane: Omoide Yokocho, Gallery of Hermosa, Hermosa Beach, CA

2013
• Lust for Life, 207 Gallery, Inwood, NYC
• History of Conspiracy, 207 Gallery, Inwood, NYC

Solo Exhibitions
2024
• ATMINAS REKONSTRUKCIJA, ISSP Gallery, Riga, Latvia

2022
• Intersections: A Proposal, BG Gallery, Santa Monica

2021–2015
• Q|O Quantum Ocean & Mutant Mountain, BG Gallery, Santa Monica (2021)
• Q|O, Pier 2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2020)
• Spiritual Legacy Project, Akiba Art Lab, Tokyo, Japan (2018)
• Portrait Factory, LA Art Show, Los Angeles (2018)
• Terminal Island Installation, USC IGM Art Gallery, Los Angeles (2017)
• Inaka, SPARC Gallery, South Pasadena (2016)
• Sophia Gaia, LA Artcore Brewery Annex (2016)
• Recent Works, LA Artcore Brewery Annex (2015)

2014–2004
• Living Legacy of Ethel Percy Andrus, USC IGM Art Gallery & Ojai Valley Museum (2014)
• We Are Spiritual Machines, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA (2014)
• Soft Machine: DNA 2, USC IGM Art Gallery (2014)
• Portraits at Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles (2013)
• Soft Machine: DNA, USC IGM Art Gallery (2011)
• Dream Deferred, Bleicher Galleries, Los Angeles (2010)
• One Piece, Bleicher / Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica (2009)
• 3000 Worlds in a Moment, LA Artcore Brewery Annex (2008)
• Down By Law, Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles (2008)
• Corpus Xeroxysm series (2004–2007)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
• Dreams in Migration, BG Gallery, Santa Monica
• Poetry Reimagined, Friends of Redondo Beach Arts, CA
• Memory Lane: Omoide Yokocho, Gallery of Hermosa, Hermosa Beach

2024
• Nature, ArtShare LA, Arts District
• Strangers, DoArte Gallery, K-Town, LA
• Gen X Forever, BG Gallery, Santa Monica

2023–2021
• Now and Then, curated by Juri Knoll, BG Gallery (2023)
• LA Art Show, Portrait of Leadbelly (2023)
• CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA (2022)
• Art Market San Francisco, BG Gallery (2022)
• Legends, BG Gallery (2021)

2020–2015
• Photo Flux: Unshuttered LA, Getty Museum (2020)
• Greyscale Wonderland, BG Gallery (2020)
• CA 101, Redondo Beach (2019, 2018, 2016)
• Attention to All Persons, JANM LA (2017)

Awards & Honors
2021 Best Film, Cinema Olympics Film Festival, Tainan, Taiwan
2019 Public Choice Award, CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA
2018 1st Place & Public Choice Award, CA 101
2016 2nd Place & Public Choice Award, CA 101
2015 AARP Future of Transportation Award, LAUSD
2014 Occupy Award, CSULB Getty Museum
2012 Research Fellow, Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles
2006 28th Annual Wallworks Juried Competition Winner, LA Artcore

Artist Residencies
2025 ISSP Artist Residency Program, Riga & Valmiera, Latvia
2024 ArtShare LA Ellsworth Residency
2020 Pier 2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Presentations
2023
• Guest Speaker, Edwards M. Schwartz Federal Building, San Diego
• Guest Speaker, AAPI Heritage Month, The Buckley School, Sherman Oaks

Bibliography
• LAist: A New Boyle Heights Park Fountain Flows With Local Histories
• The New York Times
• White Hot Magazine
• The Multifaceted Eye
• We Are Spiritual Machines: The Works of Mike Saijo
• Roosevelt’s EO on Japanese American Internment (L.A. exhibition coverage)
• Dot Magazine, ArtCenter College of Design

 

(Updated May 2025)