Gajin Fujita

born 1972 in Los Angeles, USA, where he works and lives.

Education

1997 – 2000  MFA, University of Nevada, USA

1993 – 1997  BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, USA

Grants and Awards

2019  Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2023
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
2022
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
2019
Paramount Pictures Studio, Los Angeles, USA
2015
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA
2014
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
2012
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
2011
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA (cat.)
2008
Haunch of Venison, London, UK (cat.)
2006
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA (cat.)
2005
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2004
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
2003
Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, USA
2002
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North California, Greensboro, USA
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
2001
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
2000
Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, USA
1999
Archie Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, USA

Group Exhibitions

2024
Magic Dance, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, USA
Contemporary Discoveries, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Città irreale, Buchmann Box, Berlin
The Culture. Hip-Hop und zeitgenössische Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (cat.)
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century , Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada (cat.)
2023
RED, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA (cat.)
The Flower Show, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA (cat.)
See You Space Cowboy...From Hokusai to Hiphop, San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis,USA (cat.)
2022
DIFY Diaspora: In Memory of Dave Hickey, Donna Beam Gallery, UNLV, Las Vegas, USA
Us: An Art Event to Benefit Border Kindness, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Beyond the Frame: Celebrating 70 Years of Collection, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA
Lasorda Legacy: A Tribute to Baseball & Dodgers Legend Tommy Lasorda, Fullerton Museum College, Fullerton, CA, USA
Loveline, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
A Decade of Collecting, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA
Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value & Worth, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Hood Museum at Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, all USA
2021
Artists and Poems: Los Angeles 2021, curated by members of the Durden and Ray curatorial collective, Suturo (online exhibition)
No Mask is Wholly a Mask, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, USA
Art and Hope at the End of the Tunnel, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020
45 at 45: L.A. Louver Celebrates 45 Years with 45 Artists, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, USA
ONLINE: One World, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
In Verbis Artis, Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, Pasadena, CA, USA
2019
L.A. on Fire, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (cat.)
Tsuruya Kōkei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited, USC Pacific Asia Museum, University of Southern California (USC), Pasadena, CA, traveled to Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX, USA
Good Sports, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX, USA
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA (cat.)
Selected Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, USA

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, USA

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, USA

The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, USA

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA

U.S. Biennial Inc/Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, USA

Selected Publications
2023 Gajin Fujita: True Colors, L.A. Louver, L.A.
2019 The Autograph Book of L.A.: Improvements on the Page of the City. Los
Angeles: Angel City Press, Los Angeles Public Library
2019 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: 25 Years at
Kemper Mjseum. Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
2014 Marking 20 Years: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Kansas City:
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
2009 Prebles’ Artforms: An Introduction to Visual Arts. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson Prentice Hall
2008 A Pocketful of Contemporary Artists: Photographic
Portraits. Victoria: Peleus Press, 2008
2007 Impulse: Works on Paper from the Logan Collection. Vail: The Logan Collection,
2007. Print.
2006 Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art. New York: Abrams, 2006. Print.
2005 “Wisk”, and Robert “Relax” Reiling. The History of Los Angeles Graffiti Art.
Volume 1, 1983-1988. Los Angeles: Alva & Reiling