Photography

Mia Hope

Mia Hope (b. 2001) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist, photographer, writer and performer based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As a biracial Japanese-Canadian, she takes on a cross-cultural and feminist framework in her studies and craft. She is interested in cultural liberation, inclusivity and diversity for […]

Ken Mizokoshi

Ken Mizokoshi is a professional photographer who was born and raised in Nagasaki, Japan. He was a staff photographer and a reporter for Japan’s national newspaper The Asahi Shimbun for 25 years. As a photographer, he covered both the daily news, such as emergency situations and special events, as well as human-interest stories. One of […]

Sophia Wolfe

Sophia Wolfe is a dance artist who also works in visual media including photography, film, and video art. She typically is from Vancouver, Canada on unceded Coast Salish territories, of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and is currently in London completing her MA in Screendance at the London Contemporary Dance School. […]

Kan Azuma

Born in Japan in 1946, Kan Azuma studied photography in Tokyo in the mid-1960s before moving to Canada in 1970. The majority of his work was based in Toronto, but he also spent some time in Vancouver before returning to Japan in 1980. Azuma’s most significant body of work is his black and white series, […]

Yukiko Onley

Yukiko was born and grew up in Osaka, Japan, but has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada since 1976. She has been surrounded by art for most of her life. Her grandmother was a master of the tea ceremony and of flower arrangements, and one of her aunts is an accomplished painter in Japan. Yukiko’s […]

Jeff Hamada

Jeff Hamada is second generation Japanese Canadian artist living and working in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2008 he created Booooooom which quickly became one of the most prominent art blogs on the Internet and is the largest of its kind in Canada.

Yuriko Kubota

Yuriko began her art studies as a painter, studying oil painting and received her B.F.A from at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan. She went on to study photography under Shin Sugino in Toronto where she has been living and working since 2004. Her works have been shown in various galleries around […]

Natalie Purschwitz

Natalie Purschwitz is a visual artist based in Vancouver, BC. Her work seeks out spaces between art, design, performance and daily life. Purschwitz has shown her work nationally and internationally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Nikkei National Museum, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Canada House in London, England and the Prince Takamato Gallery in […]

Haruna Murota

Haruna Murota developed her interest in photography in the early 90’s when she moved from her native Tokyo to Toronto. The inspiration of her photo-based artwork comes from her own internal and external journeys, and she uses abstract photography as a witness to her stream of consciousness. She holds a B.F.A in Photography Studies from […]

Mui-Ling Teh

Mui-Ling Teh is an artist, photographer, and poet of Japanese and Chinese descent. She produces art both traditionally and digitally; but at present she is best known for her miniature origami. Teh’s origami began as photography props, sometimes accompanied by her poetry. In 2014 she transitioned to exhibiting and selling her original creations in public. […]

Kathryn Hatashita-Lee

Kathryn Hatashita-Lee was born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver. She studied for a B.A. in History at the University of British Columbia, where she worked for several years before marrying Roger Lee. A SEAD grant from The National Association of Japanese Canadians helped finance her second year at the Emily Carr College of Art […]

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 […]

Arthur Nishimura

Arthur Nishimura is a photographer. He was born in the small, rural town of Raymond in Southern Alberta. His parents were immigrants to the area in the late 1910s. Photography was adopted by his father in the 1920s as a means to communicate his life in Canada to friends and family in Japan. This practice […]

Shin Sugino

Shin Sugino is a renowned photographer with an extensive body of work in both commercial and art photography. Born in Japan and raised by French nuns, Sugino originally studied to become a priest, but became disillusioned with this life and immigrated to Canada at the age of 19 to become a photographer. Graduating from Ryerson […]

Robert Yamashita

Robert Noboru Yamashita is a retired architect. He worked for the City of Toronto from 1968 to 2000, where he was the lead figure for homelessness, poverty, mental health, and housing issues. He is currently exploring a practice as an abstract painter and photographer.