Photo by Noah Dassel

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 later trained in studio art in Rome. She is also an elementary school art teacher, a role that keeps her studio practice fresh and responsive.

Serizawa’s work spans painting, block printing, weaving, and murals. 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.