Introduction / Biography
Taiko Fujimura is a San Francisco–based mixed media artist currently focused on painting with watercolor, ink, acrylic, and oil on a variety of surfaces. She carefully selects materials that connect her inner world with the outer one, creating a layered montage of personal experiences, relationships, and emotional connections with both people and objects.
Through both vivid and muted colors, she expresses emotions inspired by the physical world and the ephemeral landscapes of memory and dreams. Her work explores the dynamic interplay between dualities: chaos and order, industrial and organic, mind and body, positive and negative, logic and intuition. For Taiko, understanding and embracing duality is essential. Her paintings aim to bridge these apparent contradictions by creating a space where opposites can coexist in harmony.
Themes of peace, unity, and universality are central to her artistic vision. The meaning of her name—“Peaceful Child”—is echoed in her work. Through gentle forms and balanced compositions, she seeks to convey serenity and a sense of inner peace in each piece.
Taiko’s art is deeply influenced by Japanese aesthetics, especially wabi-sabi and traditional calligraphy, which she began studying at the age of six. From 1999 to 2001, she studied fine arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and graphic design at California College of the Arts, earning scholarships and awards. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the venues including the de Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco. Internationally, her art has been shown at the Hirafuku Museum of Art and the 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 two tabletop hearts (2023, 2024) as part of the citywide Hearts in San Francisco Project.