"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 her passion in visual arts and painting. Fuji immigrated to Berkeley, CA at an early age, and spent her early years spending time back and forth between Kanazawa and Berkeley. She currently lives and works out of San Francisco.

Fuji has had solo exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, LA, YOD Gallery, Osaka, and SWIM Gallery, SF. Recent group exhibitions include New Image Art LA, Glass Rice SF, Good Mother Gallery Oakland/LA, The Hole NY, Charlie James LA, and Tiro Al Blanco Mexico. Fuji’s work is in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum, and has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, Friend Of The Artist, Artmaze Mag, Metal Magazine, It’s Nice That, and Immigrantly Podcast. Awards include the Innovate Grant and the SFAC Artist Grant. She was nominated for the SFMoMA SECA Award in 2023, and participated in residencies at Wassaic Projects and Virginia Center For The Creative Arts. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.