Akiko Suzuki

I am a textile and mixed media artist living in the San Francisco Bay area, CA, USA, and graduated in Visual Design at Kyoto Art College in 1986; studied photography, video, and 3D creation there. I began quilt making in 1990 and currently teach contemporary quilt practice; am the recipient of numerous art quilt prizes and awards in Japan and internationally; and am held in private and public collections worldwide.  Since 2014 I have participated in the Global Art Project produced by my partner Carl Heyward, an international mixed-media collaborative co-operative as a founding member and have participated in group exhibitions and workshops as well as collaborative studio settings in Italy, America, Mexico, and Senegal. My work expresses the invisible nature of thought, of skin sensation, the poetry of Love and Eros, or the presentiments that occur prior to thought. Intuitive works are born from everyday life as are novels. The words borne out of the flood of my imagery become poetry and are visualized i n works as abstractions through paint, collage, sewing and fiber works. 

 Sometimes these intuitive words become the titles of my pieces.   I have an affinity for film and video, as the expression of these feelings are transferable across various media. 

Akiko Suzuki  

 b:1960 Osaka Japan