Maya Fuji
The project Living Here: A Memory of A Place will include two immersive mural installations, a guided walking tour, and panel discussions exploring unseen cultural histories of Downtown San Francisco.
This project will intimately explore local landscape through questions such as:
What power are we building by preserving and protecting the soul, memory, and meaning of places that are now gone?
How do community histories continue to live in built environments, long after people have moved out of a place?
ABOUT THE ARTIST Maya Fuji (b. 1988, Kanazawa, Japan) is a self-taught artist who shifted careers midway through her MBA program to pursue visual arts and painting. She immigrated to Berkeley, CA at an early age and spent her formative years between Kanazawa and Berkeley. Fuji currently lives and works in San Francisco. She has presented solo and duo exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery (CA), YOD Gallery (Osaka), and Glass Rice Gallery (CA), with group exhibitions at Marjorie Barrick Museum (NV), Asia Society (TX), Crocker Art Museum (CA), The Hole (NY), and Tiro Al Blanco (Mexico). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum and has been featured in KQED Arts, New American Paintings, It’s Nice That, and Metal Magazine, among others. Fuji is a recipient of awards including the Headlands Center for the Arts Tournesol Award and the Fleishhaker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, and is represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.
