Introduction / Biography
Taiko Fujimura is a San Francisco–based mixed media artist whose work explores the ongoing dialogue between memory and the external world she inhabits. Working with watercolor, ink, acrylic, and oil on a variety of surfaces, she creates layered compositions that uncover the quiet connections between people, nature, emotion, dreams, and imagination — the unseen forces that shape everyday life.
Through both vivid and muted colors, Taiko expresses feelings inspired by the physical world and the fleeting landscapes of memory and dreams. Her work often reflects the balance between dualities — chaos and order, industrial and organic, mind and body, logic and intuition. By embracing these contrasts, she creates spaces where opposites can coexist in harmony.
Themes of peace, unity, and universality are central to her vision. The meaning of her name — "Peaceful Child" — echoes throughout her work. Through gentle forms and balanced compositions, she aims to evoke serenity and a sense of inner calm in each piece.
Rooted in Japanese aesthetics, Taiko’s art draws inspiration from wabi-sabi and traditional calligraphy, which she began studying at the age of six. She studied Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and Graphic Design at California College of the Arts, earning several scholarships and awards. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the de Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, as well as internationally at the Hirafuku Museum of Art and Denshokan Museum in Akita, Japan.
Her recent public art projects include a mural at San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center (2018); large painted hearts for Danville’s Hearts Around Hartz Project (2020) and the Grand Foundation in Tracy, CA (2021); and an art bench for Danville’s public art initiative (2023). She is also recognized as a San Francisco Heart Artist, having painted three mini hearts (2018, 2019, 2022) and three tabletop hearts (2023, 2024, 2026) as part of the citywide Hearts in San Francisco Project.