Bio: Michiko Fujii Fowler is a painter who has been based in

San Francisco, California since 2008. A native of Japan,

she graduated from the Sokei Academy of Fine Art &

Design in Tokyo where she received the Sokei Award

and the Takazawa Award. Her work is part of the Saku

Museum of Modern Art permanent collection and has

appeared in a variety of exhibitions. In 2007, she lived

as an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des

Arts in Paris. Her chief artistic concerns are with the

phenomenon of painting itself and the paradoxical

relationship between materials, surfaces, and space.