Maya Fuji, Shingo Yamazaki, Nibha Akireddy Artist Talk

USAAF 2026 Event

Jonathan Carver Moore Gallery will be hosting an artist talk featuring the artists participating in an exhibition celebrating this years AAPI Heritage Month. This talk selectively gathers artists who passionately express their own cultures through their work. We will share dialogue promoting healing through the act of sharing perspectives and stories that teach one another about different cultures but also that of how we ultimately share in the common ground of the human experience. Doing so is an act of resistance in a current political climate that urgently wants to erase, villainize and isolate.

>> Maya Fuji is a San Francisco based painter exploring the liminal space of being an issei (first-generation Japanese) mixed-race woman in the US. Her work embodies the way she has experienced shifts in tradition within her family and community after immigrating to the Bay Area. Inspired by mythology and folklore, she references Showa, Heisei, and Bay Area subcultures.

>> Nibha Akireddy is a San Francisco-based artist whose paintings explore the act of settling into body. Her research-based practice draws from her communities in the Bay Area as well as from histories of weightlifting, martial arts, and movement, fueled by her own experiences with sport.

>> Shingo Yamazaki is a Honolulu-born, Los Angeles-based artist examining diasporic identity, cultural hybridity, and shifting ideas of home. Rooted in his Hawaiʻi upbringing and Japanese and Zainichi heritage, his work explores what is preserved, hidden, or lost within family histories, using everyday interiors to reflect belonging across cultures and generations."

Photo is painting by Shingo Yamazaki