Multimedia

Eiko Ishiwata

Eiko started professionally composing music for video games and film in 2002. In addition to strengths in composition she is a multi-instrumentalist who has fine-tuned her sound engineering by studying + teaching at the Art Institute of Vancouver, studied classical animation at Sheridan College and was a graduate of The Bishop Strachan School. Eiko received […]

Cindy MOCHIZUKI

Cindy Mochizuki creates multi-media installation, animation, drawing, audio fiction, performance, and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited her work in Canada, US, Australia, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include the Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Burrard Arts Foundation, Richmond Art Gallery, Frye Art Museum, and Yonago City Museum. In 2015, she received the Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts […]

Sherri Kajiwara

Sherri is Director|Curator of the Nikkei National Museum at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre in Burnaby. She has been a fine arts professional since 1992 as a gallerist, gallery director, gallery owner, writer, editor, publisher, and curator. She holds a B.Comm from the Sauder School of Business at UBC and is a graduate […]

Kayla Isomura

Kayla Leung Isomura is a documentary photographer and journalist based in Vancouver, B.C. As a multigenerational settler of Chinese and Japanese descent, Kayla’s interest in storytelling has been largely influenced by their family’s story of displacement. Through this lens, Kayla aims to explore narratives that centre historically resilient voices. They are drawn to stories that […]

Renay Egami

Renay Egami is a multimedia artist. Originally from Vancouver, she is currently based in Kelowna BC where she teaches at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in the Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies / Visual Arts. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and […]

Kevin DeForest

Kevin Ei-ichi DeForest is a visual and multimedia artist. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Japanese and Swiss parents. He studied architecture (Bachelor of Environmental Studies, 1983) and fine art (BFA, 1986) at the University of Manitoba before getting an MFA from Concordia University in 1994. He was also a Mombusho (Japan Ministry of […]

Louise Noguchi

Louise Noguchi is a multidisciplinary visual artist who challenges her audience with themes that pose psychological questions. Using photography, sculpture, video and other media, Noguchi’s concepts confront the spectator’s notions of identity, perception and reality. Her work has been exhibited at the Power Plant, Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Contemporary Art Gallery, […]

Megumi Masaki

Megumi Masaki is a concert pianist and multimedia artist. The innovation and breadth of her artistic activity, dynamic temperament and ‘riveting and mind-expanding’ performances have earned her a reputation as a leading interpreter of contemporary music. She specializes in exploring how sound, image, text and movement can be integrated in multimedia works. Masaki frequently collaborates […]

Aiko Suzuki

Aiko Suzuki was a prolific and versatile artist whose work took the forms of textiles, acrylic and oil painting, or just painting, printmaking, installations, and even multimedia works and set design. She was also an art educator, curator, and a leader and mentor in the arts community: not the least of her achievements was the […]

Suezan Aikins

Suezan Aikins is a Nova Scotia-based artist who grew up in Montreal and studied fine art at universities and art schools in New Brunswick, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. In 1984-1985, her lifelong dream was realized when she went to Japan to study traditional Japanese art techniques under internationally known artist Yoshida Toshi, and his master […]

Steven Nunoda

Steven Nunoda is a Winnipeg-based multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but also uses a variety of other media, such as woodcarving, found-objects, photography, digital imaging, text and time-based strategies. His practice is research-oriented and usually produced a number of long-term, thematically interrelated works. One example is Ghostown, a project which explores […]