A woman with short curly brown hair, glasses, and a patterned dress standing outdoors with autumn foliage in the background.
A red Japanese seal or stamp with traditional Chinese characters.

Photo by Noah Dassel, 2025

Mary Serizawa is a Pacific Northwest-based Japanese American artist whose work centers on heritage and sensory experience. She studied interdisciplinary visual art at the University of Washington, and joined a studio art program in Rome during her junior year. Serizawa is also an elementary school art teacher, a role that keeps her studio practice fresh and playful.

Serizawa’s creative pursuits span painting, block printing, weaving, and mural painting. Her latest body of work focuses on Japanese comfort food, drawing on her connection to her matriarchal line. Red, the color of good fortune and bloodline, is a recurring color in much of her work.