Bio

C.K. is a Yonsei, Nikkei interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her conceptual, interactive and performance art serves to engage intergenerational audiences in the exploration of observation, contemplation and expressive imagination.

C.K. is a recipient of the Discovered Award for Emerging Visual Artists of Sonoma County, the founder and publisher of Kanreki Press, the editor of Chottohon magazine, a co-founder of Book Arts Roadshow, an artist/director on the board of Berkeley Commonplace, and a former director of San Francisco Center for the Book.

C.K. is an Artist-in-Residence of San Francisco Unified School District Library Department and San Francisco Arts Education Project, and works with schools, libraries and museums to to create and provide: professional development art-making workshops for educators; hands-on art-making workshops for students; and to make art-making accessible to the general public.

Artist Statement

“People sitting in different vehicles will experience the same traffic jam in different ways: one may miss a flight and be apprehensive of the rescheduling they need to do; one may be late for school and be worried they will miss a lesson; one may spend time listening to the news; one may need to use a restroom and be experiencing physical discomfort; one may spend the time musing about someone they love. Each individual will have their own personal interaction with the same traffic jam and they will derive their own narrative about it. The traffic jam is art.” — C.K.Itamura